> For what age are these programs?  Are they shareware?
Math Rescue is shareware. I am not sure on the other ones.
 > I'm having alot of problems finding good children
 > educational games.
If you don't mind a long distance phone call to a good board, call ABC BBS in 
Encinitas, California. Courtney Krehbiel (a father of several children) wrote 
a program a long while back for his kids, and decided to run a BBS in support 
of that program (ABC Fun Keys) which he continues to update tho his kids are 
long past the age where they need it. His BBS has a very long list of 
educational games available for download. I call periodically and download 
his files listings, then call back later for specific programs. I haven't 
been able to talk him into going Fido, tho. :( The phone number of the board 
is (619) 436-3525.
The programs my kids enjoy are numerous. I've recently told about GEOUSA, a 
Windoze program for geography, and Treasure Hunt Math (THMATH), both 
shareware. My youngest really likes Math Rescue, which Regina mentioned in 
her post. The first "chapter" of that is shareware - if you want the rest, 
you have to buy them. My youngest had enjoyed Word Rescue as well, but she 
passed all three levels of the first chapter and was bored with it, so we 
took it off the system. They have several Dinosoft (commercial) games that 
they like, the Geography one is the one I'm most familiar with.
The Learning Company puts out several really good games, commercially. One 
that the kids seem to play for a long while was Treasure Mountain. It's 
problem solving and math, I think. They also put out Children's Writing and 
Publishing, which they enjoy, but this does not work with a laser printer so 
we have not been able to use it since the old 286 died. (I don't have room 
for both printers up here.)
My mom picked up one game on one of those "$5" tables somewhere ... "Yogi 
Bear Visits the National Parks". The kids seem to like that one. It is sort 
of on the order of the Carmen San Diego games, only in this case it's "which 
park did Yogi go to?" We're into national parks here, so this was a good game 
for the kids.
Speaking of the Carmen San Diego games, I haven't looked at the newer 
versions of them. My oldest and her friends enjoyed playing a late-80s 
version of "Where in the USA is Carmen San Diego" when they had an old 
286/EGA. That particular version looks kinda different on an SVGA screen, 
tho, so they don't like to play it any more. (It also required disk to play; 
it could not be installed on ones hard drive.)
                                 -donna
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