Can't say I've ever found any educational game fun. Closest thing would be those Brain Age games on the DS. Or Typing Of The Dead on Dreamcast. That shit actually improved my typing skills for awhile(never owned a PC in my life).
Can't say I've ever found any educational game fun. Closest thing would be those Brain Age games on the DS. Or Typing Of The Dead on Dreamcast. That shit actually improved my typing skills for awhile(never owned a PC in my life).
Ehh Oregon Trail I think is fairly hard to hate because it doesn't even feel educational unless you actually bother to read the historical notes at each stop. You have commerce, travel, hunting, random death and disease, floods, animal illness/death and more. It's so random it does keep itself interesting and you can take multiple paths.
This may seem odd and off pace from the rest of the posts but I think Typing of the Dead on the Sega Dreamcast. Not only did I learn to type playing that game, I learned to type pretty darn fast! So even though not an educational game I did develop a valuable skill from playing it.
Yago, Typing of the Dead is excellent. It is so much fun, and a great motivator to learn to type faster! Too bad the Western world never got SEGA's Typing Space Harrier, which is another excellent entry in SEGA's Typing series. However, we did get Typing of the Dead: Overkill. Personally, I don't like the game upon which it is based, but if you don't mind the content in House of the Dead: Overkill, Typing of the Dead: Overkill is another game worth your consideration. (And yes, it also has words appearing which are funny based on what's happening on screen.)
I like all of the above games in their own way. But I have to throw this one out there.
Zoombini's Logical Journey.
There's a soft spot in my heart for that cheesy old edutainment game.
I am definitely for things that increase people's awareness of and usage of reason and logic.Originally Posted by 8-Bit Archeology
Ahh yeah, nothing like a complete copy in a big computer game box.
Carmen Sandiego games have to be my favorite. If I recall correctly, "Where in the USA?" was the first, followed by Europe, and then World, and then Time. I am pretty sure Time is the last; a little unsure about the other ones. Even though they were largely a process of hunting through the reference books included with the game along with some minimal logic / deduction, they were great for children to learn.
Other than that, Number Munchers - definitely a favorite.
You are startled by a grim snarl. Before you, you see 1 Red dragon. Will your stalwart band choose to (F)ight or (R)un?
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