217 rows This list contains 2434 video game titles released for Classic Mac OS (1 through 9.2.2) and MacOS (MacOS X). 1 This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. After our readers so enthusiastically took to the idea of listing the best classic PC games of all time, I wanted to pull out the alphabetical directory in order to make it easy for everyone to. 25 ‘90s Computer Games You Totally Forgot About Playing. Sim City 2000. A game in which you play as an enslaved prisoner who is working at a meat-packing plant that's about to slaughter.
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Real talk: I think learning is always fun. (Yes, I am absolutely a Ravenclaw. Why do you ask?) But when it’s a literal game? Then it’s even better, especially when you’re a kid. This is probably why there were so dang many fantastic educational '90s computer games — the rise of home computing (and, by extension, the rise of computing in the classroom) during the 1990s opened up a whole world of possibilities, including tons of ways to make learning a blast for the up-and-coming generations. And you know what? These games are still fun. And yes, I say that as a fully grown adult; don't knock going back and replaying the games you loved when you were 10 until you've tried it. Seriously.
As is often the case with the things we remember from the '90s, a lot of the games those of us who grew up during the decade filled our days with were originally developed and released long before the ‘90s. That's perhaps the reason '80s babies also have a certain degree of fondness for them; many of them actually dated back to the decade in which we were born. Some were part of long-running series, while still more of them received a number of remakes and reboots as technology improved. Though the graphics may be laughable now, just remember — once upon a time, they were the pinnacle of technological achievement.
So, in the spirit of nostalgia, here are 15 computer games from the ‘90s that made learning incredibly fun. Most of them are available to play on the internet now, so in these cases, I’ve also included links to where they can be found — frequently either an app store or the Internet Archive’s glorious collection of browser-based, emulated DOS games.
Have fun, kids!
1. Number Munchers and Word Munchers
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The Munchers series was created by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium — or, under a name with which you might be more familiar, MECC. I don’t know about you, but I have vivid memories of seeing those four letters scrawled across a huge number of the educational games I played at school; the company dated back to 1973 and was also responsible for games like the business simulator Lemonade Stand and the storytelling game Storybook Weaver.
The Munchers series' conceit was simple: They taught kids the basics of math and grammar. Number Munchers was originally released in 1990 for the Apple II, while Word Munchers had arrived a few years earlier in 1985. Gameplay-wise, both series functioned kind of like a turn-based version of Pacman; the object WAS to “eat” all of the numbers or words that correspond to the instructions on the screen (multiples of five, etc.) without getting caught by a Troggle.
What exactly are Troggles? No idea, but they're insatiable.
2. Math Blaster!
The original Math Blaster! was released in 1983 by the now-defunct developer Davidson & Associates, but it wasn’t until the ‘90s rolled around that the series really hit its stride. Between 1990 and 1999, a whopping 20 games were released in the Blaster Learning System — and somewhat astonishingly, a few more follow-ups trickled out between 2000 and 2008. Math wasn't the only subject addressed by the series; Reading Blaster!, for example,taught language arts. A Science Blaster! Jr. was also released at one point, but due to lack of popularity, it was the only entry in the series to tackle science-based topics.
Math Blaster! is available to play online now; additionally, a bunch of ports of the math-teaching game arrived as Android apps in October of 2013, so the series appears to be alive and well (if somewhat frozen in time).
3. Scooter’s Magic Castle
Like many early computer games, Scooter’s Magic Castle consisted of a relatively large environment full of what we now call mini-games. Released under Electronic Arts’ EA*Kids umbrella in 1993, the game involved players either assuming the role of or simply helping out an elf-like creature wearing a blue tunic, red sneakers, and a red baseball cap turned backwards (the '90s!) as they worked their way through a variety of activities. These activities were designed to teach everything from problem-solving to typing; you could even make terrible MIDI music by jumping up and down a set of colorful stairs.
Scooter's Magic Castle also has a super earworm-y theme song, so if you now have it stuck in your head for the rest of the day… sorry. My bad.
