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And yet thats exactly what happens in Odell Lake (with a timer no less), which plays like a neurotic fishs nightmare, complete with a flesh-devouring otter.

These games sought to entertain as well as educate with the clichd goal of making learning fun.

For claritys sake, were limiting this article to personal computer-based titles, so you wont find any console games on the list.

When youre done reading, please tell us your favorite educational titles in the comments below.

Its most popular edition shipped as a sample program with Apple II computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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In the game you play as a grade school tycoon who sets up a cutthroat curbside lemonade shop made out of cardboard (ok, maybe Im reading too much into this), and you have to decide how to control inventory, set your prices, and advertise based on weather conditions.

The gameplay is entirely text-based, aside from the rare weather report screen, but it is surprisingly addictive.

If space travel were really like this, Neil Armstrong would have been the best typist of all humankind.

Thanks to a recently developed JavaScript Apple II emulator, you now can play the original Apple II version of MasterType online thanks to the Internet Archive.

If it all sounds pointless, youre not an electronic engineer.

And yet this complex title was beloved by parents and educators of the time precisely for its ability to educationally torture your brain.

By the way, this game was developed by Warren Robinett, the creator of Adventure on the Atari 2600.

In that game, the player also controls a squarewhile fighting a dragon that looks like a duck.

So many kids played this game in school computer labs across the US that it has become a shared cultural meme, spawning ironic T-Shirts about dysentery and spoofs like zombie-themed The Organ Trail.

In the real game, settlers hitch up a covered wagon with their family and try to make their way across the untamed Western territories while fending off rivers, bears, broken cart wheels, and various once-common, horrible diseases that we can now make fun of in industrialized nations thanks to vaccines.

Either way, it must have worked well, because it was an award-winning, critically acclaimed title that inspired many sequels over the following 25 years, including a recent game for the Nintendo Wii.

You can now play the original 1984 game online thanks to the Internet Archive.

That show existed due to the popularity of the Carmen Sandiego series, which taught kids culture and geography while chasing the super spy Carmen throughout various locales.

In the first game (published in 1985), players would chase Carmen throughout world cities, and in the very successful sequels, she could be found hiding across the USA and even through time itself.

They loved it so much that teachers used it as a reward for finishing a test early.

In the game, you play as a green stilt-legged creature who must eat the correct numerical answers to the questions or problems shown on the top of the screen.

But watch out for those monstrous baddies, who apparently hate math.