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Random888 Since: Jun, 2012
2012-11-25 18:36:21

Could the talking frog be C.J. from the Jump Start series?

thevisualboy37 Since: Dec, 2009
2012-11-25 18:57:06

No, it wasn't him. I would've remembered.

Theory Since: Dec, 1969
2012-12-16 20:20:09

Did it have dinosaurs? Futurama? did the guy usually end up bloody?

thevisualboy37 Since: Dec, 2009
2012-12-18 12:11:19

The first thing I said was that it was an Edutainment Game. So no, definitely not Futurama.

yamoryu Since: Feb, 2011
2012-12-26 15:32:26

Midnight Rescue, or any of the other Super Solver series?

thevisualboy37 Since: Dec, 2009
thevisualboy37 Since: Dec, 2009
2013-01-19 07:14:22

OK, bumping again, because I just found out the name of the song.

Kevonni4 Since: Jan, 2011
2013-01-19 13:57:46

Could you provide the notation or the name of the song so that someone who is knowledgeable about classical music could look up the game?

Kevonni4 Since: Jan, 2011
2013-01-19 13:58:27

Sorry about that. I missed it because I was looking in the replies.

Kevonni4 Since: Jan, 2011
2013-01-19 14:14:33

It may be that you merged Elite with another game because that one did use "Beautiful Blue Danube" for the docking music but it seems unlikely since that was not meant as an educational game.

thevisualboy37 Since: Dec, 2009
2013-01-21 19:00:16

No, it was not that old. The game I remember also used... "real" music? I don't know how else to describe it, but it wasn't whatever format you'd call music from early computers. EDIT: Orchestrated. That was the word I was thinking of.

Edited by thevisualboy37
thevisualboy37 Since: Dec, 2009
Kevonni4 Since: Jan, 2011
2013-01-26 16:54:09

Gex 64 may just be barely possible from your description if by space station, you mean a level in the game. The Beautiful Blue Danube is used in the Rocket Central level on a space station in parody of 2001: A Space Oddyssey and is orchestrated.

thevisualboy37 Since: Dec, 2009
Kevonni4 Since: Jan, 2011
2013-01-28 00:21:12

Yes, this troper did see that it was an Edutainment Game according to your message, but something does not seem to fit with it being an educational game. The description you provided makes it clear that the section you remember is a parody of 2001: A Space Oddyssey but it would not fit well in an educational game and there don't seem to be any that have a location meeting your description. The second part does not help all that much since that style of line appears in quite a few games but the first part is extremely distinctive, making it possible that you might have inadvertently combined two games.

Edited by Kevonni4
thevisualboy37 Since: Dec, 2009
2013-02-02 13:58:08

I did not. And I've never played any Gex games. In any case, this was a computer game, anyway. Also, "reporting live from Springtown" is distinctive.

Edited by thevisualboy37
Kevonni4 Since: Jan, 2011
2013-02-03 18:08:58

Could the frog be "Freddy Frog" from Mia's Big Adventure Collection? It's a really extreme guess.

thevisualboy37 Since: Dec, 2009
2013-02-04 16:47:39

No, I don't believe so.

thevisualboy37 Since: Dec, 2009
2013-02-04 16:49:12

Also, it wasn't CG or 3D or whatever.

thevisualboy37 Since: Dec, 2009
2013-02-07 20:05:56

Bump again. I may have been wrong about the "guide" being a frog, but I clearly recall hearing "Blue Danube" in the main hub of the game. It was edutainment, and I'm sure that this same game had the "reporting live from Springtown" line in it. Followed by something else that I can't actually remember.

Edited by thevisualboy37
Kevonni4 Since: Jan, 2011
2013-02-07 22:27:11

The Time Warp of Dr. Brain is kind of a stretch but it is possible based on the hub world.

thevisualboy37 Since: Dec, 2009
2013-02-08 20:16:51

No, I don't think that was it.

thevisualboy37 Since: Dec, 2009
KGWisdom Since: Dec, 1969
2013-02-17 19:55:53

New to this website, how do I bump? Your entry along with it's replies completely masked mine. :)

thevisualboy37 Since: Dec, 2009
2013-03-01 20:34:50

Simply click the reply button. Most people also say "Bump" or something similar. But beware: this is a very popular section, so yeah, some entries will overshadow others. Also, bump.

thevisualboy37 Since: Dec, 2009
2015-01-25 16:42:04

Well, now that I've figured out Learning Voyage and Mathosaurus by myself, and the book Not So Rotten Ralph thanks to another troper, I think I'm on a roll with these older posts so I'm gonna bump this one.

Nick4117 Since: Sep, 2015
2015-09-26 07:59:13

A long shot: The Magic School Bus?

thevisualboy37 Since: Dec, 2009
2015-10-17 20:14:02

May as well bump this again. By the way, no, it wasn't Magic School Bus. I definitely would have remembered if it was.

gaimanite.pkat Since: Nov, 2013
2015-11-10 10:09:13

Look up the list of games by Humongous Entertainment. They had a bunch of point-and-click animations and music.

GitarooHero Since: Mar, 2015
2015-11-10 14:50:15

I just so happened to stumble across a list of Pop-Up Video Games (those games where you click on things and random stuff happens), and I think I may have found some stuff that will at least jog your memory:

Cosmic Osmo seems to fit your description well, except for the fact that the companion that follows you around is an alien and not a frog. He is green like a frog, so it's close enough.

This next one is on Windows, but it might have had some sort of Mac port or something. Kidspace from Packard Bell Navigator: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2QlLQJDOBlw (Kidspace starts at about the 5:20 mark.)

Hope that helps!

Edited by GitarooHero Saving the world, one fret button at a time.
thevisualboy37 Since: Dec, 2009
2015-11-11 12:17:07

It wasn't Kidspace, but the ship interface for it looks somewhat similar to the game I remember. I'm also pretty sure it wasn't Cosmic Osmo. The game I played was in color and the alien/frog/whatever was with you on at least the first screen.
Also, it wasn't a Humongous Entertainment game.

thevisualboy37 Since: Dec, 2009
Kevonni Since: Dec, 2017
2018-05-13 02:00:30

This is out of desperation but Schoolhouse Rock! Exploration Station might be possible

Edited by Kevonni
thevisualboy37 Since: Dec, 2009
2022-03-08 23:49:46

Hmm. I never posted here once I finally figured it out. Once again, I was way off; it wasn't a frog, it was a green firefly with big eyes. I got confused between that and a big-eyed green frog from Kid Pix. This game was actually "Let's Pretend: Space is Our Playground!" and the line in question was, "This is Space Ant Joe, broadcasting live from Ringtown! We're be-boppin' with the cool cats down here at the Rockin' Rocket Café! Bring your steady for a 5-cent float and catch Our World is a Playground at the Fly-By-Night Drive-In!" (Our World is a Playground was the first game in the "Let's Pretend" series.)

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