Zombinis was the only game available on the hospital computer where I was staying regularly as a kid so I have a soft spot for this game. Kind of the only thing that brought me a bit of relief
Dream Jelly? Edutainment CD-Roms? In this economy? Today, I am blessed. (Also Dream Jelly, since you're heading into the cd rom territory you gotta cover point and click adventure games. Those were THE SHIZ back then.)
omg I was such an edutainment CD ROM kid in the early 2000s, especially a Jump Start kid like I had both versions of 1st Grade and this really unlocks those memories
The Magic School Bus games were my entire childhood. Especially the human body and space ones. The audio file of a piece of broccoli saying "Broccoli, broccoli, broccoli" as it flies past in the throat lives rent free in my head to this day to the point where my husband, who never played the games, also sometimes spontaneously quotes it out loud.
So glad you tried Zoombinis. I loved that game so much as a kid and played it constantly at school and eventually had my own copy at home. There's a slightly inferior version on the ipad. Its harder than people think as its all logic stuff and trial and error and the more trips you take the harder the puzzles get. Highly recommended even for bored adults.
i forgot how confusing zoombinis can be for a first time player - i know everything by heart so it was interesting seeing someone go through it for the first time. as you progress the levels get harder so they're still pretty challenging even for an adult!
Holy cow, the worm boat blasted me back to my childhood. I always new that I had played Clue Finders at some point, but I had forgotten so many of the details. So seeing those worms all wrapped up in their cozy sweaters, waiting to be seated was like that scene in Ratatouille as the camera pulled back through my eyes, and suddenly, I was as the computer once again, learning about logic puzzles.
@princkleminckle1159 Maybe, though it's been quiet since either May of 2016 (The Wordpress blog) or April of 2021 (the Facebook), so the MMO ending in 2023 is more surprising for the longevity of an near-abandoned game.
@@princkleminckle1159 Along with The Learning Company and Humongous Entertainment (they weren't edutainment in the traditional sense, but they did encourage kids to test their memory and problem solving skills)
I’m a tutor in the US and 7:43 is a 100% accurate depiction of how my first graders talk 😂😂 “Mr beast skibbidi rizz” Most recently I had a first grader ask if I asked SpongeBob as a kid and if it was in black and white lol
The amount of times I played that Cluefinders 3rd Grade game is staggering. I absolutely had different games for different grades (my mom would buy me a new one once a year at the scholastic book fair lol) but the 3rd grade one hit DIFFERENT. and since my boomer dad raised me on his music taste I was also obsessed with those not-Beatles 💀
I had all of the Cluefinders games once (The reading one came as a bonus disc). 3rd Grade was also my first exposure to the Beatles, though I didn't know it at the time.
As a child, we had the JumpStart game 4th Grade Haunted Island. That game gave me nightmares and made me fear the witch jump scaring me in the middle of the night. To this day I've never been able to beat it because it's still considered wildly creepy for a kids game. Imagine my surprise, and justified pride, when I later found out IT WAS BANNED for being "too scary"
my brother and I would sit together and try to play it. even when i was well past 4th grade we couldn't get very far, i was waaaay too tense to actually learn anything, and it was terrifying just moving between the game areas.
I had the memory of the little worms in sweaters from ClueFinders unlocked a few weeks ago, searching through the internet near and far, yesterday i found them but no picture of the worms. Therefore I thought it was another game. Thank you for solving this riddle for me Dream Jelly. I can finally sleep peacefully again
I thought I had seen enough nostalgic youtube videos that I had remembered everything I played as a kid, but seeing that Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade game SENT ME BACK. I loved traversing that castle, the pulley systems and stuff were always so cool to me!! Thanks for that, think I know a little more why I like contraptions, secret rooms, and fantasy stuff so much now lmao. EDIT: Also, Zoombinis is fantastic, I can't not give that game a mention. We played it in school, and the game was so popular we all had to take turns to play it while everyone else crowded around the computer screen. Character creators are always a hit!
Everyone always waxes nostalgic for Jumpstart First Grade, but Third Grade was easily my favorite. Even as an adult I love the dark, almost gothic atmosphere compared to how colorful and cheery the earlier entries are, and the primitive CGI just adds to the creepiness. Botley was a fun companion with more of an actual personality than the earlier hosts. The observatory game stuck with me because I still love astronomy as an adult. Just a great edutainment game.
Your videos are always the best!! I would love it if you ever covered Nancy Drew PC games, huge part of my childhood and still love watching people stream them now!! It’s point and click mystery! A Poptropica video would be awesome too :) thanks for the great content as always!!!
I saw the logo for ClueFinders and had to click immediately. Honestly if this video doesn't cover ClueFinders 3rd Grade Adventures: The Mystery of Mathra (the best one) I'm simply gonna have to revolt. Update at 12:45: HECK YEAH, HELL YEAH, REVOLT CANCELLED
Omg Jump Start First Grade! I loved that as a kid, I was surprised to see how much I remember and how much I didn't. I remember liking the milk caps and the baking game. But most importantly I LOVED the lunch trays! I wanted the cookies so bad lol! I didn't know the peas girl was a meme but I love it haha.
