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I think I know what you might be talking about, though I don't know the name of it. Did it star a kid and this big shaggy dog?
I can still hail the Horde even though the company has shamed us. Strength and Honor even if Blizzard has neither.
Yes! At least the dog, anyway. I have pretty vague memories about it, obviously.
It was called Math... something. And the girl's name was Polly Gon.
Math Blaster.
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
I have vague memories about a very similar game. It took place in a house, and the character would go to different rooms to play a different educational minigame. I remember one having to do with weather or something, and one was about vocabulary or spelling? The game I'm thinking about wasn't math-based, though. I really liked that game, and I can't remember much about it. Is it the same one you're thinking of?
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I'm gonna bump this one 'cause I'm curious if the OP is thinking of the same game I am. I think the main character was a cat or something, though, so I may be thinking of a different game.
@ Sammi Seldowitz Could it have been one of the games like Bailey's Book House?
I vaguely remember this point and click thing, where the house had a happy face on the door, and there was a yellow lab puppy. Would that be it? There was a dragon clip art thing that I remember pasting all over a room with a red carpet and curtains, but that's about all I can remember. [EDIT: Never mind, my brother just told me that what I'm thinking of is Microsoft Bob, which wikipedia calls "one of Microsoft's more visible product failures." Apparently it wasn't really a game, though we definitely used it as one.]
@ Sammi - Jump Start 3rd Grade perhaps? Or maybe Knowledge Adventure's My First Encyclopedia? It took place in a treehouse (of the Berenstein Bears variety) and sounds a lot like what you're thinking of.
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A math-something minigame house with a bowling-related game and a girl named Polly Gon call to my mind Math Workshop, by Broderbund. I'm not sure though, because I can't remember anything about a dog in it for the life of me.
Math Workshop is definitely the name of what I was thinking of at least.
What about Reading Blaster?
Sammi - Would yours possibly be Reader Rabbit 2?
Possibly Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise?
mudshark: I don't expect Nate to make sense, really.
^ Hah, I was just about to suggest that one myself.
Anyway, I'm not sure if this will fit any of the requests, but in the early 90's Broderbund published a series of educational games: The Playroom, The Backyard, and The Treehouse, each of which featured anthropomorphic animals as the main characters, and each of which had several minigames or other activities to play. The Treehouse was the only one I actually played, and I didn't even know The Backyard existed until I started searching for information on the other two.
Some sort of PC game from the 90s or maybe early 2000's. I assume it was edutainment but I'm not sure. I recall it taking place in some sort of house and there were a lot of little minigames. One of them had to do with bowling.