#lets play zoombinis

[1wngdngl]

Let's Play Logical Journey of the Zoombinis - Episode 21

#youtube #videos #i made this #lets play #zoombinis #logical journey of the zoombinis #edutainment #video games #computer games

[katfreaks-hidyhole]

A nostalgic game from the past…

#kat draws art #traditional art #coloured art #zoombinis #zoombini game #I used to play this game as a kid #our primary sch used to let us play it as a treat #I was talking about this with my boyfriend #when I went to see him last week I found out he’d found and downloaded it from me to play #he’s so sweet #I finally sat down to play and fully complete one run #these little guys were the only survivors #they are so cute #I used to get stuck on the pizza loving creature as a kid #I do t remember ever getting past it #I was a dumb kid #this was cute nostalgia

[thoroughlycollected]

i just finished playing Sword and Fairy 7!!! i have things to say and they’re spoilers so i’m gonna put them under a cut

i can’t believe they really turned my boyfriend Xiu Wu back into fruit and then refused to resurrect him because he fell in love with my girlfriend Yue Qingshu 🙄 like i KNOW it’s against the laws of heaven and technically very valid but i feel like they could’ve cut me a break since heaven is so disorganized that they let Aoxu go so far without anyone realizing. also also i get that he sacrificed his life for hers but did that have to mean going back in the tree?

Jiutian Xuannu could have removed his divinity and made him “suffer” to live as a human, or forced him to degenerate into a Heaven Demon (white hair Xiu Wu in all black 😳). now my girl is walking around with a box of fruit she’s in love with lol he better cultivate a new body damn it.

and more than that. do i like. have to restart from the middle of the story in order to complete side quests and stuff? idk why i thought after the story ended it would be open world and i could just run around again but i really really did think that. i wanted to see Bai Moqing and Sang Yo’s wedding! i wanted to hang out in their house and bother Sang Mei! i wanted to collect herbs and make new poisons and go reconcile with er ge and then visit the Mingshu sect and go on adventures.

all these gripes are because the game is so fun, btw. i enjoyed it!! i really liked the story (i’ve seen people say it’s typical xianxia but i’m not super familiar with the genre so it’s new to me!!!!) and the setting and landscapes are beautiful. everything is so pretty and all the npcs are delightful. excellent world building, great weapons, cool outfits, the spell marks looked great. the bosses are a little tanky, but that’s what easy mode is for lmao.

#this game was really really fun #and all the cut scenes and dialogue made it feel more like a show than a game sometimes WHICH I LOVE #and if i find a level that lets me have all four party members and then just never return to the main quests then what. #is that how it’s supposed to go? #i’ve only completed 53.1% of the game this MUST be the move #i mean got to the end of the plot ‘technically’ finished lol #i’ve never finished a PS4 game before i only started playing recently #i’m a gameboy advance player an animal crossing on switch player #i’m a maplestory assassin’s creed guild wars zoombinis on PC gamer idk what to do with this hsjskexl #sword and fairy 7 #bai moqing #yue qingshu #xiu wu #sang yo #sang mei was soooooo pretty i care her v much

[andmaybegayer]

I think some of the whole "the kids These Days don't know how computers work" discourse gets the pattern backwards. It's often imagined that growing up in the 90's and early 2000's just inherently gifted you with Computer Literacy but I think that's an imagined past.

Most kids didn't spend that much time on The Computer, many of them didn't have a PC at home at all. I think what's happening is that kids are encountering computers more and more often in situations where they have to use it or else.

When I was in school I could have never touched a computer outside of my dedicated computer classes, I knew kids who hated typing who hand-wrote essays even when given the option to type, their typing skills were garbage.

Nowadays you get a Chromebook and a homework website login and an email and suddenly the overwhelming majority of kids who didn't play Zoombinis for a hundred hours are having to figure this out in real time while also doing school.

I'd have to look into what forces drove the heavy computerisation of childhood education specifically (the dot com boom is probably the answer) but the reason for the computerisation of the rest of life is because it's a huge ease of use and efficiency improvement over working by hand even if you aren't comfortable with it the second you have to send a document further than 100km for edits.

