Mr. Eight-Three-One | James Discovers Math Walkthrough @MrEightThreeOne | Uploaded 4 years ago | Updated 23 hours ago
G'day mate, can I interest you in math edutainment?
I needed content for this channel, and it wasn't going to make itself, so I went through my game discs binder and flipped through until I found one I could walkthrough at a moment's notice. And here you go. This is actually a game I had as a kid that was buried deep in my memory's farthest reaches. It's another one among Broderbund's library of edutainment titles, but compared to some of their more noteworthy titles, this one feels kinda dry. That's not to say it's a bad game, not at all -- but I only remember playing it for a little while when I was very young (no older than 5), and didn't keep playing it very long compared to other games in my library. It has a lot of character and charm to it, there's effort that was put into it, but...I dunno man, I guess it just didn't stick with me like other games did.
Playing it again, I honestly forgot how young an audience this game targeted. The game only teaches the absolute preschool level fundamentals of math -- so mostly shapes and counting. There's only one activity in the whole game that teaches any sort of equations. The prevelance of early age voice acting makes that even more apparent. While I don't necessarily want to knock the game down for that, early learning edutainment games usually focused on a broad range of subjects and even then still had trouble cramming enough activities in to keep kids entertained -- so spreading it as thin as one subject ends up with a very barebones experience, in my opinion. I will say, I did at least like the storybook activity as a kid.
If you have fond memories of this game, by all means all the more power to you -- it was noteworthy enough to get a Wikipedia page which has to count for something. Hope you enjoy the walkthrough!
G'day mate, can I interest you in math edutainment?
I needed content for this channel, and it wasn't going to make itself, so I went through my game discs binder and flipped through until I found one I could walkthrough at a moment's notice. And here you go. This is actually a game I had as a kid that was buried deep in my memory's farthest reaches. It's another one among Broderbund's library of edutainment titles, but compared to some of their more noteworthy titles, this one feels kinda dry. That's not to say it's a bad game, not at all -- but I only remember playing it for a little while when I was very young (no older than 5), and didn't keep playing it very long compared to other games in my library. It has a lot of character and charm to it, there's effort that was put into it, but...I dunno man, I guess it just didn't stick with me like other games did.
Playing it again, I honestly forgot how young an audience this game targeted. The game only teaches the absolute preschool level fundamentals of math -- so mostly shapes and counting. There's only one activity in the whole game that teaches any sort of equations. The prevelance of early age voice acting makes that even more apparent. While I don't necessarily want to knock the game down for that, early learning edutainment games usually focused on a broad range of subjects and even then still had trouble cramming enough activities in to keep kids entertained -- so spreading it as thin as one subject ends up with a very barebones experience, in my opinion. I will say, I did at least like the storybook activity as a kid.
If you have fond memories of this game, by all means all the more power to you -- it was noteworthy enough to get a Wikipedia page which has to count for something. Hope you enjoy the walkthrough!
