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Topic	The Board 8 Discord #sports Chat Ranks Their Top 100 Respective Games
MrSmartGuy 01/11/21 7:45:11 PM #331:	#74 - The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain (PC, my GotY for 1994) When I was a kid, most of my favorite games were edutainment games on PC. Magic School Bus in space and back in time, a bunch of Carmen Sandiego titles, and this series called Living Books, that weren't games, just picture books where you could click on stuff and something wacky would happen on the screen. However, in the middle of all this was a really great game about a mad scientist that tried to make his rat smart enough to have conversations with, but fucking up and transferring ALL of his own intelligence over, and you had to do 10 kinds of puzzles to revert the process and fix everything. In one of them, you had to fix a scrambled famous work of music by swapping the bars, and flipping them so they fit. In one of them, you have to micromanage a bunch of different colored objects on train tracks, make sure none of them crash, and then send them to the station in the order he wants them in. One of them teaches kids about fucking computer logic and sub-routines, to make your character move throughout a level, picking up brains and avoiding enemies! Not only was it super fun, there was a really solid learning experience to be had, too. I'm pretty sure I'd have to really think about how to complete some of that last minigame's hardest puzzles even now as a 32 year old man. Hell, Im looking at that last picture that is already mostly solved and wondering how youre supposed to fit all that into 8 moves! And if that all wasn't enough, the intro is crazy good. The title music is great and incorporates sound clips from all 10 games, and then the cinematography and background music of the opening cutscene make it legitimately tense and intriguing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f43lclvdY5Q This game actually started at #94 on my list, but after researching a bit of this write-up and having a massive nostalgia bomb dropped on my face, I decided to bump it up a lot. This game deserves it; it's rad. --- Xbox GT/PSN name/Nintendo ID: TatteredUniform http://www.scuffletown.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/tRBE1.gif <cite>MrSmartGuy posted [p:949396473] in The Board ... [t:79208627]...</cite> <quote>#74 - The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain (PC, my GotY for 1994) When I was a kid, most of my favorite games were edutainment games on PC. Magic School Bus in space and back in time, a bunch of Carmen Sandiego titles, and this series called Living Books, that weren't games, just picture books where you could click on stuff and something wacky would happen on the screen. However, in the middle of all this was a really great game about a mad scientist that tried to make his rat smart enough to have conversations with, but fucking up and transferring ALL of his own intelligence over, and you had to do 10 kinds of puzzles to revert the process and fix everything. In one of them, you had to fix a scrambled famous work of music by swapping the bars, and flipping them so they fit. In one of them, you have to micromanage a bunch of different colored objects on train tracks, make sure none of them crash, and then send them to the station in the order he wants them in. One of them teaches kids about fucking computer logic and sub-routines, to make your character move throughout a level, picking up brains and avoiding enemies! Not only was it super fun, there was a really solid learning experience to be had, too. I'm pretty sure I'd have to really think about how to complete some of that last minigame's hardest puzzles even now as a 32 year old man. Hell, Im looking at that last picture that is already mostly solved and wondering how youre supposed to fit all that into 8 moves! And if that all wasn't enough, the intro is crazy good. The title music is great and incorporates sound clips from all 10 games, and then the cinematography and background music of the opening cutscene make it legitimately tense and intriguing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f43lclvdY5Q This game actually started at #94 on my list, but after researching a bit of this write-up and having a massive nostalgia bomb dropped on my face, I decided to bump it up a lot. This game deserves it; it's rad. --- Xbox GT/PSN name/Nintendo ID: TatteredUniform http://www.scuffletown.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/tRBE1.gif</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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