Though this 1980s era primetime TV character is only of
significance to anyone over 30 years of age, but will the new MacGyver app give
a new lease of life – and new fans – to super-agent Angus MacGyver?
By: Ringo Bones
According to an interview by TMZ on Richard Dean Anderson –
the actor who played MacGyver - back in May 21, it seems that Anderson will
receive some royalties on the new MacGyver app. But more importantly, it’s not
just anyone over 30 years of age that will be more than a bit curious to check
out the new app – it also raises the potential for a new generation of fans to
be interested in super-agent Angus MacGyver.
Yep, it seems that everyone over 30 years of age will be the
most happy to know that Angus MacGyver (though he still probably doesn’t like
to be called by his first name because he thinks its “uncool”) has found a
second life on the iOS App Store. FairPlay Media Limited has released a few
days ago MacGyver Deadly Descent for both Android and iOS devices. The game is
based on the primetime hit 1980s television show starring Richard Dean Anderson
as a very resourceful and cleaver special agent who can build almost anything with
whatever is at hand; though his phobia with guns caused by a childhood accident
is probably his only weakness.
The game itself is nothing special in comparison to whatever’s
already out there, but it is an official MacGyver release with the blessing of
the series creator Lee David Zlotoff. Even though actor Richard Dean Anderson
receives royalties, a significant portion of the proceeds will also go to the
MacGyver Foundation, which – like the game – encourages people to solve their
own problems “using only the resources at hand, particularly in the face of a
crisis”. Just like the TV MacGyvers’ The Phoenix Foundation.
MacGyver Deadly Descent is a puzzle game where players must
help MacGyver to stop a computer virus that is affecting the top secret
D.A.W.N. Laboratories. The game features six different puzzle categories that
players must solve to help in the rescue of the scientists who are trapped
underground before they run out of air. Though the game is fairly
straightforward, a thorough knowledge of the MacGyver TV series – and physical science
in general – can be a big help.
Upon release of the MacGyver app, series creator Lee David
Zlotoff even issued a message of thanks that goes: “I cannot begin to express
humbled I am at the way you have embraced MacGyver as a fun and entertaining
character, and how so many of you around the world have been inspired to make
him a part of your lives, if not your vocabulary. Never in my wildest dreams
when I was writing the pilot could I have imagined what MacGyver would become.”
