did the ending scare the shit out of anyone else as a kid? i don't remember why but it was really unsettling when i beat the game matter of fact many parts of this game were very creepy to me
The sound effect in Skillway when you pick a wrong answer scared me when I was a kid. Some other bizarre things about this game scared me too. I really thought I was the only one lol
i never got far in this game...it always stressed me out and i was always paranoid that something scary would pop out in the hallways or the knight armor lmao
You know what's really funny.... My brother and I were talking about this just now and I found it for him, forgetting I found this years ago. Then I saw my previous comment from 4 years ago on here hahahahaha!
I liked stories that were scary as a kid, and when I first played this game, I was disappointed at the end when the dragon turned out to be a good guy. I thought we were going to get an epic fight. But my disappointment didn't last long, because the ending was hilarious. I haven't played this game in years.
I was in 3rd grade when this game came out, and I would play it with my cousin, who was in 2nd grade. We used to tear up when this song would come on. There was something wrong with us lol, but it might be a testament to how good the music was in this game.
The Dragon is also: The Mirror, Mario and Luigi, Alistar Loveless on Cluefinders 4th grade, The Cat in the Hat and Yertle in all three Dr. Seuss games, Shakespeare and Beethoven in Carmen Sandiego's great chase through time, Jack Ramone on Cluefinders Search and Solve, Ice Breaker on Cluefinders reading adventures Sam the lion is also: The professor in Cluefinders 4th grade, Spike the porcupine in Reader Rabbit, Stone head in Cluefinders Reading adventures, Mojo JoJo and Butch on the powerpuff girls.
this haunted me for years! thank you for putting this up so I know I remembered correctly😂😂 can't believe I found this because all I remember from this game was a lion running through an neverending hallway😅
I always loved the character of Riddle/Rhyme. She was such a unique character in my eyes, that I would actually look forward to doing the Skillway just for her.
I liked this game, until about halfway through tower 2. At that point, despair set in for my little 2nd grade heart, and I began...HATING this game. Really, truly hating it with a burning fire inside me that filled me with rage at the very notion of ever playing it. But I knew that I had started it, I had made it halfway through the game, and I would FINISH IT. And that's the story of how that twisted little second-grader turned into an extremely twisted adult that I am now.
Yess finally found this game!! Searched for a total of about 3 hours to find it.. for some reason this game creeped me out as a kid. I remember the hallways being darker.
+GamingDude888 Don't worry, you're not alone. My essays basically amounted to me hitting random keys on the keyboard. Something like: kljhad jhalkfhdaklj wuieroap qoi u ajdflkajsdlk fioauopeuwroakjd fal;kj dals;kfj a;iuwoea;jdkha fjkah fjskahgfuwa jkah fuawyherla But since I'm older and can articulate thoughts better now...I tend to be a little more creative with it :)
holy shit i was looking for this!!! i had to call my mom to ask her what this game was called!! i was like "mom what was that game i used to play when i was really little with the lion and the fractions??" and she remembered!!! same with The ClueFinders!!!! damn i used to replay the ending all the time because i loved watching reader rabbit and sam go on the rocket, it drove me wild. where did the time go
I remember the Reader Rabbit games. I played Reader Rabbit Toddler, Reader Rabbit: Learn to Read with Phonics, etc. Did you know that there's another game series made by the same company called "The ClueFinders," which is a counterpart to this series for older children? I think you'd like its games since they're pretty much like the Junior Adventure games made by Humongous Entertainment.
Randomly remembered this from my childhood. Sitting down at the kicthen bench with my chunky ass laptop trying this shit to load up. The nostalgia is real. 😭😩
CEO100able yes as he was voiced by roger l Jackson, the voice of butch (the voice he was making in the game) mojo in the powerpuff girls, and ghosface from scream.
Dude this game was an absolute trip. It somehow was one of the best games I have ever played as a kid 1:19:07 Btw was that Bowser’s Head mounted on the wall?! 😳
Oh man, this brings back memories... though for some reason this game scared me when I was little, lol. Edit: Also a big fan of the southern belle knight, who I completely forgot about til now. :P
I'm from England and I had this game and it was in British English with different voices for the characters. I had quite a few of the learning company's programmes. Good Memories from my childhood. Thanks for uploading the game!
Thank you so much for uploading this. I feel like I'm reliving my childhood. The stories you wrote got a good chuckle out of me. 😄 And who knew how much personality could show through cursor movements? 🤣 And thanks for letting us bask in the soundtrack, it's much appreciated.
The first time through on most of the activities I decided to let you listen to the music, since a certain uploader forgot a few. Every other time I just let the dialog finish.
I have been trying to find the game with "a lion, a dragon, and a demented jester creature" from when I was a kid...for *years*! Thanks to wikipedia and Google (and you) my search is at an end! Yes!
Actually I think I played the "personalized" one you mentioned in the description. Either way though, this was an awesome nostalgia trip and confirmation that the game I remembered *did* exist!
This game messed me up as a kid. I had terrible nightmares. It's reassuring to find this again almost 20 years later, see all the comments, and know that I wasn't the only one.
I find it hilarious now that the dragon I was so afraid of as a young kid was voiced by the same person who voiced Mario in the Nintendo games I enjoyed around the same time.
Another thing - as a kid I literally thought this was a slender man or FNAF type game where I would need to avoid the dragon and sleuth around the castle while completing puzzles, or risk getting jump scared and the lion dying. I had no context as young kid to know that kind of this was never going to happen in an educational game like this. I have no idea how I had these preconceptions in my mind well before games with these sorts of mechanics ever existed.
Wow. Sam has a really annoying voice. Totally remember this game btw. Also the logic at around 10:37 is hilarious. Both are actually facts. It is a fact that "reader rabbit thinks [etc.]" If it were stated "sam is the bravest lion in the world," it wouldn't be, but as soon as you add someone else's perspective like that it's instantly a fact since it's telling what they're thinking, saying, etc.
Surprisingly his voice actor is Roger Jackson who you may know as Mojo Jojo from The Powerpuff Girls. Not bad for a guy who I grew up with who voices a deep stern monkey bad guy on a cartoon about 3 little girl superheroes beating the crud out of villains.
I’m so amazed that not only is Drayson voiced by Mario voice actor Charles Martinet, but I’m amazed Martinet can also sing, as he performed the whole dragon song himself.
i had completely forgotten about this series of games. along with scamp and one other game i still cant remember these were the best memories of my childhood.
3:50 Mario's laugh! Charles Martinet voices Monstrous Mirror and the dragon. 54:29 that's the sort of stuff I would write when my teacher (2nd or 3rd grade) wanted me to put multi-sentence answers when I could sum everything up in one sentence. Roger Jackson who voiced Sam The Lion also voiced Mojo Jojo
I never played this one, it's definitely the final test for all those kids who played reader rabbit up from toddler to 2nd grade! More intense and challenging than the previous entries, even Mat the mouse is nowhere to guide kids.