I have dropped everything once I found this on my sub box, because this was an integral part to my childhood, and I want to learn more about them from your perspective! This is fun!
The Jump Start games were given out in happy meals here, so I had a decent amount of them back in the day. First Class was probably my favourite, never getting tired of that cafeteria game lol.
I'm a 1990 baby who also did a lengthy homeschooling stint. I still play some of these 1990s educational games for fun. Carmen Sandiego is still under the special interest umbrella for me. It truly was a golden era for educational CD-ROM games. Broderbund was the best. I played ClueFinders 4th grade, which takes place in Egypt. Me and my little brother will still sometimes quote "make me a pizza!" from Zoombinis. I'll also sometimes quote "Fleens?! You're not fleens!"
Aw yeah! Math Blaster Ages 9-12. This was a banger during my 4th grade year. I remember trying to complete the whole game for that ending and could never get it due to the bridge building part. And seeing the one with the platforms moving brought back horrid memories. One thing I'll never forget is how memorable the intro is and how easy it is to quote it. P.S. I spent last week binging this channel. Glad to see a new video pop up in my feed.
My fav nostalgic computer game as a kid was called "My Disney Kitchen."" As the name implies, you spend the game cooking food with Mickey and Minnie mouse. I mostly remember it for the cake baking game and the pancake griddle game. I thought those were the only two things you could do for the longest time. The funny thing is, though, I'm just now finding out there were a dozen other recipes included that I apparently never discovered.
Jumpstart 4th Grade: Haunted Island used to SCARE the heck out of me when I was about 8. I remembered first time watching the intro, I had a paranoia of being followed by a witch on my way home
My god yesyesyesYES I am VIBRATING with excitement for this one! CD-ROM games were a huge part of my childhood. I still have a bunch of my old favorites and set up a virtual machine to play them when I’m feeling nostalgic.
IM SO HAPPY YOU PLAYED ZOOMBINIS!!!! I was all ready to request it! I joined math club in sixth grade (2006-2007) specifically to play Zoombinis and left when they actually wanted to do other math things XD
I can't believe you got all the way through the Zoombinis section without once mentioning its GOAT, the incredibly dramatic narrator who is giving one million percent to every single line at all times Is this it?! Could _this_ be the _place?_ A place of *_hope_* and *_prosperity?!?!_* *_ZOOOOMBIIIIIIIIINIIIVIIIIILLLLLE!!!!!!!_*
Zoombinis used to be my favorite game growing up. My cousins and I used to play in the woods behind my house and pretend that we were going back to Zoombiniville.
one of this one's favorite edutainment games growing up was Where in Time is Carmen Sandiago. It was a point and click adventure with well done 2D animation where you, well, chase the title character through time. This one remembers an aztec stage and a revolutionary USA one, but can't remember the rest
Zoombinis will always have a special place in my heart. I remember leaving the game on overnight when I got stuck on a puzzle and it'd wake my parents up in a cold sweat because they thought someone snuck into the house. Turns out it would always just be the zoombinis themselves idly chatting 😂
My favorite animations/sounds in JumpStart First Grade when I was a kid were the Glop Monster when you make a mistake in the cooking game and the sound the pterodactyl milk cap makes which I can't even describe
All these CD Roms are such good memories! I’m glad you had fun :o I been trying to collect all the jumpstart games you wouldn’t believe how much they got in their roster. Jumpstart 3rd grade is the one I’ve played the most out of Anyway you should play any humongous entertainment games! My favorite is Spy Fox dry cereal :)
this video unlocked memories of how i was only allowed to play jumpstart when my parents would ban me from the wii bc of my grades. it was actually kinda fun but id still switch the tab to moviestarplanet when i thought they weren’t looking hahah
You point at 7:30 about maps. Yes, kids may not be reading physical maps, however they will be using gps and google maps when they get older. And that is still a useful skill because of that.
Oh. My. GOD. I thought I made up those red and blue hands I couldn’t find ANY information on what game they were in until now THANK YOU this mystery is SOLVED
I never thought I'd rave about a kids education game at the age of 27 but here goes: I LOVED the Reader Rabbit games (they were called Robbie Konijn in Dutch). I played them so much, especially the math one where you're on an island with pirates which is honestly shocking because I have a learning disability for math and thus have hated it all my life
Play more of these please, this video made me so happy! You played all my favorite series, but incidentally picked only installments I never played as a kid so I would love any excuse you came up with to play more. Jumpstart 3rd Grade is my absolute favorite, Jumpstart 2nd Grade also rules! Your laugh at 7:48 at your own joke is so funny :)
I was obsessed with Jumpstart lol. I spent the majority of my childhood playing the Jumpstart 3D Virtual MMO game and Jumpstart Trouble in Town and Quest for the Color Meister. I still play Trouble in Town. It's so nostalgic and fun🩷
Besides the I Spy games and Nancy Drew games, I played a TON of the early age Reading Blaster games, mostly Isle of Lost Toys because it was on my Elementary Schools computers but also because one look at the older kids games ver of those characters scared me so much as a kid that I had to beg to play the other one. I also LOVED James Discovers Math and Kids Pix!! And of course the fan favorite Subject House Series, especially Sammy's Science House! I honestly loved my moms lemon of a Desktop to play those games for years, even when I got into flash games and DS games. I still own all of the CD Roms I had as a kid!
