Edutainment Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Guitar Wizard coming for Mac

by Mat Lu (Jan 9th, 2008)

The guys and gals over at our sister blog Engadget were keeping busy at the recent CES and have turned up some interesting products with a Mac angle. In the video above they're checking out a new music instruction software package called Guitar Wizard which works a lot like the Guitar Hero game ...

ChipWits lives on

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Oct 12th, 2007)

Back in the days when Apple pretty much owned the educational market, the Mac was new and Oregon Trail was the pinnacle of edutainment, there existed a little program called ChipWits. I played on my Laser 128, but there were versions for the Commodore 64 and Macintosh. Now some 20-odd years later ...

Coming in December: WolfQuest

by Mat Lu (Aug 1st, 2007)

You'll have to indulge me in a little nostalgia here. Some of my earliest Apple memories are of crowding around an Apple II playing Oregon Trail. I couldn't help but think of that when I saw that our gaming blog brothers at Joystiq have uncovered an exciting new "edutaiment" title coming in ...

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