Anyone Remember Number Munchers/Super Munchers?

[marothisu]

Such great games...

You can play Number Munchers online:
Virtual Apple 2 - Online disk archive -- Number Munchers

And you can download Super Munchers (DOS):
Free Super Munchers Download

 

[isuno1fan]

Tetris = best game ever

 

[isucyfan]

My boy (8) plays this at his school all the time. For it being an old, non-graphics rich game, he absolutely loves it.

 

[superman_101680]

I wasted many good recess periods playing number munchers. Good times!

 

[CycloneSupt6]

Sweet, just like I remember. However, Tetris is the best game ever. Played last night with my gf for an hour last night.

 

[marothisu]

My boy (8) plays this at his school all the time. For it being an old, non-graphics rich game, he absolutely loves it.

I'm loving the fact kids are still playing these games..I guess I should have expected it considering it says you're from St. Paul and these games were developed by MECC.

 

[isucyfan]

I'm loving the fact kids are still playing these games..I guess I should have expected it considering it says you're from St. Paul and these games were developed by MECC.

I'm not sure if that's why or not. It's installed on the school library's computers, and it was no more than two weeks ago that my son came home telling me how much he loves it. I grew up in the original Oregon Trail era, so I didn't even know about this game, but he showed it to me when I was at school, and it does look fun.

 

[Angie]

I'm not sure if that's why or not. It's installed on the school library's computers, and it was no more than two weeks ago that my son came home telling me how much he loves it. I grew up in the original Oregon Trail era, so I didn't even know about this game, but he showed it to me when I was at school, and it does look fun.

I think it came out when I was in fourth grade or so. We usually played Fraction Munchers. I think they also had a Word Munchers, but I don't remember for sure?

You can still find old-school Oregon Trail on old Apple emulators out there - we had a couple of friends who decided to see if it was Y2K-compliant by resting/rationing food until the year 2000. (It wasn't).

 

[isucyfan]

I think it came out when I was in fourth grade or so. We usually played Fraction Munchers. I think they also had a Word Munchers, but I don't remember for sure?

You can still find old-school Oregon Trail on old Apple emulators out there - we had a couple of friends who decided to see if it was Y2K-compliant by resting/rationing food until the year 2000. (It wasn't).

There was also one in that era that involved catching different kinds of fish...anyone remember what that was called? It's bugging me.

Edit: Nevermind...just found it. Anyone remember this?:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odell_Lake_%28computer_game%29

 

[marothisu]

I think it came out when I was in fourth grade or so. We usually played Fraction Munchers. I think they also had a Word Munchers, but I don't remember for sure?

You can still find old-school Oregon Trail on old Apple emulators out there - we had a couple of friends who decided to see if it was Y2K-compliant by resting/rationing food until the year 2000. (It wasn't).

Super Munchers is basically that. I've been playing "Geography Munchers" for a little bit...pretty fun. Play it on Genius level though because the other levels might not be hard enough for a grown adult.

As far as the Oregon Trail ...go here to play online:
Virtual Apple 2 - Online disk archive -- Oregon Trail

 

[marothisu]

I'm not sure if that's why or not. It's installed on the school library's computers, and it was no more than two weeks ago that my son came home telling me how much he loves it. I grew up in the original Oregon Trail era, so I didn't even know about this game, but he showed it to me when I was at school, and it does look fun.

I remember playing Oregon Trail, but that was in the 80s and I believe the game came out in the mid 70s sometime. I think Number Munchers came out sometime in the mid 80s or maybe 1987.

MECC made such great games..

 

[cyman1189]

how do you run the controls

 

[marothisu]

how do you run the controls

Arrow keys move your guy around, and spacebar eats the number/word