Nostalgia: computer, internet, and electronic games

I remember  many things way back in the day when I was still a kid and didn't have a worry in the world.

There was this cool computer game where you were a line and you traveled from dot to dot by swinging around them. Eric found it and put it in one of his blog posts. What's it called? I don't know, I can't remember which post it was and I can't find it.

When we were kids, there was this cool computer game where you could make weird contraptions, and there were puzzles in it. Like, you had to get a silver ball into a  bucket, and you had to add to the screen a match, a rope, and a balloon, and then when you hit go the contraption would start up, and like a car would race down a ramp and light the match, which would pop a balloon, which would drop a bucket with a marble in it, and I remember it was super cool. Update: Just looked it up, it's called the Incredible Machine.

There was also the computer game Marble Drop, which was also fun.

There was a game that wasn't on the computer, but was on this stand-up tray thing, and you put different papers on it, and then it was a puzzle where you had to get the correct answer based off of what side light lit up. And we would make our own out of paper, and just copy the codes from other ones so the computer would know which lights to do. And the puzzles ranged from easy to very hard depending on how many lights or answers there were. No idea what it was called. Tried looking it up. No luck. Quick note: Anyone have any clue why a picture of the coronavirus shows up when I google image the phrase "1990's electronic learning toy where you put different question sheets on and you match the sides"?

Remember playing Myst and Riven.

Remember playing the internet game Tank War, or whatever it was called, where you each had a tank and would choose the angle of your cannon and power, and you could also change which type of missile it was, and you shot it and it could destroy the ground and damage the other tanks and you could get upgrades to get better weapons, and there was wind sometimes you had to worry about when you shot. Update: Yeah, it was called Tank Wars.

I remember when mom was gone for a week dad let me use the dining room table for a dinosaur island so I could shoot my feature-length film "Jurassic Park 4" which was stop motion where a bunch of Lego guys went to the island and tried to survive.

I remember when the internet was first invented (I know, that makes me old). And we couldn't use the phone at the same time, so we would have to ask if anyone was expecting a call before we hooked it to internet mode, and sometimes someone would try calling and we'd have to explian later that we didn't get their call because someone was using the internet. Good times.