While everybody else played on their fancy consoles I grew up with this.

LeopoldJackson · 8 months

Encarta, man. Not just this, but exploring the information it had was like a game.

kazagistar · 8 months

The game got boring once you memorized ALL the trivia questions.

But the orbit game... that NEVER got boring.

SilencerLX · 8 months

"Even a broken watch is right twice a day...uh hoh ho."

That fucking bitch. I was only 9!

RedHerringxx · 8 months

They tricked us into learning!

DukeBerith · 8 months

I loved Encarta95 for this :D

I took it overseas with me when my parents moved me to a foreign country, I was a socially awkward penguin so this game was my friend.

The best part about having encarta on a laptop as a kid in the 90s was when we'd drive past UN checkpoints I'd quickly search how to say hello in that native language of the specific UN guys and it would make their day. The African UN guys went absolutely wild with happiness :D

JimmyDThing · 8 months

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josiphoenix · 8 months

Am I the only one who would** play the crap out of a version of this for iPhone/android?

And this is why i shouldn't reddit at 6 am when i first wake up...

xyroclast · 8 months

Please tell me some fanatic fan has made a website clone of this game.

das427troll · 8 months

This brought back my childhood I had long forgotten thank you

thundergod24 · 8 months

I remember this. I was a kid back then and I remember the jester used to freak me out enough that I avoided it until I got my sister to sit in the same room with me.

bungee_pancakes · 8 months

story of my life. thank you for reminding me of such an awesome game!

joeryanisaocelot · 8 months

Fuck this, if we're talking about Windows 95 games here, then it was all about Chip's Challenge or Jezzball. Although, those games never learnt me good like this one.

DoktorTeufel · 8 months

Oh my God, I remember this in the public library of my tiny town in 1995.

There was a female character who sang: "I sing of times gone by! When the world was new, and answers few!"

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grizzlayleslay · 8 months

This keeps showing up, everyone nostalgia's, rinse and repeat. So I'll say it again:

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PLAY THIS, I HAVE AN ISO OF ENCARTA 96 THAT I RIPPED AFTER FINDING IT AT MY PARENTS HOUSE. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DOWNLOAD IT, YOU CAN GET IT AT MEGAUPLOAD.

spartican · 8 months

Encarta 98 bitches, still got the disk. Anyone know where I can download this game at?

alexleafman · 8 months

I prefer that game where you crash the moon into the earth.

sgtpepper_spray · 8 months

my god I...I remember that. Holy crap I had forgotten this even existed. kinda freaking out right now lol

directhex · 8 months

I am sad that my child will never know the joy of Encarta MindMaze.

maz-o · 8 months

This is one of the only games I had as a kid. http://i.imgur.com/CB1Uh.gif

SpikeSP · 8 months

PSHAW- encarta encyclopedia was a luxury game to me, I hated the even earlier days when I "played" Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" and specifically that godawful "racing" game built in with flies on your windshield for each typo

Srol · 8 months

Look it up! Encarta it!

browsermostly · 8 months

Omg I would never have thought I would see this again. Amazing!!

CurkyHangles · 8 months

"Yo I'm the fox and I'm here to say. 'Click on the door if you want to play.'"

My 6 year old self thought that was the coolest thing ever.

Jesus8myShrooms · 8 months

I remember my mom brought home a gateway 2000 with this on it and I thought I was hot shit because I could actually answer some of the questions.

zastels · 8 months

anyone remember what this was called?

Mathmatical · 8 months

Omggg I remember this! Is there a place online you can play this now?

Ironxmind · 8 months

Oh my god Id forgotten about that. Nostalgia brain boner.

[deleted] · 8 months

I take your Encarta and raise you my Word Munchers

zastels · 8 months

I remember this game on win 95!

pamin1 · 8 months

I had a console growing up but I still played this. This game was fricking awesome

jolly_boots_of_doom · 8 months

Loved, loved, loved playing this.

someredditorguy · 8 months

Fuck yeah, I loved this game.

jmchao · 8 months

It's called friendship, Jeff. Encarta it.

