I'm 100% in support of another stream like this being titled "ARE YOU NOT EDUTAINED?!", where you beat Carmen Sandiego or The Incredible Machine or something like that
There’s also a game called “The Castle of Dr Brain” which began with Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in d minor BWV 565 playing in the background? I vaguely remember playing it with my brother and I think there were math puzzles and memory puzzles (amongst others) in it.
My recs (including the excellent rec from X above of Castle of Dr Brain) are Zoombinis, and The Amazon Trail, which is like Oregon Trail but roughly 1 million times better
I like how the whole crew is basically representative of all the big university majors. Luke has Philosophy. Ellen is business and marketing. Jane is physics and hard sciences. Andy is arts and history. And Mike is the guy that you'd think was flunking out and hadn't picked a major, but actually gets better grades than you for seemingly no effort.
I played this game to death in the school library. My mum was the school librarian and I had to stay until 5-6pm each evening waiting for her to finish work, so I was one of the few kids that finished this game! I was a god amongst men!!!
I would be SO on board for a Carmen Sandiego stream, that would be amazing! Only other edutainment video game I can remember from my past was Math Blasters which taught you math in space.
@@shawnagoddard4999 oh yes!! something about collecting garbage can lids and numbers or letters? idk its been too long, we had quite a few apogee games.
I cannot state strongly enough how much I LOVE that you are streaming this, at the same time everyone else is putting up videos about some elden ring thing
Once you get to the center of the mind maze the Jester boss fight is pretty good for this time period. I mean once you get the timing down on his acid breath move you can kite around him but the second stage where he duplicates himself is TOUGH
Might be fun, but should maybe also point out that no one outside the US played Oregon Trail as a child, so it wouldn't really have that nostalgia for them or the rest of us.
See, I remember playing this as a kid and getting quite far, but never beating it. Probably on account of me NOT KNOWING ENGLISH at the time. Kid-me must have brute-forced an actual assload of trivia questions. Also I haven't been able to think of this game's name for years, thank you for reminding me. :)
As a life scientist can confirm that it's not the real science but it is significantly more entertaining to observe and document puppy behaviour... For science of course
Encarta was the only 'game' allowed on my home pc as a child. I never did complete Mindmaze, despite the many hours I spent playing. Thanks for the nostalgia 😆
Yay, looks like it worked! Sorry I missed it live! Edit: Now that I've watched it, quite Enjoyable, wish I could replay it! Also, if you are sticking with Retro games for a while, would love to see the first Discworld game. It would be hilarious.
@Mike: UA-camr LGR has a interesting video about the turbo button. The turbo-button enabled the normal speed of the processor. The off-option turned the clockingspeed down to work better with older programs. But confusingly some brands would start the computer at its advertised speed, so the turbo button was the exact opposite in those cases. If pressed they turned the speed down quite a bit.
Might I suggest the Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection, specifically Rat Poker or Jewel Chase? The music of this game brought these back as well.
This is so vicariously satisfying. It was on the computer in the library at my primary school and I could so rarely get much time to play this game, so could never finish it.
OMG this gave me flashbacks to the Encarta World Atlas 2000 me & my sister had as kids, we didn't have any computer games so we used to spend hours doing national anthem quizzes and doing virtual flights of the Grand Canyon (in 3D!!)
I love the mental imagine of the protagonist storming into the a room with a literal all powerful king, sprinting past him when he is just about to talk to you, look at the poster behind him and then sprint out again
This game brought me back to the time where I was obsessed with the Edutainment games "Juilliard Music Adventure" and "Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey"
Thoroughly enjoyed watching this. Would you guys please do more edutainment games? Some suggestions: Carmen Sandiego’s Great Chase through Time (which is surprisingly a point and click adventure rather than a trivia-based history game), the Logical Journey of the Zoombinis, and Jumpstart 6th grade: Mission Earthquest.
I was getting very strong poochie ending vibes at the end there and then Andy went and made a completely unacknowledged joke about sir Mike going off to his home planet. All their jokes really are Simpsons jokes.
My 90s games where "where in time is Carmen Sandiego" later renamed "Carmen Sandiego's great chase through time" and the bad but still quite charming action adventure game "time commando".
I would love to watch you do some of the edutainment games from my childhood. Have you ever tried 'Amazon Trail', the much-harder game by the makers of classic 'Oregon Trail'. Photography, spearfishing, grumpy spirit animals. I learned about so many tropical diseases!
