Computer Games: Adventure and educational

This week the 90's theme is computer games and we will start of by discussing the genres adventure and educational games. Some games might not be categorized perfectly but we needed to make some sort of equal devide (this goes for all the games we will discuss this week). The adventure games we will go over are Rayman, Final Fantasy and Prince of Persia.

Rayman The Great Escape

The Rayman series are developed by Ubisoft and was released for PC on April 30, 1996. Next to a PC game, this platform video game was also released for the Playstation, Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn and several Gameboys. The first Rayman is a side-scrolling platform game where Rayman must travel through 5 worlds to free the caged Electoons and fight Mr. Dark. The sequel, Rayman 2: The Great Escape, came out in 1999. Several more Rayman games were released, but all after the nineties, including the Raving Rabbits series.

Final Fantasy is a huge Japanese franchise that includes the popular role-playing games for the PC (and lots of other platforms). The Finanal Fantasy games released in the 90's are: Final Fantasy III to Final Fantasy XIII (we're currently up to FF XIV).

Final Fantasay 1

Prince of Persia 2

Prince of Persia is a platform game developed by Broderbund and was released in Europe in 1990. There is a Prince of Persia trilogy, that consists of Prince of Persia (original game), Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame and Prince of Persia 3D. The second game was released in 1993 and the third one is 1999. PoP remained popular and there were several other games released after the 90's.

The educational games we will discuss are RedCat, Junior Detectives and Freddi Fish.

 RedCat was the main character in a series of Dutch educational software for elementary schools. The first RedCat was released in 1994 and had an immediate sequel in the same year. The RedCat games released after that all were related to a subject taught in school, such as math, spelling, topography and biology.

Junior Detectives is a series of educational games for elementary schools. For each grade was a different game where you had to solve mysteries, applying knowledge you learned in school. Next to Junior Detectives there was also the Robbie Konijn series, that was designed for children in the lowest grades.

Freddi Fish is a series of educational games for children, developed by Humongous Entertainment. The first Freddi Fish game was released in 1994 and 2 more were released the 90's (the final one in 2001). Freddi is a joyful fish that helps you solve underwater mysteries, together with his colorful friends.

We hope you've enjoyed this post about adventure and educational games. Next time we will go over several 90's action games!