How would you have done Club Kidsoft better?

[Heatblizzard]

Club Kidsoft was the first service to provide 'cloud' computing where you buy games thru their magazine which came with a CD. Here's a preview: https://youtu.be/7rTNp9wEtmg?si=RZSSiwzC7rd25HKe I skipped way ahead to the 'club house' scene where you can choose where to go as the author BS's for a bit before. I'm not actually sure what he was doing.

Club Kidsoft had a bad downside to it where each game had a unique keycode and if you lose it or lose Windows you were outta luck and had to buy it all over again. It would be like if Steam gave you a hard keycode for your favorite game you install and it could ONLY be used once. If your computer crashed and you logged back into Steam it was done forever unless you paid $$$ again.

I'd have each game/software be tied to your then non existing 'Club' account which would manage everything you did so you could reinstall as much as you needed or have filters.etc if you no longer liked a game or don't like a game on their catalog and wish to never see the box art again.

[【ボス B o s s】]

Oh my god this is like a beautiful time capsule of early media.
https://youtu.be/7ynFs8jDoqg
I'll just leave this here.

[Heatblizzard]

Originally posted by The Boss™:

Oh my god this is like a beautiful time capsule of early media.
https://youtu.be/7ynFs8jDoqg
I'll just leave this here. :lilacstare:

Oh God! No! I hated that game it was so moronic compared to other education titles out there that had more interactive stuff and actually made you think. As a kid I knew there were way better titles out there that offered actually better value for the money. Did you know schools had a special contract? It's the only reason Reader Rabbit got 'popular'.

[【ボス B o s s】]

https://youtu.be/q6kOk76I900
What about cluefinders?

[Heatblizzard]

Hell Money Town was even better despite it's severe limitations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5vyQNDswi4 you could actually do things and saw the rewards of what you did as crazy as some of the concepts of the game was. My favorites were the quiz show by Penny and the money maze game with Small Change especially the harder levels.

[Heatblizzard]

Originally posted by The Boss™:

https://youtu.be/q6kOk76I900
What about cluefinders? :zagsnooze:

I heard about Clue Finders but they were not available anywhere I was. We lived in the mountains of California and had to go to Reno to shop. Stores back then were actually better looking so it was always fun just to browse. We had to move too many times and had too many computer changes. My favorite was the Carmen Sandiego Ones where the characters walk around the screen and you had these fact kiosks.

[Heatblizzard]

Originally posted by The Boss™:

https://youtu.be/q6kOk76I900
What about cluefinders? :zagsnooze:

I bet Clue Finders would work on PCEM. I can emulate up to a Pentium MMX Overdrive but can't do PII as it needs a stronger host PC and the current ones can do some PII speeds but not all due to the insane instruction sets needing to be interpreted.

[Heatblizzard]

Originally posted by The Boss™:

https://youtu.be/q6kOk76I900
What about cluefinders? :zagsnooze:

Actually I got the name mixed up. It was Eagle Eye Mysteries I've heard of.

[Heatblizzard]

https://youtu.be/7rTNp9wEtmg?si=WFthvzFS-cAAE6wd&t=343
Eagle Eye Mysteries. I still wonder what it was about. It won't actually skip to that moment.

[【ボス B o s s】]

https://youtu.be/7F4_kzb_vzg
Math Blaster?

[ʙᴜɴ.ᴇ]

Originally posted by The Boss™:

Oh my god this is like a beautiful time capsule of early media.
https://youtu.be/7ynFs8jDoqg
I'll just leave this here. :lilacstare:

lol I remember playing reader rabbit a lot when I was little.

[Heatblizzard]

Originally posted by The Boss™:

https://youtu.be/7F4_kzb_vzg
Math Blaster?

Is that the one where the guy comes out of the rocket ship and tells you how many aliens to count and even did dividing and all that? It was done by Edmark.