Currently hosting 16 educational games!
| Adventure Math 1992 | ||||||||||||||||||
| User rating: No rating | DOS Shareware (partial game) | Educational | ||||||||||||||||
| Developed by Epic MegaGames | ||||||||||||||||||
| Published by Epic MegaGames | ||||||||||||||||||
| Graphics modes: VGA | ||||||||||||||||||
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Adventure Math has easily the best graphics and sound of any DOS math game I've ever seen. Wave synthesis even produces a voice that says the numbers as you type them. In the normal game, you answer math questions in a form where one of the numbers from the question and the answer are provided, and you have to provide the other number, such as "5 + ? = 8" instead of the usual "5 + 3 = ?" format. Answer enough questions correctly and you can play a bonus level, in which you have a space ship at the bottom of the screen, a math problem to solve, and three answers at the top of the screen. Objects are bouncing around on the screen, so you have to shoot the correct answer and avoid being destroyed by the bouncing objects. There are 10 difficulty levels, designed to engage children between Grades 1 and 5. Unlike Mather, this game will not provide a challenge for adults. The shareware version includes only addition and subtraction questions, the registered "Deluxe" version adds multiplication, division, and a timer, which are really the only things missing from this program. Complete version history:
The registered version of this game is still sold through www.epicclassics.com for $12 on floppy disk only.
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| Animal Quest 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||
| User rating: No rating | DOS Shareware (partial game) | Educational | ||||||||||||||||
| Developed by Alive Software | ||||||||||||||||||
| Published by Alive Software | ||||||||||||||||||
| Graphics modes: EGA | ||||||||||||||||||
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A turn-based game where you pick an animal to play and move about a grid, trying to catch prey and avoid predators. Plants and animals are assigned positions in the food chain, and each animal eats different kinds of food. Animals you're trying to eat may eat some of the plants and animals that you consider food before you do. There are options to click on each creature to get a description of them, or see where they stand in the food chain, as far as what creatures are their predators and their prey. You gain points for eating other creatures and lose points for being caught by predators. Eating animals adds more points to your score than eating plants. When you get a score of 49, you gain the ability to move diagonally, which makes it much easier to hunt and avoid predators. The ability is lost if your score drops below 49. There are 4 episodes in this game, with only Forest Animals being playable in the shareware version. Forest Animals
Alivesoft still sells the registered version of this game for $20 on floppy disk or CD-ROM, or $10 as a registered download.
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| The Color Wizard 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||
| User rating: No rating | DOS Freeware (former shareware) | Educational | ||||||||||||||||
| Developed by ImagiSOFT | ||||||||||||||||||
| Published by ImagiSOFT | ||||||||||||||||||
| Graphics modes: VGA | ||||||||||||||||||
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At first glance, The Color Wizard appears to be just a coloring book for children. Actually, it's an advanced drawing program and tutorial. The Color Wizard makes it easy to apply shading, and uses dithering to simulate 700 colors. If you click on the Artist button, the artist teaches you drawing techniques, such as shading and the effect of light on objects, and reflections. The Book button gives information about the subject of the drawing, such as dinosaurs and sharks. It's educational and fun. There are 40 pictures in this game, with only 8 available in the shareware version. The full version is now freeware, but it can't be distributed without permission, so you'll need to go to ImagiSOFT's website to download it.
ImagiSOFT has generously released this game as freeware, which can be download from their website.
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| Dinosaur Predators 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||
| User rating: No rating | DOS Shareware (partial game) | Educational | ||||||||||||||||
| Developed by Alive Software | ||||||||||||||||||
| Published by Alive Software | ||||||||||||||||||
| Graphics modes: EGA | ||||||||||||||||||
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A turn-based game where you pick a dinosaur to play and move about a grid, trying to catch prey and avoid predators. Plants and animals are assigned positions in the food chain, and different dinosaurs eat different kinds of food. There are options to click on each creature to get a description of them, or see where they stand in the food chain, as far as what creatures are their predators and their prey. You gain points for eating other creatures and lose points for being caught by predators. When you get a score of 49, you gain the ability to move diagonally, which makes it much easier to hunt and avoid predators. The ability is lost if your score drops below 49. Gameplay is identical to Animal Quest, except for a few things. Because we've never observed dinosaurs, they are strictly defined as either carnivore or herbivore, reducing competition in the food chain. A herbivore doesn't need to worry about predators eating the plants it wants to eat whereas, in Animal Quest, even the strongest predators will often eat leaves and berries, too. Dinosaur Predators adds an option to answer trivia questions to gain points. There are 4 episodes in this game, with only Jurassic Dinosaurs being playable in the shareware version. Jurassic Dinosaurs
Alivesoft still sells the registered version of this game for $20 on floppy disk or CD-ROM, or $10 as a registered download.