4. The Carmen Sandiego Series
No list of educational ‘90s computer games would be complete without an appearance by this mysterious, trench-coated criminal mastermind. The four major entries in the series — Where in the World, Where in the U.S.A., Where in Europe, and Where in Time — were all first released by Broderbund between 1985 and 1989; the deluxe versions of Where in the World and Where in the U.S.A., however, came along in 1992 and 1993, and as a result, it’s those versions that most ’90s kids remember so fondly. There was no better way to learn geography — and hey, Where in the World deluxe is playable at the Internet Archive, so it looks like I just figured out what I’m doing with myself this weekend.
Fun fact: A Facebook version of Where in the World was available to play in 2011; I’m not sure how I missed it, but it stuck around until 2012.
5. Kindercomp
I’m really dating myself here, but Kindercomp is probably the first computer game I remember playing. Initially released in 1983 by Spinnaker Software Corporation, it was exactly the kind of game that appealed to very young children: It consisted of six mini-games that taught kids their way around a keyboard by having them draw pictures, match pairs, and other simple activities. The one I remember is the 1984 version, but the Internet Archive has a whole bunch of ‘em available, so knock yourselves out. If you have a kid in your life who's around 3 years old, it might be a fun time to play with them!
6. Mario Teaches Typing
As a child in a house full of gamers, naturally I adored Mario Teaches Typing, which first hit the scene in the early '90s. One of a number of educational Mario games released between 1988 and 1996, it put the pixelated plumber to good work teaching us how to type. Hitting the correct key would prompt Mario to hit blocks, jump on Koopa Troopas, and more. Nintendo had almost no hand in the development of these games (a far cry from the tight hold the company tends to keep on the reigns of its properties nowadays), but they proved popular all the same.
I’ll be honest, though: I actually learned how to type by frequenting chat rooms. As a result, I can type an impressive number of words per minute; however, I definitely don’t use the “correct” fingers. Ah well. Whatever works, right?
7. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
Mario was second perhaps only to Mavis Beacon in the world of beloved typing programs — and what’s more, it’s still around: The first version debuted in 1987, and it has remained in production, continuing to get new and improved updates, pretty much ever since. You can download it for free right now if you like.
I was, by the way, absolutely devastated to learn recently that Mavis Beacon isn’t a real person. She was invented to give a face to the program in an era when human people weren't regularly associated with computer and video games (everything is a lie). 1985's The Chessmaster 2000had shown how effective putting a real person on the cover of a computer game could be; the wizard on the box was played by actor Will Hare, reported Vice in 2015. Mavis became the next incarnation of this strategy, as depicted by Renee L'Esperance.
8. 3D Dinosaur Adventure
Launched by Knowledge Adventure in 1993, 3D Dinosaur Adventure was little more than a glorified encyclopedia specializing in what we knew about dinosaurs at the time (much of which has since been determined to have been terribly, terribly wrong, even if the brontosaurus did make a triumphant comeback in 2015). That didn’t matter, though, because dinosaurs.
Also contained within 3D Dinosaur Adventure was a mini-game called 'Save The Dinosaurs' — which, to be perfectly honest, was downright terrifying. It required players to make their way through a series of maze-like hallways to find and rescue 15 types of dinosaurs before time ran out — and by 'before time ran out,' I mean 'before the comet that wiped out all of the dinosaurs crashed into the Earth, while you and the dinos were still on the planet.'
No pressure.
9. Odell Lake
Like the Munchers series, Odell Lake was created by MECC and therefore a fixture for many an elementary school computer lab. It debuted in the early 1980s, but it stuck around for long after that; it’s why so many of us ‘90s kids remember playing it when we were young.
In all honesty, it wasn’t really that exciting — all you did was swim around as a fish, trying to figure out whether you should eat, ignore, or run away from every other fish you encountered. I’m also not totally clear on why this was classified as an educational activity; Giant Bomb suggests it taught kids about food chains and predator/prey relationships, but I.. clearly did not get that takeaway from it. But hey, I suppose survival skills are important, too, right?
Odell Lake is a real place, by the way; it’s in Oregon. Just, y’know, FYI.
10. Reader Rabbit
You know the old saying, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it? That’s pretty much the Reader Rabbit series in a proverbial nutshell: It’s so effective at teaching kids to read and write that it’s survived all the way since the first game launched in 1984. There's a huge list of Reader Rabbit titles scattered throughout educational computing history; at the series' height in the late '90s, six to seven titles in the line were being released each year. The output has since tapered off, of course, but the remarkable thing is that it's still around.
The last major PC release for a Reader Rabbit game was in 2010, but a number of titles have debuted since then as iOS apps. Many of the games are also, of course, available to play online courtesy of the Internet Archive.
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11. Mixed-Up Mother Goose
Mixed-Up Mother Goose didn't have a ton of replay value; the point was to sort out all of the nursery rhymes that had gotten 'mixed up' and put them back in order, so after you did that once, your work there was done. However, the world in which the game existed was so delightful that I played it over and over again as a small child. Released by Sierra in 1987, with a handful of remakes appearing at regular intervals throughout the ‘90s, it was a point-and click adventure game that encourage problem-solving; it also gets bonus points for having tons of relatively diverse avatar options — something which was even rarer back then than it is now. (And, y'know, it's still a problem decades later, so that's.. really saying something.)
12. Super Solvers: Treasure Mountain
I’ll be honest: I actually have no recollection of playing 1990’s Treasure Mountain, Treasure Cove, or any of the other Treasure titles in this series. Many other people seem to remember these games fondly, though, so I think they deserve an inclusion here. Like many educational games, 1990's Treasure Mountain — a creation of The Learning Company, like the Reader Rabbit series — involved solving riddles that led you to keys that unlocked each successive level. You also collected treasure as you went, returning it to the chest at the top of the titular mountain once you got there. A prize was awarded for depositing the treasure back into the chest.
Treasure Mountain and Treasure Cove both focused on general reading comprehension and basic math skills; however, other entries in the Super Solvers series tackled more specialized skill sets, including deductive reasoning and logic.
13. The Dr. Brain Series
Admittedly, I never played the fourth game in Sierra On-Line's long-running Dr. Brain series, and I wasn’t a big fan of the third — but the first two? Classic. The Castle of Dr. Brain, released in 1991, and the follow-up, 1992’s The Island of Dr. Brain, were a step up from a lot of the other puzzle-solving games out there; they were geared towards slightly older kids, so there was more to each puzzle than simply picking a matching shape or selecting the next number in a sequence. We’re talking intense logic puzzles that might stump even some adults.
Sierra merged with another educational game company, Bright Star Technology, following the release of The Island of Dr. Brain; the franchise was then handed over to a team from Bright Star, which might explain why 1995's The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain and 1996's The Time Warp of Dr. Brain were so different from the first two entries in the series.
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14. Eagle Eye Mysteries
Like Scooter’s Magic Castle,1993’s Eagle Eye Mysteries and 1994’s Eagle Eyes Mysteries in London came to us courtesy of the now sadly defunct EA* Kids division of Electronic Arts. Unlike Scooter’s Magic Castle, though, they were meant for an older crowd. The games followed siblings Jake and Jennifer Eagle as they solved mysteries throughout first their hometown, then in London not — unlike a modernized, digital version of Encyclopedia Brown. If you were a pint-sized fan of whodunnits, this was the game for you; it helped you learn how to piece together different pieces of information until a complete picture emerged. A valuable skill to have, I feel.
15. Oregon Trail
Ah, yes: Oregon Trail, the game responsible for countless deaths by dysentery, many drownings of oxen who tried and failed to ford the river, and a plethora of memes. For anyone who grew up playing it, it's the gift that keeps on giving.
Speaking of people who grew up playing it, perhaps unexpectedly large swathe of the population falls into this category. Originally developed in 1971 and launched by MECC in 1974, roughly 20 versions of the game have been released since then — the most of which, believed it or not, arrived in 2018 as a handheld game similar to the Tiger Electronics games a lot of '80s kids grew up playing. Ostensibly, it taught kids what it was like to travel the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon in 1848; practically speaking, though, it mostly taught us about frustration.
Also: Never ford the river. Always caulk your wagon and float it.
Your oxen will thank you.
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Poll time: What was the first website you ever went to? It's Thursday, so it seems like an appropriate topic, what with that whole “throwback” thing we all seem to love so much; it's also probably why I just ended up on a trip down Internet memory lane courtesy of an AskReddit thread asking that very question. So I ask again: What was the first website you ever went to?
One of the things that often separates older Millennials — those of us in our very late 20s and early-to-mid 30s — from the younger ones is how much a part of our lives the Internet was when we were kids. I have relatives who, like myself, are considered Millennials; however, since they're on the younger end (still in or just recently graduated from college), they grew up with the Internet kind of just always being… around. Me, on the other hand? I turned 30 this year, and the Internet definitely wasn't always a thing when I was young. In some ways, we grew up alongside the online world; by the time the younger Millennials came around, it had already been established as an inescapable Part of Life. Either way, though, most of us have affectionate memories of our first days on the Internet; it's one of the great equalizers.
The AskReddit thread began to evolve as it went on (as AskReddit threads are wont to do), becoming less about the very first websites you remember going to and focusing more on the websites you spent all your time on right after you discovered the Internet. My first website was the Crayola website, for example; however, the sites I remember most fondly were more like the ones that popped up in this thread. So here — have a look at 10 websites you've probably forgotten about, but on which you likely spent a good deal of your time on back when you still had dial-up. Most of them are still in operation, so go ahead. Check 'em out. Thursday's a good day for nostalgia.
1. Albino Blacksheep
Status: Still in operation.
This one? Ooooooh, this one. This probably dates me horribly, but I was already in college when Albino Blacksheep was in vogue — which was perfect in some ways, because it provided the bite-sized doses of Flash animation comedy we all needed during exam season in the days before YouTube. Classics include “The End of the World,” “The Fifth Avocado,” and “Tales from the Leet” — all of which are available on YouTube now, but whatever. Sometimes, you just need to go back to basics.
2. Homestar Runner
Status: Still in operation.
Mike Chapman and Craig Zobel created Homestar Runner in 1996, although it wasn't until 2000 that the first Flash-animated cartoons began appearing on HomestarRunner.com. Homestar, Strong Bad (and his emails, of course), Strong Sad, The Cheat, and the entire rest of the show's sizeable cast of characters became a huge hit; even so, though, the site went largely on hiatus between 2009 and 2014. Starting in 2014, though, new material finally began appearing on the site again — and a new Strong Bad was released in April of 2015. More, please!
3. Newgrounds
Status: Still in operation.
To be honest, I'm not entirely sure why I frequented Newgrounds so much during the late '90s and early 2000s; I didn't actually enjoy it all that much, so maybe I was just trying to create some sort of “edgy” persona for myself (because that's what we all do when we're teenagers). Newgrounds has reinvented itself a few times over the years, with its earlier iterations being known mostly for browser games that probably raise a lot more eyebrows now than they did then. Nowadays, it's tagline is “Everything, By Everyone”; it features everything from animations and videos to games and art.
They even have levels of how well these work with Wine, including Platinum, Gold, and Silver levels of compatibility. What You’ll NeedFirst up, you’re gonna need an Intel Mac. If you’re still running a Power-PC Mac, a) it’s time to upgrade and b) this isn’t going to work. To find out what kind of Mac you have, click on the Apple menu in the upper left corner of your screen, choose About This Mac, and it will tell you. Honestly, though, if you don’t know what kind of Mac you’re running, you might have a bit of trouble with the following instructions, which assume you have access to your admin account and password, can install XCode, and have the latest Java Development package (it comes as default with Mac OS X 10.7 and up).You’ll also need the X11 app, which used to be a standard install app starting in OS X 10.5, but which has recently been removed from OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
4. Habbo Hotel
Status: Still in operation.
A lot of the precursers to social networking as we know it today involved trying to build an actual, albeit digital, world. The Finland-based Habbo Hotel was one of those worlds, with users taking up residence inside one of 12 “hotels.” I never actually played around with this one — I recall the name vaguely, but I have no idea what it's actually like — but it seems to have done pretty well for itself in the years since its creation in the early 2000s. It's still around, it's gotten bigger, and it's aimed at teens.
5. Neopets
Status: Still in operation.
Should I be embarrassed about the fact that I kind of loved Neopets when I was 16? Answer: No, because nobody should be made to feel embarrassed for enjoying the things they enjoy. NO REGRETS… even though I haven't checked on my little dragon pet for probably about 14 years. That I might regret. Sorry for abandoning you, Roger.
First launched in 1999, the virtual pet community is still alive, although there seems to have been a little bit of upheaval at the company recently (do with that what you will). Also, in some ways, the world has grown more interesting as a study in economics than anything else. The online world is such a fickle place, is it not?
6. Quizilla
Status: Defunct.
Back before the days of BuzzFeed quizzes and PlayBuzz, we had Quizilla — although somehow, Quizilla ended up being more a hub for fanfiction than actual personality quizzes. The way I remember it is the way it looked on February 2, 2004:
But it underwent a ton of changes before it was eventually shuttered in 2014. These days, Quizilla.com redirects to Teen Nick's website.
Mac free roam driving game download. Using your computer mouse or touchpad, click on the 'Car ' button at the bottom of the game screen to toggle between the cars.Control your vehicles using the Arrow Keys or WASD Keys on your keyboard: Up Arrow / W = Accelerate; Down Arrow / S = Brake & Reverse; Left & Right Arrows / A & D = Steer. You can also have each vehicle driving around of its own accord by clicking on the ‘AI’ button! Click on the various different control buttons at the bottom of the screen to activate different driving control aspects (ABS = Anti-lock braking system, ESP = Electronic stability program, TC = Traction control). Let’s see what moves you have planned down on the streets!How to Play: This game requires Unity Web Player to play, and may take longer to load than other driving sim games on this site (depending on the speed of your computer / internet connection).There are 4 different vehicles to choose from: Realistic Pickup Truck, GTA4 Pickup, Bus, and Sport Coupe.
7. Badger Badger Badger
Status: Still in operation.
The work of Jonti “Weebl” Picking, the weirdly entertaining repetition of a bunch of badgers doing calisthenics while a mushroom and a snake hang out elsewhere has captivated Internet-goers since 2003. I don't know about you, but I kind of love the idea of it running quietly in the background in perpetuity. SNAAAAAAKE!
8. Fanfiction.net
Status: Still in operation.
First launched in 1998, Fanfiction.net has since become one of the world's largest fanfiction archives (although I'll admit I'm not sure if the entirety of Tumblr counts as one entity, so do with that what you will). Back in my day (she said, sounding like an old fogey), it was where we went after the season finales of our favorite television shows aired, because, well… we needed to tide ourselves over with something, right? (I'm looking at you, Season 5 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Almost 20 years after its inception, Fanfiction.net still looks relatively similar to how it did in the early days — which is pretty remarkable, when you think about it. Its original fiction and poetry sister site, FictionPress.com, is still around, too.
9. Hamster Dance
Status: Against all logic, still in operation — and a heck of a lot more elaborate.
Remember how HamsterDance.com once consisted of nothing more than a sea of pixelated hamsters bopping around to the same song on repeat? Well, these days, Hamster Dance is actually an entire brand.Created in 1998 by Deidre LaCarte, then an art student from Nanaimo, British Columbia, Hamster Dance was originally meant as a personal project; LaCarte had a competition going between her sister, her best friend, and herself to see who could generate the most web traffic. She used her pet hamster, Hampton, as her inspiration, created four simple GIFs, multiplied them a bunch of times, and set the whole to music. And, well…
..I think it's safe to say that LaCarte won that competition.
You can see the original version here. Also, I apologize in advance for getting that damn song stuck in your head.
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10. IMDb
Status: Still very much in operation.
By “IMDb,” though, I don't mean IMDb as we know it today; I mean IMDb as it was in the mid-to-late-'90s. The now-indispensible source for information about all your favorite movies began as a Usenet project in 1989 or 1990 (accounts differ); in 1993, engineer Col Needham began organizing efforts to put the project on the World Wide Web; IMBDb was incorporated in 1996; it was purchased by Amazon in 1998; and, well… you know how the rest goes.
On June 16, 2001 — I was in high school at the time — it looked like this:
My, how the times do change!
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