2005: A Game of Macroeconomics
2005: A Game of Macroeconomics is an excellent free game that achieves what many expensive releases have tried and failed: teach basic concepts of macroeconomics in an accessible and fun package. Designed by N. Gregory Mankiw, one of the US' most famous economists, 2005 is designed as a supplementary material...
A.J.'s World of Discovery
A fun collection of activities for toddlers (0-4 years. Old), Coktel's A.J.'s World of Discovery marks the debut of A.J., a lovable alien who foreshadows Adi, a more famous character in Coktel's line of edutainment titles that are still going strong in France. Similar to The Treehouse but designed for...
ABC Fun Keys
Educational game where you have to go through different leves with word games. Actual fun made....
Advanced Thinking Skills
Advanced Thinking Skills is a fun edutainment / puzzle game released as an entrant in Compedia's short-lived Top Class series. The game is a collection of five mini-puzzle games commonly used on psychometric exams and IQ test: Odd one out (find shape which is different from all the rest), Shapes...
Adventures in Math
Adventures in Math is a solid game for practicing basic math operations. You are entering an old castle and have to find the exit while collecting as many treasures as you can. In order to open doors or collect treasures, you have to solve a problem. It is very simple...
Alf's Thinking Skills
Alf's Thinking Skills is a fun edutainment title for toddlers starring Alf, the beloved alien from a popular '80s TV show. Similar to most other early childhood programs like The Playroom, Alf Thinking Skills offers several mini-games ("lessons"), each of which is designed to teach one concept. In the "Feed...
Alf's World of Words
Alf's World of Words is a companion title to Vision Software's Alf's Thinking Skills, an excellent edutainment game starring one of America's most famous children TV characters. Like Alf's Thinking Skills, AWoW was designed for preschoolers, this time to teach them the English alphabet and basic words. There are several...
Amazon Trail, The
The Amazon Trail is an educational adventure game that was released in the 1990s. The game was created by MECC and was created because of the success of the game Oregon Trail. The Oregon Trail is the most popular game in the MECC Trail series but the Amazon trail is...
America Adventure
America Adventure is another solid title in Knowledge Adventure's somewhat popular series based on Knowledge Adventure engine. In this title, you will learn about the geography, history, and general trivia involving the United States. In addition to a decent database that is packed with interesting factoids, America Adventure also includes...
Animal Math
This simple game is designed to introduce numbers to children. Player is put to simple tasks and solving should improve some basics skill with numbers and math. Numbers are presented as animals and there is no wrong answer. Also, to answer you simply have to type one-digit or two-digit numbers....
AnkerCAD
A very nice "spin-off" of BlockCAD, a great LEGO building program reviewed on this site, AnkerCAD lets you build virtual models with bricks. The bricks are based on AnkerStein ("AnchorStones" in English), excellent LEGO-like toy that is very popular in Germany. Similar to BlockCAD, AnkerCAD software lets you construct a...
BabyType
BabyType is a fun typing tutor program from DOKA, recently released as freeware by the company. The game is similar to the famous Mavis Beacon series, except much more "game"-oriented and in my opinion a lot more fun. The "gameplay" is easy to learn: type the correct letters that flash...
Backyard, The
Last in Brøderbund's superb trilogy of edutainment titles, The Backyard lives up to the high standards set by The Playroom and The Treehouse, also designed by Leslie Grimm. Designed for kids aged 3 to 6, The Backyard offers 6 main activities to teach kids about animals, as well as other...
Bank Street Music Writer
Bank Street Music Writer is an excellent music composition program that not only teaches you the basic concepts of music, but also allows you to write and "play" music as well. Although it helps if you can already read musical notes, that isn't a prerequisite for the program: Mindscape includes...
Barbie Super Model
Now then... I know what you all are thinking. I thought it myself, when I located this game. A BARBIE GAME??? There's no way in hell that this can be any good, but I'm gonna download it just to get a good laugh!! Well, the joke was on me. Barbie: Super...
Barney Bear Goes to Farm
The Barney Bear series are excellent edutainment titles aimed at teaching the basics of various subjects to toddlers aged 1 to 4 years old. Aside from being some of the finest titles ever made for this (some would say hard to please) target group, the games are notable for using...
