Ah, the 90's. Software everywhere. :DD I was between 2 and 11 during the 90's, and I had a good amount of Edutainment games. I miss edutainment games. :(
Now, for some reason, we don't have like 95% of our old games, and I don't know why *glares at mr. daddy*
But, alas, I'm going to list the ones I miss most:
-Opening Night
This is pretty much a movie-making game, complete with crappy text-to-speech and the actors are real humans. I do miss it, though, because I had so much fun making movies. I don't even remember who made it. But I was able to find a image of it on google :O
I had the PC version of it, though.
Another one I've had sitting around until maybe a year ago was
Hollywood by Theatrix
This one had much better text-to-speech than Opening Night by far, but you were limited to only one scene. >_>;
It even had several singing text-to-speech voices so we'd make musicals about random things.
"Leo, your armpits stink your armpits stink go wash them in the sink the sink the sink"
I also found someone else's image of it on google:
I think it was actually pretty well made. It even had an idea generator for dialogue or events. Theatrix also has "Hollywood-High", which I've never tried.
Storybook Weaver [Deluxe] by Mecc (omg lessthan three?)--
Which I still have and more-or-less know where my copy of it is. :O
I can't really find any full-sized pictures of the game, but it basically has a typey area, and an area where you choose a background and you go through the object library and, say, put people, explosions, and shoes on the screen. It has Text-to-Speech that's as bad as Opening Night (only, Opening Night had more than just one voice :D)
It's kinda fun, but all the other ones I'm listing I liked a lot more.
Spelling Jungle by Sierra -- So obscure there isn't anything under google images [that are even of this game]!
This was a pretty awesome game, I don't know why it's completely faded and now unheard of. x_x;;
This is all I remember of it: There's this old guy who laughs like "Ohohohohoooo!" and gives you hints, and the game itself is very puzzle-y. o_o; You go around collecting letter tiles to spell the word for the stage, but you also have to do things like avoid monsters, push boulders, slide across mud (like ice in most games, you step on it and you can't stop sliding that way). It was a pretty challenging game, from what I remember (of course, I was also like seven years old).
I really wish I still had a copy of this!
I don't know, maybe it's not as good as I remember.
Next one is Lenny's Music Toons:
There were several games, but the main screen was inside Lenny's Manhattan apartment. They had this thing, where you'd kind of create a band, and some tree and cat game with musical notes... And you could make Lenny eat sushi or go to the bathroom. o_O; This has got to be old, though, because this was back when my dad got lots of shareware and I also played Doom and Commander Keen 4 at the same time. @_@; Again... six years old? seven?
The last one, I don't even know what the hell it was. It was a demo-disk, basically, and it had a cheetah on the front page. I loved this demo-disk soo much as a kid. oh man, I can't remember the name of the games I liked playing! There was like... Simon the Sorcerer, and some game where... you put animals on the screen and they make weird noises... but yeah...
I just wanted to make a list so I would remember these in case I need to feel nostalgic about old games again. ^_^;
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