Love those books but aren’t they more like, 90s?
Yeah, these came out in the mid-nineties. OP just wants to tell everyone that he’s turning 25 this year.
More like the 90’s. The scholastic book fairs were amazing.
If the year is 2010 then they definitely got it from their older brother’s (or even fathers) room.
This was my jam as a kid. It’s wooly mammoths all the way down.
Oh yeah. I remember this. You learn lessons and then apply them to build a pinball system, at least in the sequel, creatively named The New Way Things Work. I spent years on all kinds of edutainment software made by these guys.
I genuinely believe that our generation got some kind of golden age for interactive educational stuff. DK/GSK were releasing banger after banger, I believe I’d still enjoy these as an adult! The virtual museums just speak to me, conceptually. I don’t know what similar stuff came after, but all the software I see young kids interacting with now is ad riddled digital nonsense sludge. Even the stuff that should be more than just entertainment.
All those old DK CDs should be available on the Internet Archive, by the way. Just need to finally get around to setting up a damn Windows XP VM and I’ll be looking through a lot of these with fresh adult eyes.
It was definitely Proper Software that did its job teaching kids without ulterior motives like the ads/micro transactions/addiction probably present in kids games today. I remember my parents having me use another educational package by DK called Learning Ladder. I hadn’t found out about computer games yet and I remember finding the tasks quite captivating.
I was a proper TWTW fanboy, it’s all fooding back now. I had the New book where I really liked all the drawings IIRC but then I got a bit lost in the last chapter called The Digital Domain, where they tried to explain digital electronics with pumpkins and I had no clue what was going on. My parents also got me the DVD which was constantly on in my house. I still remember the name of some of the characters: Olive was the girl, Troy was the guy, Brenda was the old woman, idk if the inventor had a name. I’m genuinely impressed I’ve managed to remember this after 15 years of snowballing new memories.
Ha I was 29 in 2010… still would’ve loved digging into one of those though!
