Think waaaay back, what was your favorite educational game?

[Daestar]

Age of Mythology. That's right, I actually learned who Perseus, Jason, Medusa, and all that, and all that are from reading the little unit histories included. Educational Real Time Strategy.....and meteors....

 

[imnot]

i,i dont think i had one D=

 

[Burningsok]

Oregon Trail and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego is where it was at. At least for us old dudes anyway.

yes yes! I remember playing Where in The World is Carmon Sandiego in 2nd and 3rd grade. Boy was that fun

 

[Ancientgamer]

jumpstart 6th grade. Plot was intense.

 

[no oneder]

Number Munchers!

YUP!!!

They also had Word-Muncher too!!

But Number Munchers was better.

Also, no one has made this joke so here it goes:

Edit: Oregon Trail too.

 

[Mr. Bojangles]

Oregon Trail, Math Blaster, Jump-Start.

I even played a School-House Rock game called Math Rock!

 

[Julianking93]

Legend of Zelda.

That was an educational game, right? It depicted the true story of the young adventurer named Link.

No?

 

[Frankster]

Mario is missing!

Played that as a young lad, long before the interwebs became as we know them today, long before the weegee meme popularized it.

It was actually a ok game, on pc at least. And as a child you really don't dispute that a koopa is carrying king kong in his bag.

 

[Volucer]

Only one I really remember was that quiz-maze thing that came with Britanica or whatever that yearly encylopedia before Wikipedia existed was. That was pretty fun.

 

[Ponch]

Number Munchers!

Hell yeah!!

Best game in the world

 

[Blemontea]

The Reader Rabbit games, simple design and it fascinated me enough to want to learn

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

Does Where in the World is Carmen San Diego count? Geography, what not.

 

[Sacman]

Putt Putt Goes To The Moon, I loved that game I don't know how many times I played through it...

 

[Wintermoot]

howies treehouse it pretty much made my childhood my father got a pirated copy of the language one and we later bought the math ones

 

[Jark212]

Oregon Trail counts as we played it in 4th grade, I'd load up on Whiskey and ammo and hunt everything I could. But I never made it to the Pacific...

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

I played a bunch, but I can't remember any of their names. One was about a thief fighting a scientist who looked like Dr. Wily. Another was a basic game (coloring, math, reading, spelling) starring a frog and an angry Scottish fly.

 

[Kalabrikan]

Logical Journey of the Zoombinis and Oregon Trail II for gameplay. Oh, and the Math Blasters were pretty good. Then there was the Yobi's Spelling Tricks series that nobody seems to remember.

The Magic School Bus Explores the Human Body traumatized the crap out of me when I was five. There isn't a whole lot of gameplay or educational value, but as a scary horror experience it functions very well.