/vr/ - Retro Games

Opera Fatal. It was a pretty good adventure game with a great atmosphere, a bit creepy at times, and it involved learning new stuff about music.

The Illusion of Gaia (or The Illusion of Time if you're from Europe). This isn't an educational game, but there are a lot of historical places in this one, including Angkor Wat, the Great Pyramid, and the Tower of Babel. I'm throwing in this one because I remember seeing these places in the game and destroying monsters in each, so whenever they did come up in class, I'd naturally be interested to find out more.

>>857335
Forgot pic

>>857331
This one looks really cool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa3Ar4pbT5Q

>>857359
Yeah, it was really cool, more so since I played it when I was a kid and those kind of graphics looked good. I must admit that it aged a bit.

>>857369
Is there an English version?

>>857376
It was in english too, I believe. The torrent I saw on u-g was in english too.
I could still upload my italian CD if there's no way to download this elsewhere, but I don't know if you can play it in the other languages too.

>>857381
I'll look for it. Chances are that it's out there somewhere.

>>857318
>>857318
This was one of the first games I ever played. I love dinosaurs and played the hell out of this, but I could never figure out the mazes, and I would get stressed with the meteors. The 3d glasses were rad. I immediately recognized this!! Nostalgia as fuck

>>857391
I completely forgot about the meteors until just now.

>>857318
Loved that series. My cousins had it and I played whenever I got stuck at their house. I loved the re-skinning dinosaur room.

I was 4 or 5 the first time I played this. The 3d t-rex intro legitimately scared me.

The Learning Company checking in. Operation Neptune and Gizmos & Gadgets were the best.

>>857318
I got this working on DOSbox except for the sound which is really disappointing because I loved changing the textures on the dinosaurs and hearing their comments to the changes. I don't remember how any of them went anymore except for when you turn the T. Rex gold.

That said, 3D Body Adventure was nightmare fuel.

>>858980
Sound works fine on my end. Try a recent build rather than the stable and see if that works.

Math Blaster was a blast.

Behold; this game.

>>857318
Oh my god. It's been so long but I recognized this instantly. I don't even remember anything but the mazes, but dinosaurs were awesome so I was fucking enthralled back then.

>>857318
I just threw out my red and blue 3d glasses from that game.

>>858980
>3D Body Adventure was nightmare fuel.
Dear Jesus it was. I found the Undersea one a little scary too

>>859075
DUDE! I've been trying to remember the name of that game for so long! Thanks.

My contribution is Number Munchers.

Not sure if it was really that educational, but it's one of the first games I can remember playing.

Does Encarta count?
dat 3D

Fuck, I can't remember the name of the game I was going to mention.

It was on the Genesis, starred Mickey Mouse, and was more educational than anything though it was still fun on the hardest setting. It took place in a castle though it wasn't Castle of Illusion.

>>860308
>Making planets lose orbit and crash on the end of the screen
Fun times.

Math Blaster. The trash recycle mission made all the math worth it.

Life and Death

>>857331
>>857359
>>857369
>>857376
>>857381
>>857387

Wait.. are those the same developers who made Physikus?
I fucking loved the atmosphere of that game.

This thread is incredibly relevant to my interests.
I have a son and he's turning 5 this year. I recently obtained some old computers from the mid 90s and I'm going to set him up with some good educational games of yesteryear.
He's gonna be stuck with a computer with DOS on it, possibly windows 3.1.

Once he's a little older I'm gonna release him on the Zork games and other old adventure games but he's still learning how to read right now so they'd be a bit much.

Thank you for the suggestions. Someone should really make a recommended list for these type of games.

Katie's Farm

Scooter's Magic Castle

>>860540
Yup, looks like they're the same devs, even though I can't find much info on them.

>>860270
Number Munchers' word-related cousin Super Munchers.

The Typing of the Dead was kind of an educational game.

My favorite educational game was probably The Human Calculator. A human gets transformed into a walking calculator and has to battle his way up mountains through castles and whatnot doing simple addition subtraction multiplication and division.

I've been trying to find a copy of that for ages.

>>859075
>>860270
dude. me too. thank you

>>860270
I remember this being a thing on 321 contact (a kids show about science and math that aired on PBS when I was kid) but never realized it was an actual game

>>860285
can this really be considered a game?

>>860540
yes, they're both made by some German company who also made games about chemistry, biology, zoology, computer science, history, mathematics and other stuff:
http://www.braingame-shop.de/epages/62390116.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/62390116/Products/9783938760734

>>860815
Damn, that's a pretty good deal considering that the individual games cost like 15 euro.

Oh my fucking god op I think I know what you're talking about, that's a fucking nostalgia trip right there. Thanks bro.

You're welcome.

Ya'll niggas ain't pinballed 'til you play this shit

But seriously, this game is awesome. It actually made me better at real pinball.

I learned things too.

>>860860
>zoombinis 1
>educational

It was just a regular addictive puzzle game, no matter what the fuck it was trying to sell you in the manual.

Reader fucking rabbit

not sure if this is actually good or not, but I liked it at the time

>>860953
book was much bigger and better

My favorite educational game was Troggle Trouble Math by the way.

>>861009
There was a Bill Nye game? Why did it take me so long to find this out...

Excuse me I have something in my eye

>>861009

AWWWWWWWWWW YEAH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTThfBO-GUQ

If someone can get me downloads of I spy haunted mansion
And
CRAYOLA 3D CASTLE CREATOR I would forever suck your dick

>>861006
Oh crap, not that game and its fucking movie clips that only wanted to use some ancient 16-bit version of Quicktime

>>861705
also the Arthur mini game pc game
The power rangers time force pc game.
also the collection of treasure planet pc mini games and battle on prycon or whatever

>>861013
>>861009
Who'd have ever thought that he'd eventually become a huge atheist douchebag?