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| Googol Math Games 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||
| User rating: No rating | DOS Shareware (full version) | Educational | ||||||||||||||||
| Developed by Paul T. Dawson | ||||||||||||||||||
| Published by Paul T. Dawson | ||||||||||||||||||
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When I was in elementary school we had a monochrome computer with this game on it. Kids used to gather around to play and watch. Sometimes the children would help each other with the answers, sometimes students would insist upon answering the questions themselves. As educational games go, this is one of the best ever. In Googol Climber you play a character who bounces along in a room with several levels and a number on each side, while balls roll through the room. You must get to the level that has the correct answer to the math question without hitting your head on the ceiling or hitting the balls, and avoid getting the wrong answer. Googolpede is the classic "snake" game except that you try to hit either "T" for true or "F" for false to answer the math problem on the screen. Googolvaders is like Space Invaders with aliens made out of math problems. Shoot them with the correct answer before they reach the ground. All games can be played with any mix of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and have different speeds to create levels of skill. Success is rewarded with congratulations from robots and cars and other "bells and whistles". The games are still fun after all these years.
I have been unable to locate the author online, but there is still a mailing address for registration. The games indicate that you can register for $10, or "super register" and get all 10 of Paul T. Dawson's educational games for $35.
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| Googol Review 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||
| User rating: No rating | DOS Shareware (full version) | Educational | ||||||||||||||||
| Developed by Paul T. Dawson | ||||||||||||||||||
| Published by Paul T. Dawson | ||||||||||||||||||
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Googol Review is a straightforward math problem game where you simply enter the correct answer to addition, subtraction, multiplication or division questions and word problems. Has the same positive encouragement and bells and whistles as the other games by Paul T. Dawson.
I have been unable to locate the author online, but there is still a mailing address for registration. The games indicate that you can register for $10, or "super register" and get all 10 of Paul T. Dawson's educational games for $35.
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| Googolpede for Windows 1993 | ||||||||||||||||||
| User rating: No rating | Win16 Shareware (full version) | Educational | ||||||||||||||||
| Developed by Paul T. Dawson | ||||||||||||||||||
| Published by Paul T. Dawson | ||||||||||||||||||
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Googolpede is the classic "snake" game except that you try to hit either "T" for true or "F" for false to answer the math problem on the screen. Updated for Windows 3.1, Googolpede for Windows is highly configurable in everything from the math problems, speed, size of the playing field, background animation, and sound effects.
I have been unable to locate the author online, but there is still a mailing address for registration. The games indicate that you can register for $10, or "super register" and get all 10 of Paul T. Dawson's educational games for $35.
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| The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||
| User rating: No rating | Win16 Shareware (partial game) | Educational | ||||||||||||||||
| Developed by Sierra On-Line | ||||||||||||||||||
| Published by Sierra On-Line | ||||||||||||||||||
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The third in the popular Dr. Brain series of educational games from Sierra. While performing an experiment to give his intelligence to a lab rat, Dr. Brain transfers his mind to the rat and leaves himself a vegetable! The player must reconstruct Dr. Brain's mind by completing puzzles in nine regions of the brain, and getting 100% in each puzzle. There are three difficulty levels in each puzzle, which are worth 5, 10 and 15%, respectively. File sorting is a memory game in which Dr. Brain asks you to place items in filing cabinets and remember where they are, even after the cabinets are re-arranged in the harder difficulty levels. The Music Region requires you to reconstruct a piece of classical music from a group of bars which are in the wrong order, and may also be vertically or horizontally flipped. Motor Programming is a simple programming language like Logo, which requires you to break a problem into smaller tasks and write subroutines to collect pieces of Dr. Brain's mind. The game is filled with beautiful animation, voice, and humor. There are 9 regions of Dr. Brain's mind, with only 3 playable in the shareware version. The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain Shareware Demo (48 750k) Sierra no longer sells this game. It can be ordered from Amazon: The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain.
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| Lugnut Math City 1992 | ||||||||||||||||||
| User rating: No rating | DOS Shareware (full version) | Educational | ||||||||||||||||
| Developed by Paul T. Dawson | ||||||||||||||||||
| Published by Paul T. Dawson | ||||||||||||||||||
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Originally called Lugnut City, Lugnut Math City is an educational platformer where you use a robot to answer different types of questions to make your way through 10 mazes. Questions include true or false, multiple choice, adding, counting, and choosing the correct operator (add, subtract, multiply or divide). There are huge bonus points and lots of encouragement from the program. A level editor also allows you to create 10 of your own levels. Kids apparently love this game.
I have been unable to locate the author online, but there is still a mailing address for registration. The games indicate that you can register for $10, or "super register" and get all 10 of Paul T. Dawson's educational games for $35.
