Simple as that: what are your favorite educational entertainment titles, and what makes them so special to you?
Simple as that: what are your favorite educational entertainment titles, and what makes them so special to you?
I guess the Oregon Trail. I remember first playing it in school. It plays like a game but teaches you of the routes people took to get to Oregon, the hardships, the history of the landmarks.
I know it's not really 'educational' but at least I consider them as such and I'd rather vote for both Sim City and the original Civilization. SC taught how to handle a basic budget, basic economics, city development, planning, and how to handle a crisis situation too. Civilization taught the benefits of war and peace, development, expansion, budgets, resource allocation and distribution all under the hood of a big fat history lesson because each Civilzation had the basics of them displayed but it also gave a little history lesson summary of every tech from numbers and letters to space parts and nuclear power.
hackfly (12-11-2017)
I always liked Meteor Multiplication on the TI99. It's like Asteroids, but instead of aiming at the meteors, you have to quickly type in the answer to the mutliplication problem presented.
Oregon Trail was fun, too. Until I found out what dysentery was.
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Games like the Oregon Trail and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego taught kids history, geography, problem solving, and critical thinking skills all under the guise of being a computer game.
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? This game was like a fun Geography lesson.
Number Munchers and Word Munchers, both were some of my first video games back when we first got a single Mac for each classroom in 1st grade.