How cool is that?

http://www.ncsu.edu/news/press_releases/05_11/215.htm

11/16/2005 11:44:58 AM

I worked with Dr. Young on the Mimesis project, which will be a part of all this

11/16/2005 11:53:33 AM

I haven't read any more than the headline and I can tell you this is a bad idea. Since all learning can't come in the form of video games it's just getting kids addicted so they'll be artificially ADD when they have to actually read.

Also, why can't pRon be educational? I think I would learn something if maybe they could work a little calc or something in there.

Anyway, bad idea...can it.

11/16/2005 12:25:34 PM

what's wrong with educational games? didnt you play Oregon Trail? game was great



good idea

11/16/2005 12:30:04 PM

but what did Oregon Trail teach you? I learned that you could die from Typhoid, but not much else

11/16/2005 12:31:53 PM

Teaching in a video game? What a radical idea!

Quote :

"but what did Oregon Trail teach you? I learned that you could die from Typhoid, but not much else"

It taught me that you were and idiot of you didn't pick 'banker' as a profession. Money = better chance for survival. Oregon Trail was pretty much a "swears and dirty words on tombstones simulator" where I went to school.

[Edited on November 16, 2005 at 12:35 PM. Reason : -]

11/16/2005 12:32:12 PM

Oregon Trail contained quite a few historic spots that people taking the trail at that time would have stopped at, and you could 'talk' to people in the towns
also it made the dangers facing thoes taking the trail more apparent, and the fact that river crossings are a pain, esp. when 9 oxen die in 5 feet of water

and yeah, the ones with more money make it easier, lesson in life there

11/16/2005 12:39:30 PM

my roommate wants to know if anyone knows how to get oregon trail

11/16/2005 12:45:20 PM

http://www.classicgaming.com/rotw/otrail.shtml

two links at the bottom, one for the game files, one for the emulator, use applewin
there is a dos version, but the ones I found in my brief search weren't free

11/16/2005 12:51:17 PM

Quote :

"Oregon Trail was pretty much a "swears and dirty words on tombstones simulator" where I went to school."

Hah I remember how funny it was when someone put "My butt exploded"

11/16/2005 1:12:48 PM

Come on, they already have great educational games out there. Oregon Trail was history, Amazon Trail was science, Math Blaster was math, and Lemmings were engineering.

11/16/2005 2:06:40 PM

was the HEAT

[Edited on November 16, 2005 at 2:09 PM. Reason : f'real]

11/16/2005 2:08:42 PM

Where in The World is Carmon Sandiego - Geography

but yeah, all thoes games are old, all have relitivly poor graphics now (which were usually very good for their time)
new ones are needed, hopefully with improved graphics

11/16/2005 2:09:22 PM

word munchers and number munchers was the shiznite

11/16/2005 2:23:35 PM

ODELL LAKE

11/16/2005 2:36:17 PM

YES, HOLY SHIT I HAD FORGOTTON ABOUT MUNCHERS AND THE STUFF ON THAT MATH SHOW

YES

11/16/2005 2:37:20 PM

You have to make these games a little more exciting for kids nowadays, that's why I think a game like "Grand Theft Auto: Seasame Street" would work a little better. You could have them count out how many bullets they shot, it would be a great learning experience.

11/16/2005 2:42:23 PM

Well, the kids I babysit have those leapster learning video game systems. They're fairly entertaining. You get to spell with Spiderman and shit.

11/16/2005 2:59:43 PM

Oregon Trail taught me that if you shoot 750 lbs of buffalo, you can only take 100 lbs back to the wagon

guess the pioneers never heard of taking more than one trip

11/16/2005 3:37:50 PM

Am I the only one that remembers spellevator?

11/16/2005 4:16:02 PM

was that the game that had to jump over the enemies to get to the letters?

11/16/2005 7:09:05 PM

This is going to fail through the floor, seriously. Middle schoolers don't play video games to learn, they're busy smashed into pegs to be placed into the system. Sure, some of them may like video games, but, "THIS GAMEZ SUCKS IT HAS TOO MACH WARDS AOLOL".

11/16/2005 7:19:19 PM

i have oregon trail for PC on 3.5" floppies

like the original disks. they still work just fine too.


oh! we also played this number/math game where you got the pieces to make different bombs. it was an apple II game, like number munchers and stuff. anybody remember it? that would be such a no-no now to have bomb-making game. lol

[Edited on November 16, 2005 at 8:40 PM. Reason : ]

11/16/2005 8:35:26 PM

remember the game where u played this weird detective guy, walking through this crazy dudes TV station solving math problems til u found him?

everytime a robot came toward you u had to zap him with a remote, and then solve a math problem

i think u had to find out what room the crazy dude was hiding in or somethin, by solving math problems, that game was the shit

[Edited on November 16, 2005 at 8:42 PM. Reason : v]

11/16/2005 8:41:23 PM

^ i had that, it was awesome, can't remember the name though

11/16/2005 10:38:29 PM

^^outnumbered, wasn't it?

11/16/2005 10:47:28 PM

HELL YEA

outnumbered it was, gg









[Edited on November 16, 2005 at 10:52 PM. Reason : ]]

11/16/2005 10:48:25 PM

there were a couple others, i think, like that made by super solvers. midnight rescue and ancient empires. problem/puzzle solving


oooh, and operation neptune!

[Edited on November 16, 2005 at 10:51 PM. Reason : add]

11/16/2005 10:49:28 PM

I wish I could find a copy of Odell Lake.

11/16/2005 10:52:05 PM

have u ever played Odell down under? that shit was pretty fun too

11/16/2005 10:52:42 PM

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=781

odell down under, apparently

11/16/2005 10:57:49 PM

Oregon Trail #1... hands down

11/16/2005 11:10:36 PM

omg no one said
"reader rabit"
that was one of the things we had
it came out around wolfenstine3d
omg such an old game

11/17/2005 9:56:41 AM

quandry.

11/17/2005 5:50:06 PM

theres that new vtech shit too

11/17/2005 7:18:36 PM

everything i know i learned from QUAKE

11/17/2005 8:41:47 PM