Oh yeah. I remember this. You learn lessons and then apply them to build a pinball system, at least in the sequel, creatively named The New Way Things Work. I spent years on all kinds of edutainment software made by these guys.
I genuinely believe that our generation got some kind of golden age for interactive educational stuff. DK/GSK were releasing banger after banger, I believe I’d still enjoy these as an adult! The virtual museums just speak to me, conceptually. I don’t know what similar stuff came after, but all the software I see young kids interacting with now is ad riddled digital nonsense sludge. Even the stuff that should be more than just entertainment.
All those old DK CDs should be available on the Internet Archive, by the way. Just need to finally get around to setting up a damn Windows XP VM and I’ll be looking through a lot of these with fresh adult eyes.
If someone had brought one of these to show off in 2010,we would have laughed in their face
"You're 17! We all have cell phones! Did you really think this would be something we all stood around and gawked at? It's not 1999 anymore! Hahaha haha"
i was so obsessed with medieval shit and castles and shit when i was young. i was into a lot of stuff. now it just seems like I'm into going to work to make a paycheck that barely pays the bills and not much else. what happened man?