When you find yourself trying to remember a show (or any works) that's on the tip of your tongue but just out of reach, come here - the collective brain of the TVTropes community can probably help. Post all the details you can remember (examples help). If you're looking for a trope, head over to Trope Finder. Have general questions about tropes? Visit Ask The Tropers!
Oh man, that sounds familiar, but I have no clue what it is.
I definitely recognize that. I played it at a friends house years ago, but I don't remember the name. This is now going to drive me crazy...
"With hard work and dedication, I will become a splendid ninja!"
Was it Reader Rabbit? Probably not, but that was the first thing that came to mind.
I know old but it took me forever to figure out the name for this, probably because the name of the game is different than one of the title screens in the game, which says Lil' Howie's Fun House Starring Howie Mandel. But the actual name is The Great Word Adventure
http://www.museumofplay.org/online-collections/1/45/110.3482
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zz04ozBxqY
An Edutainment Game from the late 90s (pretty sure it was on a CD). It was of the point-and-click variety.
It started at a squirrel's house (who lives in a Hobbit-style house under a tree). The squirrel may have been a flying squirrel, brown and was completely batshit insane - Ambiguous Gender. After an introduction you would (along with a Chew Toy sidekick) get into a spaceship that's on a rail (it may have been underground, not sure) and solve maths puzzles to open up giant doors to continue.
I can't remember much apart from that and one part where you had to either point out the vowels or put the correct vowels in words while the Chew Toy was slowly lowered into a vat of acid/lava. There was also this calm female character who would start that level/part by telling you what the vowels are ("and sometimes 'y'" has been stuck in my head ever since).
I may have confused some of this with other games. Part of me thinks that it's very similar (style-wise) to Baba Yaga and the Magic Geese
but that might be a coincidence.
EDIT: I also want to say that you travelled to the past for a history lesson but that might be a different game.
Edited by Jicragg