LGR Edutainment - Gizmos & Gadgets

My parents were teachers for 35 years, when windows 95 came out the school all got new pc for every classroom. My dad was head of training and programs (he taught 3rd grade, not an IT guy) he had purchased damn near all of your edutainment month titles back in the mid to late 90s for the entire school. 8-12 year old me thanks you for the nostalgia trip.

They're memories. Though now a days I really wish I had held on to that old beast. It was a throw away from the law firm my aunt worked for when they were upgrading to be "Y2K compatible." Had the Jump Start 3rd Grade as the other piece of edutainment, and a pinball game that I can't remember the name of. Wasted so much time on ski free with it as well.

Tyler J Hebblethwaite

Sweet. Hopefully they're some decent memories.

LGR

Nice! I've never played the Mac version but there's always something that feels "right" about edutainment on an Apple machine.

LGR

You bet, I'm glad you liked it! And just awesome to hear your daughters are diggin' the game as well :) Check out the Super Solvers section of Internet Archive if you get the chance too, there's a ton of great classic games to play for free. https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games?and%5B%5D=solvers&sin=

LGR

Hehe, thanks. I'm sure viewers of JerryRigEverything will appreciate the reference :)

LGR

Haha, the whole "but it's educational" argument. Having grown up homeschooled, that eventually became the argument for literally anything :D Glad you appreciated the video, Steve!

LGR

I hope you enjoyed, Tom!

LGR

Hehe, ahh the days of specific game versions being both hard to find and hard to run. I spent so many nights hunting down obscure CDs on eBay. We're spoiled now with so many ways to play and download old games, especially Internet Archive.

LGR

Thank you for doing what you're doing at work!

LGR

Learning Company games were quite the special thing indeed back then. Seeing a new one come along was so exciting.

LGR

Glad to hear it! I wish I had a nice place to walk alone nearby. All the hiking trails and parks are closed off.

LGR

Midnight Rescue is awesome! Always loved the nighttime vibe of that one, wandering school halls with weird robots going around.

LGR

Quite possibly! It was re-released as a budget title around that time.

LGR

Ahh, it's glorious. This era in VGA/FM synth music is golden.

LGR

Happy to see the rare comment, Skoddie! Hope you enjoyed the new Foods videos posted today :)

LGR

Oh dang, which one though! Treasure Mathstorm is solid, Outnumbered as well.

LGR

Just realized I had this game on my Packard-Bell 3.11 machine back in the day.

Tyler J Hebblethwaite

I played the crap outta this game on my school's PowerPC 5x00 all-in-ones. One of my favorite edutainment titles ever.

andy c

Fantastic review as always! This was one of my absolute favourite edutainment games growing up. I can’t believe the timing of your review- in the middle of homeschooling my kids (like everyone else these days) and looking for more fun material I just re-installed this on my 286 DOS 5.0 and Pentium III Windows 98 retro-PC’s this past weekend! My daughters love it! Thanks for all the great videos- keep up your awesome work 👍

electricitynerd

DOS is DOS, and DOS breaks 😄 I love it!

Gizmos and Gadgets was one of my favorites as a kid. I had this same version, in the same box that you've got. We had all of the other old Learning Company games back in the day, which I'd use to con our mother into letting me play for longer than she'd typically allow. "But, Mom – it's EdUcAtIoNaL." They were (almost) legitimate games, too. Pretty good for their own sake, even without the edutainment factor. Operation Neptune was a great one. Anyhow, thanks so much for this video! It's always great to see you covering something I remember from back in the day.

Steve Skafte

I am super excited about this episode. Gizmos and Gadgets was by far my favorite edutainment game when I was a kid. For some reason I was never able to get it for our home computer as a kid, but I made sure it was one of the first games I installed on my DOS PC once I built it.

Played the living crap out of the Windows 3.1 version of the game. Sadly my specific version wasn't available to download when I had an itch to play it again, so I'm had to buy the 3 game complication it came in. I also remember a Carmon Sandiego game which gave me nightmares, and this never played. Good times

Andre Pothier

I'm in Australia, there's some changes but I'm an essential worker (hospital) so no changes for me amazing video, I've never actually heard of this game or the series at all before

I grew up playing this and the other The Learning Company games. This was my favorite of the bunch.

Druid42

Switzerland here - we are all fine :) no curfew just nonessential stores lockdown and an recommendation to stay at home - so people without hobbies go crazy but for me its just daily routine, go for a hour long walk (alone) with or without my camera and then play some games or paint up some minis ooooooor... watch LGR :D

Axonteer

I would have loved that game as a kid! Instead, I had Midnight Rescue, which was fun figuring out which robot was the one, but like you said with these puzzles, the stories you have to read get old after a while. And in that one, your dude does plod along if you walk, so I'd always do the jump thing too.

Jason Wellband

Really don’t know if I played this circa 2000ish. Seems so familiar, but can’t connect it. Might have been one of my first games.

I have never played that title back in the days, but those VGA graphics and AdLib music tracks sure give me a warm feeling

Frederic St-Georges

I was /thrilled/ to see this pop up on my phone just now. This was, hands down, my favorite edutainment game to play as a kid despite only having it at school and never at home. I don't comment on here very often, but thanks for doing what you do! Your videos, including LGR Foods, and Blerbs genuinely bring a lot of much needed joy to my life.

Skoddie

Also, I want to play Skyrim with Chimps

John Covil

I hope you get a boxed copy of Challenge of the Ancient Empires. That was the one I played the crap out of as a kid.

John Covil

lies the best super solver was the math one

Kijikun