Encarta 95.

Dotrel

The Wikipedia of its day!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fRX4R6MY4A

I got a real education off this program that I can call upon to this day. We never had encyclopedia's in my house growing or even a decent pc let alone internet during the 80s or early 90s so when we finally got a home pc during Windows 95 hype era this packaged program really blew my mind with it's information and multimedia content.

So much so that I saved up what money I could get and also bought Cinemania 96 and Music Central 97 and devoured the information in them too!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Cinemania

x_Ellie_x

I remember that! I used to copy articles off that for my history & geography homework

Teddy_Picker

Ah good old Encarta, heaven for nerdy little me back in the day I had the 1998 version, did anyone else play the game, it was set in some kind of Medieval castle?

branie

Encarta should be brought back

briany

Man, talk about a genre of software that went the way of the dodo. I remember using the sister program, Encarta Atlas, or whatever it was called to do a secondary school project, too, on South America if I recall correctly...

did anyone else play the game, it was set in some kind of Medieval castle

Yes, it was sort of a trivia game wasn't it? Answering questions on topics would allow you to progress through the castle (this is without me typing Encarta Castle into Youtube, but oh wait I think I'm about to in order to confirm my memory....)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLmudzYWY94

"This game was awresum!"

Anyway, not a patch on the "game" where you selected what you would eat in a day from a menu of foods/portions, versus your height, daily activity to determine how fat you might be.

Blisterman

I must have listened to the 30 second clip of this about 50 times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4o8TeqKhgY

From 2.02 onwards.