These companies seem to be following the trend of releasing their games for mobile devices and tablets. While it might be a while before we can see them in the iOS and android markets, they can still be found online through sites like eBay, amazon, etc. So the main point in this thread is to help me remember as many memorable games from that time era. Some of these games will stretch up to the year even, but mostly around '' I will update the list as I remember the names.
Using this thread to discuss anything you remember about the games, how you felt playing them, how you felt when I just jogged your memory etc. Last edited by RedRyder; at AM. My Artwork. Carmen Sandiego. Originally Posted by morfic. Originally Posted by Conradin. Last edited by RedRyder; at PM. Originally Posted by RedRyder. Oh hell yes, adding to the list! That game was beyond epic. They don't make games like this anymore. Ahhh what were the pc games where there was a lion and somebody else.
I rememeber i had the one where you had to solve alphabet puzzels ti get you ship fixed. Ahhh reader rabbit, thas it. Mega math blaster? Funny, I was just looking at that and about to add it to the list lol. Thanks for contributing. I played Rugrats for the PC as a kid lol. Is this game about making battle droids and fighting off evil aliens? You have to learn how to balance the weight of the droids before they can take off. How dare they. Not to be outdone by Mario, Sonic also has several education games.
Sounds like a Shadow game, right? Unfortunately, it plays nothing like them. Imagine this as basically a digital tour through museum-like exhibits. There are also learning stations with mini-games. Not sure how one could pay attention though. Everything is distractingly ugly. So if I hit three I would have to hit the number three, or objects gathered together in counts of three.
If you get it wrong, you get a check against you. The platforming is stiff and the backgrounds are very uninspired. I learned it from D. Gang peddlers are out to offer illegal stuff to Wally Bear and his friends. Your mission is to fight them off. It actually sends the wrong message because of how monotonous it is. Maybe doing some illegal substances would help ease the pain of playing.
Mario's Time Machine? Well, hold your horses because this is not the time traveling Mario platformer you think and or hope it is. Instead it plays very similarly to Mario is Missing. Mario can plug in important dates into a time machine to then be warped to said period to learn about history.
It feels just as broken and fan-made as Mario is Missing. No, my odd possum friend, you are not. Saving the rainforest was all the rage in the 90s so the idea of a furry superhero fighting robots who are trying to destroy the environment sounds weird, but fun in an over the top way.
Gameplay wise it tries to be like Sonic the Hedgehog only with a terrible frame rate. It is literally nauseating to play. Dinosaur games came out in droves in the 90s so of course there was going to be an educational title, or two in there. So the premise is you have to platform through a polluted city, gathering inhalers to keep Bronkie alive.
At the end of each stage, you get a little factoid about bronchitis. I learned something, I'm just not exactly sure what. There were several spinoffs I can talk about in a 90s connotation though. The Amazon Trail took explorers along the Amazon River, duh.
While there was some education behind it, the game felt more of a sim. The original Math Blaster! Between and , a whopping 20 games were released in the Blaster Learning System — and somewhat astonishingly, a few more follow-ups trickled out between and Math wasn't the only subject addressed by the series; Reading Blaster!
A Science Blaster! Math Blaster! These activities were designed to teach everything from problem-solving to typing; you could even make terrible MIDI music by jumping up and down a set of colorful stairs. Scooter's Magic Castle also has a super earworm-y theme song , so if you now have it stuck in your head for the rest of the day… sorry.
My bad. The four major entries in the series — Where in the World, Where in the U. Initially released in by Spinnaker Software Corporation, it was exactly the kind of game that appealed to very young children: It consisted of six mini-games that taught kids their way around a keyboard by having them draw pictures, match pairs, and other do simple activities. If you have a kid in your life who's around 3 years old, it might be a fun time to play with them!
As a child in a house full of gamers, naturally I adored Mario Teaches Typing , which first hit the scene in the early '90s. One of a number of educational Mario games released between and , it put the pixelated plumber to good work teaching us how to type. Hitting the correct key would prompt Mario to hit blocks, jump on Koopa Troopas, and more. Nintendo had almost no hand in the development of these games a far cry from the tight hold the company tends to keep on the reins of its properties nowadays , but they proved popular all the same.
She was invented to give a face to the program in an era when human people weren't regularly associated with computer and video games. Mavis became the next incarnation of this strategy, as depicted by Renee L'Esperance. Launched by Knowledge Adventure in , 3D Dinosaur Adventure was little more than a glorified encyclopedia specializing in what we knew about dinosaurs at the time much of which has since been determined to have been terribly, terribly wrong , even if the brontosaurus did make a triumphant comeback in Also contained within 3D Dinosaur Adventure was a mini-game called "Save The Dinosaurs" — which, to be perfectly honest, was downright terrifying.
It required players to make their way through a series of maze-like hallways to find and rescue 15 types of dinosaurs before time ran out — and by "before time ran out," I mean "before the comet that wiped out all of the dinosaurs crashed into the Earth, while you and the dinos were still on the planet.
But hey, I suppose survival skills are important, too, right?
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