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?

  • morphite88@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    5·
    23 days ago

    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.

    • Abizaga@thelemmy.clubOPMEnglish
      3·
      23 days ago

      That’s legit lol I remember Math Blaster, or at least I think my school had it. Good times!

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    3·
    23 days ago

    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

    • Abizaga@thelemmy.clubOPMEnglish
      2·
      23 days ago

      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

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
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        23 days ago

        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! 😅)

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    23 days ago

    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.

    • Abizaga@thelemmy.clubOPMEnglish
      2·
      22 days ago

      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.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    31·
    23 days ago

    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.

    • Abizaga@thelemmy.clubOPMEnglish
      2·
      23 days ago

      OH SHIT DUDE Math Blaster I think my school had that back in the day! Also Putt putt was the shit!