Educational games that you liked ish, sort of.
Im not sure why my dad bought me and my sister a spectrum when we were kids but for my mum it was a way to boost my failing education. She would invest in numerous edutainment programs from maths to English and everything in between. Mostly they didnt improve my education but some of them were quite good, heres my faves.
Hot dot spotter. (Maths type game)
World flags.
Damn it that should say games in the thread title. This keyboard has a dodgy m key!. (Dont worry - amended - psj3809)
Hot dot spotter. (Maths type game)
World flags.
Damn it that should say games in the thread title. This keyboard has a dodgy m key!. (Dont worry - amended - psj3809)
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The rest of the Science Horizons series were also pretty good, for the most part. Cargo and Magnets are also decent games in their own right, aside from any educational value they might have.
Recently of course I played the Biblical Pluderwust game (Clever Clogs: History Mystery.)
But overall, I guess it'd have to be Orm and Cheep - Narrow Squeaks
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0009150
or at a push, Hansel and Gretel
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0011768
Shhh... It's got an E code on the box, therefore it's educational. ;)
Naah, it's got a G code. Mind you, it's probably of at least as much educational value as anything else mentioned so far and a great game into the bargain.
obviously these games didn't have that much of an effect on you. :-P
I think i already said that nnnnnnnnnnnnghhh. :smile:
Yeah, I remember my Mum going through a phase of "computers are for eduction", so she brought loads of these kinds of games, mainly for my youngest brother. This is the one that I remember the best, becasue it came in a plastic box and not a normal tape box, plus, it had clear instructions for transfering it to Microdrive and how to load from that.
Also, the only other game that sticks in my mind is Sum Scruncher...
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0009189
Even I enjoyed playing this one...
I nearly bought Orm and Cheep instead of the Avalon/Dragontorc boxset. Pwew, that was a "narrow squeak!" :D
Not heard of Sum Scruncher, but it looks like the sort of game they'd have in schools. (I was terrified of the School computer!)
Surely though, the most famous name goes to: First Steps with the Mister Men Surely everyone knows that one?
Totally non-Speccy (apologies), but I loved the Carmen Sandiego games on the Megadrive (I think Where In Time... was the one I played the most). :smile:
Oh, and Granny's Garden on the BBC. :D
(They had it on the Link 480Z when I was at Primary School. The key-eating monster from the lake asked if it could have my key to eat, so I told it to eff off and the program locked up and said "please get your teacher". I reset the machine and pretended it crashed.)
'Make A Chip' was pretty good. I played with it a bit when I was a kid, but got bored as it was a bit dry and nothing blew up.
I thought Granny's Garden was denienced? They had it for the BBC at my primary school, I just remember the 2 screens where you had to pick a tree for some reason, and big red or purple blobby thing called Hachoo that jumped up and down whilst having a fit (but I think he was supposed to be sneezing :lol:).
Hope it's not denienced might try swearing at it :D
Don't know if me or anybody else tried it at school now? :lol:
EDIT: Oh Bugger! It is denienced :(
The PC version of Granny's Garden is still being sold and used in UK schools these days.
I always liked Podd on the BBC Micro...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G090ju-DpqU
in which you used to complete the sentence with a verb to make Podd do something.
It was basically a collection of separately loaded mini 'games' including a primitive word processor, but the one mini game which I remember best was a geography quiz on South America, which educated me on such things as the GDP of Peru, the population of Bolivia in 1983, and the capital city of Paraguay etc etc. I don't think it was the original goal but, some of the information has actually served me well in pub quizzes in later life.
Shame it's soooo hard to find a copy these days ;)
Oh my god!! I'd completely forgotten about that... good call.
*takes a stroll down memory lane*
I remember being about 10 and was highly disappointed when it wouldn't accept stuff like 'Podd can shit' or 'Podd can die'.
and can i say some animal thing on the horizons tape Oo
edit :- evolution, thats the one
also I think either on spec or BBC (as well as Granny's Garden and Podd as mentioned), some game where you have to fire a rock over some wall from a catapult and make it land on your opponent's catapult or if you missed it was their go. is there a game like this on the spec? had a look in the archive but there is no game called 'catapult', can't think what else it would be called tbh
Oh and those educational Gaelords were so amusing :p
I was the same, found out a lot about various things in history. The same goes for Colonisation (also on the Amiga). The manual had tonnes of info on the early explorers and histories of the various native Indian tribes, very interesting.