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So I stumbled across a "Lets Play" for a really old game I played as a kid. For the unfamiliar, a "lets play" is basically someone doing a video walkthrough of a game. Sometimes with snarky comments added 
I found Lace Neil singer's account under a game I remember from like VERY early on at school known as Granny's Garden (this was when I was around six or seven years old and in Grade 1). It was on Commodore 64 and was very simple to play. If you didn't type in the correct answer however....you'd get the witch. She gave me nightmares as a kid
Move on another 2 years and I discovered Gizmos and Gadgets. This was a VERY fun game. You basically had to move through 3 different warehouses and in different rooms, collecting parts to build a vehicle. Some of the parts were behind locked doors though, requiring you to solve science puzzles as you went along. It might be for instance, wire up a circuit, demonstrate the simple machine (i.e. lever, pulley, wheel, wedge, screw), match the forms of energy to the picture and so on. I don't know if this was an error by the developers or not, but one of the energy match-ups involved nuclear power and a lawnmower.
One game my dad found but it took me forever to get past, was Orion Burger. The premise was that a creepy group of aliens wanted to kill off all humans on Earth and turn their carcasses into burgers. Sounds a bit Soylent Green-ish doesn't it? Well, the rule they had was that they couldn't kill the humans if they could pass a series of tests (one of them involved being shrunk inside a cage and dealing with cyborg hamsters/guinea pigs). I never really got past the first test because I couldn't figure out that you had to toy with the barber's TV dish, then quickly switch his Lazy Susan around while he was up there.
I can remember playing Math for the Real world and reading blaster too. Those were fun
I found Lace Neil singer's account under a game I remember from like VERY early on at school known as Granny's Garden (this was when I was around six or seven years old and in Grade 1). It was on Commodore 64 and was very simple to play. If you didn't type in the correct answer however....you'd get the witch. She gave me nightmares as a kid
Move on another 2 years and I discovered Gizmos and Gadgets. This was a VERY fun game. You basically had to move through 3 different warehouses and in different rooms, collecting parts to build a vehicle. Some of the parts were behind locked doors though, requiring you to solve science puzzles as you went along. It might be for instance, wire up a circuit, demonstrate the simple machine (i.e. lever, pulley, wheel, wedge, screw), match the forms of energy to the picture and so on. I don't know if this was an error by the developers or not, but one of the energy match-ups involved nuclear power and a lawnmower.
One game my dad found but it took me forever to get past, was Orion Burger. The premise was that a creepy group of aliens wanted to kill off all humans on Earth and turn their carcasses into burgers. Sounds a bit Soylent Green-ish doesn't it? Well, the rule they had was that they couldn't kill the humans if they could pass a series of tests (one of them involved being shrunk inside a cage and dealing with cyborg hamsters/guinea pigs). I never really got past the first test because I couldn't figure out that you had to toy with the barber's TV dish, then quickly switch his Lazy Susan around while he was up there.
I can remember playing Math for the Real world and reading blaster too. Those were fun
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