"With a section that asks you whether something is fact or opinion" holy shit we need to teach kids more of this, especially in the age of the internet.
The people crave edutainment!!! Thank you for doing this! It’s so fun. I was a Jump Start kid and have been chasing the high of Jump Start 3rd grade ever since
We could play pc games at my primary school during recess because our teacher was very interested in coding and wanted us to improve our computer litteracy. We would all team up and get competitive, we kept records of it all !
I just violently remembered the opening song for my Jumpstart Kindergarten CD game that I played until I was like 10 years old because I owned so few games. GO GO, GO TO SCHOOL, KINDERGARTEN HERE I COME.
Jelly, can you maybe do a video about the 90’s-20’s bloom of physical activity toys? Like the giant butt bouce balls, moon shoes, the twirling skip counter that smashed against your ankle, the scooters that sparked, the weird drifting tricycles, the wiggle skateboard with only two wheels…
I had many many of these types of games growing up and I'm so glad you covered at least one of them (Cluefinders 3rd grade). I remember getting stuck on the last puzzle where you save the animals with the bridge and had to have my mom play the rest for me so I could see the ending. Yep hamsters are nocturnal! I'm not sure if that's a thing all kids know but since I had a hamster I knew. The other edutainment games I remember having and liking were Jumpstart Kindergarten Math (Jack and the Beanstalk Birthday party themed story), Jumpstart Spanish (general activity center in a treehouse) and Reader Rabbit 1st Grade (Theatre play). Definitely recommend for some good old edutainment experiences
Most of my PC games at home were CD-ROMS that came with kids meals from Wendy's and McDonalds etc. All the learning ones I played at daycare and I remember being so impatient bc we had to take turns and watch each other. I also vaguely remember playing a lot of typing games.
I did a LOT of edutainment computer games as a kid. The one I remember the most was a Clue Finders game, but I think it was maybe a fourth or fifth grade one or something? I distinctly remember a simulator of predator and prey in a sort of “how many of each do you need to maintain a healthy ecosystem” puzzle.
I grew up with a few of these franchises, but my first language is French, so it's wild actually hearing the original names. My brother and I would often play together and help each other out with the answers. Good times :D
Something is so nostalgic with these games, even if I didn't play all of them growing up. I remember playing Reader Rabbit Kindergarden and it had a sort of summer camp theme too it and I was obsessed with that game as a kid.
This made me so happy to watch this :) When my sister and I played the original Jumpstart 3rd grade, we'd mess up the recipes on purpose to get the "glop monster" 🤣It was probably for the best you left Jumpstart 3rd grade alone though; that game is....AN EVENT! Don't get me started on the many theories I have about that one 😅
JumpStart games were a blast! Pre-K was a favorite of mine purely for the songs, and I loved 2nd grade bc there was an entire section about counting change that I was super good at
memories... i played *so* much zoombinis and math blaster! also, shoutouts to giving shoutouts to other videos you’ve enjoyed lately, it's a really neat thing to see these days.
Fun fact: I used to be really unnerved/scared by Reader Rabbit Second Grade when i played it as a kid. I think part of the reason was it felt really restrictive and railroaded in a way that the previous Reader Rabbit games I'd played weren't, because those had been the more standard "wander around an environment and play minigames within that environment" style, and also those other games had all taken place mostly outdoors, while this one you were locked in a castle. Also I think something about the design of the castle felt kind of liminal to me back then, and that put me on edge. Idk, I was scared of a lot of weird things as a kid, but I definitely remember hating playing that game, but also doing so because even back then I was a completionist, lol
I'm pretty sure I played Jumpstart kindergarten. the game i do remember was a Powerpuff Girls pc game that was a educational game. I have no idea what grade it was for but, I remember absolutely dreading playing these 😭
i don't recognize the other games, but omg i played the cluefinders in my chilhood too! but it was dubbed in spanish, i have a good memories with that game and the goo song is very catchy, at least in spanish Thanks for making this video, and sorry, english isn't my native language In spanish, the cluefinders are called "Los pequeños aventureros", it means "the little adventurers".
I didn’t know this was a legit genre of games, after my school cut the gifted program they decided to sit us all in a classroom and gave us reign on these types of games for one period-I remember something called Quest Atlantis being specifically confusing with terrible graphics
I played a lot of Jumpstart, Spelling Jungle, Math Blaster, Zoombinis in the school’s computer lab! The later games like Cluefinders was my cousin’s game she got from Scholastic, I played at her house along with PBS kids CD games like Arthur, Clifford the big red dog, and Cyberchase which I played for the funny cartoon scenes in the game.
