Any good examples of edutainment?

[flex wood]

My school had this game called doctor quandary's island, at least that's what I think it was called.

I believe it was made by the same people that did the munchers series since it started you a fair and you played some shooting game where you shoot the bad guys from the munchers games. After the shooting game you pick a prize which is one of three dolls (difficulty level of the game) and you get transformed into the doll and transported to doctor quandary's island and you have to solve a bunch of logic puzzles. I don't really remember much of the game after that though.

Does anyone else remember this game?

[J T]

My school had Bungie's Marathon and I spent many hours playing it with my friends during Computer Science class, but I wouldn't call it educational.

[BoneSnapDeez]

I regret not picking up one of the numerous Win 95 versions of Number Munchers that I've seen @ Goodwill these past few years. I used to love playing that game on the Apple II and Mac.

When I was in seventh grade, I had a science teacher who was well-known as being the school's "techie guy." He had this great ocean simulator we would play in class, on laserdisc! I can't remember what it was called and I'm honestly not sure if it was a game or "educational software." Either way it was pretty awesome.

[BurningDoom]

Oregon Trail is the one that sticks out for me.

There was this Scorched Earth clone that I played that helped me learn about angles, that I could have sworn was called Tank Wars that we played at school on a Windows 3.1 system, but I've since tried to look it up and can't find it so it must have been called something else.

[J T]

Anyone else remember Lemonade Stand for the Apple II? It was a good intro to business/economics for kids.

[flex wood]

Anyone else remember Lemonade Stand for the Apple II? It was a good intro to business/economics for kids.

Yea when I was about 10 or so maybe younger my mom had gotten an Apple ll with a ton of games for free and Lemonade Stand was one of them. I spent hours playing that game. The music in that video just nostalgia'd me. I wish I still had that computer.

[Sonicx360]

Does Typing of The Dead count LOL? I loved that game back when I was 9.

[Luke]

Children's programming on PBS. Best edutainment ever.

[Hatta]

Castle of Dr. Brain was good. Mainly a puzzle game built on Sierra's adventure game engine. Not very teachy at all, but it exercises logic.

[Menegrothx]

Castle of Dr. Brain was good. Mainly a puzzle game built on Sierra's adventure game engine. Not very teachy at all, but it exercises logic.

Isn't that what most adventure games do though? Sure enough there are some games by Sierra that have very illogical solutions to certain puzzles though.