Old PC kids games - Before Nintendo had a monopoly

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David Brown said:
Did anyone play Tuneland as a kid? I loved this shit. Watching footage on YouTube is major league nostalgia for me.
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Howie Mandel having a full head of hair is...jarring, to say the least.

verymuchawful said:
Dogz and Catz was literally my introduction to modding in the 90s as a kid. Custom breeds utilizing the game's surprisingly fleshed out system for the pet models and being able to change the size of each body part. There's sites that are STILL up that have downloads for custom breeds. And/or backports of breeds from later games into the older versions.
https://www.mythicsilence.com/malevolent/breeds.php
https://homebody.eu/carolyn/d3breedz.htm Whole thing is a nostalgia bomb rabbit hole.
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Raping the Petz series was one of the earlier strikes I remember from Ubisoft.

The Ugly One said:
Can't believe Super Solvers hasn't come up yet. It actually looked really good for the time.
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There were a few games in the Super Solvers series, probably one of the better ones being Gizmos & Gadgets which had some elementary-age physics puzzles behind locked doors in an arcadey settings, but play long enough and they'll eventually start the puzzles over again (I'm not sure they anticipated anyone "winning" the game).

Part of the reason the edutainment genre died out was because it was mostly shovelware, but you could also see in The Learning Company's output that people who knew how video games worked (including Warren Robinett of Atari fame) got driven out over time and replaced with focus groups who didn't. (This likely was hastened when they were purchased by SoftKey).

It really deserves its own thread.
 
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Speaking of the learning company, I remember this thing being on all the macs in the comp lab. It had great art and ost, but I had no idea how to play it. I remember sitting there waiting forever for that loading screen of the room getting jumanji'd while the clock ticked down on our computer time.
 
I remember when CD Rom drives came with a bunch of software when you bought one in the 90s. One title that stuck out to me but i don’t remember the name. It’s a Microsoft title and it included a pixelated 3D museum tour. Thought it was Encarta but it’s not.

A little help would be great.
 
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GeorgeFloydFentanylStash said:
I remember when CD Rom drives came with a bunch of software when you bought one in the 90s. One title that stuck out to me but i don’t remember the name. It’s a Microsoft title and it included a pixelated 3D museum tour. Thought it was Encarta but it’s not.

A little help would be great.
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I want to say A Passion for Art, which wasn't Microsoft but a company owned by Bill Gates anyway. If it's not an art museum there was also Microsoft Dinosaurs.
 
Nintendo doesn’t even have a monopoly on kids games now,

Roblox alone is worth almost half much as Nintendo.

The old Lego PC games were fun.
 
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I know Oregon Trail has already been brought up, but I was always partial to the second game; the third wasn't terrible, either.

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The Yukon Trail didn't give you a way to die, but it was still fun. You even get to meet Soapy Smith, who absolutely should've given you a way to die in the game.

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Anyone remember the Magic School Bus game where you travel into Arnold's intestines and the kids can touch his poop? No? Maybe you're better off then.
 
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