LGR - Zoombinis Logical Journey - PC Game Review
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Nostalgia
For years, I've had -FLEENS! You're not Fleens! Whatever you are. MAKE ME A PIZZA! - burned into my mind because we had this game in our school's computer lab. I don't think I ever actually got far enough in the game to learn who the heck the Fleens were; never enough time in computer class to finish.
But yeah, I remember this game being stressful as a kid! Like, the minute you find out you could lose the Zoombinis, it was like -Wait, WHAT! Did my favorite little Zoombini with the ponytail and sunglasses and roller skates just DIE! - Didn't help that the game was honestly pretty hard for a kid that had no clue what a logic puzzle was.
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For years, I've had -FLEENS! You're not Fleens! Whatever you are. MAKE ME A PIZZA! - burned into my mind because we had this game in our school's computer lab. I don't think I ever actually got far enough in the game to learn who the heck the Fleens were; never enough time in computer class to finish.
But yeah, I remember this game being stressful as a kid! Like, the minute you find out you could lose the Zoombinis, it was like -Wait, WHAT! Did my favorite little Zoombini with the ponytail and sunglasses and roller skates just DIE! - Didn't help that the game was honestly pretty hard for a kid that had no clue what a logic puzzle was.
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draignathair
I'm another one who loved this game growing up and spent countless hours playing with my cousins.
I picked it up again a few years ago, decided to beat it to see what the ending would be, and was quite disappointed to find that there basically was no ending. They let you play the last path with however many zoombinis you need, so less than 16, but once they get to Zoombiniville, it's just done. You can look at all the zoombinis and special buildings, but that's it IIRC.
Anyway, thank you for covering this game and for the many hours of nostalgia and entertainment you provide!
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I'm another one who loved this game growing up and spent countless hours playing with my cousins.
I picked it up again a few years ago, decided to beat it to see what the ending would be, and was quite disappointed to find that there basically was no ending. They let you play the last path with however many zoombinis you need, so less than 16, but once they get to Zoombiniville, it's just done. You can look at all the zoombinis and special buildings, but that's it IIRC.
Anyway, thank you for covering this game and for the many hours of nostalgia and entertainment you provide!
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Michael
Circa 2002 our district had an -intermediate building- for 5-6th grades, which used to be a middle school of award-winning design. The library had a separate room (typewriting room) which was lined with humming iMac G3-s running OS 9, obviously superior to the handful of OS 8. 6 Apple LC-s that each classroom had. Near the end of computer time the computer teacher would play Zoombinis on the library projector, with us seated away from our computers to raise our hands and such. What a forgotten classic!
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Circa 2002 our district had an -intermediate building- for 5-6th grades, which used to be a middle school of award-winning design. The library had a separate room (typewriting room) which was lined with humming iMac G3-s running OS 9, obviously superior to the handful of OS 8. 6 Apple LC-s that each classroom had. Near the end of computer time the computer teacher would play Zoombinis on the library projector, with us seated away from our computers to raise our hands and such. What a forgotten classic!
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Flash33
Man I remember playing this game and having fun with it. Bubble Wonder Abyss is one of my favorite games to play in it personally. If I had to criticize it though is that on the harder difficulties some of the puzzles become downright unfairly hard and frustrating to solve. A prime example is the Lion's Lair where on the hardest difficulty there's no hints on the wall, so it's all down to luck/trial and error. Other than that though the game is fun and I definitely recommend it to people.
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Man I remember playing this game and having fun with it. Bubble Wonder Abyss is one of my favorite games to play in it personally. If I had to criticize it though is that on the harder difficulties some of the puzzles become downright unfairly hard and frustrating to solve. A prime example is the Lion's Lair where on the hardest difficulty there's no hints on the wall, so it's all down to luck/trial and error. Other than that though the game is fun and I definitely recommend it to people.
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Keanu
I have been searching for this game for the longest time now, I remember playing this game multiple times at my primary school IT room, I could never get past the dam pizza puzzle though from what I can recall. I am in university now and have finally found out the title of this game through the most obscure google searches I have ever done. Here and there this game would come to memory and I just had to know what it was called. I finally found it, it brings back so many memories.
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I have been searching for this game for the longest time now, I remember playing this game multiple times at my primary school IT room, I could never get past the dam pizza puzzle though from what I can recall. I am in university now and have finally found out the title of this game through the most obscure google searches I have ever done. Here and there this game would come to memory and I just had to know what it was called. I finally found it, it brings back so many memories.
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Ashlynn
This is one of the games I remember playing at my elementary school. For the longest time I remembered the little round blue guys on skates and springs, but I could not remember the name of the game. I would describe it to people and they would have no idea what I was talking about. So I though I was remembering the game wrong but here it is. So I was not making it up after all. Oh the nostalgia is strong with this game for me.
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This is one of the games I remember playing at my elementary school. For the longest time I remembered the little round blue guys on skates and springs, but I could not remember the name of the game. I would describe it to people and they would have no idea what I was talking about. So I though I was remembering the game wrong but here it is. So I was not making it up after all. Oh the nostalgia is strong with this game for me.
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Olive
I remember getting a bundle of educational games by The Learning Company as a kid. Zoombinis was the only one of those games that I still fully remember. Though the CD case said -Zoombini-s Mountain Rescue- the game itself was actually this one! This is actually the first time I found out what the name of the actual game was. Thank you for finding the answer to a question looming over me since I was 6.
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I remember getting a bundle of educational games by The Learning Company as a kid. Zoombinis was the only one of those games that I still fully remember. Though the CD case said -Zoombini-s Mountain Rescue- the game itself was actually this one! This is actually the first time I found out what the name of the actual game was. Thank you for finding the answer to a question looming over me since I was 6.
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Korvas
I remember the mudball wall. It the only thing about it I remember and I think thats because I liked it the most, but I could have sworn that it was its own game, but, then again, maybe not.
Edit: Now I know why I only remember the wall, the mudball wall was adapted to its own puzzle game based on the zoombini version after the games release. Its this version I remembered playing
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I remember the mudball wall. It the only thing about it I remember and I think thats because I liked it the most, but I could have sworn that it was its own game, but, then again, maybe not.
Edit: Now I know why I only remember the wall, the mudball wall was adapted to its own puzzle game based on the zoombini version after the games release. Its this version I remembered playing
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Matthew
lgr wow flashback! I still have this game (I loved it and have kept the CD. really enjoyed it at the time, and after installing it recently I still found myself enjoying it. used to love the speech on this game. . I used to have 'Maths Workshop' by broadband software. we had it at our school. ever tried it? 7 it had some crazy sound fx and mini games.
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lgr wow flashback! I still have this game (I loved it and have kept the CD. really enjoyed it at the time, and after installing it recently I still found myself enjoying it. used to love the speech on this game. . I used to have 'Maths Workshop' by broadband software. we had it at our school. ever tried it? 7 it had some crazy sound fx and mini games.
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