Edutainment Month 2015

Braeden Loepke

I dont know if you have dont it but Re-Mission is a interesting one to check out. :D.

Pow3rh0use

Idk if anyone has said this already, but how does The Cluefinders sound? There are a good amount of them, but you could focus on the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade titles since they came out in the late 90s.

LGR

Excellent choices, everyone! Definitely several listed here that I plan to cover.

I sent you some titles a few months ago. You could choose one of them.

Not sure if it has been mentioned and I don't remember seeing a video of it but Arthurs teacher trouble?

Untrustedlife

Cant think of any "edutainment" games besides newer in development ones like "Thrive". heres a couple I found in my "archives" : Sim earth Where in the USA is carmen Sandiago.

Danny De Casto

I'm guessing we'll see some humongous games. Maybe a lets play with Roses?

MagikGimp

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y88ktJqyayI" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y88ktJqyayI</a>

MagikGimp

Pretty sure I bought the VHS instructional tapes for Toaster off eBay a while back. For some reason...

MagikGimp

Hi Clint. You may be interested in the Fun School series; a British product of 8 or so releases each with three or four age versions. That's at least 24 'games'! They were pretty popular at the time (80s, 90s) and I distinctly remember mucking about with the DOS version of Fun School 2 on my neighbour's AMSTRAD PC clone. You can find out more about the title on Wikipedia (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun_School)" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun_School)</a> if you want to know more and be sure to follow the external links there for further info. Tracking any original copies may be a challenge however what with them all probably only being over here, the first release especially. That one isn't even listed in the article, had a very limited release--the company who made it being very small then--and was only available for the Acorn BBC Micro and Electron computers (can't remember if you have the latter or not.) but you never know what you can find these days right? Have Fun! (School)

Olof Albiin

I would love to see a review of Mega Math Blaster and see how you think the game is holding up to todays standards.

Simon Stockless

where in the world is carmen sandiego is a classic!

Maximilien Noal

The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain ? Works very well with Windows 3.11 inside DOSBox. Or maybe Alcantor (by Lankhor) on the AtariST, but a physical copy is very hard to find nowadays.

Zabe

How about Odell Lake on your shiny new Apple ][? I remember your Odell Down Under video and was hoping you'd do this one too.

Alyxx the Rat

Sweet, I feel inteligenter already

Nr7

Now that you did a video on the MSX you should play an edutainment game on it: Monkey Academy.

Steven Zakulec

In addition to some of the choices below, I'd like to see Time Raiders in American History, Operation Neptune, Ancient Empires, Dino Park Tycoon and for Apple II or Apple IIe, Fossil Hunter and Murphy's Minerals. Thanks!

Steven Zakulec

I was going to suggest this one as well.

Michael Lamartina

I remember an old Apple2 game I played in the 6th or 7th grade called energy house. The premise was you had to make a house energy efficient before a party. You had to do such things as fixing some leaky pipes, wrapping a hot water heater in insulation, turning off lights etc...unfortunately this is the only screenshot I could find. <a href="https://archive.org/download/a2_Energy_House_v1.0_1984_12_MECC_US/a2_Energy_House_v1.0_1984_12_MECC_US.gif" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://archive.org/download/a2_Energy_House_v1.0_1984_12_MECC_US/a2_Energy_House_v1.0_1984_12_MECC_US.gif</a>

Ciirka Grey

Thinkin' Things! SimTunes! KidPix! :>

Douglas Holmes

How about the grammar teaching dungeon crawler I.M.Meen?

Runefox

Looking around there seems to be a few people selling it for anywhere from around $2.10 for just a CD upwards to $15 for the boxed copy. Not sure how reputable they are... It sells for far higher on eBay.

LGR

Can't say I have run across that one, sounds awesome

LGR

This one is quite likely.

LGR

I've got this one and Robot Odyssey as possibilities, since I own both for Apple II!

Norman Rafferty

You wanna impress me with old skool cred? Show us "Rocky's Boots"! <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky%27s_Boots" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky%27s_Boots</a>

There are so many for the Macintosh. Swamp Gas Visits the United States of America? I really liked that one in school when I was a kid, mainly because of the Alien Arcade.

Manuel Aviles

The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary Good DOS music & sfx, kinda dark plot for a 93 kids game, mix of interesting simple puzzles and harder math based puzzles. My bad if you've already done it but i searched and didn't find it.

The Disgruntled Cactus

I learned most of my grammar skills from Morrowind. Teachers wouldn't accept that as an answer to why I knew where things went, however :/

The Disgruntled Cactus

Only thing I can think of is Word Muncher Deluxe, which is basically just Word Muncher in 3D with cinematics.

Alex Smith

MECC games are good, but they've saturated the community with their titles.

Alex Smith

All Sierra edutainment titles, and games by The Learning Company.

Runefox

Have you ever run across Knowledge Adventure's Aviation Adventure? Not only did it have some interesting minigames, it came with a version of Corncob 3D sans shooting called F4U Secret Sortie.