Hello! I have a few games I was hoping someone might be able to help me find!
1. I was wondering about this one game I recall playing back in elementary school on the computer. It was one of those typing games, you know, the kinds used to trick kids into learning how to type (lol). It had a variety of typing minigames, unfortunately I can only really recall one off the top of my head. It was a game where you had to type these words and to clear sand off of Santa's time machine (don't even ask, it was bizarre.) I remember having a lot of fun with it.
2. It's another computer game, I think it was one of the Reader Rabbits but I can't remember which. I've tried searching for it but couldn't find it. It has several games you can play and involves winning tickets to use to get on a train or something. There were several animals, each with their own game. One of the games was a connect-the-dots, another was... cooking, maybe? Sorry, it's a very vague memory, I know. Also, I don't know if it's the same game or not but I remember a Reader Rabbit game (at least I think it was Reader Rabbit) in which you had a merry-go-round horse that stopped moving, it was turned to stone or something, and you had to find/put together the key that would unfreeze the horse.
3. I remember another computer game I really liked and thought was a lot of fun, it was this game with (again) several activities you could do. One was baking cookies, in which you mixed together the right number of each ingredient and then got to choose a cookie cutter and cut out the cookies and had to try cut out as many as you could. Some of the cookie cutter shapes were a gingerbread man, a star, etc. Then you could decorate the cookies, I think, with sprinkles and other stuff. There were other stuff involved, too, and a plotline about a kingdom or something that needed saving?
4. I remember this one game my brother played that scared the crap outta me as a kid. All I remember is in the opening scene(s) there were these two kids, a boy and a girl, and they were spying on some monsters or something in this abandoned house or whatever. But then, suddenly, one or both of the kids were grabbed from behind and kidnapped by one of the monsters and (presumably) you had to rescue them or escape (I can't remember if you played as the two kids or not.)
5. And lastly, I only very vaguely recall another game that scared the crap outta me as a kid, so much so I couldn't keep playing. It was rated M (don't ask) and it started off with your character as this mansion party or something? But then there was a cutscene showing how this mutagenic stuff or maybe it was a virus or something that got into the sewers and infected all the rats so their eyes glowed this creepy red and I guess turned violent, biting people and spreading the disease(?) Next thing you know, something happens and there's a huge whole in the floor of the mansion and everything is chaos with a bunch of people dying. If anyone could tell me the name of any of these games, I'd be eternally grateful!