It was for anthropomorphic trees, the 'Pizza Trolls'. Here I was, able to pick the toppings, anything I'd like. The greasy, meaty, cheesy deliciousness that was the only thing asked for when my mother asked for supper suggestions. It tapped in to the hiding 'let's play dressup' side of young boys by letting you pick how your Zoombinis look, and then throwing you, a puzzle in, against choosing the toppings of Pizza.
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The game knew how to grab attention, too. I'm sure that instead of being responsible for my B in GSCE Maths, it was the cause of missed homework and hogging the computer from my equally deluded brother. Gracing the box cover was the tag line 'Building Advanced Maths Thinking Skills', indicating that some misguided belief from my parents that games could be used to catapult me into a respectable, well paying job was still present. This was The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis, the game that took up two years of my childish life, the only game I owned until Age of Empires years later. And I was the one to bring all thousand of their sorry, idiotic, blissfully ignorant arses all the way there.
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A modern Rome, just waiting for them to populate. I was their Moses, the ferryman of their salvation, bringing them from the hellish confines of their old home, riddled with evil 'Bloats', helping them cross great trials and tribulations to finally reach their mecca, the promised land, resplendent with schools, hospitals, a town hall, and beautiful, straight roads. In the book of my life, an entire chapter would be given to aubergines wearing sunglasses.
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Today's guest emblogginator is the aubergine-educated Phill "The Poisoned Sponge" Cameron, who fills us on on the obscure annex of edutainment that defined his childhood: The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis.