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[Lulu_Jane]

It's an interesting little list.

I had utterly forgotten that Mavis Beacon helped both my younger sister and I to type

What do you reckon, did they miss any?

[Eagle of Fire]

I reckon that this article is pretty much worthless.

Educational games? C'mon, how influential can educational games get? Oh wow, you learned that 6+7=13 on a computer game? Good for you?

C'mon now... Except for the last two entries (and perhapf M.U.L.E), there not a game in there which is worth mentioning...

[Lulu_Jane]

I think you can argue that Oregon Trail was influential, every American below 35 I've ever met remembers it fondly.

[TheChosen]

Originally Posted by Eagle of Fire

C'mon now... Except for the last two entries (and perhapf M.U.L.E), there not a game in there which is worth mentioning...

Oregon Trail, Carmen Sandiego, SimCity, Zork.....

Yeah. Totally worthless and not mentionable.

[dosraider]

Doom, FTW!

[Tomekk]

Originally Posted by dosraider

Doom, FTW!

Yes, Doom was very educational by teaching kids that "the bigger the gun, the better." :thumbs:

[Icewolf]

Originally Posted by Eagle of Fire

I reckon that this article is pretty much worthless.

Educational games? C'mon, how influential can educational games get? Oh wow, you learned that 6+7=13 on a computer game? Good for you?[...]

I have to disagree.

If you play a game that has certain logical coherences your brain has to work them out. Thus you might say indeed that e.g. the solution of math-tasks to play a game is a nice way to train your math-skills.
Ostensibly you're playing a computer-game but you are working out your brain in the background.

I think logic games like Tetris/Blockout should be in the list as well.
It helps female players to develop a better spatial perception...
Whereas men maybe should try the Tamagochi... :laugh:

[SlowCoder]

I played Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego as a kid, though I really can't remember anything that it tried to teach me, geographically speaking. Back in the day I thought it was fun.

I remember most of the other games from after I graduated from high school.

I currently have my child playing many of the Super Solver games (Reader Rabbit is listed), because I KNOW they are helping him with his math and language skills.

Originally Posted by Eagle of Fire

Educational games? C'mon, how influential can educational games get? Oh wow, you learned that 6+7=13 on a computer game? Good for you?

A good game makes learning more fun. It keeps a child engaged, and sometimes they won't even realize they're learning. But the games are just a tool. They can't be depended upon to provide 100% of the learning experience to the child.

[Tomekk]

Originally Posted by SlowCoder

...A good game makes learning more fun. It keeps a child engaged, and sometimes they won't even realize they're learning. But the games are just a tool. They can't be depended upon to provide 100% of the learning experience to the child.

I totally agree

[gregor]

Although not PC games but Spectrum ones (at the time there was no way i could afford a PC) i would put a few of the home made ones (well they were made in former Yugoslavia):
- one was a fun and challenging was to teach you read, write and spelling with a minigame attached in the end (only if you were sucessfull). dont' know the name but it was a good one.
- another one was all about math. best one that helped me a lot to practice was the one which included a horse race. the faster you replied, the faster you horse was. win a few races you can play the minigame in the end. it helped me calculate faster
- 3rd one is definatelly Eurorun adventure game. i never managed to finish it due to certain not so randomized roulette play and finding that moose was difficult. but at least at the time it tought me a lot about European geography, country capitals, most revered tourist sites, countries specialties and local cuisine. the latter it also tought me how certain things are prepared. such as for example Vienna stake. the goal was to collect all the specialties form arround the Europe and eat them in Belgrade on a large feast. i got a tape to run it on emulator, but haven't found the time to do it again and try to finnaly finish it.