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Edutainment games that are still fun to play Anonymous 04/24/2025 (Thu) 05:44:44 No. 356
I often see some edutainment games fondly talked about, but with a lot of them it appears as though nostalgia is doing a lot of the heavy lifting, because let's face it, they're squarely aimed at young children, so there's usually little depth to them in terms of content or gameplay, so there's not much to go back to as an adult. However, there are indeed exceptions, so let's talk about the ones that actually hold up. The Oregon Trail, for one, is still a fun little romp thanks to the fact that you have choices and there's resource management, and though there's an element of randomness which will sometimes bite you in the ass or even end your game through little fault of your own, it at least ensures that no two trips are ever quite the same.
i can sit down and play any carmen sandiego game for hours, they're fun. unfortunately all of my world geography education comes from games made before the berlin wall fell.
I feel like I should be able to think of at least one beyond The Oregon Trail but I'm struggling. I think the most conventionally educational games I've played have been those in the Civilization series, thanks to the Civilopedia and the general instructional value of demonstrating complex phenomena through interactive simulation - even if the simulation is shot through with major compromises to fun. A very weak model of world history whose very broadest contours are approximately correct is more valuable than no model at all, which is basically what I got from my actual schooling.
Do the campaigns for age of empires 2 count?
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>>356 Tried the Mac version of Oregon Trail for the first time the other day while messing around with MAME (it's still shit, use qemu), and I gotta say I prefer the jank of the Apple ][. Carmen games are better on Mac though.


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