Any good examples of edutainment?

[Gunstar Green]

MECC was responsible for a lot of good edutainment games, like the previously mentioned Oregon Trail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MECC

And of course Carmen Sandiego from Broderbund. An edutainment game series that actually managed to become a multimedia franchise of sorts speaks for itself.

[MrPopo]

I just remembered a game that we had on the computers in grade school. It was called Googolpede, and it was your standard Snake game, but the edutainment part was that on the screen it would show a math equation, and you had to eat either T or F, depending on if the equation was correct or not.

http://web.ai/club/math01.html

[brunoafh]

Has anyone used that Rosetta Stone foreign language software? I've heard it's game-ish, but never tried it myself.

When language learning software is compared to a game, red flags should be raised. I've used it and can't vouch for it at all. It barely taught me anything. I completed the entire Japanese program, and have learned more on my own study time, and through watching cartoons and reading comics. It flashes pictures at you, and you guess what word the picture should be associated with. That's it. It teaches zero grammar or language foundation. The only thing "game-like" about it would be how it gives out scores after the mindless quiz sessions. It's meant purely for people that need to learn some basic words and sentences as fast as possible, and aren't planning on continuing their study of the language upon the completion of their business trip or whatever. /rosetta stone is trash rant

Anyway, Math Munchers and Word Munchers is where it's at. I used to play those games like crazy back in the day and would gladly play either one now.

[o.pwuaioc]

As a kid in elementary school...MATH BLASTER!

[Anapan]

Sim Ant, Sim Earth & Sim City

[Blu]

Word and Number Munchers, Super Munchers. All awesome.

[Gunstar Green]

Does Incredible Machine count? My school had it.

[Violent By Design]

Oregon Trail and Sim Tower were the educational games I used to play as a lad.

[Ivo]

Civilization. I learned a lot from Civilopedia.

Sim Ant, Sim Earth & Sim City

I was going to say Sim Ant as well.

Ivo.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Word and Number Munchers, Super Munchers. All awesome.

Number Munchers FTW. That game was - and is - awesome. Does anyone know if there are any modern versions, reimaginings, homages, etc.?