I played so much Reader Rabbit as a child! Here in Sweden, he was called Kalle Kunskap (which translates to 'Kalle Knowledge') and were, as far as I know, quite popular here. We'd often get them as fast food toys. I believe my favorite one was this longer game about the characters being stuck in this cloud city? The 2nd grade game in this video scared me so much as a youngin. It had a very liminal space feel to it. Despite a lot of the games being math-based, I absolutely sucked at math all throughout school though, so either they weren't very effective in teaching kids math, or it was just me being really bad at it.
I remember playing so many of these in my old computer lab at school on the giant clear plastic colorful imacs (alas, i am Old) a few of my own standouts were Dream Team Kids Typing and Jumpstart second grade, That "you're eating a noun" song still appears in my head when I make a sandwich. the Her Interactive Nancy Drew games were also huge in apparently exclusively my household I've met another person that knew about them one time. More logic and reasoning puzzles than pure education like the zoombinis but I learned a lot of random niche info that helps sometimes. *thinks about the vegetable picking puzzle and shorty disapproving of how dumb I am*
Someone already mentioned this, but there’s so many putt putt, freddi the fish and other Humongous Entertainment games out there that I’d love for you to do a deep dive on. Most, if not all, games are on Steam
I don't think I've ever clicked a thumbnail so fast 😂😂. My favorites were the two Star Flyers games, which were basically Guardians of the Galaxy for 7 year olds. It's amazing. On my last nostalgia visit I noticed in the credits that Charles Martinet (THE Mario guy) voiced the villain???!!!!
I was obsessed with 90s edutainment... cluefinders, treasure mountain/cove, zoombinis, pajama sam, freddi fish, magic school bus, math blaster, carmen sandiego, math circus, and so much more. I feel like I played it all... so nostalgic
Zoombinis was traumatizing to me as a kid lol, we had it in our classroom and could play it during free time, but it was so unnerving/uncanny and I was always terrified of what would happen to the Zoombinis that I failed…
I went hard on the JumpStart series. JumpStart 4th Grade was horror themed, and there was a spooky forest where you could see the mascots from the previous games cowering in fear. Traumatizing
I'm happy to say my children have held a physical map and my kindergartener is actively afraid of the skibidis toilets
In fairness, I'm a grown-ass woman and the skibidi toilets kinda freak me out. It's the grin, they look they're going to pull a knife on me... somehow
you’re raising them well!
GOOD!
That's the most cursed thing to come out of Gary's Mod. I wish Source would take ot back
Zombinis was the only game available on the hospital computer where I was staying regularly as a kid so I have a soft spot for this game. Kind of the only thing that brought me a bit of relief
I know this is personal, but why did you stay at the hospital a lot as a kid? Were you sick?
@PsychedelicCharm Got disability called brittle bone disease and had to take a medicine at hospital every three months for a few days in perfusion.
Dream Jelly? Edutainment CD-Roms? In this economy? Today, I am blessed.
(Also Dream Jelly, since you're heading into the cd rom territory you gotta cover point and click adventure games. Those were THE SHIZ back then.)
Omg yessss, I used to be addicted to pajama Sam, freddi fish, spy fox and putt putt😅
More than %50 of Americans read at or below a 6th grade level, so edutainment in this economy is deeply needed
@@Fluorite-Fox yessss nancy drew and disney interactive were my jam
@@SECONDQUEST I totally agree. Kids would love the edutainment stuff we grew up on
my god PLEASE nancy drew games 😭😭 they do not get the attention they deserve they’re still so fun!!!
omg I was such an edutainment CD ROM kid in the early 2000s, especially a Jump Start kid like I had both versions of 1st Grade and this really unlocks those memories
I lost it when my 1st grade jump start somehow cracked! My grandma bought me another to play on our old beige pc ❤
The Magic School Bus games were my entire childhood. Especially the human body and space ones. The audio file of a piece of broccoli saying "Broccoli, broccoli, broccoli" as it flies past in the throat lives rent free in my head to this day to the point where my husband, who never played the games, also sometimes spontaneously quotes it out loud.
SOMEONE ELSE who has "broccoli broccoli broccoli" living in their head??? Wow???
lol there has to be a free copy for download and getting the audio file from the files is easy.
So glad you tried Zoombinis. I loved that game so much as a kid and played it constantly at school and eventually had my own copy at home. There's a slightly inferior version on the ipad. Its harder than people think as its all logic stuff and trial and error and the more trips you take the harder the puzzles get. Highly recommended even for bored adults.
It's still hard and I'm 37
JUMP START OMG 😭😭😭 so many memories
I was on it DAILY! I’ve never seen someone talk about it before now!
i forgot how confusing zoombinis can be for a first time player - i know everything by heart so it was interesting seeing someone go through it for the first time. as you progress the levels get harder so they're still pretty challenging even for an adult!
Oh man I loved jumpstart 3rd Grade with the time traveling robots in the secret lair. Good stuff!
Holy cow, the worm boat blasted me back to my childhood. I always new that I had played Clue Finders at some point, but I had forgotten so many of the details. So seeing those worms all wrapped up in their cozy sweaters, waiting to be seated was like that scene in Ratatouille as the camera pulled back through my eyes, and suddenly, I was as the computer once again, learning about logic puzzles.
