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mateo360 posted:Where can I get these games? Some of them were even ported to the Wii: http://www.amazon.com/Pajama-Sam-Dont-Fear-Dark-Nintendo/dp/B0017HGHFC/ref=pd_sim_vg_1 http://www.amazon.com/Freddi-Fish-Kelp-Seed-Mystery-Nintendo/dp/B0018YDK9U/ref=pd_sim_vg_1 http://www.amazon.com/Spy-Fox-Dry-Cereal-Nintendo-Wii/dp/B0018YDKAO/ref=pd_sim_vg_2
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You have a pretty good voice for narrating over these games, Mateo. It's just so cheery!
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For the long delay, have two videos Bonus  Video   Video Available on iOS and Android(via Amazon) in other news: I was at the thrift store the other day and I was able to pick up two things  The game on the left is the original Jump Start Adventures 4th Grade: Haunted Island. We were talking in the thread about Jump Start earlier and how the 4th grade one was replace in about 2000. Now I have both versions. The other game is another HE game. Blue's Clues was the only licence that HE ever really worked with outside of their own so I was happy to find one of the Blue's adventure games for this thread. Expect this as a bonus some where later in the thread I also saw copies of Cluefinders 3rd and 4th grade but I didn't pick them up. Also what would people think about me turning this into a Educational games megathread? Dish brough up that Dyslexiactic was going to but never did and we have a good start here. Cockmaster posted:Some of them were even ported to the Wii: I do want to address this. Atari made these ports and since they have gone bankrupt, these aren't really made any more (though I was thinking of getting a copy of Spy Fox and maybe doing a live commentary run of my impressions of the port along with Pajama Sam 3 on PS1)
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Ah man. Freddi Fish. Pretty sure that was my first ever video game.
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You didn't show off one of the best mini-games in the series! It's in the beach area with the crab, off the right side of the screen. Anyway I actually forgot that this game even had multiple locations for the bottles to appear. I guess it's because unlike later games, where all the puzzles actually change drastically depending on which path you get, in this one all the puzzles are solvable and items obtainable, even if you never need to do them to get a bottle. Really the only things we missed out on were Luther's incompetence resulting in the need for the fishing pole and the king being a selfish jerk.
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Been silently following the thread up to now. This game, along with the 2nd Freddi Fish and Putt-Putt saves the Zoo were probably my favorites of these games. But what if there was another way to get past Eddie the Eel?
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The original Jumpstart 4th Grade scared me too much as a kid to play it very much. Jumpstarts 3rd and 5th Grade were my poo poo, 3rd especially. The games in 6th went on too long for my tastes. I have opinions on edutainment.
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Bluhman posted:Been silently following the thread up to now. This game, along with the 2nd Freddi Fish and Putt-Putt saves the Zoo were probably my favorites of these games. I would show that (and several other Easter eggs in other games) but they require the editing of hegames.ini which I can't do with scummVM.
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I remember playing Checkers a bunch in that activity pack.  Watching that video somehow reminded me of an edutainment game that had you looking around an airport, with this luggage directing minigame. Some searching revealed it as part of the 'Buzzy the Knowledge Bug' games, also by HE. (Buzzy is actually one of the bubbles from the credit sequence of the Freddi video.  )Oh man, I remember playing that Freddi Fish game a bunch.  The sheer level of nostalgia in this thread is incredible....Wait, Freddi's a girl?  I suppose that explains the spelling, huh.
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Yapping Eevee posted:I remember playing Checkers a bunch in that activity pack. Yep, Buzzy Explore's the Airport is one of the bonuses I have planned. I unfortunately don't have the other two any more.
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mateo360 posted:Yep, Buzzy Explore's the Airport is one of the bonuses I have planned. I unfortunately don't have the other two any more. Awesome! Good luck with your luggage.
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mateo360 posted:in other news: I was at the thrift store the other day and I was able to pick up two things  oh you lucky fucker, when I graduated high school I got lucky and got copies of Jumpstart 3rd and 5th Grade off Ebay for like combined $10 but couldn't get the 4th one (the BEST of the three)man I feel like these games would do well with group or just co-commentators
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Humoungous Entertainment was the height of games during my childhood, back when all I had was my parents' cruddy Windows 95 computer. I like to think Humongous Entertainment implanted the souls of adventure gaming into kids at a young age, maybe even installing the drive to go make them themselves... (skip to 2:05) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmHElzMl78M (video from way back during Telltale's Strongbad games) Next-Jin Engine fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Jan 10, 2014 |
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hell yea! Putt putt! one of the few educational pc games I've played along with various school approved games like reader rabbit. The Zoo one is definitely the best of them, and I liked Freddie the fish to an extent too.
