Post a pic if at all possible
Jumpstart 4th Grade Haunted Island
Teaches a bunch of subjects and helps develop problem-solving skills; its soundtrack has zero right to be so bitchin’ but it is
Was asking about this today because I couldnt remember the name or franchise and Lemmy came thru, reuniting me with yet another thing I could remember sound of but not the content or name, long thought lost to the sands of time
Looking for stuff like Reader Rabbit, KidPyx, etc
Chip’s Challenge:
Commander Keen:
Can’t forget good ol’ Ski Free:
Hell yeah, Keen is a classic, I gotta emulate it sometime to relive the memories
Commander Keen:
Awesome. That’s a screenshot that I can hear. Nice.
Number Munchers
Can you embed a pic for it for the rest of the class ;)
Daaaamn! You had color? I only had monochrome on the Apple IIe at school for this game.
This game was one of the reasons I went to school.
Infocom games such as Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
Encarta 95 Mind Maze
It’s a jungle out there and I oughta know!
Hyper Card
Kid Pix
Kid Pix! Did you get it at a CompUSA perchance?
I had so much fun with hyper card! We had to use it in my programming class, I made a small text based RPG out of it!
I made RPGs, platformers, space alien style arcade shooters, utilities. It was a huge contributor to my love of computers. RIP Bill Atkinson!
Ultima V
one of the best DOS games ever, Battle Chess!
watching the knight lop the arms off the pawns never got old!
Thank you! I was afraid this was just a fever dream.
Tarzan
Animorphs game from the Animorphs website, back when the internet was new
Chess Master 5000
Holy crap that Animorphs game; I absolutely remember playing that. Stupid Yeerks
I loved having hundreds of c64 games with no manuals. So with this one, we thought you needed to fly the plane out the only visible door in the hangar, which was the one the pilot comes in through, and it was barely bigger than the plane. Seemed impossible to line up. Not like you could look things up back then, and if you were lucky enough to know some friends who played it, they’d often have the same issue. Can’t get out of the bloody hangar. Then one day, one of my brothers puts his feet up on the computer desk and kicks the F7 key on the bottom right of the keyboard while I’m flying the plane around the hangar, and the wall opens up. Well, shit. From there, it was pretty fun to make the Zaxxon-like run to the Kremlin and then pick it apart with your RPGs. Lots of good memories of this one.
I grew up on 500-in-1 shareware discs as a real young kid, got into playing heaps of Runescape on mom’s laptop in late primary school, and when she eventually got me my own Pentium 4 PC I played the ever-loving shit outta the classic Source games and mods. Many nights were spent with my international pals playing Garry’s Mod or Zombie Master til the early winking of daylight met my dried, crusty eyes. Good times. Better times.
That’s the reissue. Nice!
Pajama Sam: You are What you Eat From Your Head to Your Feet was a favorite of mine as a child:
Also had to look it up but Elmo’s Preschool was a big feature of my under-5 PC gaming:
2nd grade or so was a lot of Disney Princess: Magical Dressup with some cute mini games and a LOT of uncanny valley jank lol:
And alongside that was the PC version of Battle for Bikini Bottom, with mini games instead of the platformer the console had, but I’m struggling to find any decent gameplay screen grabs.
Of course that’s all just PC gaming.
Anybody remember the Cartoon Network island flash games? It was like a resort and I could have sworn there were multiple installments.
Logical Journey of the Zoombinis, Gizmos and Gadgets, All of the Carmen Sandiego titles (US, World, Space, etc.), Commander Keen
Cluefinders
Wanna know a fun fact?
The people who made this, Broderbund, made the original Prince of Persia games, the 2D ones.
More education than game: Mighty Math Number Heroes
More game than education: Putt Putt series
