The Living Books series is nostalgia incarnate for me. Some of the earliest memories of PC gaming for me were with this smorgasbord of edutainment classics & this was one of my favorites. It includes a minigame called Deep Dark Sea that was essentially a short but complete 2D ocean exploration action game. Loved that minigame so much as a kid that I'd have the patience to see it all the way through even thought it ran at like 10FPS on my fam's old 90s MacIntosh.

One of the most nostalgic point and click CD-ROMs I owned as a kid. The Deep Dark Sea minigame went incredibly hard.

man. i think this was my first PC game ever, or at least it’s the first one i can remember playing. it perfectly captures late 90’s/early 2000’s edutainment era. being able to combine reading (which i loved) with a cool ass underwater mini game blew my mind at age 5. about to sound like an oldhead but i hope ipad kids are getting quality learning somewhere even with this era long gone and not just AI youtube kids or whatever the media shows bc the gamification of learning is so important!!