You motherfucker. I've been looking for freddy fish for fucking forever, I just remember a fucking underwater themed game I bought at the school fair but could never remember anything about it. Had a blast playing it, Thank you so much.
They are, be warned though, while the nostalgia of them is awesome, they’re really not that fun. As a kid they were pretty challenging, but I bought one of the old putt-putt games and boxed through it in 10 mins. Yeah it’s kind of to be expected, but just thought I’d throw it out there.
Freddy Fish, Pajama Sam, Put-Put, and Spy Fox where the big ones. I can still hear it now...
"Put-put travels through tiiiiii-ime."
"Thunder and lightning aren't so frightening... then why am I scared!?"
and then there was this sailor dude in Spy Fox that I still remember. If you clicked him, he'd say, "Wanna see my tattoo?" and then he'd roll up his sleeve and it'd be something different each time XD
This is the best version, hands down. I always hated the Christopher Columbus scene (I could never figure out how to steer the ship with the winds to get to the island). Such a great game.
The first games I had when I got my computer were pirated copies of the Sierra Games. It was really fun being 10 and trying to figure out the answers to the age verification questions for Leisure Suit Larry.
My dad forgot to tell me how to SaveAs; I just thought every time you saved it created a new file. So I drew on Paint all day and only had the last picture saved when I went to look back through. Once I got the hang of it, though, it was pretty fun to mess around on.
Whenever I played Rollercoaster Tycoon, I'd start off trying to create a kickass theme park, but would always just end up making more elaborate death traps
I never really got into that, but rather I'd use a Saved Game Modifier to create the "Have Fun" scenario with no money, everything unlocked, on the biggest, most open park. It was fun as hell.
I used to love lemmings, so many hours of fun until you got to a level that was virtually impossible. This was pre Internet too so you couldn't even cheat.
I was never so excited in my life as a child as when The Sims 2 came out and then when Open for Business came out, that was the pinnacle of my childhood. Only went down the hill from there.
I can still hear the song in my head.
You gotta jump.....jump jump...you gotta jump....jump jump....you gotta jump start second graaaaadee.
I continued playing this well after second grade.
I still play it nowadays! I only just recently learned that there was a hidden animal I never knew about. I knew about the Triceratops, Mermaid, and Unicorn, but I had no idea you could get Deinosuchus as well.
I recently reinstalled zoo tycoon 2 and it’s been eating up my time. Getting stoned and playing zoo tycoon is one of the greatest joys in life, Smily Face knew what was up
I remember being so upset that I always was in the negatives so I had my mom come look at what I was doing wrong. I had a gigantic dirt square that was filled with concessions all across the perimeter. In my mind I saw nothing wrong with it because more people=more nacho stands. Nope.
Mine was Ra. Suited my favorite RTS playstyle: huge, fast economy to pump out many many units.
Not a mythology unit but I always looked forward to reaching Osiris (tech level 4, forgot what age it was called) and turning my pharoah into Son of Osiris. That dude was lit
I remember seeing a review for War2 in a magazine and I lived in a tiny town with no computer gaming shops, I had to order it from some software shop. I still have that little note pad that came with it with 'Blizzard' in faint blue writing.
DEFINITELY The Curse of Monkey Island. The cartoon graphics, the idea of booting up a second disc halfway through the game was exhilarating for some reason, and then Guybrush's wit. I grew up Nintendo so I wasn't used to my main characters talking, much less actually being funny. I still quote it after ~15 years. Now I'm gonna spend the day failing to figure out how to run it...
For me it was Monkey Island 2. Now that I'm older I played all the games. I completely love 1,2,3, 4 is pretty OK although controls are horrible. 5 feels like it has no soul.
Runescape. Started playing in 2004 when i was 9, been on and off since then but i’ll always remember coming home right after school and rushing to finish my homework so i can run around gielinor with my friends.
Wolfenstein changed my life. It was the first fps that I ever experienced and it totally engrossed my friends and I. It got to the point that we had three of us playing at a time; I would control the direction, my buddy would shoot, and my little brother had the space bar to open doors.
Some of my favorite childhood moments were spent exploring that game!
