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Jumpstart 4th Grade Haunted Island
Teaches a bunch of subjects and helps develop problem-solving skills; its soundtrack has zero right to be so bitchin' but it is
Was asking about this today because I couldnt remember the name or franchise and Lemmy came thru, reuniting me with yet another thing I could remember sound of but not the content or name, long thought lost to the sands of time
Looking for stuff like Reader Rabbit, KidPyx, etc
Big Action Garage
Tonka Construction
Zoombinis All the Humongous and Jumpstart games
Spy Fox was the best from Humongous IMO. Ms Monkey Penny?!? Hilarious. And I played that space bullet hell game soooo much.
one of the best DOS games ever, Battle Chess!
watching the knight lop the arms off the pawns never got old!
Whatever you are... MAKE ME A PIZZA (Zoombinis)
"There's something on this I don't like!"
Does anyone else remember the zero-player game Progress Quest?
A classic!
The first video game I ever played was a Lode Runner clone for the IBM PC called Freddy's Rescue Roundup.
Monster Bash!
And Alex the Kidd on my brother's Sega
Telemate, by Tsung Hu, was one of the best pieces of DOS software I ever got to use. It featured internal multitasking via its own file reader and composer. With every other terminal program out there if you wanted to create a new file or use a scratch pad you had to exit the program first and load something else.
With telemate you could download a text, open it in the internal reader, then start copying bits over to the internal composer and then cut and paste the whole thing back into the terminal. This was godlike power at the time.
It had a slew if other really useful comm program features, the file downloading system was super tight and had every protocol, the local file browser was really nice. ansi and other graphics support was superb.
I eventually put it into autoexec.bat so my 286 would boot right into telemate. I was terminally online when online barely existed 😅
I learned to program thanks to this app. I used it to dial up and access shell accounts so i could IRC and MUD. I made friends I still talk to today through it. For years it was my daily companion.
If i could celebrate one single DOS app it would be the humble yet amazing Telemate by Tsung Hu (who went by Winfred Hu at the time)
you can grab it here: https://archive.org/details/telemate
The only reason i ever stopped using it was I graduated on to Slackware!
Gorillaz:
Nibbles:
Word rescue:
Chip's Challenge:
Commander Keen:
Can't forget good ol' Ski Free:
Commander Keen:
Awesome. That's a screenshot that I can hear. Nice.
Hell yeah, Keen is a classic, I gotta emulate it sometime to relive the memories
Most of the stuff was whatever demos came with those magazine CDs. Half wouldn't run on the family computer - none of LucasArts' adventure games did. Some that did run and I remember playing were:
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One of the few things we had was Lion King's Activity Center (Brazilian version, Centro de Atividades). I distinctly remember that, for whatever reason, the VA for Rafiki was different from the movie
At my dad, I played a lot of Lemmings and some of those Arthur interactive books. To my then non-english-speaking ass, the story reading was mostly pointless, but most scenes would let you click around to see what happened, characters would either say something or do something funny (I personally loved one where you clicked DW and she'd ride her bike over a small hill, crashing then coming back)
Also this one, which I don't think I enjoyed as much as Arthur for whatever reason
(That picture immediately made me "smell" crayons. Is there a word for when a picture reminds you of a smell?)
Your English is better than many English-as-first-language Americans I know hahaha
Treasure Cove
Is Treasure Mountain in this series??? Is it a series??? I played that. Loved that shit.
I also played Mavis Beacon, Reader Rabbit, Oregon Trail 2, and Amazon Trail.
DESQview - multi-tasking for DOS:
Norton Commander - shell/file manager for DOS:
I ran a BBS under DESQview X and it worked flawlessly!
It’s amazing how DESQview had pre-emptive multitasking which Microsoft couldn’t do until Windows NT.
Same here I had it running a BBS, FidoNet I think.
Gen z here. Animal jam was goated
I remember when they removed shelves from the in game stores so there was just a black market of shelves for no reason
Kingdom Hearts Re-coded is the best game ever and you can't change my mind. I got my dad's cartridge and DSi and it was the BEST.
Ive actually just now gotten around to playing the actual kingdom hearts 1 and OMG I don't know how they managed to make the controls WORSE than a DSi game with like 10 buttons, it's so bad you can't see anything while in combat.
In the DS one you could at least snap the camera to look at the back of your head
edit: also coolmathgames.com
Kidpix Delux 3
Although I never saw the packaging. All games I had for the C64 I got at school.
Hover! was so much fun. Hovering bumper-car capture the flag.
Also Math Blaster ages 9-12 with the flying monkey enemies.
Pajama Sam: You are What you Eat From Your Head to Your Feet was a favorite of mine as a child:
Also had to look it up but Elmo’s Preschool was a big feature of my under-5 PC gaming:
2nd grade or so was a lot of Disney Princess: Magical Dressup with some cute mini games and a LOT of uncanny valley jank lol:
And alongside that was the PC version of Battle for Bikini Bottom, with mini games instead of the platformer the console had, but I’m struggling to find any decent gameplay screen grabs.
Of course that’s all just PC gaming.
Anybody remember the Cartoon Network island flash games? It was like a resort and I could have sworn there were multiple installments.
Infocom games such as Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Thinkin Things
And Sammy's Science House
Encarta 95 Mind Maze
It's a jungle out there and I oughta know!
I grew up on 500-in-1 shareware discs as a real young kid, got into playing heaps of Runescape on mom's laptop in late primary school, and when she eventually got me my own Pentium 4 PC I played the ever-loving shit outta the classic Source games and mods. Many nights were spent with my international pals playing Garry's Mod or Zombie Master til the early winking of daylight met my dried, crusty eyes. Good times. Better times.
Ultima V
Hyper Card
Kid Pix
For those like me that don't know HyperCard, it's a visual programming tool for Apple II. Ars Technica has a good rundown with more technical and historical details
Foe Apple II? No, it runs on Macintoshes not Apple machines (other than the IIgs but that's kind of an odd ball). It was developed until the mid 2000s.
"visual programming" I would also say isn't quite correct. The programming was textual, using a Hyper Talk based language (based on Small Talk). But it interacted with visual objects. Kinda like Flash (which was also Hyper Talk based if memory serves).
Kid Pix! Did you get it at a CompUSA perchance?
Tarzan
Animorphs game from the Animorphs website, back when the internet was new
Chess Master 5000
Nowadays, Microsoft Fury is just copilot being thrown at everyone's faces
Cluefinders
Wanna know a fun fact?
The people who made this, Broderbund, made the original Prince of Persia games, the 2D ones.
Lode Runner: The Legend Returns was a game that came preinstalled by Compaq on Windows 95. Around age five I found the game captivating, and the level editor was fantastic for my brother and I.
I worked on part of that game. Age 5, hoooboy!