Most kids I think do not spend their childhoods learning how to use computers, and the belief that all these kids are computer whizzes comes from not being able to tell the difference between the small fraction of genuine computer users plus a larger chunk of people who kinda figured out phones when those came out because phones let them talk to their friends.

#disk horse #computer stuff

[babyraccy]

im playing zoombinis again lets see if i can do it this time

#im on VH on hotel demensia but its like... kind of broken

[ellie-lovett]

im playing zoombinis and i just got the mid way point to very hard and i went the fleens route first and let me just say this shit is fucking with my brain

how in THE HELL were children expected to complete this

my brain keeps short circuiting

i have to write shit down to keep track of everything

#zoombinis #how the fuck #children played this??? #is the steam version just harder??? #im going crazy

[vimesbootstheory]

Favourite games in 2022 (not necessarily released in 2022 or even played for the first time in 2022, just... what I most vibed with in 2022):

Honourable Mention: Power Wash Simulator -- The ultimate game for listening to an audiobook and zenning the fuck out.

5. Zoombinis -- Rediscovered this game that was on the class PC in the corner of the portable back in grade 4. It gets genuinely hard at the higher levels?? Nothing like this game for making me feel stupid, getting stumped by an educational game for kids.

4. Dysmantle -- Really excellent gameplay loop. I should get back into this. This has a very amusing tetris effect where it makes you look at objects in the real world and be like "yeah I could break that".

3. Vampire Survivors -- Absolutely addictive. Another great game for listening to an audiobook, but with more actual gameplay. It looks like complete eye-gouging nonsense until you actually play it.

2. Mass Effect Legendary Edition -- I had just started romancing Tali when I got distracted by NaNoWriMo, gotta get back to that. I have played this series so many times and it remains ridiculously replayable. ME2 in particular is so good, and a lot hornier than I remembered it being.

1.Outer Wilds -- This shot to the top of my list of favourite games this year. It's so good. The DLC did not land with me as well as the main game did but that is not saying much. It is a terrible curse to love this game, since I want to tell everyone about it but it's a game you cannot spoil. And I do not mean that in like a... MCU, don't let the actors know what scene they're filming, kinda way. I mean that if I tell you anything about it, I am robbing gameplay from you. OK, here's one thing I will say so I don't sound like I'm being cagey for no reason: if you know what a metroidvania is, Outer Wilds is like a knowledge metroidvania. Where in a regular metroidvania, power ups give you access to new areas and let you finish the game, in Outer Wilds, knowledge gives you access to understand how to finish the game. Do yourself a favour and play this game, and do it completely blind.

#zoombinis #dysmantle #vampire survivors #mass effect #outer wilds

[echthr0s]

there are three other computer games from my childhood that defined my childhood gaming experience but they seem to be even more obscure than I thought Zoombinis was

Power Pete was like the most impossible game for me, like my child brain did not comprehend more traditional action-game type mechanics and I could never get past more than like 2 levels. it fascinated me how bad I was at it, actually. that's why I kept trying to play it, I was legit marvelling at my failures like a scientist LOL but the plot was literally just... Power Pete is an action figure in a toy store and at night the toys come alive and fight each other??? something like that idk I should look it up but all I remember is the compelling opening cinematic where he busts out of his box lmfao

AlienTales was a game show but in space. the host and the contestants and everyone are all aliens and the puzzles they're trying to solve are all about Earth books. and everyone's name is a pun on phrases that have "of" in them so it could look like So-and-So of Such-and-Such Planet, yknow? the host's name was Sal of deCentury and my favourite contestant was a two-headed alien named Yer Yout of Yer Mind alkdfjklajfjlkagj <3 the gameplay and dialogue was also very good, like I played it so many times that I had all the puzzles fkn memorised but it didn't even matter bc it was always a delight

Felix the Cat's Cartoon Toolbox...... listen. you don't understand how much fun this was. it let you make whole ass cartoon episodes with Felix the Cat characters. we're talkin full animation here, like you build a cartoon set and then you put the characters in and you set up what you want them to do and what props are there and any sound effects and then you press play and the shit plays out in front of you like a Saturday morning cartoon. I swear to god this was one of the best things to exist, like the creativity and potential was literally off the charts apparently one of those old-game archive sites has this available for download, btw. I'm considering it