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| Math Rescue 1992 | ||||||||||||||||||
| User rating: No rating | DOS Shareware (partial game) | Educational | ||||||||||||||||
| Developed by Redwood Games | ||||||||||||||||||
| Published by Apogee Software | ||||||||||||||||||
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In this sequel to Word Rescue, the Gruzzles have stolen all of the world's numbers. Your character can run and jump. Hit a question to answer a math problem, which helps you progress to the next level. A pretty decent little math game. There are 3 episodes in this game, with only the first episode playable in the shareware version. Episode 1 - Visit Volcanos and Ice Caves Complete version history:
Apogee still sells the registered version of this game for $15 as a registered download, or with Word Rescue on CD-ROM for $29.95.
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| Mather 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||
| User rating: No rating | DOS Shareware (full version) | Educational | ||||||||||||||||
| Developed by MoraffWare | ||||||||||||||||||
| Published by MoraffWare | ||||||||||||||||||
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One of the better math games I've seen. The questions become more difficult as you answer correctly, to the degree that it remains difficult even for me. Some of the multiplication and division questions reach four digits when an adult plays, forcing you to solve the problem first to the thousands place, then the hundreds, etc. The learner quickly realizes that large numbers are no more difficult to work with than small numbers, it just takes more steps. The concept of understanding the relationship between powers to understand the numbers themselves and, in so doing, understand the nature of math, is a good one. The game keeps track of your skill level for each of the four operands. Good for people of any age who need to brush up on their math skills, with prizes for answering correctly and within the time limit. Version 2.0 adds graphics and problems with three numbers, but removes the option to play with mixed (all four) operands. It also internally includes Moraff's Super Entrap. The documentation indicates that the game can be referred to as "Mathtrap".
I have found no ordering information for this game, and it is not listed on Moraff's website.
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| Paul's Classroom Math 1992 | ||||||||||||||||||
| User rating: No rating | DOS Shareware (full version) | Educational | ||||||||||||||||
| Developed by Paul T. Dawson | ||||||||||||||||||
| Published by Paul T. Dawson | ||||||||||||||||||
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A straightforward math quiz where you answer as many addition, subtraction, multiplication and division questions as you can within the time limit. Designed for the classroom, none of the bells and whistles of Paul T. Dawson's other games are present in this game. It's no frills and silent!
I have been unable to locate the author online, but there is still a mailing address for registration. The games indicate that you can register for $10, or "super register" and get all 10 of Paul T. Dawson's educational games for $35.
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| Salad Scribble 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||
| User rating: No rating | Win16 Freeware (always) | Educational | ||||||||||||||||
| Developed by Paul T. Dawson | ||||||||||||||||||
| Published by Paul T. Dawson | ||||||||||||||||||
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A straightforward paint program for Windows 3.1 that can do a few things that Paintbrush can't. Designed with fun in mind, there is a color randomizer, and lots of options for drawing shapes, typing text with any installed font, creating inverse images, and just generally messing around at an amateur level. Salad Scribble is free for non-commercial use, and can load and save BMP images.
This game was originally released under a freeware license.
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| Wolfie's Music Games 1992 | ||||||||||||||||||
| User rating: No rating | DOS Shareware (full version) | Educational | ||||||||||||||||
| Developed by Paul T. Dawson | ||||||||||||||||||
| Published by Paul T. Dawson | ||||||||||||||||||
| Graphics modes: EGA | ||||||||||||||||||
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Self described as being "90% game and 10% music", Wolfie's Music Games is a collection of 10 games that teaches the notes of the scale and the relationship between sharps and flats. Sonic Googolpede, for instance, is the same snake game as regular Googolpede, except that you're given a note on either the bass or treble clef and you have to eat the correct note. Raindrops is like Googolvaders, but you have to fire the correct note to destroy the invaders. An unadvertised feature is that if you leave the game sitting on the menu screen, a fancy EGA screensaver starts up.
I have been unable to locate the author online, but there is still a mailing address for registration. The games indicate that you can register for $10, or "super register" and get all 10 of Paul T. Dawson's educational games for $35.
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| Word Rescue 1992 | ||||||||||||||||||
| User rating: No rating | DOS Shareware (partial game) | Educational | ||||||||||||||||
| Developed by Redwood Games | ||||||||||||||||||
| Published by Apogee Software | ||||||||||||||||||
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A spelling adventure game. There are 3 episodes in this game, with only the first episode playable in the shareware version. Episode 1 - Visit Gruzzleville and the Castle Complete version history:Word Rescue v2.0 Shareware Episode (410k) Play onlineWord Rescue v1.0 Shareware Episode (347k) Apogee still sells the registered version of this game for $15 as a registered download, or with Math Rescue on CD-ROM for $29.95.
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| Word Whiz 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| User rating: No rating | DOS Freeware (former shareware) | Educational | ||||||||||||||||
| Developed by Apogee Software | ||||||||||||||||||
| Published by Apogee Software | ||||||||||||||||||
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A program that teaches difficult and commonly misspelled words. There are 4 volumes in this game, with only the first volume playable in the shareware version. Each volume has 100 words. Word Whiz v3.0 Registered Version (164k) Play online Apogee generously released this game as freeware under the Word Whiz Freeware License in December 2005.
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