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PTMD25 t1_j8jz8ob wrote

This is a DEEP cut.

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shavin_high t1_j8k0nas wrote

I swear there was another game with the same name. I remember a different villain

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LaserTurboShark69 t1_j8k2rwv wrote

Hell yes I remember playing Math Blaster at school in our fancy new air conditioned computer lab

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igotbigballs t1_j8k3eum wrote

Oh damn you just reconnected some of my neurons. Forgot the specifics of this game but remember the intro for sure.

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iuhoosierkyle t1_j8k3n4f wrote

I played math blaster, but it was a lot older than that. It sure didn't have cutscenes or voice acting.

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_Rudeism t1_j8k6qdw wrote

Was that Colonel Campbell?!

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TheUpperHand t1_j8kdc8m wrote

Never played this one but Math Blaster: In Search of Spot was my jam along with Number Munchers

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IeIgHtNiNe OP t1_j8kdrka wrote

I might be wrong on the year. Admittedly, I haven't heavily researched the Math Blaster franchise lol.

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WhatD0thLife t1_j8kfm21 wrote

I used to ditch school in third grade to go home and play Math Blaster and sneak Crystal Geyser Juice Squeeze

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bubbaa11 t1_j8kfxc0 wrote

Yes! I loved this game! I remember it being way too hard though and I was never able to finish it...

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metaphour t1_j8khnsu wrote

Ah yes... the beginning of my gaming addiction. However, Math Blaster ended up being a reason to go to the computer lab to play Oregon Trail.

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Wolfgang1234 t1_j8kl9tj wrote

Man, we had some awesome "educational" video games back when I was growing up. Are games like that even a thing these days?

Edit: Found a relevant wikipedia article: Edutainment.

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eodtec1985 t1_j8kmquw wrote

My first grade class had an IBM PC with Math Blaster on 5.25 inch floppy disks. I played the shit out of that.

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TechNickL t1_j8koeru wrote

The thumbnail of the ship made me instantly remember.

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colBoh t1_j8kqimg wrote

After playing it on my elementary school's computer lord-knows-how-many-times, I remember buying "The Search For Spot" and "Ages 9-12" (the one with the monkey planet) for home use.

I tried replaying them recently, and the monkey-making and gem puzzles at the end of "9-12" are still balls-hard. Good times.

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HETKA t1_j8kso8q wrote

Been trying to find Mathblaster for my son

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reddit_is_cruel t1_j8kxwek wrote

My jam is a little older. I cut my teeth on Reader Rabbit (1983).

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Avachiel t1_j8ky3s7 wrote

Math blaster was legit.

I wish games trended in that direction, it really had me doin' some maths.

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Enkaybee t1_j8l2c5w wrote

Was GC anyone else's sexual awakening?

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adavi608 t1_j8l3b2f wrote

I played Math Blaster: In Search of Spot

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Jammer90 t1_j8l3wrg wrote

Oh hell yeah. Played it so much

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LoudSighhh t1_j8l50xe wrote

yes all millenials played this nothing exciting

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cornballerburns t1_j8l81eh wrote

This game just reminded me of another game I was obsessed with…Torin's Passage

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The84thWolf t1_j8l9bz3 wrote

I had this and Lion King Timone and Pumba Typing Tutorial game

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Jandy777 t1_j8l9t6l wrote

At my schools we had Planet Number, and the Logical Journey of the Zoombinis. The second one was awesome for an education game.

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omegadirectory t1_j8l9zij wrote

This was my very first PC game for our family's first PC in 1996/7. My parents insisted video games had to be educational.

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DokterManhattan t1_j8lb2cm wrote

I played the shit outta this game!

I also had a Lucasarts game called Mortimer the Snail. And I played Myst but it gave me to creeps and I could never solve the whole thing

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Sixparks t1_j8lcfmq wrote

Oh shit, I played a bunch of Math Blaster 2. I remember it because I was reading the book that came with it, as games did back then, and halfway through there was a misprint where a solid chunk of the book was story and background from Warcraft 2. Gul'dan was talking about the tomb of Sargeras, there was a picture of a necromancer raising skeletons to drag down a human knight, and some grainy black and white pics of in game objects...I want to say it was showing how to build oil rigs?

...not math blasters 2, is what I'm trying to say. That game sounded way cooler.

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MobileGoebel t1_j8ldk2u wrote

This one left me feeling intensely lonely when I was a young lad. Couldn't tell you why.

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Uturuncu t1_j8leljf wrote

Replying to 6disc_cdchanger (#1,812,299)

Now Search for Spot is the one I played the shit out of! I loved that game so much. And Treasure Mountain+Treasure Mathstorm. Whenever I hear Hall of the Mountain King it makes me smile 'cause of Treasure Mountain and all the fond memories I have of all those weird little educational games I played growing up.