3:05 Jumpstart mentioned. As someone who grew up on the MMO and VW games (which were late 2000s), it's fun seeing the earlier era.
Its a shame that the entire franchise shut down
@princkleminckle1159 Maybe, though it's been quiet since either May of 2016 (The Wordpress blog) or April of 2021 (the Facebook), so the MMO ending in 2023 is more surprising for the longevity of an near-abandoned game.
@@princkleminckle1159 Along with The Learning Company and Humongous Entertainment (they weren't edutainment in the traditional sense, but they did encourage kids to test their memory and problem solving skills)
I’m a tutor in the US and 7:43 is a 100% accurate depiction of how my first graders talk 😂😂 “Mr beast skibbidi rizz”
Most recently I had a first grader ask if I asked SpongeBob as a kid and if it was in black and white lol
Nooooooo 😂
The amount of times I played that Cluefinders 3rd Grade game is staggering. I absolutely had different games for different grades (my mom would buy me a new one once a year at the scholastic book fair lol) but the 3rd grade one hit DIFFERENT. and since my boomer dad raised me on his music taste I was also obsessed with those not-Beatles 💀
AGREED THIRD GRADE WAS MY FAVORITE i played it WAY past when i should have LMAO the fake beatles were always chefkiss
Me too wtf
I had all of the Cluefinders games once (The reading one came as a bonus disc). 3rd Grade was also my first exposure to the Beatles, though I didn't know it at the time.
same!! we had most of the other cluefinders grades but i always went back to 3rd :’)
I got the 3rd grade one as a trial cd for buying a math workbook and I was also obsessed with that game. It was so hard for 8 year old me to
As a child, we had the JumpStart game 4th Grade Haunted Island. That game gave me nightmares and made me fear the witch jump scaring me in the middle of the night. To this day I've never been able to beat it because it's still considered wildly creepy for a kids game.
Imagine my surprise, and justified pride, when I later found out IT WAS BANNED for being "too scary"
my brother and I would sit together and try to play it. even when i was well past 4th grade we couldn't get very far, i was waaaay too tense to actually learn anything, and it was terrifying just moving between the game areas.
What I can't wrap my head around is the fact that Jumpstart made a horror video game for kids when it was meant to be educational.
That game gave me nightmares too! I never beat it
Same here, this was where my anxiety began.
Oh my GOD so it wasn't just me!
I had the memory of the little worms in sweaters from ClueFinders unlocked a few weeks ago, searching through the internet near and far, yesterday i found them but no picture of the worms. Therefore I thought it was another game. Thank you for solving this riddle for me Dream Jelly. I can finally sleep peacefully again
I thought I had seen enough nostalgic youtube videos that I had remembered everything I played as a kid, but seeing that Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade game SENT ME BACK. I loved traversing that castle, the pulley systems and stuff were always so cool to me!! Thanks for that, think I know a little more why I like contraptions, secret rooms, and fantasy stuff so much now lmao. EDIT: Also, Zoombinis is fantastic, I can't not give that game a mention. We played it in school, and the game was so popular we all had to take turns to play it while everyone else crowded around the computer screen. Character creators are always a hit!
Everyone always waxes nostalgic for Jumpstart First Grade, but Third Grade was easily my favorite. Even as an adult I love the dark, almost gothic atmosphere compared to how colorful and cheery the earlier entries are, and the primitive CGI just adds to the creepiness. Botley was a fun companion with more of an actual personality than the earlier hosts. The observatory game stuck with me because I still love astronomy as an adult. Just a great edutainment game.
I’m so glad you decided to talk about clue finders! It was one of my favorites as a kid, the worms and beetle impersonators are so iconic
Your videos are always the best!! I would love it if you ever covered Nancy Drew PC games, huge part of my childhood and still love watching people stream them now!! It’s point and click mystery! A Poptropica video would be awesome too :) thanks for the great content as always!!!
I saw the logo for ClueFinders and had to click immediately. Honestly if this video doesn't cover ClueFinders 3rd Grade Adventures: The Mystery of Mathra (the best one) I'm simply gonna have to revolt.
Update at 12:45: HECK YEAH, HELL YEAH, REVOLT CANCELLED
Omg Jump Start First Grade! I loved that as a kid, I was surprised to see how much I remember and how much I didn't. I remember liking the milk caps and the baking game. But most importantly I LOVED the lunch trays! I wanted the cookies so bad lol! I didn't know the peas girl was a meme but I love it haha.
I've replayed pyjama Sam so many times, not just as a child but as an adult. I love those games so much 🥹
I have dropped everything once I found this on my sub box, because this was an integral part to my childhood, and I want to learn more about them from your perspective! This is fun!
I will always love kids edutainment games, even at nearly 30. I struggle playing typical adult video games, so this stuff is amazing
The Jump Start games were given out in happy meals here, so I had a decent amount of them back in the day. First Class was probably my favourite, never getting tired of that cafeteria game lol.