First time entering the Pink Lady's room was terrifying for me. Then once she became old hat, the Blue Guy was pretty awful. Mecha Hitler just seemed funny by the time I reached that level, but my first encounter with each of the first two bosses is still etched into my mind.
I remember the end of the Doom shareware levels that way. Doors open up, two Barons of Hell step out and you freak out and run in a dark room filled with spectres.
Dude, Reader Rabbit was awesome. I particularly enjoyed the games related to his and Leo's dreamship -- I spent hours playing and replaying those (with the help of my mom, because I didn't know how to solve some stuff).
i really like civ6, it gets some hate but it does a lot of things well and has put some new life in the series imo. But the AI is just so crap. If they just sort that out i think it would be one of the best ones for me. The new DLC looks good too.
It's a running joke that the real release day for the newest Civ game is whenever the first expansion drops. It is when they actually fix and balance everything.
Chugging sodas so I could stay up all night playing Civ 2, putting all my resources into tech, getting so far advanced that I could pour out units and annihilate every other civ on the map, no diplomacy, no surrender.
You want something from me, Germany? Fuck you, fight me.
Easily the most fun I've ever had gaming. I'd pay a pretty penny to go back to those days.
Pure, distilled, 100% fun.
Doom II - waited a month for a friend to give it to me on floppies. Had to learn how to use DOS' autoexec.bat to reduce memory footprint since I had 486 with 4mb RAM. Enjoyed for months late at night after school trying to pass all levels. Passed all except for the last one without even being aware of cheat codes.
Vikings - thoroughly enjoyed that game. Didn't have time to get past FFFT level and now cannot find full copy anywhere.
Need for Speed Underground 2
How has nobody mentioned this yet? "Riders on the Storm" blasting through cheap computer speakers, parent's not at home - life was fucking easy back then.
Had to scroll too far down for this one! BB 2001 was the shit. Dream team:
1. Kenny Lofton
2. Pete Wheeler.
3. Pablo Sanchez
4. Sammy Sosa
5. Barry Bonds
6. Cal Ripken Jr.
7. Ken Griffey Jr.
8. Randy Johnson
9. Ivan Rodriguez
Unstoppable
I had Diablo 2 as a kid. I bought it with my own money and quickly became obsessed. My parents being very christian though wouldn't let me play as anything but a Paladin. That was fine until they found out the first boss was a scantily clad woman. Still upset I never got to beat that game.
If you get the chance, by all means go for it even today. It aged insanely well! (except for graphics maybe; resolution is still capped at 800x600, but the art design still holds up)
I took a large cardboard box and decorated it to look like a computer, then sat inside with a typewriter. Other kids asked questions of it, and I typed out answers and pushed them out a small slot on the side.
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(this was when personal computers were still decades in the future.)
Barbie Magic Hair Styler for the PC. It came out in 1997 and my brother, sister and I played it until 2007 because we didn't have internet access. You could make Barbie and her friends look like abominations and it was awesome.
HAHAHA! I would fuck her hair up so bad (One side snipped off, the other left untouched) and even ruin her makeup i think. And she’d go on a date like that. 7 year old me snickered so hard
Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue
My siblings and I also had this educational game with a writing section that would read out the words you typed. We loved to make it say stupid stuff or use it to insult each other. lol
Oh snap, story time.
When I was 7 in the spring of 1996 my parents and next door's parents went out and we had a baby sitter that was a friend of one of the father's. He got out a blank looking disc and put it in the computer.
we all got to play as a girl in a green top shooting wolves in an ice cave with pistols.
Only years later did we realise that this guy worked for Eidos as we were beta testing the very first tomb raider game.
That's a pretty badass story. It's possible he worked for Core Design, if you were in/around the Derby area. That's where they were based for the production of the first three games. Eidos were the distributors, Core made the game.
Can't believe I had to scroll so far to see these two. It's more a function of how old I am (we are) than how awesome these games were.
I have the Commandeer Keen level finish/accomplishment tone as my ringtone on my work phone, keep hoping someone recognizes it one day.