>>861009
what? I never realized there was a bill nye game...
I was going to ask if it was any good, but...
>has his name on it
>was made before he decided to preach about global warming
it has to be good

>>861736
he doesn't really preach about it to anyone
also
>>>/pol/

>>861742
>>>/tumblr/

>this thread
>games from 99-01 that barely even qualify as retro
>80s stuff hardly mentioned
I told you most of /vr/ were underage 90s shitbabbies

>>861762
yeah that's it. keep on shitposting. it's good for the lulz.

>>861762
nigga Igrew up on dos supersolvers.

>>860659

ah shit man, i had these games. i kinda want to play them now.

>>861736
most scientists are atheists.

>>861748
what?

>>861762
oregon trail was the shit
also the freddi fish games were pretty fun

>>857318

Math Rescue

ega and cga reader fucking rabbit. seems like the games are still around, but in actual color now

the learning company super solver series. back when i was a kid i only had midnight rescue, but my school had some other ones.

the dr brain series was legit, and i learned several highschool level concepts from it before i was through with even third grade.

There was a cool game called Logic Quest, which wasn't all that educational but had a 3d level building part, which I spent so much time with.

and to end the thread once and for all, pic related

>>861989
Bill Nye of course isn't a real scientist and only has some engineering degree he probably got out of a cereal box

>>862239
>reader fucking rabbit. seems like the games are still around, but in actual color now
They were always in color. My brother used to play a version for Windows 3.1 with full speech clips and everything.

I used to have a game Addy Jr on our 486. All info I could find on it was about German version for the Amiga. The PC one seems to have vanished into a black hole and I'm unable to locate any info for that thing.

>>862239
I know about that CS game; it was also on the C64 and possibly the Amiga

>>862256
>They were always in color
cga isn't what i'd consider in color.

A whole bunch of C64 edu games; Astro Grover, Ernie's Big Splash, Lemonade Stand, something called Hickory Dickory Dock, and a horse racing game.

>>862270
If you plug the composite output into a TV, you can get colors. They're often not very good, but you will get some.

You know it to be the best

>>862340
company shouldve just stuck to milking chessmaster for all it's worth

>>860860
THIS NIGGA.

And 4th grade.

Awwww yeah.

Though Zoombinies was the shit as well.

>>862414
Oh God, I mean 3rd grade.
WITH THE ROBOT AND THE BLOND CHICK I WAS STRANGLEY ATTACHED TO AND SAD SHE WAS FICTIONAL ;.;

>>861736
>atheist
It's called science. He's the science guy.

>>862420
>believing in atheism with no evidence
costanza.jpg

>>862252
One of his professors was Carl fucking Sagan, your point is invalid

>>860674
I didn't think anyone else had played that.

Was pretty entertaining would love to find it again and take a stroll down nostalgia lane.

>>862430
Ha ha, that silly Hollywood liberal pothead?

Bitches ain't SHIT.

>>862583
Shut up and go to /pol/. This is about video games.

holy fucking nostalgia

>>862583
most scientist are liberals
and many of them are potheads, surprisingly
I fail to see your point
also this >>865286

>>865353
that's more of a puzzle game than an educational game
that series WAS a lot fun though

>>862414
>>862421

>>857318
Major nostalgia. Those 3D videos blew my mind. I used to play this at some girls place when I was a little kid. She was the first girl to ever touch my dick.

>>862135
I played the shit out of this game. It was on every computer at school when I was a kid. Word Rescue was also good.

>ctr+f great reading adventure
>no results
step it up, fellas

>>862414
>>862421
>>865450

Jumpstart was a surprisingly good purely education series.

Every female voice in 1st grade is SC1's Kerrigan.
2nd grade is American eagle with tears in their eyes in terms of love for America.
3rd grade is a masterpiece.
4th grade is fucking spooky as shit, no wonder they remade it a few years later.

>>865353
Nopenopenope.

Better.

>>862264
OOOOOOOOH SHIT I NOW REMEMBER THIS

damn this game was legit

>>865852
ELBOWS TO YOUR PARTNER
YOUR KNEES AGAINST THE WALL
IF YOU DON'T HAVE FUN AT HOWIE'S TONIGHT
YOU'LL NEVER HAVE FUN AT ALL

DK multimedia Castle Explorer.

Those cutouts were top tier and scavenging through them for coins was incredibly fun. Would do it again.

>>865978
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgikJtbLRw0

Let the horror spread to a new generation.

liked this shit so much at school that i asked for it for christmas

>>857318
>>859195

Yes! The Knowledge Adventure games.. the Rollercoaster demo blew my mind as a gradeschooler. The heart attack scenario in body worlds gave me the creeps.

This set came with my Packard Bell 75mhz.. almost 20 years ago..

Kids who grew up with Spinnaker (C64) got to enjoy the very best educational software. Kids on Keys taught me how to type the fun way (e.g. type or suffer, motherfucker).

>>866035

Holy SHIT I totally forgot what that game was called. Thank you.

>>866125
Educational software wasn't worth shit until the 90s. I should know as someone who first played it on the C64 before upgrading to Windows 3.1 stuff like Math Workshop.

>>862264
whoa, this is like if cell drawn edutainment games existed in the 70s...

>>866151
It was a nice little game though with great voice acting

>>862340
PC version master race

>>862135
>>865827
These games made me the genius I am today. By seven, I knew english words and all four operations when classmates could barely write french and do additions.

>>857318

my god OP, I think I remember 3D body adventure, if I'm right, you could go through a brain and shoot rabies.

>>866118
>Packard Bell
I'm sorry your parents abused you as a child

>>857318
I thought I forgot about this forever. The dinosaur part scared me as a kid.

Thanks OP