LGR - Encarta Mind Maze - PC Game Review
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Were-Owl
I've spent the past two decades plagued by a mental image whose origin I could not figure out: a room in a castle, sometimes with a table next to a window and sometimes with a spiral staircase, and once in a while a caption box scrolling by, and a vague sense that I'm supposed to be trying to escape this place. I always knew this was from some game I'd seen on my dad's computer back in the 90s, but I couldn't remember enough details to even begin trying to find out what game it was.
And then I found this video quite by accident. No doubt, Encarta Mind Maze is what's been drifting about in my subconscious all this time. I don't even know for sure that I played this game myself, but at some point I definitely saw this game being played by somebody. It's such a relief to know for a fact that this was real. Thank you, LGR.
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I've spent the past two decades plagued by a mental image whose origin I could not figure out: a room in a castle, sometimes with a table next to a window and sometimes with a spiral staircase, and once in a while a caption box scrolling by, and a vague sense that I'm supposed to be trying to escape this place. I always knew this was from some game I'd seen on my dad's computer back in the 90s, but I couldn't remember enough details to even begin trying to find out what game it was.
And then I found this video quite by accident. No doubt, Encarta Mind Maze is what's been drifting about in my subconscious all this time. I don't even know for sure that I played this game myself, but at some point I definitely saw this game being played by somebody. It's such a relief to know for a fact that this was real. Thank you, LGR.
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The
Wow, you REALLY brought a nostalgia trip on for me with this one. I had Encarta Encyclopedia 2000. Growing up, my family didn't have much money. We had no internet and literally only had 4 other games for our computer, all of which were from my grandmother lending the discs to us. The only one she let us keep was the Encarta Encyclopedia set for my education and schoolwork. I've always been curious about the world around me for as long as I can remember, I'd spend all day and night looking through the pages of the software cramming my head full of knowledge and playing through this game. I guess it was no wonder I was one of the smarter kids in my classes. Though my grades. I still got through all my schooling with diplomas to show for it, but holy crap. Kids, just know being a slacker and procrastinator is not a good thing.
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Wow, you REALLY brought a nostalgia trip on for me with this one. I had Encarta Encyclopedia 2000. Growing up, my family didn't have much money. We had no internet and literally only had 4 other games for our computer, all of which were from my grandmother lending the discs to us. The only one she let us keep was the Encarta Encyclopedia set for my education and schoolwork. I've always been curious about the world around me for as long as I can remember, I'd spend all day and night looking through the pages of the software cramming my head full of knowledge and playing through this game. I guess it was no wonder I was one of the smarter kids in my classes. Though my grades. I still got through all my schooling with diplomas to show for it, but holy crap. Kids, just know being a slacker and procrastinator is not a good thing.
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scarletfever86
Hey LGR, Just wondering if on your edutainment quest, you happened to come across another one of these type games on another encyclopedia? I can't remember the name of it but have been trying to remember for years. It had similar questions and you had to collect some stone thingos and choose an avatar (I used to choose Amazon, she was an amazonian warrior and used to have Religion and Philosophy as her target trivia questions. There was an animated dice and you had to travel the board collecting these stones by answering trivia questions. Sometimes a banshee would stop you and make a piercing scream and you'd lose a turn. Also, I remember something about a druid's cave. anyway. could this ring a bell? Stumped. Damned old PC games!
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Hey LGR, Just wondering if on your edutainment quest, you happened to come across another one of these type games on another encyclopedia? I can't remember the name of it but have been trying to remember for years. It had similar questions and you had to collect some stone thingos and choose an avatar (I used to choose Amazon, she was an amazonian warrior and used to have Religion and Philosophy as her target trivia questions. There was an animated dice and you had to travel the board collecting these stones by answering trivia questions. Sometimes a banshee would stop you and make a piercing scream and you'd lose a turn. Also, I remember something about a druid's cave. anyway. could this ring a bell? Stumped. Damned old PC games!
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Dragon
LGR, I have a suggestion that you might even have never heard of: The CD-ROM caddy. I remember back when CD-ROM became a thing, especially with some of the early version of Encarta, there were some computers that required a ridiculous cart interface you had to put the CD into to load it into the drive. I did a little research and apparently they weren't all that common. Wikipedia (I know, a bit on-the-nose for this review) has almost nothing to say about it other than the fact that it existed and that there are similar devices still in use.
Mini-Disc and UMD both use similar technology, but this was a weird, rare thing to see. You might try a video on such a weird device!
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LGR, I have a suggestion that you might even have never heard of: The CD-ROM caddy. I remember back when CD-ROM became a thing, especially with some of the early version of Encarta, there were some computers that required a ridiculous cart interface you had to put the CD into to load it into the drive. I did a little research and apparently they weren't all that common. Wikipedia (I know, a bit on-the-nose for this review) has almost nothing to say about it other than the fact that it existed and that there are similar devices still in use.
Mini-Disc and UMD both use similar technology, but this was a weird, rare thing to see. You might try a video on such a weird device!
