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Participants said that the game could help parents and children to talk about diabetes, as well as helping children talk to their friends about the subject.
Esquire magazine included Captain Novolin with their "Dubious Achievement Awards of 1992“, mocking the game's concept and sarcastically preferring "Super Prozac Brothers".
Writers for Diabetes.co.uk also found unintentional humor in the game, made funnier, they said, by its US$60 retail price.
By the end of 1992, Captain Novolin had sold about 10,000 copies.
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