(Posted by: Admin on Apr 11, 2004)
Type: Health and Wellness 

Diabetes Management - "Packie & Marlon"

A side-scrolling adventure game that helps children and teens with diabetes improve their diabetes self-management. Rats and mice invaded diabetes summer camp and scattered all the food and diabetes supplies throughout the woods, lakes, mountains, playgrounds, and haunted cabins. Packy and Marlon are diabetic elephants who thwart the invaders and find all the missing supplies. To stay in good shape during four simulated days, players must keep their character's diabetes under control by measuring and monitoring blood glucose, taking insulin, selecting a balanced diet in three meals and three snacks a day, and handling diabetes emergencies.

The game is used at home in hospitals, in clinic waiting rooms, and in diabetes summer camps.Studies have found that children and teens with diabetes who have the Packy & Marlon video game available to play at home reduce their diabetes-related emergency and urgent-care visits by 77 percent.

Created for Super Nintendo and Windows 95 by Click Health (currently not in business but seeking investors and partners). For further information contact Debra Lieberman.

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