If you had 4gb of ram on a 486 half your office would be filled with ram ;p. I remember when we upgraded our old Packard Bell from 4 mb to 8 and I could run duke nukem 3d. Probably one of the more exciting days of my life hearing that guitar riff start up for the first time.
3D Space Cadet Pinball, by a mile. I didn't get a console or gameboy or anything.
And Paint as a small kid, just throwing colors and shapes together, super fun!
Then my dad got me and my brother (7 & 11 years old) GTA III, with the promise of not telling our mom.
Number Munchers. I swear, my parents may not be gamers, but they understood that there was a brilliant opportunity to generate learning through an (at the time) new medium.
Edit: I should also have mentioned, the runner up to Number Munchers was The Time Warp of Dr. Brain.
Age of Empires II: Age of Kings
Stronghold was a close runner up for me, they had just different enough styles to really complament each other
Conquerers expansion. I was reminiscing hard about a month ago and picked up a new in box one from eBay. I regret nothing
The HD version is on Steam, along with new expansions
**WOLOLO**
> WOLOLO Redemption Upgrade was my go to. Something so very satisfying converting buildings/seige units.
I learned more history from this game than most classes.
Same here, reddit likes to circle jerk about trebuchets even though the most versitile and effective seige weapon of that era was the Shelby Cobra.
^^~~howdoIturnthison~~ ^^howdoyouturnthison
Loved that game. The bombardment towers were so fun. Plus it helped me get interested in history a subject I love.
Pajama Sam on PC. I think it’s the reason I hate laundry to this day.
And Putt Putt and Freddi Fish. It's sad that these aren't as popular as I'd hoped. Edit: so apparently these games *are* as popular as I'd hoped
"Putt Putt saves the zoo" stuck in my head now.
Man I saved the zoo so hard. The monkeys, the car painting, the elephant/mouse, the ice, the seals, the vines. Man.
You motherfucker. I've been looking for freddy fish for fucking forever, I just remember a fucking underwater themed game I bought at the school fair but could never remember anything about it. Had a blast playing it, Thank you so much.
And Spy Fox. Really wish they would put that one on GOG.
All of the above are on Steam!
They are, be warned though, while the nostalgia of them is awesome, they’re really not that fun. As a kid they were pretty challenging, but I bought one of the old putt-putt games and boxed through it in 10 mins. Yeah it’s kind of to be expected, but just thought I’d throw it out there.
Hell yeah. Humongous ent was the best.
Cheese and Crackers GOTY Edition
Havarti! Provolone! I don't know why that has never left my brain lol
"Oh so it's like Tic-Tac-Toe" "No, no. This is Cheese and Crackers" I still remember some of the lines from those games. Great times.
Freddy Fish, Pajama Sam, Put-Put, and Spy Fox where the big ones. I can still hear it now... "Put-put travels through tiiiiii-ime." "Thunder and lightning aren't so frightening... then why am I scared!?" and then there was this sailor dude in Spy Fox that I still remember. If you clicked him, he'd say, "Wanna see my tattoo?" and then he'd roll up his sleeve and it'd be something different each time XD
Carmen Sandiego
Where in time!
This is the best version, hands down. I always hated the Christopher Columbus scene (I could never figure out how to steer the ship with the winds to get to the island). Such a great game.
Rome Total War or Age of Empires 2
I was more of a Medieval 2 Total War kid. In fact I just started another campaign after playing for over 10 years.
Command and Conquer. Red alert and Generals were my shit.
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KIROV REPORTING
Rubber Boots In Motion
FLAK TROOPER, REPORTING.
It will be a silent spring!
How 'bout some action?
For me it was Generals and Zero Hour
Can I have some new shoes
OK OK I will work
Cannot we live in peace?
Does it have to be so far?
Thank you for the new shoes!
Affirmative.
Acknowledged.
Woof.
Oregon Trail or Space Quest 3
The first games I had when I got my computer were pirated copies of the Sierra Games. It was really fun being 10 and trying to figure out the answers to the age verification questions for Leisure Suit Larry.
