Crystalian
02-20-2013, 11:30 PM
Hi all, I'm trying to remember a few games from my childhood and the Wikipedia and other sources don't seem to help. So I turn to the think tank and hope for the best. These are almost all educational titles, too.
The first one was a game where you were a medieval trumpeteer on top of a castle. You were trying to reveal words by guessing letters, and when you got them right he would move to the letter's location and drop a banner over the parapets. It was more like a glorified version of Hangman, since I think each word had a predetermined number of times that you could pick the wrong letter before you lost; the longer the word, the more chances you had kind of thing.
Second, it's a math game. You're a guy on a pogo stick. You solve equations by hitting the right answer when your pogo stick is above the solution. Get it right you are elevated to the next level up, get it wrong you punch a hole in the floor. Hit the basement to lose, problems get increasingly difficult mathematically the higher up you go. You can increase or decrease the speed your guy goes to the point where he can jump over holes he has previously created.
Third, it's a math game. This one was available in COLOR. You build robots and monsters out of pieces. You have to solve math problems to get the "cooler" looking pieces. If you get answers right, I think it awarded you points that you used like currency to buy the body parts in the "store" and then you did a mix-and-match with head, torso, and legs.
Last, a dumb puzzle game. You have a field of carrots, and a rabbit is eating them. You pull the carrots up one at a time, trying to get the rabbit up out of the ground like a fish on a hook. Teaches pattern recognition and thinking ahead, because if you don't make an educated guess you'll always be one step behind and the rabbit will eat all of your carrots.
That's about all I can remember, but these can't have been that obscure, can they? Thanks in advance for the help.
The first one was a game where you were a medieval trumpeteer on top of a castle. You were trying to reveal words by guessing letters, and when you got them right he would move to the letter's location and drop a banner over the parapets. It was more like a glorified version of Hangman, since I think each word had a predetermined number of times that you could pick the wrong letter before you lost; the longer the word, the more chances you had kind of thing.
Second, it's a math game. You're a guy on a pogo stick. You solve equations by hitting the right answer when your pogo stick is above the solution. Get it right you are elevated to the next level up, get it wrong you punch a hole in the floor. Hit the basement to lose, problems get increasingly difficult mathematically the higher up you go. You can increase or decrease the speed your guy goes to the point where he can jump over holes he has previously created.
Third, it's a math game. This one was available in COLOR. You build robots and monsters out of pieces. You have to solve math problems to get the "cooler" looking pieces. If you get answers right, I think it awarded you points that you used like currency to buy the body parts in the "store" and then you did a mix-and-match with head, torso, and legs.
Last, a dumb puzzle game. You have a field of carrots, and a rabbit is eating them. You pull the carrots up one at a time, trying to get the rabbit up out of the ground like a fish on a hook. Teaches pattern recognition and thinking ahead, because if you don't make an educated guess you'll always be one step behind and the rabbit will eat all of your carrots.
That's about all I can remember, but these can't have been that obscure, can they? Thanks in advance for the help.