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The only games from my childhood I can ever recall being like that when thinking back would be the edutainment style games I had, obviously.

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Mario Teaches Typing comes to mind, lol

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I don’t think I ever had any type of games that taught teaching. I had games like hooked on phonics type stuff and a Land Before Time math game, among a few others.

Typing was never something formally taught to me, even from a video game. I guess by the 2000s they just didn’t think it was important enough to be taught in elementary school to kids. Yet cursive was deemed something we needed to know.

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My parents got my on PC young, used to love the Jump Start games and magic schoolbus games.

Non edu games I remember fondly from that time, Jazz Jack rabbit, Earthworm Jim, the flying toaster games, pajama Sam, putt putt, Freddy fish.

My wife said spy fox must be added :D

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We had typing in the 90’s, but that was on electric typewriters, and was in I guess what you would call middle school not elementary.

Later there was ‘Mavis beacon teaches typing’ as the earliest typing ones that was really popular

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