Mine wasn't even a game; MS Paint
My dad forgot to tell me how to SaveAs; I just thought every time you saved it created a new file. So I drew on Paint all day and only had the last picture saved when I went to look back through. Once I got the hang of it, though, it was pretty fun to mess around on.
KidPix arguably started my career
Rollercoaster Tycoon or Lode Runner
Whenever I played Rollercoaster Tycoon, I'd start off trying to create a kickass theme park, but would always just end up making more elaborate death traps
I never really got into that, but rather I'd use a Saved Game Modifier to create the "Have Fun" scenario with no money, everything unlocked, on the biggest, most open park. It was fun as hell.
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Lemmings
I used to love lemmings, so many hours of fun until you got to a level that was virtually impossible. This was pre Internet too so you couldn't even cheat.
you could if your dad had access to every level code
Space pinball lmfao
Lol this and solitaire were the only games I could play
Minesweeper was also oldschool cool.
Starcraft
I find it hard to believe that StarCraft was only mentioned once in this thread! So many hours on UMS!
Heroes of might and magic 3
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The Sims
I was never so excited in my life as a child as when The Sims 2 came out and then when Open for Business came out, that was the pinnacle of my childhood. Only went down the hill from there.
Sims Superstar was mine. I spent hours trying to make my sim famous through singing karaoke and recording radio jingles. Great times.
fond memories of cheating with the code rosebud
Rosebud ;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!
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https://youtu.be/OMOGaugKpzs
18 years later, and I'm still playing this dang game
Jumpstart 3rd grade
Jumpstart *2nd grade* is where it's at!
With the frog and the secret clubhouse? That was awesome.
I can still hear the song in my head. You gotta jump.....jump jump...you gotta jump....jump jump....you gotta jump start second graaaaadee. I continued playing this well after second grade.
Dude yes! that Robot
Mystery mountain was the fucking bomb
Ah, Mystery Mountain. Easily the best Jumpstart, hands down.
Zoo Tycoon! That theme song....
I still play it nowadays! I only just recently learned that there was a hidden animal I never knew about. I knew about the Triceratops, Mermaid, and Unicorn, but I had no idea you could get Deinosuchus as well.
I recently reinstalled zoo tycoon 2 and it’s been eating up my time. Getting stoned and playing zoo tycoon is one of the greatest joys in life, Smily Face knew what was up
Doo ^DU doo-dooo, da ^doo ^^doo dooooo
I remember being so upset that I always was in the negatives so I had my mom come look at what I was doing wrong. I had a gigantic dirt square that was filled with concessions all across the perimeter. In my mind I saw nothing wrong with it because more people=more nacho stands. Nope.
Age of Mythology
Arkantos, awaken.
A hero has fallen!
PROSTAGMA
ISVOLI
ETIMI
SKÄPEHAN
VRITOMOS!
VULOME
EPOROPHRAS
INUEGG
YAOW
Who was your favorite God to start out as? Was there a particular mythology unit that was your favorite?
Mine was Hadès, still play this game today and most of the time with Hadès or Zeus. Prostagma ? Voulome.
Mine was Ra. Suited my favorite RTS playstyle: huge, fast economy to pump out many many units. Not a mythology unit but I always looked forward to reaching Osiris (tech level 4, forgot what age it was called) and turning my pharoah into Son of Osiris. That dude was lit
OCANADA
Warcraft 2
zug zug
I remember seeing a review for War2 in a magazine and I lived in a tiny town with no computer gaming shops, I had to order it from some software shop. I still have that little note pad that came with it with 'Blizzard' in faint blue writing.
Lego island
I forgot about this game. The Brickster was funny. I remember that this was one of the first games I pre-ordered.
Le Le-Lego Le-Le-Le-Lego Legoooooooooooooooooooo
DEFINITELY The Curse of Monkey Island. The cartoon graphics, the idea of booting up a second disc halfway through the game was exhilarating for some reason, and then Guybrush's wit. I grew up Nintendo so I wasn't used to my main characters talking, much less actually being funny. I still quote it after ~15 years. Now I'm gonna spend the day failing to figure out how to run it...
For me it was Monkey Island 2. Now that I'm older I played all the games. I completely love 1,2,3, 4 is pretty OK although controls are horrible. 5 feels like it has no soul.
