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Encarta Mind Maze, gizmos and gadgets, Treasure Mountain, Zoombinis, lego mindstorms

Super Munchers, Outnumbered, Operation Neptune, Wild Science Arcade, and Mario Teaches Typing

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Math blaster. Stuck in my head forever

> Operation Neptune

Oh man, I played the heck out of that game, but somehow I keep forgetting it existed. (Unlike, say, Myst or Wing Commander.) I think I beat it, but if so I'm suspect it might have involved a lot of trial-and-error regarding math questions I wasn't ready for.

As a parent, I put quite a bit of time into trying to find the huge number of excellent, new edutainment games that must exist since the market’s a ton bigger now and so many kids have access to tablets and such.

I was surprised to find that most of the best ones were remakes of the old ones (Oregon Trail) or weirdly empty and small in scope like the very simplest, early edutainment games (number munchers, say) as in the case of Dragon Box Math. The boom of ambitious, fun, and sometimes weird 90s edutainment the legacy of which I was hoping to find wasn’t there. Really weird.