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I think I only played this first Freddi Fish game and the maze arcade game so I'm kind of interested to see the other Freddi Fish games. I'm not sure that the purple sea urchins are money, they just seem like rocks because nobody cares that you pick them up off the ground and hold open doors. But then the mother gives you one for saving her child, so I don't know how much she actually wanted her child back.
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mateo360 posted:Yep, Buzzy Explore's the Airport is one of the bonuses I have planned. I unfortunately don't have the other two any more. Awesome, all I could think of when I opened this thread was, what, no love for Buzzy at the airport? Annnnd then I remembered it wasn't actually a game, unless you were playing the hide and seek kind of game. Definitely fun to just poke around at all the weird crap Now, the luggage mini-game on the other hand, was much too awesome to belong there. still pissed off at the last level basically being little more than, 'hey, good luck with that RNG there, loser!' 
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Blue Ghost posted:I think I only played this first Freddi Fish game and the maze arcade game so I'm kind of interested to see the other Freddi Fish games. They are money - this will become clear in later games.
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  Video Available on PC surprisingly enough, iOS, Android through Amazon as well In other non HE games news, I went back to the thrift store today and picked up those copies of Cluefinders 3rd and 4th grade  I also found a sealed copy of Star Wars X-Wing Alliance for $3. Score. mateo360 fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Jan 11, 2014 |
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This is without a doubt the best thing I've ever come across. I loved playing the first Pajama Sam game when I was a kid, I must've beaten it a hundred times on my old computer. They're hard to find nowadays, of course, but it's nice to see that there's someone else who enjoyed them. Multiple someone elses, it looks like.
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Putt-Putt Saves The Zoo. Just look at this great game. The animation in this and Freddi Fish's first game is pretty impressive when compared to the previous titles. That song, though. That song is a thing of beauty.
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Now that you've gone through it and taken like a billion photos, I realize how much detail was put into this game. Also didn't know that tidbit about The Fat Man doing music for this game - I mostly remember him for doing the soundtrack for The 7th Guest. The detail coincides with it having the most hidden easter eggs, all of which are activated by changing game settings: The easter egg Mateo mentioned - Eating 10 cotton candy's isn't such a good idea. A pope mole Putt Putt is not a paleontologist. A very long joke.
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The entire time I was watching this I had a really goofy smile on my face. I also liked the new art and kind of transposed the art of this game to the previous games before watching the previous videos, it was kind of surprising the difference there was.
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I believe the notion of "open = down, closed = up" for drawbridges is specific to bridges that seal gates when raised, since they act more like doors and the relation is in reference to the gate rather than the bridge itself. As someone who grew up around drawbridges that simply separate in the middle so ships can pass, I'm rather familiar with drawbridges being open when they're raised and closed when they're lowered.
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Jesus motherfucking christ, this entire thread is my childhood. I used to have a lovely mac without internet, all I'd do on it was play, like, loving Pajama Sam and Putt-Putt and Freddi Fish and Spy Fox and ClueFinders. I swear I used to have all the discs for a poo poo ton of old edutainment mac games in some case. I had a few other different games I can very vividly remember, but that's a matter for the Help Us Remember The Name Of A Game thread. But Pajama Sam and Spy Fox, man. Those games were the poo poo. They may have contributed to my personal love for adventure games in general.
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Have you though about doing any of the Hulabee games? Ron and Shelly founded it soon after they left Humongous, and did a few other kids games there before it folded.
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Oh holy poo poo, this looks to be promising. Let's see... did Spy Fox 3 and Freddy Fish 2. Those were my first bits into PC Gaming.Waffleman_ posted:The original Jumpstart 4th Grade scared me too much as a kid to play it very much. Jumpstarts 3rd and 5th Grade were my poo poo, 3rd especially. The games in 6th went on too long for my tastes. Dude, Jumpstart 4th Grade pretty much was the one game I flat-out refused to play out of fright. But then again, the game was done SUPERBLY. Also, fuckin' 5th Grade's my addiction and poo poo. Gah. P.S. We shouldn't speak about ScummVM here, should we?
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widespread posted:Dude, Jumpstart 4th Grade pretty much was the one game I flat-out refused to play out of fright. But then again, the game was done SUPERBLY. Also, fuckin' 5th Grade's my addiction and poo poo. Gah. Man, it's too bad the Jumpstart games come in a terrible format to LP or I'd be all over that poo poo.
