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262 games like Word Attack! · 1982 – 2020
Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum
Xanagrams is an educational game that is a cross between a crossword puzzle and Scrabble released between 1983 and 1984 for the Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Sharp MZ and ZX Spectrum. It was given away for free with
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Creative Wonders · 3DO, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Windows +1
The World Isn't Flat. Why Should Your Atlas Be? Multidimensional Imagery and Navigation - 3D spinning globes - Nine zoom levels of detail - Thousands of satellite images - 3D flights Integrated Geographical Approach - Environmental globe -
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MS-DOS, Windows, macOS
Bug Adventure is an educational video game about bugs by Knowledge Adventure. It was released in 1994 for MS-DOS and Macintosh, then for Windows in 2015. The interactive nature almanac and encyclopedia presents facts and media related to bu
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Broderbund · Windows, macOS
Carmen Sandiego Math Detective is a 1998 Carmen Sandiego video game. It is similar in structure to Carmen Sandiego Word Detective, which was released a year before.
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BBC Micro
Dread Dragon Droom (known as Droom) is an educational game by HUMMEC (Humberside Microelectronics in Education Centre), 1985. Widely used in UK schools in the 1980s, it was among the first British educational titles made for schools. HUMMEC
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Nintendo console exclusive
Spongelab Interactive · Windows
Genomics Digital Lab (GDL) is a browser-based series of educational games, simulations, and animations created by Spongelab Interactive. It is designed to teach high school students about biology including photosynthesis, respiration, trans
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Federation of American Scientists · Windows
Immune Attack is an educational video game created by the Federation of American Scientists and Escape Hatch Entertainment. Early development of the game was done by Brown University, in collaboration with the University of Southern Califor
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Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium · Apple II
Jenny's Journeys is an educational video game published in 1984 by MECC for the Apple II. From a first-person view, players use a compass and a map to navigate a car containing the protagonist, Jenny, through a pixelated town. The player, a
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Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Commodore VIC-20 +3
Kids on Keys is a 1983 educational video game from Spinnaker Software designed by Freeda Lekkerkerker. The game contains three minigames to teach young players basic language and typing skills. In the first, players have to type the correc
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Android, Windows, macOS
Meister Cody is an online training game with an integrated diagnostic screening test for children with dyscalculia and math weakness, the CODY Assessment. It was developed as a part of the CODY Project, a collaboration with psychologists an
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PlayStation exclusive
BBC Multimedia · PlayStation
Journey into this magical adventure with Noddy to search for the Wizards' missing magic wand. Help Noddy discover the mystery of the strange happenings in Toyland - can he get the wand back from those naughty goblins who are casting mischie
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Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium · Apple II, MS-DOS, macOS
Learn basic math skills with Number Munchers. Keep your Muncher away from the Troggles by munching on multiples, factors, prime numbers, equalities, and inequalities. If you can stay away from the Troggles and earn enough points, you'll be
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Nintendo exclusive
indieszero · Nintendo DS
Sekai no Gohan Shaberu! DS O-Ryouri Navi is the sequel to Cooking Guide: Can't Decide What to Eat? for the Nintendo DS. The game now features recipes from around the world.
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Bright Star Technology · MS-DOS, Windows, macOS
Spelling Jungle, also known as Yobi's Basic Spelling Tricks or Yobi's Magic Spelling Tricks, is an educational adventure game created by Bright Star Technology and released by Sierra in 1993 for both Windows and Macintosh PCs. The program i
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Xbox Game Studios · Windows, macOS
The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System is the fourth book in Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen's The Magic School Bus classic series books. Published in 1990, the book depicts arguably the most well-known adventure of the series and introd
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A Passion for Art: Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse, and Dr. Barnes is a 1995 interactive CD-ROM by Corbis.
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Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 +4
Early Games (shown as Early Games for Young Children on the title screen) is an educational video game by Counterpoint Software and Springboard Software and released for Atari 8-bit computers in 1982. It was designed by John Paulson. The ga
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KDE · Android
GCompris is a software suite comprising educational entertainment software for children aged 2 to 10. GCompris was originally written in C and Python using the GTK+ widget toolkit, but a rewrite in C++ and QML using the Qt widget toolkit ha
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Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS +2
Scetlander (later known as Lander Software) was a software publisher which released titles for various 8- and 16-bit home computer systems in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Kutoka Interactive · Windows, macOS
Mia's Language Adventure: The Kidnap Caper is the fourth title of Mia's Big Adventure Collection software series created by Kutoka Interactive. Released in 2003 in Canada and the United States, the game teaches French and Spanish as a secon
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Magnavox Odyssey 2, Odyssey 2 / Videopac G7000
A math edutainment game, featuring the synthesized 'voice' capabilities of the Odyssey 2.
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PlaceSpotting was an online game, based on Google Maps, developed by Swiss programmer Martin Fussen. Its server is based in Switzerland and has English- and German-language versions. In international Media, PlaceSpotting is recommended as a
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Quest Atlantis (QA) was a 3D multiuser, computer graphics program that utilized a narrative programming toolkit to teach inquiry tasks. It was targeted toward children ages nine to sixteen. It allowed users to travel to virtual places to pe
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STARBRIGHT Asthma CD-ROM Game: Quest for the Code is an interactive asthma adventure game developed by Starbright.