Barney Bear Goes to School
The Barney Bear series are excellent edutainment titles aimed at teaching the basics of various subjects to toddlers aged 1 to 4 years old. Aside from being some of the finest titles ever made for this (some would say hard to please) target group, the games are notable for using...
Barney Bear Goes to Space
The Barney Bear series are excellent edutainment titles aimed at teaching the basics of various subjects to toddlers aged 1 to 4 years old. Aside from being some of the finest titles ever made for this (some would say hard to please) target group, the games are notable for using...
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: Expanded Multimedia Edition
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: Expanded Multimedia Edition CD-ROM is a superb reproduction of the wonderful reference tool by the same name - a classic book of quotations that is widely hailed as the best book of its kind. Mark Garvey's thorough review of this excellent title from Learn Technologies says it...
Berenstain Bears' Learning Essentials
Released by Compton's Newnedia in 1992, Berenstain Bears Learning Essentials is an edutainment program that targets preshoolers, starring characters from the famous children books of the same name. The program is a compilation of three separate programs that teach puzzles (jigsaw), colors, and music. The game doesn't quite teach as...
Beyond the Nine Dragons
Beyond the Nine Dragons is an excellent travel guide on CD-ROM that introduces Southeast Asian countries that lie along the Mekong river: Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. The game includes thousands of lines of text and photos from a book called "The Mekong: A River and Its People", which...
Bible Builder
Bible Builder is a fun trivia game about the Bible from Everbright Software, one of the first companies to have developed games exclusively for the Christian community (as an interesting side note, many such companies have since folded, including Everbright, with Wisdom Tree being one of the few companies that...
BlockCAD
Isn't this wonderful? A caring parent was so amazed at how fun all those LEGO blocks are and how much his children enjoyed it that he decided to make this highly educational game!BlockCAD is not much of a game actually, it is mainly meant to encourage kids to show all...
Brain Works
Brain Works is a fascinating freeware application that asks you a series of question to answer two intriguing questions about the brain: whether you use the brain's left hemisphere more than the right, and whether you think visually or aurally (a key factor in determining your learning style).The method by...
Bugs Bunny Cartoon Workshop
Bugs Bunny Cartoon Workshop is a fun little game from Novotrade/Hi-Tech Expression that lets kids create their own Warner Bros. cartoon by following a few simple steps. Kids first choose characters and the setting of their story, add their own text in word balloons, then animate the frame to watch...
Bushbuck Charms, Viking Ships & Dodo Eggs
Bushbuck Charms, Viking Ships and Voodoo Eggs and Gumboots Australia are among the best Carmen Sandiego "clones" after Broderbund popularized the "edutainment" concept with this series. In Bushbuck Charms, you must race either against the clock or a computer opponent to retrieve treasures from around the globe, while Gumboots is...
C.Y.P.H.E.R. Operation US Presidents
One of the most obscure, underrated edutainment titles ever, Tanager's C.Y.P.H.E.R. Operation Wildlife and Operation US Presidents are two wonderful games designed for kids aged 8 and up that teach a range of subjects in a unique and addictive gameplay that will keep both kids and adults hooked for hours...
C.Y.P.H.E.R. Operation Wildlife
One of the most obscure, underrated edutainment titles ever, Tanager's C.Y.P.H.E.R. Operation Wildlife and Operation US Presidents are two wonderful games designed for kids aged 8 and up that teach a range of subjects in a unique and addictive gameplay that will keep both kids and adults hooked for hours...
Circus
Circus is an excellent collection of edutainment games based on the circus theme. Designed to teach toddlers basic algebra, Circus offers 9 mini-games that span a good range of concepts, from number recognition, counting, to simple calculations. The game has no text, so children will not be hampered by having...
Code: Europe
Code: Europe is a decent edutainment title that looks and feels very similar to Broderbund's famous Carmen Sandiego games, but much less engaging or original. Cast as a secret agent, your job is to catch the thieves who stole some treasure by correctly following their routes and cornering them in...
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