In Real Life

Play Pinball, Learn About Farts

I’ve seen plenty of edumacational games and I’m always delighted to explore how they surreptitiously teach people as they play a game. But this is the first time I’ve played a edu-pinball game.


September 9, 2008
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Math Blaster Brings Edutainment to this Generation… Finally

Classic edutainment franchise Math Blaster is making it’s way to the DS this spring thanks to a publishing deal with Majesco Entertainment.

Math Blaster in the Prime Adventure combines adventure gaming with mathematical puzzles that has you fighting off an army of robots… robots with math skillz. The game will put your addition, subtraction and multiplication skills to the test and includes four player battle mode and challenge and adventure modes.

I applaud this, seriously. Just the other day, while attending a dinner with Ken Levine and some other folks during PAX, I got into a discussion with a group of them about educational games for next gen consoles.

I think that the three platform owners should get behind bringing a few educational games to their various downloadable game systems.

They should do this for two reasons.