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2310545 No.2310545 [Reply] [Original]

The 90s was the beginning of edutainment as we know it. It was so full of good games.

>> No.2310548
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>> No.2310552

>>2310545
Try the 80s. Carmen Sandiego, Oregon Trail, and Math Blaster variants were all common in schools 25-30 years ago.

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>> No.2310557

>>2310545
it's a good board game, it never really worked too well on computers, despite the fact that it was popular in schools.

>> No.2310559

>>2310552

Yes, I am aware, but the 90s really caused the boom for both edutainment cartoons and edutainment games

>> No.2310567

>>2310552
there was a math blaster game in the 80s, but it actually wasn't very popular

>> No.2310572

>>2310559
I would say there were two booms myself, in the early 80s you had a boom of games mostly written by actual teachers and at first spread from school to school, and then in the 90s you have a boom of professionally developed edutainment games. Whether the later is a good or bad thing is a matter of opnion

>> No.2310651

Was 'where in time is carmen sandiego' for NES any good?

>> No.2310672

>>2310567
There were equivalents to Math Blaster that were common in schools in the 80s. Not sure of the names, but they did exist and they were widespread.

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Behold your king!

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>> No.2311973

Sim City is apparently fun

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I forgot the name of this game for years before someone on /v/ managed to tell me what it was from a vague description.

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Uffeutter

This is a Swedish DOS game I used to play with my sisters when we were kids

>> No.2311985

>>2310672
I am aware, but Math Blaster in specific was mentioned.

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>>2311983
looks a lot like Tuneland, which I actually used to goof around with a lot despite the fact that I was much older than the target audience at the time.

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>>2310545
Name a better educational game

Protip: You can't.

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>>2310572
Apple II Microzines son

>> No.2312070

>>2312062
I nearly died the first time I saw one in an actual arcade.

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does anyone know where i can find a windows torrent or something of this? i can't find the cd i had
i can't into dosbox and i like using my midi synth thing for old games

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>> No.2312947

>>2312062
This is a funny game, but to me, Oregon Trail is the greatest edutainment of all time.

>> No.2313692

>>2312325
anyone?

>> No.2313727

>>2310545
There were tons of edutainment games in the 80s that really only got better graphics in the 90s. My first PC game was Mixed Up Mother Goose which was largely about getting kids to type and form basic phrases. Later games relied too much on cursors.

But there are a lot of other titles too.

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Obligatory

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Do they even make edutainment games anymore? What do elementary school aged kids play these days?

>> No.2313771

>>2313765
Call of Duty

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Number munchers? Anyone??

>> No.2313886

>>2313875
Oh, yes. I played this in elementary school for sure.

>> No.2313893

>>2313765
If it counts, I plunk my kid down for some Incredible Machine every once in a while. There's a clone or two of that still being made sometimes.

Other than that I think it's centered more around portable games now on certain platforms, what with these kid safe tablets cropping up.

>> No.2313949

>>2313765

I am studying to be an elementary teacher so maybe I will find out soon. I remember ten years ago when I was in elementary (I graduated 5th grade in 2006) we played Word Munchers Deluxe in computer class.

>> No.2316526

>>2312325
bump

>> No.2316913

If I want to play these old PC games, with physical copies, would a Windows XP do? I have one that has the BSOD but I could fix it. I was thinking of keeping it to use for older (2000 - 2006) PC games.

>> No.2316925 [DELETED] 

seven cities taught me to kill the chief first.
sim earth taught me that touching any of the settings on the planet is instant death.

>> No.2316929

>>2316913
xp can do just about anything, you're good

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Apparently Freddi is a girl.

>> No.2320052

>>2312325
anyone...?

>> No.2320579

>>2320052

Doubt it exists

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Anyone remember Mental Math Games? More importantly, anyone remember the special version for schools that had LAN MULTIPLAYER TRON LIGHT CYCLES BATTLES?!

It was just called "Cycles" but it played like a 4 player version of the arcade Tron Light Cycle game (which is basically the same thing as all those "Snake" games). You had to answer math problems to maneuver your bike, PVP in the classroom was sweet (and very distracting).

I've looked for it forever with no luck, I can only find the standard "non-classroom"/non-networked edition. There were other multiplayer games but Cycles was the king.

>> No.2320738

>>2320579
i have a cd for it but i can't find it
where else would people get the midi music?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kWVfmvHpBE

>> No.2320753

I really liked that Super Solvers game "Challenge of the Ancient Empires"; lots of fun puzzles in that one.

>> No.2322392

>>2312325
Here's the Windows CD: https://mega.co.nz/#!zFVjSaxA!NbsABtHXU1vWqYih_0D4v4K9UU9O2Jiui81_ZyrYCQw

Sounds like it's rough to get working on beyond Win 2k though, I wasn't able to get it to run just now on Win 7 64-bit by fiddling around with compatibility modes but it was fine on my Win95 Virtual PC. This Amazon review acts like they got it to work on XP at least: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2DK3EANHG5LRU/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00029SRB8&nodeID=229534&store=software

>> No.2322636

>>2322392
thanks man

>> No.2322786

Maybe it's some repressed abdl side but I wanna collect these types of educational games.

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I slowly realized I was deceived by this game (didn't know it was edutainment at first), but it was still fun.