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the finest of the super solvers games
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amazon trail was really easy though, you didn't even have to do anything that i remember you just keep goin down the river of time, trading shit and hunting fish/logs/eels and taking loads of pictures. that green leafy plant (p-something) eluded me for so long though, got the blue morpho way before that

africa trek was definitely the worst of all those games. i did not know how much a kilogram was or anything so i think i was pretty much playing for driving down roads in a motorbike, dodging tiny bumps

man what on earth was that ghost mansion game! it was on the apple ][ and you had to get to the attic where there was this ghost named rose maybe (or maybe you were supposed to give her your middle name) when you beat the first level and when you beat the second level you had to enter your favorite book, but "the last of the really great whangdoodles" was way too long and i never remembered what i shortened it to. that game was really fun though, pretty traditional adventure game
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i had amazon trail at my house but i don't remember ever playing it!
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Amazon trail was the best I loved it. Take all the pictures of the birds and plants and stuff was so addicting.

Also Wishbone was great and the Incredible Machine was amazing! Math Blasters though, all I did was play with the super hero color fraction thing.
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Hmm, let's see.  Some games that haven't been mentioned yet.

Operation Neptune  You're in a submarine, navigating puzzles and solving math problems.  There's an ongoing story and you can change the difficulty at any time (the difficulty of the math problems).  You had ammo for some ink gun that you could use to stun the enemies and I remember it being very colourful, even for EGA.  This was a popular one at my school.


Word Rescue  It gives you a word to spell and you have to collect the letters in order.  Pretty fun platformer with some simple enemies and other stuff.  This one's pretty easy though and was intended for a young audience.


Math Rescue  This one is harder than Word Rescue.  You can fine tune the difficulty of it I think.  It's also more colourful and has better backgrounds.


Treasure Mountain This one was the best.  You have to climb up a mountain (which is divided into three sections and get to the top.  To do that you need to catch these little elves in a net and if you catch one that's carrying a scroll you get a simple word or math problem with a multiple choice selection for the answers.  Once you solve it you get a clue word.  When you get enough clue words you can then search the features of that section for the key to get to the next level.  There's a ladder puzzle you have to solve when you reach the top and if you can beat it you're rewarded with a treasure which gets added to your stash at the bottom of the mountain.

My brother, sister, and I played the hell out of this game when we were kids.  It's really fun.


Reader Rabbit  This one was aimed at a younger audience and I never really played it but my sister loved it (she's four years younger than me)


Then of course there's the standards of Cross Country Canada and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego but those have been mentioned already.  I think I'm forgetting a few but it's been a long time since the days of elementary school so I don't know if I can remember anything else.
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Oh, I had Treasure Cove, and that game was long as fuck. Does anyone knows what happens at the end after you complete the rainbow? What about at the end of Treasure Mountain, which I assume is similar in gameplay to the Cove version.




Also: Might Math Calculating Crew. The only game I'd ever play though was the geometry based one where you could drill holes and add oil slicks and hills to the playing field.
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Oh, I had Treasure Cove, and that game was long as fuck. Does anyone knows what happens at the end after you complete the rainbow? What about at the end of Treasure Mountain, which I assume is similar in gameplay to the Cove version.




Also: Might Math Calculating Crew. The only game I'd ever play though was the geometry based one where you could drill holes and add oil slicks and hills to the playing field.

Treasure Mountain never really ends.  You can get all the different treasures (and a whole bunch of duplicates) and that gives you the hardest levels to complete but the game just keeps on going.
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I remember treasure mountain.  Back before Windows, I had it and it always froze after the ladder puzzle, ive never actually played it, i watched my brother play it, but it ALWAYS froze in the same spot.

Oh and Rockman, was there a part where you were attacked by robots and had to use a camera to stop them or something.   I remember something like that with a character who looked JUST like that.

EDIT:  It was Midnight Rescue, that had the situation i was asking rockman about
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Super Solvers something...it wasn't midnight rescue that was the school one...hmmmm...


EDIT: oh yeah, it was Outnumbered!

Oh my god... thanks for that, I'm going to download and play this one.  One of my favorites from elementary school.  Same with Operation Neptune, such an addictive game.

Nostalgia...

Did anyone play EcoQuest?  I'm pretty sure it was a Sierra adventure game where you played this little kid who goes scuba diving.  One of my all-time favorites for sure.
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There was this really old game, I honest to god cannot remember anything of it it except that you had to do a bunch of things like a certain dinosaur egg, and then you had to go through a cave and cross a desert and dig in certain spots to find like rope and wood and shit, then I dunno you solve all these other riddles and it gives you a mapped out way to cross the ocean to reach the laboratory where you pretty much do what they did to fossils in pokemon by making them come to life, but depending on the egg you initially chose will depend on whether or not you win in the end...
AHh that was a bad description...


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This is the awesome shit we played! yeah!
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man i feel young :: i remember MATH BLASTER and gizmos and gadgets and reader rabbit and some game we had in science where you played as a fish and you could change what kind of fish you were. it was kind of like EVO but you were always a fish and you didn't really evolve you just gained/lost upgrades like INK and SONIC WAVE and shit.

but my first home computer ran windows 95 :/
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My first home computer was an IBM PS/2.  I bought one off of ebay a few years ago for nostalgia, it was $5 but it was $30 more for shipping because that thing was so heavy.  The UPS guy left it beside our garage and I had to open it right there in order to carry the parts in separately, set them inside, TAKE A BREAK, and then carry them upstairs to my room.  That thing was bulky as fuck but I love that machine so much.

The PS/2 reminds me, I used to have one of the Brain Quest computer games at home on that machine.  I used to love Brain Quest (if you don't remember them they were those long stack of card-like things that swiveled around and had different questions on them about different subjects, and were arranged by either grade or topic), and I remember the PC game being really great.
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i just remember we had gotten two old computers from people, one was in black and white and the other one always crashed. me and my dad would play a-train for hours.
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I remember playing Math Blaster through Elem school. And then I played Arthur (not king arthur, the rat aadrdvark)games at the library sometimes.
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We had Word/Number Munchers, and Oregon Trail, and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, and Cross Country USA/Canada (yup, both).

I don't think anyone has mentioned some of the others we had.

Market Place was really fun. It had 3 different ways to start up a business. My fav one was running a lemonade stand.

Odell lake is alot like the 360 arcade game Feeding Frenzy. You take on the role of a fish and you have to choose whether or not to eat other fish based on their size and whether they like other fish or prefer things like algie or seeweed.

We also had a sailing game that I don't remember the name of. You sail from country to country trading spices and tryin to keep your crew from dying of scurvy. It was basically Oregon Trail but with a boat.
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AAAAAH that's the ocean one!! odell. we had down under though. we also had this pretty dumb one where you just added groceries together (or that was my favorite minigame from the suite), and mavis beacon. i'd mavis beacon in my free time.
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Mavis Beacon sounds familiar. Is that the typing program? I remember it had a driving part and if you didn't type fast enough a fly hit your windshield.
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Mavis Beacon sounds familiar. Is that the typing program?

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Math Race was my favorite game. The sweet thing about it was that it was a network game, so we'd all race against each other, usually on the easiest setting, mashing in the equations as fast as we could.
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