Edutainment Games

[straw_hat]

Anyone else have fond memories of these types of games you played on your school's computer?

One of my favorites was Number Munchers with a little green creature called the Muncher that you controlled on a grid which had various math equations and specific equations had to be devoured while avoiding the various Troggles. After beating a few of these grids there were cutscenes of the Troggle getting mutilated by the Muncher.

There's also the infamous Mario games like Mario's Time Machine and Mario's Early Years: Fun with Letters, although I only played Mario's Missing just because I enjoyed the music.

[Artimus Gigan]

I rmember

The Lost Mind of Dr.Brain
The Island of Dr. Brain
Math Blaster
Adi Teaches Math/Science/English
Gizmos and Gadgets
Number Munchers
Sesame Street letter Game for the NES
3D Human Body Anatomy
3D Dinosaur Adventure
Mario Teaches Typing
Mavis Beacon Taches Typing
Pajama Sam
Fatty Bear
Putt Putt
Putt Putt Saves The Zoo

[EinBebop]

http://www.cclassic.szu.pl/files/Apple2/Screens/DataSoft/Swashbuckler-5.gif

SwASHBUCKLER!!!!

[Mynd Hed]

Ah, Oregon Trail. The game that only seemed fun compared to the rest of school-- but MAN, did it beat the rest of school. (-: I also have fond memories of various Carmen Sandiego titles. Of course, the difference is that Carmen Sandiego actually had educational value; does anybody remember if there was really any informational content to Oregon Trail? 'Cause looking back, I think it was pretty sparse.

[straw_hat]

All I learned from Oregon Trail was how easy it was to die during america's westward expansion.

[The Falcon]

i had some fun with mario's time machine. it was one of the first snes titles my brother and i played (got it and the snes as a christmas present). we failed to read the instruction manual so instead of going back in time to ask the various historical figures for the answers to our missing pages of history, we actually pulled out the encyclopedia, tried to fill in the answers ourselves, said "man this sucks!", flung the encyclopedia across the room, and finally read the instruction manual realizing what idiots we were

good times

[Chrono1995]

Mario is Missing is the greatest game of all time.

[GagaMan]

Back in preschool we had a BBC Mirco, which was fun. Also, we owned an Amiga back then too, which we had a bunch of those kind of games for it.

[Lord Dalek]

What I learned from Oregon Trail was never cross a desert without a water keg. And if your Captain is a moron you're screwed.

P.S.: Oregon Trail II LE > Oregon Trail II >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Oregon Trail > Oregon Trail III

Also anybody remember Midnight Rescue?

[GWOtaku]

Number Munchers, Oregon Trail 2, and Carmen Sandiego > all

[G1Ravage]

Ah, Number Munchers...I need some screen shots of that.

[Noukon]

It was all about the Super Solvers games.

[EinBebop]

http://www.c64gg.com/Images/S/Snooper_Troops_ingame1.gif

Snooper Troops!

[Neo Yi]

Holy Crap, Number Munchers. Ahh, the memories...

[Doopliss]

Cross Country Canada. Best game ever.

[Dark Fact]

Mario is Missing is the greatest game of all time.
Oh yeah? Which console?

And Number Munchers rocked!!! I remember one time in 4th grade, all our entire class did all day was play the game! One of the best times ever! :D

[Conekiller]

There was a really cool underwater Math one where you were a submarine (I beleive it was yellow*snerk*) and you swam thru an underwater cavern and solved math problems to get around. it was the most "game" like edutainment game I ever played.

[Tenku]

Apparently, you guys have never heard of the Pico. :p

That was the Edutainment Console. Busy Town, Sonic's....something, and Mickey's Time Machine.

I still got the cables and everything. :anime:

[Lord Dalek]

Apparently, you guys have never heard of the Pico. :p
Man thats obscure. But I do remember it. In fact I still have the issue of Sega Visions announcing it.

[Artimus Gigan]

Man thats obscure. But I do remember it. In fact I still have the issue of Sega Visions announcing it.
I played Ecco Jr. on the Sega Pico

My god, those bright colors would influence any normal child to stab out his or her eyes due to the bright colors and overly friendly sounds.

[Swordfish_II]

Anyone remember this game?

You were this guy with a big floppy hat and you went around this TV station solving various stuff that would give you clues to the location of the bad guy, which you'd then have to zap with a remote.

[Tenku]

Anyone remember this game?

You were this guy with a big floppy hat and you went around this TV station solving various stuff that would give you clues to the location of the bad guy, which you'd then have to zap with a remote.

...Oh man, is that Stay Tooned? It had something to do with a remote.

[ConquerorWorm]

Most of my old favourites have already been mentioned (Oregon Trail, Number Munchers, Cross Country Canada, Carmen Sandiego) but I also remember one called Odell Lake.

It was sort of a primitive ecosystem simulator where you got to pick from various types of fish to control. Then you had to survive by eating certain things and avoiding predators. It was much tougher if you picked a small fish as opposed to one of the big carnivores.

[veemonjosh]

No one laugh, but I loved Jump Start 3rd Grade.