#there was also math blaster which mostly sticks with me for its lonesome space vibes and the sound effects #like the trash thing on the spaceship... that sound effect will always stick with me. it was just so unique #i love nineties-era educational computer games so so much #... oh my god i also just remembered that i definitely had a childhood crush on sal of decentury #my first alienfucker moment.................. #singularity.txt

[seriouslydidijustdothat]

Got tagged by @gatotsu! (however many eons ago. January was a long year)

Comfort movie: Anything animated, I wanna say most “old” Disney movies, and then some, but... specifically: Anastasia, Lilo & Stitch, Titan A.E., The Rescuers Down Under, Rise of the Guardians? And more I’m forgetting...

Comfort food: audhfiushdfi, ONE??? Impossible. UM. Bread, pasta, chocolate, brioche, ohh galette des rois?? I never have that so I don’t think it counts but mentally it’s what I need 😭

Comfort clothes: depends on the weather/season, but a t-shirt and leggings? sweatpants-y? Plus a cozy sweater/hoodie if it’s cold

Comfort song: heavily depends what mood I’m in, let’s see... We are Bulletproof: the Eternal, recently Nive Who I am. I don’t remember things in general unless I’ve been recently reminded of them 😬

Comfort book: hmm... feels like I don’t have one atm, but at some point Harry Potter (I’d read them once a year, or skip through some), do love Animorphs but I haven’t reread those (yet). Childhood French book or two, OR, Fullmetal Alchemist and Rurouni Kenshin series 🥰 (Red River and From Far Away are strong contenders too)

Comfort game: ohh boy... I don’t play games that regularly anymore so it’ll probably depend on my mood. Age of Empires? Sims! Roller Coaster/Zoo Tycoon, and going way back in time... Zoombinis!

Tagging @likefireinanaviary @purple-possibilities @quartz-candles @bilesandthesourwolf @chai-wali-bai and anyone else who wants to play! Do tag me in your responses, I prefer to read ‘em than write ‘em 😆😅

#tag game #tumblr friends

[monriatitans]

Ta-Da! List: Thursday - 12/14

I have decided to make a “Ta-Da! List” every day! There won’t be TMI.

Don’t know what a “Ta-Da! List” is? To learn more, check out @adhdjesse‘s book Extra Focus here.

– (throughout the day) made emails more manageable by deleting some while unsubscribing from email lists no longer necessary/wanted continued creating Feature Images for games played, and began creating Thumbnails for and/or adding Timestamps to older YouTube videos: the 20210411 Let’s Play With the iPad! (LPiPad) – Zoombinis: Logical Journey video, the 20210418 LPSS – Battle for Wesnoth video, the 20210321 LPSS – Battle for Wesnoth video, the 20210320 LPSS – Battle for Wesnoth video, the 20221204 LPSS – CrossCode video, the 20221127 LPSS – Hades video, the 20221113 LPSS Split Attention CrossCode + Hades video; got tired of listing them, check out @monriatitans on YouTube if you’re curious; made it into the LPSS videos of 2021 – updated the size of, or added, the [DATE] field in all Feature Image Templates

Well, these are all the updates I had for today! Thank you for reading!

May every decision you make in the future be in *the spirit of fairness* and may the rest of your day *NOT go to $#!7*!

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[thoughtsfromthewindowsill]

Me: man, I wish I could play Hollow Knight! It's so cool looking & I love watching let's plays of it!

Friend: why can't you? It's available on PC...

Me: the following is a comprehensive list of all the video/computer games I have ever played

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing

Reader Rabbit Grade 2

Cluefinders Third Grade

Cluefinders Fifth Grade

Logical Journey of the Zoombinis

Zoombinis Mountain Rescue

The Oregon Trail

Minecraft (primarily creative mode)

two total rounds of MarioKart

Untitled Goose Game

The only one of these I have completed is Cluefinders Third Grade.

Friend: oh. You can't play Hollow Knight.

[1wngdngl]

Let's Play Logical Journey of the Zoombinis - Episode 20

#youtube #videos #lets play #zoombinis #logical journey of the zoombinis #i made this #computer games #video games #edutainment

[tehscud]

Retronomicon - Zoombinis - 11

Nova loves Zoombinis. Scud doesn't remember them. Nova is great at the game. Scud has no idea what's going on. The Retronomicon continues!