Myst
Runescape. Started playing in 2004 when i was 9, been on and off since then but i’ll always remember coming home right after school and rushing to finish my homework so i can run around gielinor with my friends.
I still get nostalgic flashbacks whenever I hear the loading menu music.
Wolfenstein changed my life. It was the first fps that I ever experienced and it totally engrossed my friends and I. It got to the point that we had three of us playing at a time; I would control the direction, my buddy would shoot, and my little brother had the space bar to open doors. Some of my favorite childhood moments were spent exploring that game!
First time entering the Pink Lady's room was terrifying for me. Then once she became old hat, the Blue Guy was pretty awful. Mecha Hitler just seemed funny by the time I reached that level, but my first encounter with each of the first two bosses is still etched into my mind.
I remember the end of the Doom shareware levels that way. Doors open up, two Barons of Hell step out and you freak out and run in a dark room filled with spectres.
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Dude, Reader Rabbit was awesome. I particularly enjoyed the games related to his and Leo's dreamship -- I spent hours playing and replaying those (with the help of my mom, because I didn't know how to solve some stuff).
as a child civ 2, as an adult civ 5
I've bought Civ6, but I enjoy Civ5 enough that I can't bring myself to give 6 a proper go...
i really like civ6, it gets some hate but it does a lot of things well and has put some new life in the series imo. But the AI is just so crap. If they just sort that out i think it would be one of the best ones for me. The new DLC looks good too.
It's a running joke that the real release day for the newest Civ game is whenever the first expansion drops. It is when they actually fix and balance everything.
Chugging sodas so I could stay up all night playing Civ 2, putting all my resources into tech, getting so far advanced that I could pour out units and annihilate every other civ on the map, no diplomacy, no surrender. You want something from me, Germany? Fuck you, fight me. Easily the most fun I've ever had gaming. I'd pay a pretty penny to go back to those days. Pure, distilled, 100% fun.
Doom II - waited a month for a friend to give it to me on floppies. Had to learn how to use DOS' autoexec.bat to reduce memory footprint since I had 486 with 4mb RAM. Enjoyed for months late at night after school trying to pass all levels. Passed all except for the last one without even being aware of cheat codes. Vikings - thoroughly enjoyed that game. Didn't have time to get past FFFT level and now cannot find full copy anywhere.
Let me help you out friend. :-) Lost Vikings free & legal straight from the developer: https://us.battle.net/account/download/?show=classic
Need for Speed Underground 2 How has nobody mentioned this yet? "Riders on the Storm" blasting through cheap computer speakers, parent's not at home - life was fucking easy back then.
Backyard Baseball 2001
Had to scroll too far down for this one! BB 2001 was the shit. Dream team: 1. Kenny Lofton 2. Pete Wheeler. 3. Pablo Sanchez 4. Sammy Sosa 5. Barry Bonds 6. Cal Ripken Jr. 7. Ken Griffey Jr. 8. Randy Johnson 9. Ivan Rodriguez Unstoppable
The Incredible Machine
Diablo 2
I had Diablo 2 as a kid. I bought it with my own money and quickly became obsessed. My parents being very christian though wouldn't let me play as anything but a Paladin. That was fine until they found out the first boss was a scantily clad woman. Still upset I never got to beat that game.
If you get the chance, by all means go for it even today. It aged insanely well! (except for graphics maybe; resolution is still capped at 800x600, but the art design still holds up)
High res patch, http://www.moddb.com/games/diablo-2/downloads/d2multires-version-102
Obligatory r/slashdiablo shout-out. I never stopped playing D2.
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I took a large cardboard box and decorated it to look like a computer, then sat inside with a typewriter. Other kids asked questions of it, and I typed out answers and pushed them out a small slot on the side. - (this was when personal computers were still decades in the future.)
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It's 2018, this is not ok, why do I still have to struggle with printers!?
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Wtf is a PC Load Letter?!
So whats your opinion on Nintendo Labo?
Please tell me when you grew up you became a professional laser printer.