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ImagesOfAustin
I forget the version (probably 98, but I really loved this game when I was a kid. I did however restrict the content to science related. It has been a long time, but I seem to remember that as an option. Unfortunately, that really limited the bank of questions so I quickly knew all the answers to thee science restricted version. Ya, I could have opened it to all topics but frankly I was quite uninterested in pop culture questions regardless. Like I never and still don't want to engage in that. If they could have had 1000, vs. 50 science related questions, though, this game would have gone so much farther for me.
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I forget the version (probably 98, but I really loved this game when I was a kid. I did however restrict the content to science related. It has been a long time, but I seem to remember that as an option. Unfortunately, that really limited the bank of questions so I quickly knew all the answers to thee science restricted version. Ya, I could have opened it to all topics but frankly I was quite uninterested in pop culture questions regardless. Like I never and still don't want to engage in that. If they could have had 1000, vs. 50 science related questions, though, this game would have gone so much farther for me.
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UberMan5000
Dude, I was all about Mind Maze back in Encarta '98 on my family's old Pentium rig! We also had Compton's '98, with those video tutorials by Patrick Stewart and the -Explore- sections, where you could go into little cartoon environments like Madcap Music and the Compton's Newsroom, and click on things to make sounds and videos appear. Think you might touch upon that for next year's Edutainment Month? ;)
Also, did you have the other Microsoft educational programs, like Microsoft's Dangerous Creatures, Ancient Lands, and Microsoft Dogs? Those were other major nostalgia kicks.
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Dude, I was all about Mind Maze back in Encarta '98 on my family's old Pentium rig! We also had Compton's '98, with those video tutorials by Patrick Stewart and the -Explore- sections, where you could go into little cartoon environments like Madcap Music and the Compton's Newsroom, and click on things to make sounds and videos appear. Think you might touch upon that for next year's Edutainment Month? ;)
Also, did you have the other Microsoft educational programs, like Microsoft's Dangerous Creatures, Ancient Lands, and Microsoft Dogs? Those were other major nostalgia kicks.
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SmurfK
Encarta was so nice, especially when I was a kid. As I grew up without Internet, Encarta was so nice. It came with my PC and it was awesome. I was getting lost in it for hours, reading about stuff, watching videos or hearing audios, I know that the different country anthems were a big fascination, also the art section, where you were able to see different paintings. Mind Maze was great too, but I was not knowing English good enough back then to be good at it. I know that I've played long enough to memorize a lot of the answers, as they were pretty repetitive.
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Encarta was so nice, especially when I was a kid. As I grew up without Internet, Encarta was so nice. It came with my PC and it was awesome. I was getting lost in it for hours, reading about stuff, watching videos or hearing audios, I know that the different country anthems were a big fascination, also the art section, where you were able to see different paintings. Mind Maze was great too, but I was not knowing English good enough back then to be good at it. I know that I've played long enough to memorize a lot of the answers, as they were pretty repetitive.
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Drag
I still can't find find a game that could of been on Encarta.
It was called -Titanic- a point and click game which the goal was to go in a sub and find the right combination coordinates to find the wreckage.
I still can't find this game or video prove of it since there are a lot of Titanic games and I believe Encarta might be a source but I not sure. -
If someone has found a video of it please hyperlink it. I would like to know it exists.
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I still can't find find a game that could of been on Encarta.
It was called -Titanic- a point and click game which the goal was to go in a sub and find the right combination coordinates to find the wreckage.
I still can't find this game or video prove of it since there are a lot of Titanic games and I believe Encarta might be a source but I not sure. -
If someone has found a video of it please hyperlink it. I would like to know it exists.
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Shane
I was just thinking about playing this again today. I remember back when it came with our Windows 98 computer (I think it did, or it came with the Windows 98 box. It was amazing to explore the interactive elements, hear sounds, and watch videos all in interactive 'slides'. Mind Maze was brilliant and I loved the theme of it. I think I will always go back to playing it every once in a while for a bit of nostalgia from my 90s kid days.
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I was just thinking about playing this again today. I remember back when it came with our Windows 98 computer (I think it did, or it came with the Windows 98 box. It was amazing to explore the interactive elements, hear sounds, and watch videos all in interactive 'slides'. Mind Maze was brilliant and I loved the theme of it. I think I will always go back to playing it every once in a while for a bit of nostalgia from my 90s kid days.
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skCena
Its such a childhood nostalgia to see these things. I was too young to understand the language back then completely(English wasn't my mother tongue)and no internet to browse, I just fiddle around things like building rockets and cycle completing world maps, I really did try to solve the puzzle but I didn't quite understand. Its a beautiful thing down the memory lane. After so many years I can try to solve on my own
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Its such a childhood nostalgia to see these things. I was too young to understand the language back then completely(English wasn't my mother tongue)and no internet to browse, I just fiddle around things like building rockets and cycle completing world maps, I really did try to solve the puzzle but I didn't quite understand. Its a beautiful thing down the memory lane. After so many years I can try to solve on my own
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