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vga256
@vga256@dialup.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

if you were a kid in the 90s or early 2000s, you very likely goofed around with some of this educational software at school, or if your parents hated you sufficiently, at home.

a few months ago someone generously sent me an educational software catalog that their father - who was a teacher - had kept from the 90s. i finally got around to scanning it in, and now you too can goggle at the insane prices schools had to pay for multi-seat game licenses.

this is the catalog your teachers browsed in the summer, before unsuccessfully trying to convince the principal to lay down $495 for an Incredible Machine 3 lab pack.

(fwiw, does anyone really trust an edutainment company that can't spell brussels sprouts?)

pdf and original (400 dpi) scans here:

https://archive.org/details/software-plus-1996

#softwarePreservation#digiPres#retroComputing#retroGaming #edutainment

An ad for 3D Dinosaur Adventure, showing a screenshot from the edutainment software and some copy describing it.
An ad for 3D Dinosaur Adventure, showing a screenshot from the edutainment software and some copy describing it.
An ad for 3D Dinosaur Adventure, showing a screenshot from the edutainment software and some copy describing it.
An ad for The Incredible Machine Version 3.0

It shows a screenshot of the game with copy promoting the game.
An ad for The Incredible Machine Version 3.0 It shows a screenshot of the game with copy promoting the game.
An ad for The Incredible Machine Version 3.0 It shows a screenshot of the game with copy promoting the game.
An ad for Word City and Math Ace. It shows both games sitting on a plate with the tagline below, "It's brussel sprouts for the brain."
An ad for Word City and Math Ace. It shows both games sitting on a plate with the tagline below, "It's brussel sprouts for the brain."
An ad for Word City and Math Ace. It shows both games sitting on a plate with the tagline below, "It's brussel sprouts for the brain."
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