I never had Encarta or Mind Maze, so this was a brand new experience for me! I was a Dorling Kindersley's "The Way Things Work" kid myself. (This does mean that for me DK stands for Dorling Kindersley rather than Donkey Kong :p )
Since we're opening up this can of worms now called "ARE YOU NOT EDUTAINED?!", I highly recommend Pajama Sam: No Need To Hide When It's Dark Outside. I played this so much growing up!
Time-travel repellent spray that protects a person from being displaced in time is actually a thing in The Magicians! I wonder whether Mike watched it or just created the same plot device randomly.
@@outsidexbox it's a TV show and a book series that's kinda like "what if Narnia but everyone's really messed up" and young adults instead of children, in a magic university where usually instead of exams comes the apocalypse :D
Oh cripes, talk about being smacked in the face with nostalgia! Damn, I gave this game a try a couple of times, but I never did finish it. Interesting to see the ending was as depressing as you might expect from a mid-90's edutainment title. XD Also, um -- I can see where you guys tripped up in the question, but -- sharks are definitely fish. Insomuch as we use "fish" as a category for things in the ocean, anyway. XD
Maybe the end of Mind Maze was so plain because developers never thought anyone will actually finish it. But JUST IN CASE they put that text message. "Boss, but what do we put for the ending?" "Ending? No one will ever reach it, don't worry" "But what if...some people from the future will be able to get there after all" "ugh, ok. Write "thank you" and whatever and it'll be fine"
I had no idea this game had lore! I vaguely remember my brother and I working through this at some point, though since he's the older and smarter one, he was getting most of the questions.
"Google McZee"- Well, I did that, and now I sorta wish I hadn't- He looks like he belongs in some horror version of Rugrats... Trivia was fun though! I'd love to see more edutainment games with you all:)
Mike, where you kept clicking on the King's chest kept activating the wall hanging behind him. That's why instead of reading the King's dialog the game kept offering articles to read.
Great stream!! My suggestion for retro pc games would be O'Dell Down Under its a fish life sim meant to teach you about marine biology and the food chain and I loved it.
I've always wanted to know how this game ended. I could never do it as a kid. It's a bit sad the ending is so anti-climactic, but good on you guys for doing the whole thing. My child heart thanks you.
Think the Jagerbomb thing has migrated over from Eurogamer through mutual subscribers. TBH it wasn't that funny the first time but there's like 2 people who just won't let it die so it's a thing now.
If you do end up doing a retro series, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE play Claw! I used to love that game, even if I did need my mum to complete level 2 for me because of that damned Captain Dog! 😂😂
In addition to the various Carmen Sandiego and Jumpstart games, I have fond memories of Virgil Reality from when I was a kid. Never played this, though. Wonder how hard it would be to track down...
Ok, the only reason I coulda guessed the underwater craft is because of the 'The Adventure Zone'. As of this comment they have have several underwater crafts in eathersea
Carl Sagan was an exobiologist not because he found life outside Earth but because he was dedicated to it’s search, not everyone is a theatrical exobiologist, I research arthropods FROM EARTH but have no idea how to look for extraterrestrial life forms or how to identify a bacteria outside my home planet without the possibility of leaving it. Dr. Sagan’s research will help us do that and very few people can say that about themselves.
You turn the Turbo button off to reduce the clock speed so programs written for that clock speed (in my childhood experience it was games that used the processor speed for timing) would work correctly.
Interesting note, the Turbo button's purpose was to slow down the computer. It slowed down the processor so that older games and programs would be compatible. If you ever played the original Joust on a 486 and wondered why everything was flying so fast you couldn't keep up.....you needed to use Turbo.
I'm 100% in support of another stream like this being titled "ARE YOU NOT EDUTAINED?!", where you beat Carmen Sandiego or The Incredible Machine or something like that
The problem is everytime we had to fly to Kinshasa in Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, the game would crash.
Don't forget The Crystal Rainforest! A 90s/2000s UK school staple
There’s also a game called “The Castle of Dr Brain” which began with Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in d minor BWV 565 playing in the background? I vaguely remember playing it with my brother and I think there were math puzzles and memory puzzles (amongst others) in it.
Oregon Trail!
My recs (including the excellent rec from X above of Castle of Dr Brain) are Zoombinis, and The Amazon Trail, which is like Oregon Trail but roughly 1 million times better
I like how the whole crew is basically representative of all the big university majors. Luke has Philosophy. Ellen is business and marketing. Jane is physics and hard sciences. Andy is arts and history. And Mike is the guy that you'd think was flunking out and hadn't picked a major, but actually gets better grades than you for seemingly no effort.
Also, unrelated, but I never thought I'd be shouting "David Hume" at my TV today.
Mike is the guy who followed his dreams and when into writing for motorsports and then videogames
Mike did english lang in uni, right?
