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PPPSSC
Since: Nov, 2009
2014-12-19 21:26:54
I'm 99% sure you're talking about Reading Blaster 9-12. Rave started out looking that way and was searching for friends and neighbors, not his parents, but other than that the description was so spot on I don't see how it could be anything else.
TroperNo9001
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CidSilverWing
Since: Apr, 2011

Another Edutainment Game that I loved as a kid, but sadly, didn't finish. In this game, a kid who was turned into a "wimp" (a green one-horned humanoid) has to rescue his parents by going to a haunted house. He investigates by jumping on ghosts with matching synonyms and antonyms to open the catacombs and piecing the sentences together with a typewriter. Along the way, he collects PlotCoupons, one of which is a styrofoam cup, that may hold the answers to the whereabouts of his parents. Probably not Jump Start, since its title is a generic "3rd Grade Reading," but if it has a specific subtitle, please let me know. Thanks!
Edited by TroperNo9001