...and Number Munchers YEARS ago.

[The Guitar Slayer]

Number Munchers/Word Munchers
Word/Math Rescue (Benny the Bookworm and Benny the Butterfly, w00t)
Oregon Trail
Eagle Eye Mysteries/EEM in London (which I still have and, sadly, play because it's just good)
Museum Madness
Gizmos and Gadgets, Treasure Mountain/Mathstorm, Super Solvers
Carmen Sandiego in all her incarnations
Type Trek
Mario Teaches Typing
Dr. Brain and all of his various incarnations
Adi's various games
Pepper's Adventures in Time
The Secret of the Rainforest or whatever that was by Sierra (never played the whole thing)
Putt Putt and Fatty Bear games

[peacebyanymeans]

Ah, Oregon Trail. The game that only seemed fun compared to the rest of school-- but MAN, did it beat the rest of school. (-: I also have fond memories of various Carmen Sandiego titles. Of course, the difference is that Carmen Sandiego actually had educational value; does anybody remember if there was really any informational content to Oregon Trail? 'Cause looking back, I think it was pretty sparse.
All I learned was that I gained 80 pounds of meat, but had to dump 40 to cross a river.

[straw_hat]

I saw the Sega Pico on display many years ago at Toys R Us. The Sonic games were the only ones that interested me just because it was Sonic but they had the Busy Town game on display the entire time it was there.

Also does anyone remember this little guy?
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/8625/tiger2xl1dz.jpg

There were earlier models back in the late 70 and 80's that played 8-Tracks but this is the one I owned that came out in 1992. It eventually broke down and I have no idea where it is now.

[Sugar Glider]

In my elementary school, all the games in the computer lab were educational. The only ones I can recall at the moment were a game that had several different monster-themed games, CryptoQuest, some kind of Alice in Wonderland game, and one that involved constructing machines out of weights and pulleys and things. And of course, Oregon Trail. At home, I played Math Blaster and Carmen Sandiego.

Most of my old favourites have already been mentioned (Oregon Trail, Number Munchers, Cross Country Canada, Carmen Sandiego) but I also remember one called Odell Lake.

It was sort of a primitive ecosystem simulator where you got to pick from various types of fish to control. Then you had to survive by eating certain things and avoiding predators. It was much tougher if you picked a small fish as opposed to one of the big carnivores.
I remember playing that game in 5th grade. I thought the otters were vaguely creepy.

Am I the only person here who's played Yukon Trail?

[Lord Dalek]

Anyone remember this game?

You were this guy with a big floppy hat and you went around this TV station solving various stuff that would give you clues to the location of the bad guy, which you'd then have to zap with a remote.Super Solvers: Outnumbered! (http://www.mobygames.com/game/super-solvers-outnumbered)

[Duke]

I saw the Sega Pico on display many years ago at Toys R Us. The Sonic games were the only ones that interested me just because it was Sonic but they had the Busy Town game on display the entire time it was there.
I remember when my local town had their annual festival, Sega always had tons of Pico stations there. I then ignored them and went over to the Nintendo trailer because they had a giant balloon of Mario & Yoshi.

Also does anyone remember this little guy?
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/8625/tiger2xl1dz.jpg

There were earlier models back in the late 70 and 80's that played 8-Tracks but this is the one I owned that came out in 1992. It eventually broke down and I have no idea where it is now.
I remember him. I saw commercials for the guy out the wazoo.

[Swordfish_II]

Super Solvers: Outnumbered! (http://www.mobygames.com/game/super-solvers-outnumbered)

Ah, that's it.

[Dark Fact]

Does Mixed up Mother Goose count as edutainment? Because my elementary school had that game and it was a lot of fun! Gotta reunite all the characters with their rhyming objects! :D

[Agent S7]

Ah, Math Blaster! That's what it was called!

That's actually how I made up the name "Agent S7"! I played it every time we went to the computer lab and got high scores on all! (I particularly enjoyed Trash Blaster) I needed a cool name to call myself, so I went with "Secret7". You know, like a secret agent. With the "7" in there for good luck and coolness.

I went into fanfiction under the name after four or five years, joined up with BZPower several years later (which is now a damn police state) and eventually came here, shortened it to "Agent S7" and finally found a good forum with intelligent people I could talk to! :)

On another subject, which route did you always take in Oregon Trail? You know, when you get to choose to either boat down the river or take the long way around? I mostly took the long way...and died. What about you guys?

~s7

[Lord Dalek]

On another subject, which route did you always take in Oregon Trail? You know, when you get to choose to either boat down the river or take the long way around? I mostly took the long way...and died. What about you guys?
I always went to Salt Lake from Nauvoo. The challenge there is NOT getting to the end. :cool:

[Noukon]

Also does anyone remember this little guy?


I had one of those. He was even better after my brother dropped him in the toilet and he started talking funny.

[Lord Dalek]

Also does anyone remember this little guy?
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/8625/tiger2xl1dz.jpg

There were earlier models back in the late 70 and 80's that played 8-Tracks but this is the one I owned that came out in 1992. It eventually broke down and I have no idea where it is now.Wasn't there a gameshow with Mark Summers and 2XL?

