So when I was a super little kid I had games like Thinking Thing's Collection 1 and Sammy's Science House. Did you guys grow up with games like these?
I always wondered what happened to these
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Yeah me too. If not education they were at least pretty fun.
For some reason it looks like a game I played only once in speech therapy, but I doubt that's it because it looks too sometime in the 90s to be the right game. That, or I'm not getting enough pixels for a clear image.
Cannot say I ever had either of those, though. I had the technically hand-me-down Hooked On Phonics, a The Land Before Time math game, Franklin The Turtle's Clubhouse Adventures, and that's all I can remember for strictly edutainment if we ain't including an I Spy game taking place in a quaint, possibly seaside, town ( not very specific, but I ain't gonna go through the trouble of looking it up ).
If you count the games I played at speech therapy, then the Spy Fox game about stopping someone from using a giant aerosol can to destroy the ozone layer, a Pajamaman Sam, and a game for slightly older kids that I can picture but not describe and will never know the name of, would make 3 extra titles, even if I was on rare occasion able to play.
Edit:
Apparently the title is Franklin The Turtle's Clubhouse Adventure and not just Franklin's Clubhouse Adventure.
Yeah, Thinking Thing was from 1991 I believe. That's awesome though, I'm trying to remember this other math game, I think it was math adventure. Goofy little game.
Also fuck yeah, Spy Fox and Pajama Sam. Man, the games from that company were great. I played the demos for I think there was one for each, and it came with my copy of putt putt travels through time.
That's basically all we were allowed to play for awhile. Math Blaster(s), the Jumpstart __ Grade series, Oregon Trail, Amazon Trail, Carmen Sandiego series, Lego Island (how'd that get in there?), some LeapFrog stuff, anything else from Brøderbund or Sierra.
That's legit lol I remember Math Blaster, or at least I think my school had it. Good times!
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What was that, amazing machine game?
It was a pretty decent game.
We had a lot of fun with it
Haha yeah, same here! :)
omg this brings back memories. i bastardized the shit out of these titles.. dos based, easy peasy to toss over a network and run on dozens of machines
Yeah, man this and the old point and click games based off like Magic School Bus
You betcha, I spent untold hours with my dad trying to crack the puzzles of this absolute banger.
Oh man that looks like a banger! I'm trying to remember what it was but there was a point and click magic school bus game where you made an id to start lol
It is a banger. You learn how to make paper from wood pulp, batteries from a lemon and a nail and all sorts of fun basic chemistry stuff! I still have the CD for it lying around somewhere (no disc drive through! 😅)
That's legit haha! I'm curious how the lemon and nails thing works! :p
If I remember right you needed to make it to power up an electric On switch to an elevator or something like that.
God I miss goofy stuff like this
Various "Teaches Typing" games from Mavis Beacon to Mario and Typing of the Dead.
Math Blaster
Mario is Missing
I remember the Putt-Putt games being labeled as "edutainment" but I can not really remember anything educational about the ones I had. 🤷♂️
Lunar Lander and the OG, Oregon Trail.
OH SHIT DUDE Math Blaster I think my school had that back in the day! Also Putt putt was the shit!