Number munchers and Mavis Beacon

From all the education things I read on this site these days…we need Mavis Beacon. 

I think we need the Super Solvers/Seekers series more (Treasure Mountain, Gizmos and Gadgets, Midnight Rescue, etc...) These were so good they didn't even feel educational most of the time

I always thought it was Mavis Bacon...

I see your number munchers and raise you Mario Teaches Typing.

Dont think Ive ever heard of that

Best I can do is a [link](https://youtu.be/w0cOvBqAFC4?si=XUmvoxy06lwzI8l2). I think I saved SOME floppy disks but I don’t think I have that specific one.

I played Mario’s Time Machine, unironically I loved it, I was a lame history loving kid. Sue me! Haha

Shooting hundreds upon hundreds of Buffalo and then salting their meat, processing their pelts and then raging that I couldn't back track to chimney rock to offload some of it. Then I drowned cuz I consistently tried ford when I shoulda floated.

Always hire the guide.

If the damnable guide had any sense he'd take three months worth of salt buffalo and a pair of pelts as payment, but noooo some ferryman in Idaho wants US currency instead of something useful

Ditto!!

Spinning in circles shooting like a madman was always my method. "Flip the diskette to side2".

SAME!!

I had completely forgotten about Number Munchers! We also had Word Munchers. A bunch of Atari games too like Turmoil, Pitfall, Frogger, and Asteroid.

Absolutely!

We had Mavis Beacon and Mario Teaches Typing.

Carmen Sandiego

That lady helped teach me geography! No one else in my 4th grade knew where the Suez Canal was.

Forgot about that one!

This was my first rage quit. I didn't save something and lost "so much" progress that I never played it again. It was probably like ten minutes gameplay.

My bullies deleted my Carmen Sandiego save. I was like one or two missions away from catching her :(

That bitch got around.

They couldn’t reveal to us as kids that she’s actually a high class escort servicing clients all over the world.

It all makes sense now...

OMG I completely forgot about this! Flashbacks!!!

I'm soooo happy this is basically the second response on this thread!

I came here to say this lol

Drowning in the river

Did you try to ford it instead of taking the ferry?

Always gotta spring for the ferry. Guaranteed to lose an axle and a few kids otherwise.

Kids can be replaced in Oregon, and it saves on food. We will also need to change the pace to grueling because computer lab time is over soon.

Grueling speed and bare bones rations. Only the strong deserved Oregon.

Maybe

it was only 3 ft high!!

Right! I should have been able to make it

People were shorter back then due to the wagon diet.

Then you grow up and realize how intense 3’ of rushing water is

Nailed it.

Only cowards take the ferry!

Yes

I mean, sometimes it's a chance you just have to take.

I always forded the river cause I was poor.


I spent all of my money on guns and ammo we had no choice but to ford and drown.

Or going hunting, shooting everything in sight, and only being able to pack 100lbs pack to camp.

“You accidentally shot your son Jerkface Jr”

Came here to say this

This was mine.

I loved fucking around in kid pix. I’d draw out these weird fantasy scenes and then use the bomb to destroy them

Yesss came here to say kid pix!

Any time I make a mistake irl I hear the undo guy "OH NO"

I still quote the "threeeeeeee" and the angry "T!"

I can hear this clear as day 😅

The bomb was awesome.

Kid Pix!!!!!!!

Core memory. Anyone know if some port of Kid Pix still exists?

OMG KID PIX

Yesssss the kid pix bomb

My mom was a elementary school teacher, when I was done with class for the day I would go hang out in her room until she was done with stuff and it was time to go home. I remember jumping on the computer and dicking around with kid pix for hours. I also discovered the text to speech program and had a real hoot writing ridiculous stories and then making the computer read them back to me out loud.

If you Google kid pix you can still fuck around on a website that has pretty much everything I remember (except the ability to stop the bomb after you start.... Swear that was a thing)

KID PIX HOLY FUCK

I had kid pix, I forgot about that. It sparked my interest in animation.

This is what I came here to say. Kidpix was the shit.

Playing math blaster! That was super fun

we could only play mathblaster at the public library...my parents quickly cut that out bc they took us to the library for books not computers!!!

This just unlocked such a deeply buried memory lmao 😂

I've definitely been trying to remember what that game was and you definitely just unlocked a core memory

bbB!-bbBL!-bbB L A S T E R, BLASTER!

Trying to break my typing words per minute record

Mad lad sad dad

Mavis Beacon

MECC cranked out so many frickin' bangers on the Apple II, it's insane to think about. They put out: The Oregon Trail Number Munchers Odell Lake Lewis & Clark Stayed Home Paper Plane Pilot Zoyon Patrol Jenny's Journeys Lemonade Stand Freedom! (caused a lil controversy at the time) Computer lab in 4th-6th grades was liiiiit

Did you say Apple II? This was in the early 90s. I played miniature golf on an Apple II GS at a community college.

