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Video Games designed to educate as well as entertain, often, but not always, using the conceit of Alphabet Soup Cans. They may also be Pop Up Video Games.
These were also thought to be primarily for children, as a school supplement, but then Nintendo recently showed adults can be into this as well.
Compare Exergaming.
For the television counterpart see Edutainment Show.
Examples of Edutainment Game include:
- The Adventures of Hyperman
- Agent USA
- Big Thinkers
- Blaster Series
- Brain Age
- Buzzy the Knowledge Bug
- Captain Novolin
- Carmen Sandiego series
- The Clue Finders
- Doctor Brain series
- Eagle Eye Mysteries series
- Fatty Bear
- Freddi Fish
- Grannys Garden
- Healthensteins Body Fun
- I.M. Meen
- JumpStart
- Living Books
- Logical Journey of the Zoombinis, featuring a bunch of blue-head creatures with mix-and-match fashion accessories.
- Mario Is Missing!, a licensed spinoff of Super Mario Brothers
- MULE
- Museum Madness
- My Coach
- New Dynamic English is not technically a game, but it is an interactive textbook-like software.
- Number Munchers
- Odell Down Under
- Oregon Trail
- Putt-Putt
- Reader Rabbit
- Real Lives
- Slime Forest Adventure
- Sonics Schoolhouse
- Spy Fox
- Super Solvers series
- The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary
- Turbo Science
- The Typing of The Dead
- Wolf Quest