Dr_Kinky · 8 months

Yes! Yes! So much yes!

slapded · 8 months

1995 brings back memories. Glad I got a handful of some good domains when I did.

suckmywheel · 8 months

It's a jungle out there and I ought to know! Click on the door and answer the question.

warpus · 8 months

Yeah? I grew up in communist Poland and didn't have any sort of video games until a year or so before we fled that place. What did I get?

A pong video game machine! Sort of! It was a black box with 12 built in games. There was a button for each game and two controllers. Each game was a variation of pong and the controllers were just things you could rotate to the left or rotate to the left. That's it.. You couldn't buy any other games for it or anything. It was just pong... or pong with obstacles... or pong with 2 paddles each.. or..

Mind you all my friends thought that was a computer so for a while I was the coolest kid on the block.

When we moved to Germany my parents bought me a cheap Atari 800XL. I was in HEAVEN. It came with a tape drive and you had to hook it up to a tv. There was no disk or hd either.

PantsOnFireMan · 8 months

Found this while looking through my old stuff earlier this year.

n1zm0 · 8 months

Remember when at least 3 ppl all decided it was smart to use the same exact encarta articlefor their report that was all on the same topic? I do, I was one of those kids.

7year · 8 months

I.... NEED THIS....

cadex · 8 months

please

reterq · 8 months

Whats the name of the game, i need to play this again!

HCO_ · 8 months

I distinctly remember this game mentioning the word virgin, so I turned to my friend and asked 'hey Michael, what's a virgin?'

I was a naive kid.

apple_kicks · 8 months

before wikipedia there was Encarta, but because of the this mini game no one used it to fact check

sc2Obelix · 8 months

Thank you for bringing back the memories! I'd almost forgotten.

hiroukan · 8 months

oh my god! I thank encarta up to this that they introduced steel drums and kodo drums into my life

sauerj · 8 months

Dumbest/Greatest game of all time

DouchetotheBag · 8 months

I feel your pain SpAn12.. I feel your pain

bloodfyr · 8 months

Oh crap. I remember this.

How did this game work again?

blueimpact · 8 months

Wow I miss this

Goscubasteve · 8 months

Good gawd, I loved playing this in school. School PCs in the library, in about '96/'97, with meplaying this, and the computer beside having Doom somehow installed on it. The Librarian always wondered why we loved getting on the PCs so much...

BlackLiger · 8 months

mindmaze!

pdct042 · 8 months

I logged in just to upvote and say that this was an amazing game.

Toast_n_Gravy · 8 months

Oh yes, pretending to do work when secretly playing this

netdorf · 8 months

I just nostolgiad so hard. I used to play this all the time before we got the internet.

APeacefulWarrior · 8 months

And if you had a PC before CD-ROMs were standard, you might remember the Knowledge Adventure series of hyperlinked multimedia encyclopedias.

These things were frigging amazing, at the time.

waffels · 8 months

This picture is good for a few hundred points of karma every few weeks.

lanahyde · 8 months

I was just thinking about this game the other day! Oh, man. Need to find this again.

Resonance1584 · 8 months

Click on any answer - 25% chance of getting it right. Got it wrong? The clock freezes, you can read the question and the remaining questions and choose an answer and still get massive points from the time bonus. Only worked on early versions though, I think they patched it out by 98ish.

GloriousHam · 8 months

HEY THAT'S MY NAME! Are we best friends now?

xyroclast · 8 months

This reminds me: Does anyone remember an even OLDER game for black and white macs, where you had to traverse a 3D maze, and you used keys to unlock doors, and there might have been pandas...? It's a shot in the dark, but I remember this one classroom in junior high that had it and it seemed awesome.

amajorseventh · 8 months

Before I had a computer, I'd play this on my cousin's Gateway in like 1996. I remember when I got a new computer in the early 2000s that came with Encarta...only to find out that it DIDN'T come with Mindmaze...so disappointed.

alialibobali · 8 months

Why hasn't anybody made an emulator for this game?