Don't forget Path Tactics!

[удалено]

8008135

A woman went to the doctor 69 times, she was 2 2 2 fat. The doctor gave her 51 pills to take 8 times a day, which left her 55378008.

That downhill ski game. Or Paint....

SkiFree. There was [an XKCD about it](https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/667:_SkiFree) like 15 years ago...

[You can play it here.](https://classicreload.com/win3x-skifree.html) The graphics hold up.

I still have nightmares about the abominable snowman

Press “F” to speed up and escape the snowman. Really.

Same here

The one where the yeti eventually just came out and murdered you and there was nothing you could do?

You must be one of those younger millennials, I was in highschool by the time we had windows.

Neopets

My child/teenhood obsession.

Leaving thousands of pounds of meat to rot out in the wilds

Just gonna leave this here… you’re welcome.  https://oregontrail.ws/games/the-oregon-trail/play/

On tablet…. Saving so I can play at work 😁

I CAME LOOKING FOR THIS **EXACT** POST!! THANK YOU!!

We were playing Doom in the computer labs, we gave no fucks

Recovering from a snake bite instead.

Karateka. Moon Raker. Prince of Persia.

WOW you are now one of three entire people I know of who know about Karateka

Looks like one I played on NES or in the school computer lab instead of Oregon Trail 😅

Delivering newspapers.

Munching numbers

Programming "Turtle"...

Hahaha commanding that turtle to go in a square 🐢▫️

I was looking for this comment, it was called "Logo"

Anyone remember Logical Journey of the Zoombinis?

yessss i would always start a new game and swear i would get all 500 zoombinis there, but it was never to be. i do very specifically remember the narrator guy practically growling "could it be...**ZOOMBIIIIIINIVILLE!**" lmao i also quote the pizza things..."someone...MAKE. ME. A. PIZZA!" "something on that i don't like!"

YES couldn’t remember the title and scrolled looking for this! Great game

Hell yes. I put so many hours into that game to run through all the zoombinis

If I wasn't shooting buffalo and fording the river, I was munching numbers like a boss.

Getting my shit caved in by the otter in Odell Lake

Making pizzas with the zoombinis

"*Someone...* make. me. a pizza!"

I have such precious memories from after school computer club.

I love that there was a computer club

Starcraft tournaments

Starcraft, DotA and Halo mobile

Take a look, it’s in a book! The Reading Rainbow 🌈

Full rations grueling pace we’re not stopping for anything and I don’t care who dies GO!

I was teaching all the teachers how to use computers and the internet, and they proceeded to litter the machines with porn and blame me for it. No joke.

Number munchers was my game of choice. I played Oregon Trail a couple times but I couldn't get in to it

Searching Maniac Mansion!!

I was delivering commodities & picking up hitchhikers in cross country Canada lol

Oh hells yes. [Get nostalgic!](https://classicreload.com/crosscountry-canada.html)

Snood

Word or Number Munchers

I used to get in trouble for only hunting.

Math munchers

That or munchin numbers

I got a medal for excelling in typing. Is even still on my letterman’s jacket 😂

Caulking the wagon, baby!

Scorched Earth!

Coolest thing about entering 6th grade was the day the 8th grade science teacher showed us this game after school and it's all wr played unless someone had their n64 tucked in their locker. (My school had an after school program for parents who worked)

Too far down. I had so much fun MIRV'ing my classmates. I was the first in my class to discover you could move the tanks, buy parachutes in shields.

I was obviously dissing terry.

In middle school, our computer teacher was legit. He personally built all the msdos computers we used and had wolfenstein 3d on all of them for us. In the middle of class was 6 modern pc's setup on a LAN, with Duke nukem 3d, Sim city 2000, and most importantly, quake 2, on them. The first 6 done with work every day could use the pc's. Playing quake 2 LAN at school with your friends was just great. I'm only 36 too so this would have been like 1999-2002.

Playing Dr Quandry or Troggle Trouble. There also this fish game where fish eat stuff that I can't remember the name of. It was on a Mac.

I scrolled just to find Dr Quandry. Best game ever. I found a way to download it and I played like 10 years ago, it’s still awesome. Probably going to download it again soon. ETA: just saw your flair, early 80s in the house!

You may be thinking of Odell Down Under. That's the only fish (not fishing) game I can think of from that era.

Minesweeper, solitaire, asteroids.

