Post a pic if at all possible
Jumpstart 4th Grade Haunted Island
Teaches a bunch of subjects and helps develop problem-solving skills; its soundtrack has zero right to be so bitchin’ but it is
Was asking about this today because I couldnt remember the name or franchise and Lemmy came thru, reuniting me with yet another thing I could remember sound of but not the content or name, long thought lost to the sands of time
Looking for stuff like Reader Rabbit, KidPyx, etc
Asteroids, Missile Command, and Combat.
Treasure Cove
Is Treasure Mountain in this series??? Is it a series??? I played that. Loved that shit.
I also played Mavis Beacon, Reader Rabbit, Oregon Trail 2, and Amazon Trail.
Hyper Card
Kid Pix
Kid Pix! Did you get it at a CompUSA perchance?
For those like me that don’t know HyperCard, it’s a visual programming tool for Apple II. Ars Technica has a good rundown with more technical and historical details
Foe Apple II? No, it runs on Macintoshes not Apple machines (other than the IIgs but that’s kind of an odd ball). It was developed until the mid 2000s.
“visual programming” I would also say isn’t quite correct. The programming was textual, using a Hyper Talk based language (based on Small Talk). But it interacted with visual objects. Kinda like Flash (which was also Hyper Talk based if memory serves).
I had so much fun with hyper card! We had to use it in my programming class, I made a small text based RPG out of it!
I made RPGs, platformers, space alien style arcade shooters, utilities. It was a huge contributor to my love of computers. RIP Bill Atkinson!
Moctezuma’s Revenge and Bruce Lee on the Commodore64
Number Munchers
This game was one of the reasons I went to school.
Can you embed a pic for it for the rest of the class ;)
Daaaamn! You had color? I only had monochrome on the Apple IIe at school for this game.
Lemmings
Logical Journey of the Zoombinis, Gizmos and Gadgets, All of the Carmen Sandiego titles (US, World, Space, etc.), Commander Keen
Tarzan
Animorphs game from the Animorphs website, back when the internet was new
Chess Master 5000
Holy crap that Animorphs game; I absolutely remember playing that. Stupid Yeerks
Big Action Garage
Tonka Construction
Zoombinis All the Humongous and Jumpstart games
Spy Fox was the best from Humongous IMO. Ms Monkey Penny?!? Hilarious. And I played that space bullet hell game soooo much.
I loved having hundreds of c64 games with no manuals. So with this one, we thought you needed to fly the plane out the only visible door in the hangar, which was the one the pilot comes in through, and it was barely bigger than the plane. Seemed impossible to line up. Not like you could look things up back then, and if you were lucky enough to know some friends who played it, they’d often have the same issue. Can’t get out of the bloody hangar. Then one day, one of my brothers puts his feet up on the computer desk and kicks the F7 key on the bottom right of the keyboard while I’m flying the plane around the hangar, and the wall opens up. Well, shit. From there, it was pretty fun to make the Zaxxon-like run to the Kremlin and then pick it apart with your RPGs. Lots of good memories of this one.
The first video game I ever played was a Lode Runner clone for the IBM PC called Freddy’s Rescue Roundup.
That’s the reissue. Nice!
More education than game: Mighty Math Number Heroes
More game than education: Putt Putt series
Lode Runner: The Legend Returns was a game that came preinstalled by Compaq on Windows 95. Around age five I found the game captivating, and the level editor was fantastic for my brother and I.
I worked on part of that game. Age 5, hoooboy!
Ohhhh, I had no idea why I had that game
I remember Compaq had a commercial game pack that you were supposed to call in to pay for, but the password was just 11111111.
