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#72 Super Solvers Mission: T.H.I.N.K. (PC, 1999)


While we are all somewhat close together in age I assume, years in age difference can be huge when it comes to playing edutainment games. While others have posted early-to-mid 90s games, I was born in the 90s, so by the time I started playing games on the computer, there were different edutainment games sold in stores. I didn't play many edutainment games to be honest. Most of them dealt with marine life or ancient civilizations, but the one that I always held in the highest esteem was Mission T.H.I.N.K.

You . There's a car assembly puzzle where you have to guide a car built by your design along a series of elevators that has to pass various conditions along the way. There's a maze of doors and hallways where you have to set traps for enemies that try to impede your progress. There's plenty more too, but at the end of each floor or however they separated the areas, there's a rather unique chess-like game where you have to get your pawn to the opposite side before your opponent does using a fixed set of items with different effects. While I had a lot of fun with each puzzle type, I honestly think what caused me to like it as much as I did was how each floor was home to progressively more complex puzzles that did a good job at enhancing my critical thinking skills in a different way than other video games did.

The sense of accomplishment from an edutainment game like this was unparalled for me, and for that, it is one of the games I first think of when it comes to nostalgia.

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