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Chase a globe-trotting super-thief and accidentally learn every world capital along the way. Broderbund's detective games sent you tracking Carmen's V.I.L.E. henchmen across real geography, and the PBS game show turned the hunt into after-school appointment TV — complete with the a cappella group Rockapella.
Broderbund's gloriously chaotic kids' drawing program — the one with the honking sound effects, the rubber stamps, and the stick of dynamite that blew your whole picture apart in a burst of black-and-white circles. For a generation of 90s kids it was the first "art" they ever made on a computer.
Guide troops of little blue creatures across a series of logic puzzles, choosing each one's hair, eyes, nose, and feet to sneak them past the obstacles. You were secretly learning to think — and it was a computer-lab favorite.