Help! What are these games?

[stickymango]

I'm hoping someone on here can solve this mystery. There are three computer games that I played when I was a kid and I can't remember their names - it's been haunting me since. I did some google searching with archives of old games but couldn't find them. First I'll give you some background on the computer I was using:

Date: Played around 1996
Computer: Memories a bit rusty but it could've been one of these (not limited to, just to give an idea):
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_5260
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_4400 (with a separate monitor)
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_7100

The computer:
Used floppy disks
Ran on OS: Screen looked like this http://mac.the-underdogs.info/
Had the ClarisWorks program
Had a game built in that you could swat flies, and jewelbox.

Remember playing these games on it:
Treasure Mountain series
Reader Rabbit series
Sammy's Science House
Sim City (not sure if 2000 or not)
F/A-18 Hornet
The 7th Guest
Kings Quest VII

Onto the games:
1. I had two games of the series (like Treasure Mountain and Treasure Mathstorm). One had a snow theme (animals were seals, whales..., the "monk" had a fur coat) and one had a jungle theme (animals were rhinos, hippos...the "monk" wore tribal oufits). If I can remember, the goal of the games were to journey down (or up?) the river with levels in the middle. In both, on each level you got out of your canoe, went on land and you used the arrow keys on the keyboard to move your guy (if it was icy, you slid in the direction) You had a birds-eye view of the area. You had to avoid animals that moved in set directions (like up/down, left/right) and collect letter tiles. Once you obtained all the letters you meet up with a bald "monk?" and solve something on a post. Then you go back in the boat and travel to the next destination (I never finished it)

2. (FOUND!!!) Art programs for kids. There was a purple guy with a Picasso-esque face (actually, the whole game looked Picasso-ey) with eyes like fish and you could make cards to printout and whatnot. You could also have some fun by going out the building and clicking the windows to see that guy run around. Not KidPix. (FOUND!!!)

3. OK I got these games in the mail (with my childlike perception and mentality I couldn't tell who sent them to me) but this time I think they were on CDs (by this time we could've had a tower with a slot to put CDs in). Again, 2 different versions from the same series. I'm pretty sure the boy's name was Peter (he had black hair, kind of pointed out in the front, maybe a red t-shirt) and he traveled to different places. He was a cartoonish character (as opposed to realistic or pixelated) and some of the images looked like actual photos/images of things that were pasted in. In one of the games, two of the places you traveled to were space and the ocean. I distinctly remember a mini-game involving clicking the undersea creatues in a certain order (possibly order of the food chain) and seeing these creepy things: http://oddee.com/item_79915.aspx (When you put your mouse over a fish it's mouth would open) Most of the images were 2-D, cartoony like the character. I also remember loud, unpleasant noises if you clicked on certain things. I think once you got to an area, you had to click on things or do some mini games and once you've finished you could go to the next area (as opposed to a menu option and going back to a level).

Thank you in advance for reading all this and I hope that someone will be able to remember something!

[marurun]

Wow, I have no idea about those programs. By the time we had a Mac, about 1996 or 1997, I wasn't playing those younger games any more. I grew up with Math Munchers and stuff on Apple IIs. I love them...

[fastbilly1]

The only other games in the Treasure Mountain style that I know of are:
Midnight Rescue - robots in a highschool
Treasure Cove - underwater
Gizmos and Gadgets - highschools
Ancient Empires - Egyptian

Ofcourse these are in the Super Solvers and Super Seekers series by the learning company. There also is a Treasure Galaxy according to wikipedia, but that doesnt help. Any chance those could be the Yukon and Amazon Trials? I know in Yukon had seals but forgive me it has been many years since then - I grewup with the old apple ][e Oregon Trail, and now only have the MECC 2.11 version working on xp. I am trying to find 1.0, if any of yall see it.

As for the art program. My early 90s system 7/os7 program knowledge is not very good, ironic since that is what my mac runs, but was it Pixelpaint? I seem to remember it having a Picasso style.

All this talk makes me want to fire the old girl up. Blaring 25mhz processor... Have to use a mac emulator, executor, to write to floppies so I can get data on or off the thing. It runs excel97 decently.

So I got off topic alittle, but I think I might have helped.

[stickymango]

Oh no, the 1st choice wasn't part of the Learning Company, just wanted to explain that the two versions of the game had the same format, just like TMountain and TMathstorm where you had to do the same tasks but "dressed" differently. Oh no it's not either of the Trails but thank you so much for trying. The art one wasn't PixelPaint either, it had a cartoony look and was like a game where you could go to different rooms to make different things like cards, banners, stationary etc...

Thanks for helping but the search shall continue!

[fastbilly1]

Righto, Ill try again today at work, if I get the time.

[Bonus Kun]

The art program is Microsoft Fine Artist.

[fastbilly1]

You know bonus kun I thought of that on the way home from work...

However maybe looking at program names might jog your memory. Give the mac underdogs a go:
http://mac.the-underdogs.info/index.php

It might help?

[stickymango]

YES!! It is Microsoft Fine Artist, THANK YOU BOTH! :):)

I did try that website but the forums there became a victim of spam bots and I think it's abandoned? Do you have any other suggestions for forums that could possibly know?

[fastbilly1]

Well take a gander through the program archives, you might see a game that will jog your memory.

Sadly I do not know any other system 7 game forums. Sorry.