![]() ![]() ![]() Like many developers I know, I first learned to use the command line when my dad showed me how to start a game on my own (in my case I think it was Asteroids on a 386). I played computer games throughout my childhood in what may have been the golden age of kids games. To be fair, I imagine the economics of software development aren’t as conducive to producing fun educational games as they once were. The ones on today's app stores are hard to pick through: some don’t teach anything, some aren't fun, and some are misleading product placement campaigns. Internet Killed the Edutainment StarĮducational computer games seem to have lost their luster since the dot-com bubble burst. But I run a small digital development business, so a few weeks ago when a friend asked if I could recommend any educational games for his girls, I decided to put together this guide. I’m convinced at this point that I am making this game up.Let the kids play (and learn) with 90's PC Games ![]() ![]() I’m sure it looked better in my head than it actually was.Īny help or guidance would be appreciated. The art style was cartoony and sort of like Pajama Sam if I recall correctly. I think you collected some sort of gem when you were running around as well as some enemies on the screen, perhaps other aliens. It was not a platformer, you could move in all directions and I think fire a blaster. When you exited the teleporter I remember the game had a blue alien with a red? hat that would move on an overworld. I strongly remember it being an educational, perhaps math, game where you had to solve math problems while in a teleporter pod. I remember spending nearly every library trip in the computer lab wanting to play this and Oregon trail. I have been searching for about a decade now for a game I remember playing in computer lab in the early to mid 1990s. ![]()
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