LGR Edutainment Month - Castle of Dr. Brain

LGR

Ha! Yeah I honestly wouldn't have a lot of patience for it nowadays if I weren't making a review :P

Blair Harrison

I tried playing this a couple of years ago and got as far as the magic squares and was completely infuriated. Nice to see the rest of it was just equally infuriating and I made a good choice to just stop there :)

LGR

The puzzles themselves are quite varied, I liked that aspect. But the same kinds of room designs and those terrible mazes certainly bring it down a notch!

LGR

Nice! Always fun to hear which games end up helping folks master a language unintentionally :)

LGR

Yeah I was surprised to see the amount of logic, deduction, and programming puzzles. Really don't see that pulled off so well in many edutainment titles.

LGR

The MT-32 sounded great with it, that's for sure! But as with most DOS games of this era I cover, I tend to stick with the Sound Blaster/Adlib in LGR retrospectives since it's what most viewers remember hearing :)

LGR

Two exceptionally 90s activities indeed. I miss both, argh!

Deckard Games

Yeah, although I love the artwork and design with this game, I get the feeling that it was stitched together somehow. Kind of repetitive? Still, always nice to see classic Sierra stuff on LGR.

PUKE SKYWALKER (formerly 410,757,864,530 GAY COPS)

something something what the why are you doing Dr. Quandary again joke something something whatever

I just love the Dr. Brain games :D I'm from the Netherlands, but lived in a neighborhood near a NATO base, so a lot of US Americans. My English was already pretty good because of that, but the Dr. Brain games made me pretty much fluent by the age of 10. :)

Jim Leonard

This is one of the better examples of "edutainment"; glad to see it reviewed. "YOU NOW HAVE 60 SECONDS."

Anders Enger Jensen

Ahhh.. That was one of my first games (demo more likely because I didn't have the full game until much later) where I got to test my Roland CM-32L module! <3 I was hooked from the first note of Mark Seibert's eminent music. But you didn't use your MT-32 on this game...or..?

Pablo Rodriguez

LOLed at Clint talking to himself. This is driving me a bit insane. I'm sure I've played this game several years ago, but by the life of me I can't remember anything about it except for the title screen. Maybe I just tried it at a friend's house or something like that. It's weird, because I would have gone crazy for this kind of game back then, so if I had gotten my hands on it I surely would have played it to completion. Who knows?

50_SHADES_OF_BEIGE

Spelunking in Dr. Brain... so many feels

Carey Brown

......bait..... /smh

Carey Brown

Thanks for covering this game! I've seen it before way back when (I'm soo old) but never took the bate

Brian Gordon

I played Lost Mind and Time Warp too when I was a kid. My favorite puzzle was probably the railroad one in Lost Mind or the lungfish one in Time Warp. The all-time most memorable one though was the brains in vats in Time Warp. I still remember exactly how the brain says "Al won more than Charles, but LESS. THAN. BETTTTT-TY!"

Can't say I ever played this game. But this video did remind me of two things from the early 90s: Using Prodigy and spending too much money at Electronics Boutique.

LGR

Nice, this is the only one I've played. I can only hope the later ones feature fewer pseudo 3D mazes, heh

LGR

Sure does, and very nicely! Though I tend to stick with DOSBox since ScummVM alters the interface by default.

Eric Siegel

For those curious, or who only have modern systems, Dr. Brain can run in ScummVM :-)

Douglas Holmes

The first Dr. Brain game we got was the Lost Mind of Dr. Brain, then a few years later we got the Time Warp of Dr. Brain when it came out. I eventually got the Island of Dr. Brain but never played the Castle of Dr. Brain myself, watched a Let's Play of it though, I liked Time Warp the best, mostly the Cave man rock section.