I would kill for a deep dive into the humongous entertainment game series (freddi fish, pajama sam etc)
I'm a 1990 baby who also did a lengthy homeschooling stint. I still play some of these 1990s educational games for fun. Carmen Sandiego is still under the special interest umbrella for me. It truly was a golden era for educational CD-ROM games. Broderbund was the best. I played ClueFinders 4th grade, which takes place in Egypt. Me and my little brother will still sometimes quote "make me a pizza!" from Zoombinis. I'll also sometimes quote "Fleens?! You're not fleens!"
SOMETHING ON HERE I DON'T LIKE
Aw yeah! Math Blaster Ages 9-12. This was a banger during my 4th grade year. I remember trying to complete the whole game for that ending and could never get it due to the bridge building part. And seeing the one with the platforms moving brought back horrid memories. One thing I'll never forget is how memorable the intro is and how easy it is to quote it.
P.S. I spent last week binging this channel. Glad to see a new video pop up in my feed.
My fav nostalgic computer game as a kid was called "My Disney Kitchen."" As the name implies, you spend the game cooking food with Mickey and Minnie mouse. I mostly remember it for the cake baking game and the pancake griddle game. I thought those were the only two things you could do for the longest time. The funny thing is, though, I'm just now finding out there were a dozen other recipes included that I apparently never discovered.
My Disney Kitchen was one of my faves, too! I loved when Minnie and Mickey would come over and eat my food
YESSSSS I think I have this somewhere still in my house I adored this game as a child it was such a cozy and comfy game for me
When I make breakfast, the clip of Minnie saying that she likes her bacon nice and crispy often pops into my head even after all these years.
Jumpstart 4th Grade: Haunted Island used to SCARE the heck out of me when I was about 8. I remembered first time watching the intro, I had a paranoia of being followed by a witch on my way home
My god yesyesyesYES I am VIBRATING with excitement for this one! CD-ROM games were a huge part of my childhood. I still have a bunch of my old favorites and set up a virtual machine to play them when I’m feeling nostalgic.
IM SO HAPPY YOU PLAYED ZOOMBINIS!!!! I was all ready to request it! I joined math club in sixth grade (2006-2007) specifically to play Zoombinis and left when they actually wanted to do other math things XD
I can't believe you got all the way through the Zoombinis section without once mentioning its GOAT, the incredibly dramatic narrator who is giving one million percent to every single line at all times
Is this it?! Could _this_ be the _place?_ A place of *_hope_* and *_prosperity?!?!_*
*_ZOOOOMBIIIIIIIIINIIIVIIIIILLLLLE!!!!!!!_*
10:40 you just awoke a deep memory in the recesses of my brain. I used to love this Scooby-Doo game as a kid.
oh my god the absolute CHOKEHOLD cluefinders had on me as a kid
Zoombinis used to be my favorite game growing up. My cousins and I used to play in the woods behind my house and pretend that we were going back to Zoombiniville.
one of this one's favorite edutainment games growing up was Where in Time is Carmen Sandiago. It was a point and click adventure with well done 2D animation where you, well, chase the title character through time. This one remembers an aztec stage and a revolutionary USA one, but can't remember the rest
Zoombinis will always have a special place in my heart. I remember leaving the game on overnight when I got stuck on a puzzle and it'd wake my parents up in a cold sweat because they thought someone snuck into the house. Turns out it would always just be the zoombinis themselves idly chatting 😂
25 years later and I’m finding out there was a help button on zoombinis 😫
My favorite animations/sounds in JumpStart First Grade when I was a kid were the Glop Monster when you make a mistake in the cooking game and the sound the pterodactyl milk cap makes which I can't even describe
All these CD Roms are such good memories! I’m glad you had fun :o I been trying to collect all the jumpstart games you wouldn’t believe how much they got in their roster. Jumpstart 3rd grade is the one I’ve played the most out of
Anyway you should play any humongous entertainment games! My favorite is Spy Fox dry cereal :)
this video unlocked memories of how i was only allowed to play jumpstart when my parents would ban me from the wii bc of my grades. it was actually kinda fun but id still switch the tab to moviestarplanet when i thought they weren’t looking hahah
You point at 7:30 about maps. Yes, kids may not be reading physical maps, however they will be using gps and google maps when they get older. And that is still a useful skill because of that.
just wanna say thank you for posting today
Oh. My. GOD. I thought I made up those red and blue hands
I couldn’t find ANY information on what game they were in until now
THANK YOU this mystery is SOLVED
I never thought I'd rave about a kids education game at the age of 27 but here goes: I LOVED the Reader Rabbit games (they were called Robbie Konijn in Dutch). I played them so much, especially the math one where you're on an island with pirates which is honestly shocking because I have a learning disability for math and thus have hated it all my life
This is such a great topic for a video!! I hope you’re able to make more videos on nostalgic PC games. I certainly have a lot that I enjoyed as a kid.
Play more of these please, this video made me so happy!
You played all my favorite series, but incidentally picked only installments I never played as a kid so I would love any excuse you came up with to play more. Jumpstart 3rd Grade is my absolute favorite, Jumpstart 2nd Grade also rules!
