Top 10 Educational Video Games
When I talk about video games from the 1980’s, I usually wax nostalgic about Adventure or Centipede. Sometimes I even rave about Arkanoid, but I never thought to look at the Educational Games. Educational Games Research, however has listed their picks for the top ten educational games of the 80’s:
My favorite of the group was Sim City. I learned a lot about city planning from that game and clogged traffic makes me a little more calm when I imagine a city planner trying desperately to fix the problem without having to bulldoze buildings to do it.
Kudos to them for choosing Microsoft Solitaire for the list. That game single-handedly taught the world how to use a mouse. I remember Mike telling me how as the IT officer, he assigned people to play that game so they would learn how to click, drag and double-click. It was a stroke of genius for Microsoft to include that game with their operating system.
Via: WWdN: In Exile: some generation x nostalgia for a monday morning