Nintendo, MS and Sony on educational games

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Torillian said:
@Impulsivity
I actual don't remember any educational games being all that great or fun. Cept for maybe Oregon Trail, but all you learned during that game was that travelling by buggy sucked balls, people seem to die without any good reason, and you never need food as long as you have bullets.

 

   Haha, the later Oregon Trail games were a lot better then the first one on the IIGS.  I will admit that one was beyond basic.  There was really only so much you could do with the medium.

 

    There were a lot of great educational game gems from back then, but you had to look for them.  Even the original Kings Quest games were great.  You had to think of the fairy tales the situations corresponded to in order to find out the solution to get out of the problem with characters like the Hansel and Grettel Witch.  There were a ton of games that required a lot of thought back then, far more then now.