And some of the Jumpstarts!

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Softcorps_dn t1_j8lfmgj wrote

I definitely played this game, probably one of the first Windows-based games I played. Before this was Gizmos & Gadgets on DOS.

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Dkrox t1_j8lhwii wrote

This game honestly helped me get better at math as a kid. These educational games improved my abilities tbh the typing zombie one was so awesome.

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DirtyPolecat t1_j8liqcv wrote

I did, but about 6 years before this, and the Apple II version.

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groggyMPLS t1_j8ljo8d wrote

You must have had a fancy computer in 1994

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samwise970 t1_j8lmlb7 wrote

I played this version of math blaster so freaking much. Like this is a deep part of my early childhood, one of those formative video games. I remember the nose dudes and the Easter egg that was literally an Easter egg.

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jubular t1_j8lmsb5 wrote

I actually recently downloaded this off of archive and had a blast showing it my son.

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Onlyhereforthelaughs t1_j8lnw5s wrote

Those guys and the Reader Rabbit games were my favorite. It was great that they made so many educational computer games that were fun.

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jinxedsoul t1_j8loghw wrote

My dad wanted me to play it so bad but I was too busy playing Warcraft.

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koolman2 t1_j8losfo wrote

My wife ordered a copy on CD from eBay last year with a promise I could get it working for our 7-year-old.

Took a bit, but after installing Windows 3.11 in DOSBox and somehow meddling through that mess, I got it installed. She played it for all of two hours total.

Totally worth it.

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Dartagnan1083 t1_j8lotew wrote

I was more of a Number Muncher (and later Super Muncher) kid.

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I_Seen_Some_Stuff t1_j8lqvk4 wrote

The better one went "What would you do if your best friend.. was an ALIEN?" DAH DAHHHHH

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unopepito06 t1_j8lspp6 wrote

I was more of a Number Muncher guy myself.

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bahji t1_j8lvmo5 wrote

Holy Crap. This is some hazy as shit nostalgia

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ChumbawambaChump t1_j8m3ruv wrote

Math blaster, treasure math storm and treasure mountain. So many memories

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cubicleshinobi t1_j8m7udd wrote

This clip is literally how I’ve always remembered the formula for area of a circle, to this day

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Callasfan t1_j8maak6 wrote

Wow, I'd forgotten about those games!

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Londonforce t1_j8mepdt wrote

Math Blaster on DOS was the real math blaster.

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hearnia_2k t1_j8mlv70 wrote

Is that a modern remake or something? Because there is no way the Math Blaster I played had something like a video as shown.

I had New Math Blaster Plus.

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MorbidDonkey t1_j8mrg0h wrote

My first ever Math game I played was a bad ass D&D game for Dos called “Adventures in Math” this is when computers could only do 4 colors. It was 1983 when it came out, after that Math Blaster came and that changed EVERYTHING. Thank you for the post.

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Yserbius t1_j8mtjfg wrote

Replying to iuhoosierkyle (#1,811,541)

I remember like 87 different versions of it. There was the DOS one, the Apple IIe color version, one for Windows. My family owned one called The Search for Spot that was fully animated and voiced, then later I got a geometry version that had completely different characters, story, and gameplay.

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HansLuthor t1_j8mz184 wrote

I loved this game! Even though I wasn't very good at math back then. Tried to watch a streamer play out a few years ago and I tuned in to hear them say, "awww, looks like it's not gonna work guys, F's in chat"

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Mdly68 t1_j8n2jw6 wrote

I played Math Blasters - Secret of the Lost City.

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No_Variation_6639 t1_j8n3lq6 wrote

When i got bad grades my dad would punish me by confining me to the basement and making me play math blaster for entire weekends.

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slylock215 t1_j8n4ok6 wrote

Number Munchers on an 8 inch floppy disk anyone?

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ShitPostGuy t1_j8n7ngn wrote

I played the shit out of math blaster, and the geometry blaster sequel. Like thousands of hours logged. I can confirm that it did not make me any better at mathematics.

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Andrewskyy1 t1_j8n96ny wrote

I remember! I grew up playing #6 (I think) and I can still vividly remember the sound effects from the mini-game where you combine items and make new people or whatever

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MoogPanda t1_j8nngz9 wrote

Yezzir played this exact version.

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NeonIsPyro t1_j8nzjty wrote

Yes!!! I loved that game! I also had Spelling Blaster!

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amwxx1 t1_j8ofra1 wrote

I was forced to play Math Blaster yes.

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Domermac t1_j8plpzo wrote

Loved those games. So much fun and good for kids

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Deelaxation t1_j8qp5jd wrote

I played math blaster mystery the great brain robbery.

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