#stream #Retronomicon #twitch #nova #comedy #can't play #scud #pc #funny #zoombinis #lets play zoombinis #let's Play Video games #letsplay #let'splay #let's play #videogame #video #game #gaming

[jaybird1306]

Zoombinis: Make me a PIZZA! 

Jaybird plays solo today, taking a trip down nostalgia avenue (next to memory lane)! 

 I save zoombinis from a terrible fate, enjoy pineapple on pizza and float across a bottomless ravine!   

If you'd like to catch the live show, join us on Twitch on Mondays and Thursdays at 3pm Eastern! https://www.twitch.tv/jaybird1306/

#zoombinis #lets play #jaybird #Nostalgia #retro #broderbund

[lookinlikeaking]

it’s been long enough since I gabbed about @shazzbaa and I’s lets play channel over here, right?? right?!??;;;;

WE’RE STILL PLAYING GAMES!! We just finished Transistor, and have played uh... z...zoombinis... aND ALSO THIS GAME, the Awareness Rooms!! [so the video above is uhh kinda like a spoiler i guess]

this is actually the first video I did some editing on, which I had originally done to just make Shazz laugh and then we decided to stick it in the actual video. (though in the actual video it’s done a little differently because we wanted to include more parts that were relevant to the rest of the video, and also because Shazz had to redo all the editing cause her video program doesn’t kILL THE HECKIN QUALITY like mine does)

but i’m kinda proud of my?? first attempt at doing some comedic editing? we uh... we were very good at game.

WATCH THE FULL LETS PLAY HERE

#shazzbaa #lets play #Shazz and Boo LP #Shazz and Boo #awareness rooms

[lanternringsonallthethings]

Let's talk about learning with videogames

I remember the first video games I played were educational games on my computer. Being the nerd I am, I loved them. Zoombinis, Magic School Bus Games, Oregon Trail, JumpStart Games, Humungous Entertainment, The Learning Company... I loved those games, and honestly, I think it’s a big reason I did well in school. Those games taught me some academic stuff, yeah, but what they really taught me to do was to love LEARNING. They taught me to get invested in something I wanted to do. To, as Ms. Frizzle would say, take chances, make mistakes, and get messy! Those games didn’t necessarily teach me anything that I remembered in school, but they really did teach me how to learn.

And recently, I’ve been reminded of that. As I got older and had the money to buy my own games, I gravitated toward Portal, Pokemon, Zelda, and all manner of point-and-click adventures! Games that got me to THINK, to learn and re-learn how they worked. Even when I play a shooter, I like ones with unique classes and weapons that require strategy, that force me to think about what I choose to use and how I use them. (TF2, Overwatch, Battlefront II (2005), etc.)

Example from a game I just completed: The Legend of Zelda: the Wind Waker. I had no idea how to beat puppet Ganon. The game doesn’t tell me, of course, so I need to think on my toes. I’d just gotten the light arrows, and the bats keep dropping magic, so I try light arrows. That’s too difficult to aim, but the ropes on the puppet look just like ones on enemies I beat with the boomerang, so I try that. A few boomerang hits, and few light arrows, and BAM! Phase 2. Similar to phase 1 but I need to position myself to hit the correct spot.

Then phase 3. GOOD GOSH PHASE 3. It’s so fast and I can’t hit him at all. I try to stop the boss, but my sword only slows him for a second. Nowhere near enough time to pull out my bow and hit him. Then I notice his mouth is open, just like previous enemies that I had to beat with bombs. And WHAT DO YOU KNOW, it worked! Bombs stop the puppet long enough for me to hit him, 1, 2, 3, and Puppet Ganon is defeated!

The point I want to make is that, through a mix of prior knowledge and visual cues, the game taught me how to play it without saying a single thing. No instructions, no lectures, no “Here’s exactly how you beat the boss now do it.”

Just learning.

If only our schools were that efficient.

#education #school #windwaker #legend of zelda #learn #learning #magic school bus #zoombinis #oregon trail #portal #pokemon #TF2 #overwatch #battlefront2 #star wars battlefront ii