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Title: what edutainment games did you play as a kid
Post by: htimreimer on April 22, 2012, 08:36:02 am
i have played a lot edutainment games as a kid

eco quest 1
captain bible
pajama sam 3
story of creation
mcdonald land create n paint
one of the math blaster games
two bible games that i cant remember the name of  :'(
fisher price 123,great adventures castle and learning in toyland

Title: Re: what edutainment games did you play as a kid
Post by: jobocan on April 22, 2012, 11:20:34 am
The only edutainment game I remember playing (forgot the title) is a first-person dungeon crawler ALA Wizardry, but instead of attacking enemies, you killed them by solving math problems.
Title: Re: what edutainment games did you play as a kid
Post by: htimreimer on April 22, 2012, 11:52:12 am
The only edutainment game I remember playing (forgot the title) is a first-person dungeon crawler ALA Wizardry, but instead of attacking enemies, you killed them by solving math problems.
that sounds cool
Title: Re: what edutainment games did you play as a kid
Post by: blipcs76 on April 23, 2012, 09:38:52 am
The only edutainment game I had as a kid was Word Zapper on the 2600.  It was actually pretty fun.
Title: Re: what edutainment games did you play as a kid
Post by: jcalder8 on April 23, 2012, 10:35:56 am
I know that I "played" a few different typing tutor games. The only game that I can remember is Oregon Trail.
Title: Re: what edutainment games did you play as a kid
Post by: turf on April 23, 2012, 10:45:52 am
MATH BLASTER, SON!
We had that for an old IBM computer.  It had one 5.25 disk drive, no hard drive, and a DOS boot disk.  It was the opposite of awesome.

Does Oregon Trail count?
Title: Re: what edutainment games did you play as a kid
Post by: htimreimer on April 23, 2012, 10:52:23 am
MATH BLASTER, SON!
We had that for an old IBM computer.  It had one 5.25 disk drive, no hard drive, and a DOS boot disk.  It was the opposite of awesome.

Does Oregon Trail count?
i played a later version of math blaster it was pre installed on are win95 computer
Title: Re: what edutainment games did you play as a kid
Post by: madmax on April 24, 2012, 01:30:39 am
Logical Journey Of The Zoombinis!

Best game ever. Seriously. i would play with my dad and stuff all the time. A few years after dad discovered Diablo and the edutainment went away and Diablo took it's place :P
Title: Re: what edutainment games did you play as a kid
Post by: psydswipe on April 25, 2012, 12:27:57 pm
Originally I couldn't think of anything but Math Fun for the Intellivision. However, I added some C64 games to my collection yesterday and remembered I played a bunch of Carmen Sandiego games.
Title: Re: what edutainment games did you play as a kid
Post by: scott on April 25, 2012, 12:29:49 pm
Oregon Trail, Mutanoid Math Challenge, Math Blaster, Reader Rabbit, Carmen Sandiego among others. This reminds me, I may have to pick up Oregon Trail for the 3DS. ha
Title: Re: what edutainment games did you play as a kid
Post by: darko on April 25, 2012, 01:28:24 pm
I played Oregon Trail a lot. I also played some random game with Donald Duck but I can't remember what it was called.
Title: Re: what edutainment games did you play as a kid
Post by: darko on April 25, 2012, 01:30:38 pm
I played Oregon Trail a lot and some random game with Donald Duck but I can't remember what it was called.

Also, I can't remember if it was a game or a book on the PC but when I was in grade school I remember going to the school's library and playing something that had a beaver in it. The only thing I can actually remember is what the beaver said: "I'm a beaver, and I rap, and I wear a baseball cap."
Title: Re: what edutainment games did you play as a kid
Post by: htimreimer on April 25, 2012, 08:21:31 pm
Oregon Trail, Mutanoid Math Challenge, Math Blaster, Reader Rabbit, Carmen Sandiego among others. This reminds me, I may have to pick up Oregon Trail for the 3DS. ha
i have played reader rabbit once or twice  on win98 computer but just barely because of 256 colors
Title: Re: what edutainment games did you play as a kid
Post by: kirbysuperstar on April 25, 2012, 11:25:45 pm
Wanted: Ned Kelly was one I played a fair bit. It was a DOS game where you were a Victorian detective tracking down Ned Kelly (infamous Australian outlaw) and his gang. It was actually pretty good.

Also that mind-maze game within Encarta.
Title: Re: what edutainment games did you play as a kid
Post by: jcalder8 on April 25, 2012, 11:49:10 pm
Where in time is Carmen Sandiego. I can't believe that I forgot about that one. I wanted it so badly but then when I got it for the C64 I think I played it 3 or 4 times and found it was too hard and gave up.
Title: Re: what edutainment games did you play as a kid
Post by: htimreimer on April 26, 2012, 03:29:44 pm
Where in time is Carmen Sandiego. I can't believe that I forgot about that one. I wanted it so badly but then when I got it for the C64 I think I played it 3 or 4 times and found it was too hard and gave up.
check this out : http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Lot-4-Childrens-PC-Games-Carmen-Sandiego-3-Still-Sealed-/200748630784?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ebd8d0300
Title: Re: what edutainment games did you play as a kid
Post by: jcalder8 on April 27, 2012, 09:05:29 pm
Where in time is Carmen Sandiego. I can't believe that I forgot about that one. I wanted it so badly but then when I got it for the C64 I think I played it 3 or 4 times and found it was too hard and gave up.
check this out : http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Lot-4-Childrens-PC-Games-Carmen-Sandiego-3-Still-Sealed-/200748630784?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ebd8d0300
Thanks but those are more modern than the ones I grew up with.