Your laugh at 7:48 at your own joke is so funny :)
I was obsessed with Jumpstart lol. I spent the majority of my childhood playing the Jumpstart 3D Virtual MMO game and Jumpstart Trouble in Town and Quest for the Color Meister. I still play Trouble in Town. It's so nostalgic and fun🩷
YAY NEW DREAM JELLY!! I’m a new fan and pretty much binged your channel. ty for your service 🙏🏽
Wow that lion running down the endless hallway chasing shapes unlocked a core memory
JumpStart and Cluefinders were elite of all grade-specific edutainment games. Every single game in both series were so fun. They didn't miss.
I'm in my mid 30's now and remember ClueFinders fondly! I loved the 3rd grade adventures ❤
Besides the I Spy games and Nancy Drew games, I played a TON of the early age Reading Blaster games, mostly Isle of Lost Toys because it was on my Elementary Schools computers but also because one look at the older kids games ver of those characters scared me so much as a kid that I had to beg to play the other one. I also LOVED James Discovers Math and Kids Pix!! And of course the fan favorite Subject House Series, especially Sammy's Science House! I honestly loved my moms lemon of a Desktop to play those games for years, even when I got into flash games and DS games. I still own all of the CD Roms I had as a kid!
seeing reader rabbit gameplay after 20 years sent me into a nostalgic spiral
"With a section that asks you whether something is fact or opinion" holy shit we need to teach kids more of this, especially in the age of the internet.
The people crave edutainment!!! Thank you for doing this! It’s so fun. I was a Jump Start kid and have been chasing the high of Jump Start 3rd grade ever since
Man the Cluefinders was definitely my childhood games. Its too bad they never decided to put it on Steam I would love to play them again.
You’re legit one of my favorite UA-camrs and I SCREAMED reading this video title! Great work!
We could play pc games at my primary school during recess because our teacher was very interested in coding and wanted us to improve our computer litteracy. We would all team up and get competitive, we kept records of it all !
clifford, franklin the turtle, arthur and another one of a cricket looking thing traveling in space
I just violently remembered the opening song for my Jumpstart Kindergarten CD game that I played until I was like 10 years old because I owned so few games. GO GO, GO TO SCHOOL, KINDERGARTEN HERE I COME.
Saaaaame hahaha. Jump Start Kindergarten was on rotation for so long lol kids with Steam will never understand
Jelly, can you maybe do a video about the 90’s-20’s bloom of physical activity toys? Like the giant butt bouce balls, moon shoes, the twirling skip counter that smashed against your ankle, the scooters that sparked, the weird drifting tricycles, the wiggle skateboard with only two wheels…
I had many many of these types of games growing up and I'm so glad you covered at least one of them (Cluefinders 3rd grade). I remember getting stuck on the last puzzle where you save the animals with the bridge and had to have my mom play the rest for me so I could see the ending.
Yep hamsters are nocturnal! I'm not sure if that's a thing all kids know but since I had a hamster I knew.
The other edutainment games I remember having and liking were Jumpstart Kindergarten Math (Jack and the Beanstalk Birthday party themed story), Jumpstart Spanish (general activity center in a treehouse) and Reader Rabbit 1st Grade (Theatre play). Definitely recommend for some good old edutainment experiences
Most of my PC games at home were CD-ROMS that came with kids meals from Wendy's and McDonalds etc. All the learning ones I played at daycare and I remember being so impatient bc we had to take turns and watch each other. I also vaguely remember playing a lot of typing games.
Girl, all my fav nostalgic games and the mf sims 2 ds soundtrack playing in the back at one point. You have my little niche heart 🥹💖
I did a LOT of edutainment computer games as a kid. The one I remember the most was a Clue Finders game, but I think it was maybe a fourth or fifth grade one or something? I distinctly remember a simulator of predator and prey in a sort of “how many of each do you need to maintain a healthy ecosystem” puzzle.
i was legit terrified of the jumpstart first grade kitchen machine minigame the monster scared the shit outta me for some reason
I grew up with a few of these franchises, but my first language is French, so it's wild actually hearing the original names. My brother and I would often play together and help each other out with the answers. Good times :D
Something is so nostalgic with these games, even if I didn't play all of them growing up. I remember playing Reader Rabbit Kindergarden and it had a sort of summer camp theme too it and I was obsessed with that game as a kid.
This made me so happy to watch this :) When my sister and I played the original Jumpstart 3rd grade, we'd mess up the recipes on purpose to get the "glop monster" 🤣It was probably for the best you left Jumpstart 3rd grade alone though; that game is....AN EVENT! Don't get me started on the many theories I have about that one 😅
JumpStart games were a blast! Pre-K was a favorite of mine purely for the songs, and I loved 2nd grade bc there was an entire section about counting change that I was super good at
jump start was my everything as a child omg
i still speedrun putt putt and pajama sam when im bored 😭 i got a virtual machine just to get my fix
I had a cd where it was just the Cluefinders: Monkey Kingdom, a lot of the story was cut. No Mathra lore, no betrayal
memories... i played *so* much zoombinis and math blaster!
also, shoutouts to giving shoutouts to other videos you’ve enjoyed lately, it's a really neat thing to see these days.
