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Could the talking frog be C.J. from the Jump Start series?
No, it wasn't him. I would've remembered.
SPY Fox series?
Did it have dinosaurs? Futurama? did the guy usually end up bloody?
The first thing I said was that it was an Edutainment Game. So no, definitely not Futurama.
Midnight Rescue, or any of the other Super Solver series?
Final bump.
OK, bumping again, because I just found out the name of the song.
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?
Sorry about that. I missed it because I was looking in the replies.
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.
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.
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And, bump.
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.
No. Again, this was an Edutainment Game.
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.
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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.
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Could the frog be "Freddy Frog" from Mia's Big Adventure Collection? It's a really extreme guess.
No, I don't believe so.
Also, it wasn't CG or 3D or whatever.
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.
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The Time Warp of Dr. Brain is kind of a stretch but it is possible based on the hub world.
No, I don't think that was it.
Aaaaaaaand, bump.
New to this website, how do I bump? Your entry along with it's replies completely masked mine. :)
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.
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.
A long shot: The Magic School Bus?
May as well bump this again. By the way, no, it wasn't Magic School Bus. I definitely would have remembered if it was.
Look up the list of games by Humongous Entertainment. They had a bunch of point-and-click animations and music.
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.
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.
One last bump.
This is out of desperation but Schoolhouse Rock! Exploration Station might be possible
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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.)
This was an Edutainment Game I played in Kindergarten (around 1999 or 2000). I think it was on Mac. I can only remember two parts about it: in one, you're on a space station in zero-gravity, and if you click on something, Strauss' Blue Danube plays (recently figured this out). The other part is clicking on a radio transmitter will cause a guy to say "This is [I've forgotten the name, but it was something like "Big Bad Joe"] reporting live from Springtown!" and talk for a little while about... something. The name of this game has been bugging me for a long time. I also remember there being a guide, and I think it was a talking frog. Oh, and before you say Microsoft's Explorapedia: World of People, that's not it; I tried it, thinking that might be it, and it wasn't. I don't even think it's Mac-compatible, anyway.
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