Favorite "Educational" Games

[Steve]

Okay, this discussion has been going on for a little while in another thread, but I think it deserves its own. What were your favorite "educational" games (Math Blasters, Word Munchers, Oregon Trail) when you were a kid?

 

[ailevation]

:dozey: A game back in the day I used to play back in the hood. We would see how to add and subtract by using how many times you got jumped or how many times you jumped a person AND take or get your money taken.

 

[Murray_H]

The Crystal Rainforest

 

[Neutrino]

Well, it wasn't technically an educational game, but my favoriate was one called World Builder for the Mac Classic. It was one of the earliest adventure type games with graphics. It was educational in that you could create your own games for it. You had to create the graphis for every room and also had to learn a form of Basic to program it.

I spent hours on that thing. This was when I was around 10 I guess.

 

[AntiAnto]

The Incredible Toon Machine... I spent many times playing this game. It was really great.

 

[dfc05]

Dinosaur Tycoon, Museum Madness, and ... Storybook Weaver ?
Number Munchers, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego
The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary! (that frog puzzle was insanely entertaining at the time....)
Hmm.. that's all I can think of for now.

 

[Ames]

Amazon Trail! Huzzah! Damn people can't even bring their own medicene with their stupid tropical rainforest diseases. It was always that stupid river turn that messed me up, could never go stay in the main river. God damn Incan King wanting all that stuff.

 

[TinyKilbasa]

MathBlaster was definitely my favorite. There was also this other game that let you build your own car, test its aerodynamics, fuel efficiency, and see how much it was actually worth. played it on an apple 2c. horray 5 1/2" floppie goodness!!

 

[kaf11]

oregon trail and that one where after you answer math question you get fuel for a little rocket ship and you have to land it on a smooth part of the moon.

 

[el Chi]

Half Life learnded me about theoretical physics.

 

[SpuD]

Oregon trail, played it all the time.
Plus i'm from oregon

 

[Mr.Mesa]

The adventures of the Zoombinies was a classic- get your Zoombinies through perilious lands while completing math challenges.

I still play it now :thumbs:

 

[Tr0n]

Oregon trail.

 

[AudioRage]

Typing tutor for the Commadore 64. And then later Oregon Trail

 

[bgesley426]

EyeQ. It teaches you to speed read. Its awesome, pretty much just flashes pictures across the page really fast and then has you read something.

I wouldn't said Oregon Trial since thats more educational but I hated that game all I did was shoot bison and get dysintery.

 

[Danimal]

Kidpix, Aussie Maths Blaste and some paper areoplane gamer... Our school was poor as we all had apples and each day one kid was dragged into the sewers by a creature...

It just wasn't my natural habitat all those years ago