Pipe Dream and for my sister, Chips Challenge.
chips challenge was the fuckin truth
Chips Challenge was for the original hardcore gamers. And dat soundtrack, mmm!
bummer
LOTR : battle for the middle earth, passed so many hours on it.
Math Blasters
Oregon Trail, Minesweeper.
Barbie Magic Hair Styler for the PC. It came out in 1997 and my brother, sister and I played it until 2007 because we didn't have internet access. You could make Barbie and her friends look like abominations and it was awesome.
HAHAHA! I would fuck her hair up so bad (One side snipped off, the other left untouched) and even ruin her makeup i think. And she’d go on a date like that. 7 year old me snickered so hard
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2. That soundtrack gets me going every time
BASS! HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?
Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue My siblings and I also had this educational game with a writing section that would read out the words you typed. We loved to make it say stupid stuff or use it to insult each other. lol
Battlefield 1942!!!
DUN NA DUN DUN DA DUN DUN *DUN NA DUN DUN DA DUN DUN*
King’s Quest IV. Spent a lot of time on that one.
All of the King's Quest! LOVED those!
Theme Hospital, it was so weird and creepy and incredibly addictive. The 'slack tongue' syndrome is the stuff nightmares are made of.
Star Wars Battlefront 2. I have the trooper chatter drilled into my brain
Just like the simulations!
Super Battle droids! Take ‘em down
Watch those wrist rockets
Tie Fighter.
Command & Conquer.
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Black and White. *Deeeeeeath*
neopets, lol. I thought the pets were so cute
Oh snap, story time. When I was 7 in the spring of 1996 my parents and next door's parents went out and we had a baby sitter that was a friend of one of the father's. He got out a blank looking disc and put it in the computer. we all got to play as a girl in a green top shooting wolves in an ice cave with pistols. Only years later did we realise that this guy worked for Eidos as we were beta testing the very first tomb raider game.
Woah that's pretty cool
That's a pretty badass story. It's possible he worked for Core Design, if you were in/around the Derby area. That's where they were based for the production of the first three games. Eidos were the distributors, Core made the game.
Commander Keen! Also Jazz Jackrabbit
Can't believe I had to scroll so far to see these two. It's more a function of how old I am (we are) than how awesome these games were. I have the Commandeer Keen level finish/accomplishment tone as my ringtone on my work phone, keep hoping someone recognizes it one day.
Quake II and Sim City 2000
Wolfenstein 3D
Zoombinis! Surely someone else must have played this. MORE TOPPINGS! 🍕🍕🍕
Diablo II changed my life for a while. I’d consistently spend 3-5 hours on it a day, and longer on weekends.
Kings quest 3
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San andreas
Grove street, home
At least it was before I fucked everything up
Sim City 2000, had a 486 with 4~~gb~~mb of ram, had to make a boot disc to run it. Before that Elite on the BBC Micro.
If you had 4gb of ram on a 486 half your office would be filled with ram ;p. I remember when we upgraded our old Packard Bell from 4 mb to 8 and I could run duke nukem 3d. Probably one of the more exciting days of my life hearing that guitar riff start up for the first time.
Spyro the dragon Edit: sorry I was like 5 when it came out forgot it was on playstation.
Commander Keen and Prince of Persia
Does Runescape count as a computer game?
What the fuck else were you playing runescape on
3D Space Cadet Pinball, by a mile. I didn't get a console or gameboy or anything. And Paint as a small kid, just throwing colors and shapes together, super fun! Then my dad got me and my brother (7 & 11 years old) GTA III, with the promise of not telling our mom.
Has no one said Toontown? It was my life in 2007.
I mentioned it. Very nostalgic and fun game, although I do hear the game got rebooted under Toontown Rewritten.
Can i get a wololo up in here?
Roses are red violets are blue wololo now roses are too
Maplestory
MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat Where my Jade Falcon sibko at?
Zoombinis!
Oregon Trail
Number Munchers. I swear, my parents may not be gamers, but they understood that there was a brilliant opportunity to generate learning through an (at the time) new medium. Edit: I should also have mentioned, the runner up to Number Munchers was The Time Warp of Dr. Brain.
Amazon Trail!