

The Munchers series was created by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium - or, under a name with which you might be more familiar, MECC. Most of them are available to play on the internet now, so in these cases, I’ve also included links to where they can be found - frequently either an app store or the Internet Archive’s glorious collection of browser-based, emulated DOS games. So, in the spirit of nostalgia, here are 15 computer games from the ‘90s that made learning incredibly fun. Though the graphics may be laughable now, just remember - once upon a time, they were the pinnacle of technological achievement. Some were part of long-running series, while still more of them received a number of remakes and reboots as technology improved. That's perhaps the reason '80s babies also have a certain degree of fondness for them many of them actually dated back to the decade in which we were born. Seriously.Īs is often the case with the things we remember from the '90s, a lot of the games those of us who grew up during the decade filled our days with were originally developed and released long before the ‘90s. And yes, I say that as a fully grown adult don't knock going back and replaying the games you loved when you were 10 until you've tried it. And you know what? These games are still fun. This is probably why there were so dang many fantastic educational '90s computer games - the rise of home computing (and, by extension, the rise of computing in the classroom) during the 1990s opened up a whole world of possibilities, including tons of ways to make learning a blast for the up-and-coming generations. Why do you ask?) But when it’s a literal game? Then it’s even better, especially when you’re a kid. Real talk: I think learning is always fun.