ColonicIrritation · 8 months

I grew up mostly in the '90s playing on a hand-me-down Amiga with games that came out a year or so before I was born (1988).

I'm immensely grateful because unlike most of my peers, I can get nostalgic about games like Monkey Island and Treasure Island Dizzy.

My one regret is that I totally skipped the NES/SNES era and went straight from my late-80s computer to the N64... At least I got into the Gameboy Classic while I still could.

Baron_Von_D · 8 months

I had a GeoSafari learning system.
I thought that was the coolest in the world.* (Late 80's-early 90's)*

o_oli · 8 months

Sudden realisation that encarta was replaced by wikipedia :(.

friendlymaniac · 8 months

WILL THIS HELP ME GET THE 33RD DEGREE? ;)

lordatomosk · 8 months

Did the ending of that game surprise anyone else? For the longest time I was unaware there was an ending at all.

john2kxx · 8 months

The computers in my high school had this. Fuck I'm old.

so_much_shiny · 8 months

Confucius says, "They captured my essence perfectly."

ermstreetnightmare · 8 months

There's got to be an online version of this somewhere? This was 'edutainment at its finest', (and that's not a phrase I use often).

Secondsemblance · 8 months

HOLY SHIT I DIDN'T KNOW ANYONE ELSE REMEMBERED THIS. HELL I DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER IT

/cruisecontrol

cardybean · 8 months

I'm pretty proud that I grew up playing this too. If I'd grown up with PS3s and all the like, it just wouldn't have been as good. I guess it's better to have experience a rise in technology than just have the products of the future.

I can't imagine how it'd be for people who were alive before computers. Mindfuck?

sipowits · 8 months

This game + Hover = my childhood

novacaak · 8 months

I can still hear the baroque music & remember the jester!

baracuda2 · 8 months

MOTHERFUCKIN ENCARTA HOLY SHIT. Sometimes, as I child, I would have nightmares about not completing a level. One morning I cried when my mom woke me up, because I thought that she had ruined everything.

perpetualnotion33 · 8 months

I've been a lurker for 4 years, and this is the piece of nostalgia that forces me to create an account to upvote.

RandomFrenchGuy · 8 months

Way to flaunt your fancy graphics. I grew up with zork, you insensitive clod.

SeltzerPlease · 8 months

I want this for Wikipedia.

Also, so many popes died during sex. Thanks, Encarta, for the early lessons on hipocracy too. :3

Hatdrop · 8 months

hmm one of the pc master race i see

kellyMILKIES · 8 months

... What was this.

brotorious · 8 months

Choose an area of interest

M'lady's bosom

avatar28 · 8 months

Psssh! Encarta. World Book, bitch! Encarta was after my time. I was out of high school by then. I DID have Compton's buy it pretty much blew goats so back to World Book.

I remember when I was 8. My tee ball team was in the tournament. After the first couple of rounds we had a break of a few hours until the semis. We were supposed to go home and rest for a bit. I went home, plopped down in the middle of the living room floor, pulled out a volume of World Book and just started reading. It was like a primitive version of wiki-surfing.

phrank12 · 8 months

So while everyone else had "fancy consoles" you had a computer all to yourself? Oh you poor thing.

homohominilupus · 8 months

MINDMAZE I REMEMBER THIS!!!!

EDIT: Let me elaborate. My dad, a teacher, had an unwanted computer which he gave to me. On that my first ever game was minesweeper, then I moved onto games like this and Windows Hover (I think it was called that...the racing game where you need to collect flags or something). Then one day one of my dad's new laptops came with the game Little Big Adventure 2. That changed my life and is to this day perhaps the greatest game I have ever played. So screw you console gamers, you missed one of the greatest games ever back in the day.

Mythros · 8 months

LOVE! this game was incredible!

inigomelo · 8 months

This nearly brought a tear to my eye, nostalgia all over the place! Mind maze was one of the greatest games of the 90s

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