[Nin-Nin69]

How about Museum Madness?

http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/original/1127085474-00.gif
http://www.abandonia.com/games/479/images/games/Museum%20Madness1.png

What bugged me about this game is they tried to scare children with their Friday the 13th soundtrack. You're trying to have this learning experience and the designers wanted kids to poop their pants at the same time. :p

[Scorpio_G]

Ah, Oregon Trail. The game that only seemed fun compared to the rest of school-- but MAN, did it beat the rest of school. (-: I also have fond memories of various Carmen Sandiego titles. Of course, the difference is that Carmen Sandiego actually had educational value; does anybody remember if there was really any informational content to Oregon Trail? 'Cause looking back, I think it was pretty sparse.
Actually it did. It just did it in a sneaky way.

The Oregon trail was designed to let you interect as family traveling to the west side of the US during the mid 1800's after the Louisiana purchase, the Lois and Clark expidition, and other purcheses of land that expanded the us towards the Pacific ocean.

The reason why it seemed it didnt teach you anything is because it was designed so the student was taught by the teacher about the US migration of the West. So if we learned about 'The Oregon trail' and how people prepaired for it and how whole families and trails perished or struggled to their doom then it would be easy for a kid to make it to Oregon.

But anyway, here's my Edutament faves:

Lemonaid Stand (my favorite game next to TOG) It was remade into a more hands on game w/ more veriables like weather, employment and whatnot.

The Oregon Trail (5th grade joy)

Mario in Time & Mario is Missing: I like Mario is missing because I played Luigi. It got really tedious though.

Were on Earth is Carmen Sandiago (The Game Gear version)- My brother and me were having hella fun w/ this game recently. Reason being is it was made during the early 90's so we had to think really hard what country existed/or didnt existed, which flag was for what country, and other things.

I wished I entered into Where on Earth is CS the TV show. I was really good at Social studies. :D

Edit:

Most of my old favourites have already been mentioned (Oregon Trail, Number Munchers, Cross Country Canada, Carmen Sandiego) but I also remember one called Odell Lake.

It was sort of a primitive ecosystem simulator where you got to pick from various types of fish to control. Then you had to survive by eating certain things and avoiding predators. It was much tougher if you picked a small fish as opposed to one of the big carnivores.
Oh crap I remember playing that game! :D I would always pick the carnivores.

I saw the Sega Pico on display many years ago at Toys R Us. The Sonic games were the only ones that interested me just because it was Sonic but they had the Busy Town game on display the entire time it was there.

Also does anyone remember this little guy?
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/8625/tiger2xl1dz.jpg

There were earlier models back in the late 70 and 80's that played 8-Tracks but this is the one I owned that came out in 1992. It eventually broke down and I have no idea where it is now.

Heh, I remember when that thing came out I wanted one. On Christmas day my brother got it. Well, it was the fisher price version where it was a robot that looked like that except it was white and instead of tapes it had these cards you side in the front. Good times. Good times.

My cousin had Pico. She had the Buisy town one. I think me and my brother played that thing more than my cousin did. :lol:

[Chrono1995]

Oh yeah? Which console?

I prefer the...uh...Super Nintendo version over the NES one...um...because...it has...better sound quality. Yeah.

[Simpler Simon]

There were a ton of old Apple II games we used to play in the lab, one of them was about figuring out a system of gears, levels, weights and pulleys to let you fill a mine cart full of diamonds and hoist it out of the mine.

I had the old floppy of Carmen Sandiego USA, then the cd version of 'world' with the Chief from the tv series. Never made it far enough to catch carmen...

Oregon Trail was good for laughs when you typed yourself and your friends names in, and see them die in various, horrifying ways. I forget if I ever made it to oregon, but i drowned on the raft a bunch of times.

[I.R Joey]

Also does anyone remember this little guy?
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/8625/tiger2xl1dz.jpg

There were earlier models back in the late 70 and 80's that played 8-Tracks but this is the one I owned that came out in 1992. It eventually broke down and I have no idea where it is now.

I remember 2XL, at least his commercial...

And I don't know if this counts, but what about the great historical strategy games, don't they have educational value? If so then I'm going with the Civilization series, I mean what about the Civipedia? How about the Age of Empires series and its scenarios?

Other stuff I played.

Number munchers: Most of those monsters were to easy.

Super Solver: I played Treasure mountain and Outnumbered.

Algebra Blaster: The sequal to Math blaster, but I never really played the math part I just liked the parts where you blew up stuff. Come to think of it that game also had that really funny joke about the aliens creating second rate fast food chains.

There were others as well.

[PeterFries]

Putt Putt and Fatty Bear games

Heh -- I got laid off last spring from the company that made all those Fatty Bear, Pajama Sam, Freddie Fish and Putt Putt games.

Fun fact: Shelley Day, the creator of Putt Putt and Fatty Bear is serving a prison sentence right now for bank fraud (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002663403_dige04m.html). :(

[Dudley]

I was forced to get them when I was young because we saved on shipping.

The Incredible machine was cool, though.