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Nintendo console exclusiveThe Learning Company · Wii, Windows, macOS
Reader Rabbit Preschool: Sparkle Star Rescue is a game in the Reader Rabbit series by The Learning Company. The title was released in 2001. The game is recommended for ages 3–6. The game teaches "shape and size recognition, letter recogniti
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MS-DOS
Time Riders in American History is a Learning Company point and click edutainment game about American History.
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Nintendo exclusive
Atari, Inc. · Nintendo DS
What's Cooking? with Jamie Oliver walks players through virtual and real-life cooking situations, from shopping to chopping, dressing the dish to serving up meals. The portability of Nintendo DS means Jamie Oliver is with you every step of
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MS-DOS, Windows
Wiggins in Storyland is an educational video game for MS-DOS and Windows published by Virgin Sound and Design in 1994. The game centers around a green bookworm named Wiggins and features voice acting by Doug Preis, Joseph Siravo, Eden Rigal
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Acorn Electron, Apple II, BBC Micro +1
The Fleet Street Phantom is an educational video game in the guise of an adventure game published in 1987 by Sherston Software for Apple II, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, then later for MS-DOS. Developed by Simon Hosler and Bill Bonham, the pl
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Nintendo exclusive
Razorback Developments · Nintendo DS
Brain Voyage features the famous German board game designer Dr. Reiner Knizia. He guides the player on a world tour through 13 different cities and explains how every puzzle works.
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Soup2Nuts · ColecoVision, Commodore C64/128/MAX, TRS-80 Model I +1
In Fraction Fever, the player's goal is to advance floors up to the twentieth with the help of his pogo stick and the Fraction Elevators located on each floor. To find them, the player needs to look for the correct fraction pictures, matchi
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Appaloosa Interactive · MS-DOS, Windows, macOS
Museum Madness is an educational computer game for the PC (DOS) and Macintosh developed by Novotrade for MECC, and was released in 1994. The game is based in an American natural history museum and aims to teach the player many aspects of hi
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Windows
The game is played from the viewpoint of a U.N. commander, and tasks the player with keeping the peace by making decisions during the Rwandan genocide.
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macOS
Reader Rabbit Playtime for Baby is an educational video game, part of the Reader Rabbit series, developed by Mattel Interactive and published by The Learning Company in 1999. The game was designed for children aged 9 to 24 months as a softw
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Nintendo exclusiveGame Boy Advance
Sudoku is the puzzle phenomenon from Japan, a game that looks like a math problem, but is in fact a twisting puzzler. The rules are simple: start with a grid consisting of nine three-by-three squares in which some of the numbers are already
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Apple II, Atari 8-bit, ColecoVision +4
In Lunar Leeper, one of Sierra's earlier arcade games, players had to rescue prisoners on a planet's surface while avoiding the "Leepers", who would leap into the air in an attempt to grab them, and one of the Leepers feature in this game.
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Windows, macOS
Opsys is an educational adventure video game by Polish studio Lemon Interactive and published by [hyper]media limited in 2000 on Macintosh and Windows.
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The Pokémon Company · Android, iOS
Turn toothbrushing into a fun and exciting adventure with Pokémon Smile! Players can partner up with some of their favorite Pokémon to defeat the cavity-causing bacteria and save captured Pokémon. Only by consistently brushing their teeth c
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Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
A children's adventure game in the vein of Sierra's Hi-Res franchise, in which an evil troll has capture all the the dwarf king's treasures, and only you can help save them.
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Windows, macOS
Rafiki, Timon and Pumbaa from Disney's Lion King are the tutors in this typing game created for children ages 6 and up. The comedic meerkat and warthog team are "going off on an adventure to broaden their horizons", and wise old Rafiki advi
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Broderbund · Windows, macOS
Zoombinis Logical Journey is an educational puzzle/point-and-click adventure game, published by Broderbund, which was released in 2001. It is an expanded and updated version of Logical Journey of the Zoombinis (1996) using the same pixel ar
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PlayStation console exclusive
PlayStation, Windows
In My Disney Kitchen kids can whip up culinary delights using tons of wacky appliances and gadgets. Using the recipe box as their guide, youngsters can select from an assortment of tasty treats. Kids can bake and decorate cakes, or try out
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Nintendo exclusiveNintendo DS
THINK THEREFORE I PLAY! Logic, observation, memory, speed of perception and analysis: these are the qualities that defi ne the famous Intelligence Quotient and the ones that Best of Tests DS will enable you to test, according to renown s
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IJsfontein · Windows, macOS
Masters of the Elements is an educational adventure video game.
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees · Browser
Against All Odds is an Adobe Flash video game developed by UNHCR designed to teach players about the plight of refugees.
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Nintendo console exclusive
Mindscape · MS-DOS, NES, SNES +1
Mario's Time Machine is an edutainment title and the successor of Mario is Missing! The game is meant to teach younger players basic world history and is the last Mario Discovery Series game before discontinuation. This game and Hotel Mario
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Nintendo console exclusive
Nintendo DS, Windows
In ACME's New York branch, the Chief informs agent Julia that some of the world's greatest treasures have been stolen. The Chief suspects the thefts to be the work of Carmen Sandiego, but there is lack of evidence to confirm it. Julia along
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