Maybe Kings Quest VI and VII can be exceptions
Most Sierra quest games for the unwinnable situations which would only spark frustration and there's the possible irresponsibilities with the care of the feelies for copyprotected parts.
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Lemmings unless your kid can handle the hell theme (And that's considering the bowderlized windows 95 port without the additional scary levels) Hugo games (both the european and david gray hugo series) Commercialism is a little rampant in there Damsel plots (I wouldn't recommend Jazz Jackrabbit for that) (rather simple resource management mechanics, a 4x-lite game with real-time pacing) Scorched Earth (after the talk1/2.cfgs get cleaned out) any The Incredible Machine (I prefer the win16 Even More port) SimTown, or SimCity Classic (wouldn't recommend 2000 or 3000 for the water mechanics which can be overwhelming) Wacky Wheels (I personally never liked this one and preferred Super/Manic Karts, but that's all on technical preference) Super Solvers Treasure Mountain (a bit of a collectathon) Consider them as alternative Earthworm Jims Platformers based on certain Disney animated films (Aladdin being the popular one, but there's also Lion King, etc). any Humongous Entertainment game (prior to Total Annihilation) any Trail (mandatory babby's first survival games) Word Rescue / Math Rescue (Very serious unironic apogee recommendation here) any Munchers game (Super Munchers is the funnest one) They also ran fine on my dad's Celeron II Toshiba Satellite. It was a hand-me-down from my grandmother, and I'm pretty sure it got upgraded from 98 Plus! to XP since it had the Plus! themes. I played all of these on a Celeron III Dell Optiplex with 256MB of RAM, I think. I ended up buying a NOS copy of Advanced 2nd Grade from Amazon and it was surprisingly cheaper than used on eBay.
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Starflyers: Alien Space Chase (point-and-click puzzle game)įirst two can be found full online at. Jumpstart Advanced 2nd Grade (replayed it recently on a Pentium 150MMX laptop I came into possession of. collect pieces of a scooter and build it.)
Jumpstart Advanced 1st Grade (played this game a ton when I was little. Wonderful little point and click adventure game.)
Educational dos games for free#
Maybe a little too new to be vintage, but will run on quite old hardware and I used to love them:Īrthur's Camping Adventure (I think I got this for free from Chik-fil-a actually. I also have a younger niece who is age 4 as well. What other games would you recommend for this age range? I'm not sure about games would be appropriate for my nephew (age 6) since he can't read yet. So I won't put everything on it at first. I'm thinking about putting new games on it slowly so as not to overwhelm the kids. Mavis Beacon Teaches Touch Typing (don't know which version) That would give them a wider variety of things to play and won't be too taxing on an older machine (something like maybe a Pentium 4 or thin-client). I suggested that I put together an old computer for her with Linux on it and a bunch of old games we used to play as kids and turn off the internet. And on the computer they only have Minecraft. Have fun, kids! 1.My sister is very frustrated that all her kids do on her phone is veg and watch YouTube. Most are available to play on the internet now, so in those cases, I’ve also included links to where you can find them - frequently either an app store or the Internet Archive’s glorious collection of browser-based, emulated DOS games. So, in the spirit of nostalgia, here are 15 ’90s-era computer games that made learning incredibly fun. Though the graphics on the computer games from the ’90s may be laughable now, just remember - once upon a time, they were considered the pinnacle of technological achievement. Some were part of long-running series, while still more of them received a number of remakes and reboots as technology improved.
(Yes, I say that as a fully grown adult.)Ī lot of the educational computer games from the ’90s were originally developed and released long before the decade began, which could be why many '80s babies hold a certain degree of fondness for them many actually dated back to the decade in which we were born. And you know what? These games are still fun. That’s probably why there were so dang many fantastic '90s educational computer games - the rise of home computing (and, by extension, the rise of computing in the classroom) during the 1990s opened up a new world of possibilities, including tons of ways to make learning a blast for up-and-coming generations. Why do you ask?) But when it’s a literal game? Then it’s even better, especially when you’re a kid. Real talk: I think learning is always fun.
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