@@ashfreywar9862 something to that effect, but that's not the joke here.
@@RoryStarr oh I know, my brain just goes on tangents and I was curious
I played this game to death in the school library. My mum was the school librarian and I had to stay until 5-6pm each evening waiting for her to finish work, so I was one of the few kids that finished this game! I was a god amongst men!!!
hahaha this is also my origin story, but replace "school librarian" with "school resource aide" and "encarta mind maze" with Sim Town XD
Around the blinking DOS Prompt, you can hear them whispering the legends of Sir Mike and Sir Peter of the Library. :)
A good retro gaming series might be 90's point and clicks. Lots of room for everybody to group solve puzzles and heckle.
Problem is I think Andy's already played all of them!
@@VoiceofKane3 Well he can sit there and watch whoever hasn't played play it?
@@marhawkman303 They could do it the way Ellen did Dark Souls, except Andy would be the teacher and they would swap in students!
@@littlefurnace yes, good plan :)
Andy mentoring Ellen through the Monkey island games would be awesome.
Mike's king voice was 10/10 dads, actually great.
I would be SO on board for a Carmen Sandiego stream, that would be amazing! Only other edutainment video game I can remember from my past was Math Blasters which taught you math in space.
I totally forgot about Math Blasters. We use to have Math Rescue and Word Rescue as well.
@@shawnagoddard4999 oh yes!! something about collecting garbage can lids and numbers or letters? idk its been too long, we had quite a few apogee games.
So like Kerbal Space Program, but a few years earlier :D
Mike's King voice was an unexpected gem in this stream
I cannot state strongly enough how much I LOVE that you are streaming this, at the same time everyone else is putting up videos about some elden ring thing
To the tune of smells like teen spirit, "Here we are now. Edutain us!"
So much 90s
This is one of my favorite comments ever now. 😂
Once you get to the center of the mind maze the Jester boss fight is pretty good for this time period. I mean once you get the timing down on his acid breath move you can kite around him but the second stage where he duplicates himself is TOUGH
I waited 20 years to see that ending! Thank you brave adventurers
I read that in thw Wizard BinBag's voice in my head. Love it.
Very much fun today folks- maybe we can see Outside XBox try The Oregon Trail next?
(chants) Dysentery for all!
Might be fun, but should maybe also point out that no one outside the US played Oregon Trail as a child, so it wouldn't really have that nostalgia for them or the rest of us.
@@littlefurnace Not true. We had the Oregon Trail on our school computers in Scotland, and I wouldn't be surprised if lots of other places had it.
See, I remember playing this as a kid and getting quite far, but never beating it. Probably on account of me NOT KNOWING ENGLISH at the time. Kid-me must have brute-forced an actual assload of trivia questions.
Also I haven't been able to think of this game's name for years, thank you for reminding me. :)
Stream starts at 0:23!
You're my hero 💞
It took me that long to scroll and find this 😂😂
Thanks my dude
Bless.
The Oxbox voice acting was so good, I can't even praise it without sounding sarcastic!
As a life scientist can confirm that it's not the real science but it is significantly more entertaining to observe and document puppy behaviour... For science of course
Encarta was the only 'game' allowed on my home pc as a child. I never did complete Mindmaze, despite the many hours I spent playing. Thanks for the nostalgia 😆
*in the voice of Hudson* "That's it, man! Game over, man! Game over!"
Congratulations are in order.
Please please please make the second episode of this logical journey of the zoombinis.
It was amazing and you guys would love it
omfg
I loved that game!
Omg you just brought back a memory I didn’t even know I had. This is why I love this channel. Thank you
Yay, looks like it worked! Sorry I missed it live!
Edit: Now that I've watched it, quite Enjoyable, wish I could replay it!
Also, if you are sticking with Retro games for a while, would love to see the first Discworld game. It would be hilarious.
Wow I remember this game…heavy Microsoft Encarta nostalgia
"I thought you were that loser, the dude"
"That's just your opinion, man"
oh i remember this, it came on a disc with weezer's buddy holly music video and a few other things lmao.
@Mike: UA-camr LGR has a interesting video about the turbo button. The turbo-button enabled the normal speed of the processor. The off-option turned the clockingspeed down to work better with older programs. But confusingly some brands would start the computer at its advertised speed, so the turbo button was the exact opposite in those cases. If pressed they turned the speed down quite a bit.
Might I suggest the Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection, specifically Rat Poker or Jewel Chase? The music of this game brought these back as well.
We need Mike's King voice in DnD. It was perfect.