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Waffleman_ posted:Man, it's too bad the Jumpstart games come in a terrible format to LP or I'd be all over that poo poo. Well they're not too different from the Cluefinder games, just a lot longer. For 5th Grade, as an example, you could probably capture all of the conversations and then just splice in footage of solving everything as you go through. 3rd Grade I think would be the easiest because all you really need is to capture all of the footage for choosing a robot and then playing Polywood Squares. At least 3rd, 4th and 5th actually have stories to encourage you to keep playing, 2nd Grade was just collecting stamps and I never played 1st but it was probably similar in that sense. I'm sorry, I just really love the Jumpstart series, that was my "kids game" series growing up when I wasn't reading Living Books or playing Warcraft v  v
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Aces High posted:Well they're not too different from the Cluefinder games, just a lot longer. For 5th Grade, as an example, you could probably capture all of the conversations and then just splice in footage of solving everything as you go through. 3rd Grade I think would be the easiest because all you really need is to capture all of the footage for choosing a robot and then playing Polywood Squares. Probably should get mateo on the horn about that. Or make a thread. Now, as for how they'd go, it would most likely wind up as a narrative LP or something.
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widespread posted:Probably should get mateo on the horn about that. Or make a thread. Now, as for how they'd go, it would most likely wind up as a narrative LP or something. I wish thinking I may try and stream those games and post them in this thread, but I would need people who would be willing to go through them with me. The games get so repetitive that I would need some one to at least bounce off of as we get later in to the games. Or I guess for a LP format: The first couple of episodes introduces each game and then later would be the robot intro, Highlights from the games and than Polywood Squares like Ace said. widespread posted:P.S. We shouldn't speak about ScummVM here, should we? Go ahead. I am using ScummVM for this and it will be greatly obvious when I start doing the videos with multiple paths using the debug rooms.
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mateo360 posted:I wish thinking I may try and stream those games and post them in this thread, but I would need people who would be willing to go through them with me. The games get so repetitive that I would need some one to at least bounce off of as we get later in to the games. Or I guess for a LP format: The first couple of episodes introduces each game and then later would be the robot intro, Highlights from the games and than Polywood Squares like Ace said. If you need someone, I'd totally be down. This game was my jam even long after 3rd grade came and went.
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Maybe I should just go ahead and make this a mega thread. :P
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Oh man, "Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego" was the poo poo. It's how I learned about stuff like Yuri Gagarin and the Norse origins of Tuesday (Tyr's day), Wednesday (Woden's day), Thursday (Thor's day) and Friday (Frigg's day).
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Phelddagrif posted:Oh man, "Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego" was the poo poo. It's how I learned about stuff like Yuri Gagarin and the Norse origins of Tuesday (Tyr's day), Wednesday (Woden's day), Thursday (Thor's day) and Friday (Frigg's day). Time is something I have been wanting to do for years. For the longest time I wasn't even able to get it to run but recently I have been able to but I am having some weird random audio glitches. I may just have to Frankenstein videos together for it to avoid audio problems from the game.
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mateo360 posted:Maybe I should just go ahead and make this a mega thread. :P My family had so many of these. And likely a dozen more not seen here. I never did play the cluefinder games, more of a supersolver kid, but my younger siblings finished the 3rd, 4th, 5th grade and the math one. Does anyone remember Carmen Sandiego Think Quick? It was the game with the robots and it was set up like a quiz show. I think I moved my sister's save of it through 2 or 3 different computer upgrades.
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Major_JF posted:Does anyone remember Carmen Sandiego Think Quick? It was the game with the robots and it was set up like a quiz show. I think I moved my sister's save of it through 2 or 3 different computer upgrades. Holy poo poo I remember that game, my grandparents owned it and me and my cousins used to play that to pass time. My grandparents also got me Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge one year, my grandparents are pretty hip 
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Major_JF posted:Does anyone remember Carmen Sandiego Think Quick? It was the game with the robots and it was set up like a quiz show. I think I moved my sister's save of it through 2 or 3 different computer upgrades. That game. That loving game. I've remembered that game so clearly and never even knew the name. I owned that and Where in Time. I owned a lot of these games. One game I used to have was Oregon Trail 5. It was Oregon Trail with animated cutscenes and a plot with characters. It also was not good.
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mateo360 posted:Maybe I should just go ahead and make this a mega thread. :P Not sure if this'll be a good idea or not. But if it winds up being way successful, then I wanna do 4th/5th Grade. One or the other or both or something.
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