I've been binging all of your videos this past week so seeing a new post genuinely has me crying happy tears!!!
I’m so obsessed with your videos dream jelly, they give such a comfortable and homey vibe!!
The painting game on jump start 1st grade gives me ptsd from when I accidentally printed the pages and used all my parents ink lmao
Playing these on the library computers is one of my favorite childhood memories, especially that damn arthur game that was my shizzz
Your voice scratches my brain in the perfect way… I love rewatching your videos when I feel down
i felt like a sleeper agent being awoken by that worm sound. i LOVED that game as a kid and the worm sound was so satisfying.
Fun fact: I used to be really unnerved/scared by Reader Rabbit Second Grade when i played it as a kid. I think part of the reason was it felt really restrictive and railroaded in a way that the previous Reader Rabbit games I'd played weren't, because those had been the more standard "wander around an environment and play minigames within that environment" style, and also those other games had all taken place mostly outdoors, while this one you were locked in a castle. Also I think something about the design of the castle felt kind of liminal to me back then, and that put me on edge. Idk, I was scared of a lot of weird things as a kid, but I definitely remember hating playing that game, but also doing so because even back then I was a completionist, lol
Omg you unlocked some ooold memories with the cluefinders segment!
I'm pretty sure I played Jumpstart kindergarten. the game i do remember was a Powerpuff Girls pc game that was a educational game. I have no idea what grade it was for but, I remember absolutely dreading playing these 😭
i don't recognize the other games, but omg i played the cluefinders in my chilhood too! but it was dubbed in spanish, i have a good memories with that game and the goo song is very catchy, at least in spanish
Thanks for making this video, and sorry, english isn't my native language
In spanish, the cluefinders are called "Los pequeños aventureros", it means "the little adventurers".
I didn’t know this was a legit genre of games, after my school cut the gifted program they decided to sit us all in a classroom and gave us reign on these types of games for one period-I remember something called Quest Atlantis being specifically confusing with terrible graphics
I played a lot of Jumpstart, Spelling Jungle, Math Blaster, Zoombinis in the school’s computer lab! The later games like Cluefinders was my cousin’s game she got from Scholastic, I played at her house along with PBS kids CD games like Arthur, Clifford the big red dog, and Cyberchase which I played for the funny cartoon scenes in the game.
I played so much Reader Rabbit as a child! Here in Sweden, he was called Kalle Kunskap (which translates to 'Kalle Knowledge') and were, as far as I know, quite popular here. We'd often get them as fast food toys. I believe my favorite one was this longer game about the characters being stuck in this cloud city? The 2nd grade game in this video scared me so much as a youngin. It had a very liminal space feel to it.
Despite a lot of the games being math-based, I absolutely sucked at math all throughout school though, so either they weren't very effective in teaching kids math, or it was just me being really bad at it.
I remember playing so many of these in my old computer lab at school on the giant clear plastic colorful imacs (alas, i am Old) a few of my own standouts were Dream Team Kids Typing and Jumpstart second grade, That "you're eating a noun" song still appears in my head when I make a sandwich. the Her Interactive Nancy Drew games were also huge in apparently exclusively my household I've met another person that knew about them one time. More logic and reasoning puzzles than pure education like the zoombinis but I learned a lot of random niche info that helps sometimes. *thinks about the vegetable picking puzzle and shorty disapproving of how dumb I am*
Someone already mentioned this, but there’s so many putt putt, freddi the fish and other Humongous Entertainment games out there that I’d love for you to do a deep dive on. Most, if not all, games are on Steam
I don't think I've ever clicked a thumbnail so fast 😂😂. My favorites were the two Star Flyers games, which were basically Guardians of the Galaxy for 7 year olds. It's amazing. On my last nostalgia visit I noticed in the credits that Charles Martinet (THE Mario guy) voiced the villain???!!!!
I played that lion in the castle game as a kid, and I can confirm the high pitched annoying voice was the original
everyone always plays Jumpstart first, but never the one we were most familiar with, third grade. Loved the vid overall thoguh
Clue finders!! Thank you for helping me remember what those games were called, I adored them.
I was obsessed with 90s edutainment... cluefinders, treasure mountain/cove, zoombinis, pajama sam, freddi fish, magic school bus, math blaster, carmen sandiego, math circus, and so much more. I feel like I played it all... so nostalgic
aaahhh!!! you have no idea how happy i am to see you play zoombinis!!! ❤❤❤
gotta get my pappy 💪
Zoombinis was traumatizing to me as a kid lol, we had it in our classroom and could play it during free time, but it was so unnerving/uncanny and I was always terrified of what would happen to the Zoombinis that I failed…
That castle game just unlocked something so deep in my brain. I played that game SO MUCH as a kid.
I went hard on the JumpStart series. JumpStart 4th Grade was horror themed, and there was a spooky forest where you could see the mascots from the previous games cowering in fear. Traumatizing