Math Blaster!

And I adapted this to having students actually to create math games.

So rather than to use the off-the-shelf software like Math Blaster, Rockets, whatever was out there, they became the designers of all the stories, of all the math problems.

And once a month, they would meet with the third graders who would give them critical, constructive feedback on what was working, what was not working in their software.

And we found in comparing their learning of programming that this was a much more effective approach to learn about coding.

You have died of dysentery.

Math Blaster, all those freaking cool games back in the day.

But what it didn't have was the Satan OS operating system, apparently, which Cooper Smith had on his computer that would translate Latin for you and also summon the devil.

Yeah.

Yeah, I did the nice educational games as a small child.

I did like the Math Blaster and the various sim type games.

I wasn't blowing away naked goblins or anything like that.

I mean, number munchers had its own devious intent there.

I mean, those little creatures trying to stop you from munching numbers.

Yeah, that's true.

And I think the character in Math Blaster had like a pretty solid weapon, you know, to rival the Doom guy, perhaps.

I feel like every 90s kid who had a computer had that one educational game that they played for a very, very long time.

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... wa- was Math Blaster.

And to be fair-

Oh my God, I was just thinking Math Blaster.

Math Blaster!

It's amazing.

I also totally played that game.

We, yes, we, yes, we did, and it was super fun 'cause they let you blow things up in class, and it was so great.