Heh, I loved Zoombinies when I was younger. Though I probably wouldn't personally buy them, I'd still like to have 'em here along with Humongous' games.

THIS IS MY STUFF THAT I DESIRE PLEASE. ;)

he is working on that game for atleast 7 years now, i am actually one of them who preordered it(paying it upfront) a few years ago.
he claimed he did rewrite and recreate whole parts.
i still believe he can be trusted and will eventually ship out the game.
but yeah he shouldnt have made promises like that every half year or so or not be that much of a perfectionist and ship out the game earlier.
he could just have gone on to make a new one which could have been to what he eventually wanted.

I have this old game called GlobeTrotter. You basically fly around the world and do odd-jobs so you can live in the country you came to. You have some funds at the beginning the game, and you have to pay for airplane tickets and lodging. As you arrive to a new country, you get asked some various questions about the city you are in (usually the capital) and the nation in general. If you get through that OK, then you are considered well acquainted with the country and can apply for better jobs. When you get a job, there is a simplistic minigame that determines how much money you get in the end, obviously the better you are, the more cash you get.

Although the game gets boring after a while (repetitive minigames), it's quite interesting at the beginning. It could be considered somewhat educational, since it teaches you some things about different countries you visit, but it's quite outdated now (probably older than 15 years).

Looks like all the old broderbund games are owned by TLC, who is owned by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt... whoever that is, and a few of the IPs are now owned by Ubisoft.

They're text book publishers. Houghton Mifflin are well known in the educational field. It isn't strange that they would have an interest in educational games, although, I'm curious why they bought them if they aren't selling them.

I'd love to have the Zoombini games on here. They're awesome little brain teasers and I would definitely buy a version that worked with Win 7.

EDIT: Actually, I want a version that works on Windows *8*. Mobile Zoombinis FTW!

No way am I paying 5.99 USD for Math Blaster on GOG! As for Oregon Trail I think various forms of it might be playable for "free" (as in, maybe even with permission). Odell Lake has so many remakes there's no point, etc.

Yeah, a bunch of the more strictly education games - Super Solvers, etc - probably wouldn't be worth putting up. The Jumpstart series probably isn't a real winner either.

aww I liked super solvers.
But there are many options that they can get. I know there are various forms of Oregon trail I, but not so much of II, III and IV. Could get some of the most popular ones and put them into a pack like Gog does with alot of games.

Hey hey, bundles my man. I'd imagine 3+ of the edutainment games stuck together, probably in grade order (first grade math, second grade math, etc.); or maybe you could mix and match the 3 titles you want for 5.99.

I'm wondering if anyone (besides myself) would pay 5.99 for a Pajama Sam, Spy Fox, or other HE title. They're pretty close to average adventure game lengths, but the kid-focus might make people think they won't get their money's worth. I'd think, again, bundling 2 together might be the better way to go, but Atari is re-selling the original Pajama Sam on the Wii for, like, 20 bucks, so not sure if or how that'd fly.

I always found most HE games to be rather short, but had rather decent replay value since a good chunk of it was slightly different every play through. I would love to get a few packs of them.

Operation Neptune from The Learning Company was a legit good game math aside even. The only thing that really made it a kids' game was art style and difficulty (math and gameplay). Some Carmen Sandiego games would be even better, though. Just bundle a bunch of the Where in the World and Where in Time games because they're essentially identical anyways. A lot of the older-level Learning Company games were good, but Neptune doesn't fit into their lazy formula and focused on gameplay, and so was much better.

(Speaking of the Carmen games, another good game was the Where in Time that was renamed Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through TIme or something like that, and its World sequel, Treasures of Knowledge. The first was actually a pretty high-quality old school adventure game, though again there's the low difficulty, and I believe the latter was similar though I never had the chance to buy it. Seriously, overlook the difficulty and any old schooler would like them. Certainly better than the Putt Putt games. My brother actually bought the CD a few months ago just for the hell of it. I didn't know it had left an impression on anyone but me!

((Speaking of learning Adventure games, Mecc's Museum Madness was also pretty good, and probably harder, but it wasn't a pure Adventure. Minigame puzzles and such.)))

My point is, I would buy all these games again.