3-17 - Quaddle Family Mysteries 1

[upbeat music] This is the game, the game that we've been playing.

So the Quaddle Family Mysteries, which I think there are three of them, as we said earlier, uh, an educational edutainment video game series thing, thing.

A- and this one, this first installation, installation? Was released on the 7th of April 1997, and was developed by Lightspan.

Um, Lightspan worked exclusively in the educa- educ...

I can't get me tongues out.

Educational entertainment sphere, and were known for such classroom bangers as Mars...

Uh, did you look up any of these, Daniel?

[laughs] Yeah.

Or have you just pulled it right out? Okay.

Mars Moose Adventures.

No, it's the one, isn't it? A long-running series mixing exploration with reading and geography skills.

Timeless Maths Series, puzzle-driven maths adventures with sci-fi themes.

K9.5 Series.

Is that half a dog? A music-themed reading and language art series starring a dog band.

[laughs] Okay.

The Secret of Googol Series, one of Lightspan's biggest franchises.

Yeah, I've heard about it.

Math, logic, exploration across multiple themed islands.

It was-

Right, okay

...

this was effectively-

Right

... wasn't it, just to inject some conversation in.

Um, it was ef- effectively [laughs] um, uh, a deal Sony did with this educational company so that schools bought PlayStations, isn't it? These were never released in shops.