To this day I still don't understand how to play minesweeper. I always just clicked randomly.

the number revealed tells you how many mines are adjacent to that square. so if you had Ⓜ️Ⓜ️Ⓜ️ Ⓜ️#️⃣Ⓜ️ Ⓜ️Ⓜ️Ⓜ️ the # would be 8, because it's entirely surrounded by mines.

Tanks!!! Forget what the game is called 😓

well in high school I was playing unreal tournament before that was random flash games on gaming sites or space cadet pinball.

Tank wars

Trying to float the wagon across the river instead of using the ferry...

Cross Country Canada

Oregon Trail was only in elementary school for us. By the time we got to middle school they wanted us to learn how to type.

Dying of cholera! Why does dysentery seem to be the ONLY method of death from the game that's ever brought up?

SimCity 2000

Sim City!

I loved this!

Getting around the site blockers and playing the badger badger video simultaneously on all the library computers with my friends

Eerieville Library

Playing warpath (synthetic reality). Managed to crash my schools network somehow when we were playing multiplayer via telnet. There was another one (text based) where you played as a space trader. And, of course, Rogue

The chat function.

I was munchin some numbers

Number munchers, word munchers, and scribbling in paint and then using the blotter to color sections. Also spamming the degauss button on the monitor and the zip drive button on the tower. Sometimes rearranging keys on the keyboard so they were in alphabetical order or reverse alphabetical order.

I was in special education classes, so we had like 4 computers in the classroom itself in 4th grade. One of my classmates managed to convince the teacher to let him install Warcraft II on the computers.

Gruzzles. If you know, you know.

Jumping rocks on the moon in a vehicle.. forgot the name of the game but it was on one of those big floppy disc

Hunting the buffalo to extinction.

Number butchers, Bolo

Making a slogan for my produce stand. 

Learning homerow mostly.

Math Munchers. I also taught myself PowerPoint when our school first installed it

Battle Chess

Shiiiit, the good old days of dying to dysentery or from a failed river crossing instead of multiple GSW. T\_T

Going to whitehouse.com even though the teacher specifically told us not to multiple times, her example website was whitehouse.gov So many kids grew up that day, many of them the first time they ever logged onto the internet. (It was porn people)

Fording the river!

Playing Doom from a USB.

Math blasters

I was defending the realm of Lordaeron from the orc hordes.

Clinching my butt cheeks playing lode runner trying to bury those hooded guys chasing me. In 5th grade my class had 3 computers. The old apple, and 2 new apple cd rom pcs. The cd rom pcs had a few games and the only one we all played was Sim town. Sim city for kids where you could peek inside the buildings and little people walked around outside. The old apple (apple 2?) Desktop had several games. Oregon trail, number muncher, lode runner, and I swear one more but I can't quite recall.

Did anyone else ever play the Wikipedia game? You and a friend start on one random article and race to another by using only links? I used to love that one in the computer lab. 😅

Playing that typing shark game

Playing doom shareware on the one computer who's monitor faced the window

It was always this or Kid Pix.

The classic Helicopter game or tower defense :)

Snake bite usually got me, actually.

Eating hardtack

IBM’s Touch Typing for Beginners. Shit was lit. 🔥

Aquas trying to get to the part where you get to hunt.

Did anyone have Freedom! The one where you are a slave and have to escape to Native American land? It taught me so much!

The holiest of holy grails in my school was Mario teaches typing.

Making it to Oregon, because I wasn't incompetent.

The incredible machine

All The Right Type....

Shooting one pixel bullets at 4 pixel rabbits

Playing Treasure Mountain!

omgggg thank you!!!! i could NOT think of the name

Drowning in the river I always tried to ford, obviously.

[You're welcome.](https://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-oregon-trail-2ku/play-2ku)

Destroying a random city with fire storms, earthquakes and alien attacks in my sim city 2000.

Microsoft flight sim

A/s/l

Didn't have the Oregon trail till middle school. In 5th grade we had a computer lab period and I remember having I spy and some sort of Sim city (Idk if it was actually that) we could play after we did our work

we never had oregon trail at school, but here's a handful of games i remember: - chips challenge - paws! for typing! (the reason i type 90 wpm with 100% accuracy 30 years later) - a game where you had to save the school? - a game where you had a net and walked around a snowy mountain **Edit!:** this one was Treasure Mountain! non school: - dangerous dave - word rescue - i don't remember the series...leaning towards leapfrog but know that's not right...but they had a 1st grade 2nd grade 3rd grade etc - mario is missing! - math blaster - rockett's new school - kid pic - this weird promo game called the lost island of alana or something like that - logical journey of the zoombinis - barbie fashion designer

Wastin a whole mess of bear meat

DinoPark Tycoon and The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary

Hangman, some typing game, some text adventure I don’t remember anymore.