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From the time the game was released (August 1989) up until January 21, 1990, the game had sold "more than 100,000 copies".
The game was "the best-selling software game during the 1989 holiday season".
Compute! in 1989 stated that Where in Time was the most exciting in the series.
Computer Gaming World also favorably reviewed the game, stating that it was "challenging and fun, as well as educational".
In 2014, The Av Club described the game as "the closest thing to a good Doctor Who game", arguing that "Where In Time still replicated the sense of adventure, danger, and mystery that gives Doctor Who so much of its life.
From the time the game was released (August 1989) up until January 21, 1990, the game had sold "more than 100,000 copies".
After shipping all 95,000 copies of the bundled encyclopedia it ordered in October 1989, Broderbund requested a special print run of 35,000 more copies in December.
The game was "the best-selling software game during the 1989 holiday season".
Entertainment Weekly picked the game as the #13 greatest game available in 1991: "The first-ever video game to come packaged with its own softcover encyclopedia.
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