This is so vicariously satisfying. It was on the computer in the library at my primary school and I could so rarely get much time to play this game, so could never finish it.
OMG if you do Are You Not Edutained, you absolutely MUST do Logical Journey of the Zoombinis!
I remember this game..the music..the art..what memories, i also played this around 2008 for it to take me back to the 90s ..thanks for sharing.
OMG this gave me flashbacks to the Encarta World Atlas 2000 me & my sister had as kids, we didn't have any computer games so we used to spend hours doing national anthem quizzes and doing virtual flights of the Grand Canyon (in 3D!!)
I love the mental imagine of the protagonist storming into the a room with a literal all powerful king, sprinting past him when he is just about to talk to you, look at the poster behind him and then sprint out again
mike’s king voice was perfect lol, loved this stream!
Of all the educational shows I watched when I was younger, The Simpsons has to be one of the best.
Loved this stream, guys! Such fond memories of playing this! 😊 I'm 100% in support of more 90s game streams please! 😊
Mike's Brian Blessed impression is astonishingly good.
This game brought me back to the time where I was obsessed with the Edutainment games "Juilliard Music Adventure" and "Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey"
Oh my god, I'd completely forgotten about this! I had this CD ROM when I was younger! This music is taking me back, man.
Also, the voices you all did in this deserve to be in video games.
I loved this. I had the Encarta Encyclopedia cd-rom in high school and I used to play this but never got to finish it. How nostalgic.
"We learned a stuff." Sounds about right.
I like how your name looks like Dave Fox because of the oxbox membership image.
Oh man, I loved this game as a kid! Thanks for the video.
Retro game "Math blaster", or the 'Chex' cereal game?
My parents wouldn't let me play Doom, but they let me eat breakfast! So we compromised... Lol
1:12:35 You definitely aren't Chet. They suffered from a rather grisly death in Gravity RIP.
Thoroughly enjoyed watching this. Would you guys please do more edutainment games? Some suggestions: Carmen Sandiego’s Great Chase through Time (which is surprisingly a point and click adventure rather than a trivia-based history game), the Logical Journey of the Zoombinis, and Jumpstart 6th grade: Mission Earthquest.
I was getting very strong poochie ending vibes at the end there and then Andy went and made a completely unacknowledged joke about sir Mike going off to his home planet. All their jokes really are Simpsons jokes.
An excellent stream, I feel so edutained
My 90s games where "where in time is Carmen Sandiego" later renamed "Carmen Sandiego's great chase through time" and the bad but still quite charming action adventure game "time commando".
Please play more of these old retro school games.
Can't wait for the forthcoming Are You Not Edutained series that I can only assume is definitely happening!
I would love to watch you do some of the edutainment games from my childhood. Have you ever tried 'Amazon Trail', the much-harder game by the makers of classic 'Oregon Trail'. Photography, spearfishing, grumpy spirit animals. I learned about so many tropical diseases!
Hang on a minute, this game's educational! *switches off in disgust*
*Throws controller at the screen.* That'll teach you to teach me!
Okay but this stream deserves a like purely for the windows 98 background.
I never had Encarta or Mind Maze, so this was a brand new experience for me! I was a Dorling Kindersley's "The Way Things Work" kid myself. (This does mean that for me DK stands for Dorling Kindersley rather than Donkey Kong :p )
Obsessed with this...funny to see Ibizan hound as an answer to a question--I had one, named Trumpet, as a kid!
4 minutes into my catch-up-Sunday and I think the idea with little Win95 frames on everyone is both adorable and clever. Please do more retro-stuff.
What a blast from my past. Good stuff.
I remember using that same desktop background (The framed pine needle branches). All sorts of nostalgic.
Since we're opening up this can of worms now called "ARE YOU NOT EDUTAINED?!", I highly recommend Pajama Sam: No Need To Hide When It's Dark Outside. I played this so much growing up!
Def need more classic videogame streams. Doesn't have to be PC games, but if you do continue, could I recommend Putt Putt Goes To The Moon?
OMG PUTT PUTT I FORGOT
:D
My very first pc was a Packard bell with win 95 and it came with Encarta. This was a glorious watch. Thanks guys.
Time-travel repellent spray that protects a person from being displaced in time is actually a thing in The Magicians!
I wonder whether Mike watched it or just created the same plot device randomly.
News to us! What's The Magicians?
@@outsidexbox it's a TV show and a book series that's kinda like "what if Narnia but everyone's really messed up" and young adults instead of children, in a magic university where usually instead of exams comes the apocalypse :D
Oh cripes, talk about being smacked in the face with nostalgia! Damn, I gave this game a try a couple of times, but I never did finish it. Interesting to see the ending was as depressing as you might expect from a mid-90's edutainment title. XD Also, um -- I can see where you guys tripped up in the question, but -- sharks are definitely fish. Insomuch as we use "fish" as a category for things in the ocean, anyway. XD
When I heard the Muskogee question I was pleasantly surprised, as a Creek Indian myself. Fun bit of trivia
Maybe the end of Mind Maze was so plain because developers never thought anyone will actually finish it. But JUST IN CASE they put that text message.
"Boss, but what do we put for the ending?"
"Ending? No one will ever reach it, don't worry"
"But what if...some people from the future will be able to get there after all"
"ugh, ok. Write "thank you" and whatever and it'll be fine"
I had no idea this game had lore!
I vaguely remember my brother and I working through this at some point, though since he's the older and smarter one, he was getting most of the questions.
This a blast from the post. I think other encarta versions also had the mindmaze.
Literally only these three could accomplish such a feat
Yea, I could get into the Are You Not Edutained series lol :D
Oooh, if we can request old games, I request The Neverhood! Luke is the only person outside of my brother whom I've ever even heard mention it!
"Google McZee"- Well, I did that, and now I sorta wish I hadn't- He looks like he belongs in some horror version
of Rugrats...
Trivia was fun though! I'd love to see more edutainment games with you all:)
Mike, where you kept clicking on the King's chest kept activating the wall hanging behind him. That's why instead of reading the King's dialog the game kept offering articles to read.
Loved it! How about any FMV PC games from the era? I'm a big fan of Phantasmagoria (it's like Phasmophobia, but ... more gory?)
*Game Idea:* Mime Maze - in which we have to traverse an invisible maze while wearing black dungarees and a striped shirt, make-up and beret.
i like to think that knight talking about Chet is Davey, also congrats on completing Mindmaze
If your playing 90s games then you must play MYST next!
Great stream!! My suggestion for retro pc games would be O'Dell Down Under its a fish life sim meant to teach you about marine biology and the food chain and I loved it.
Such nostalgia! This game is my childhood
Holy crap! Am I that old? I played this back in the days to had to load a CD in a cassette, to put it into a computer.
damn, im old.
This has kept me great company as I format documents at work
David Bellamy's Endangered Wildlife was my childhood game. If you can get hold of that would be sweet.
I've always wanted to know how this game ended. I could never do it as a kid. It's a bit sad the ending is so anti-climactic, but good on you guys for doing the whole thing. My child heart thanks you.
When visiting any century prior to the twentieth, never eat any food you didn’t prepare yourself - even a medieval fantasy king’s banquet.
Andy is an absolute trivia master
Think the Jagerbomb thing has migrated over from Eurogamer through mutual subscribers. TBH it wasn't that funny the first time but there's like 2 people who just won't let it die so it's a thing now.
+1
The riddle guy looked suspiciously like Luke
Me : What's that fun background they have?
Me 15 seconds later suddenly remembering : Ohhhhh...
I played this to death back in the day and I *loved* trivia games so it was right up my alley.
If you do end up doing a retro series, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE play Claw! I used to love that game, even if I did need my mum to complete level 2 for me because of that damned Captain Dog! 😂😂
In addition to the various Carmen Sandiego and Jumpstart games, I have fond memories of Virgil Reality from when I was a kid. Never played this, though. Wonder how hard it would be to track down...
This whole thing feels like a fever dream
"Well, I guess barnacles don't have spines" -Jane 2021
I ACTUALLY played this as a kid, very strange to see this now on OX hehe
Ok, the only reason I coulda guessed the underwater craft is because of the 'The Adventure Zone'. As of this comment they have have several underwater crafts in eathersea
Great stream, not only did you defeat the maze, but I also learned stuff :D
oh I completely forgot about this game! loved it as a child
Carl Sagan was an exobiologist not because he found life outside Earth but because he was dedicated to it’s search, not everyone is a theatrical exobiologist, I research arthropods FROM EARTH but have no idea how to look for extraterrestrial life forms or how to identify a bacteria outside my home planet without the possibility of leaving it. Dr. Sagan’s research will help us do that and very few people can say that about themselves.
You turn the Turbo button off to reduce the clock speed so programs written for that clock speed (in my childhood experience it was games that used the processor speed for timing) would work correctly.
Interesting note, the Turbo button's purpose was to slow down the computer. It slowed down the processor so that older games and programs would be compatible. If you ever played the original Joust on a 486 and wondered why everything was flying so fast you couldn't keep up.....you needed to use Turbo.
I didn't have a computer growing up and this was the first computer game I played on the local library computer