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The Coco Colos Show (aka The Coca Crystal Show) - Three Episodes (Videos, 1990's)

You can watch it here, and read about Coca Crystal on Wikipedia here.

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Rat! 2 (Windows 3.1, MikeM16, 1998)

An even more ambitious complete point and click adventure game than its predecessor, also made in Klik & Play. You can play it in your browser here.

You can find my post about the first game here.

Bombscare: We Almost Lost Armadillo City (DOS, Andy Mearns & Steve Chamberlin, 1987)

First preserved in May. You can play it in your browser here.

Frankie's Dungeon/Creepy Castle (Classic Mac, William C. Appleton, ~1990-1991)

You can play both versions in your browser here.

Tip: in either game, before starting it, open Control Panel under the Apple menu in the upper left and turn the volume up to at least 1 or sound will not play, including Creepy Castle's catchy theme song.

Both versions' main developer was William C. Appleton, who went on to create the beat-em-ups Skullcracker and Power Rangers Zeo vs. The Machine Empire - links are to my posts about them.

I Wish, I Wish (Book, Lisl Weil, 1957)

You can digital borrow it here.

The EduVenture! Trilogy: Adventure Alpha, Islands of Beta and The Lantern of D'Gamma (Apple II, William H. Kraus & Martin Butherus, 1984-1985)

You can play them in your browser here.

You can read an article about the second game here.

Josh (C64, Thomas Koncina & Björn Odendahl, 1993)

You can play it in your browser (and also view the intro and ending separately) here.

Tips: instructions can be accessed from the main menu. In-game controls are numpad 84620 for joystick. This copy includes optional cheats (the Commodore key for level skipping is mapped to Tab). The word you need to spell in a level is the same as the level's passcode. The block with the arrow points at the space where you need to begin spelling the word outward from the arrow.

The Tink!Tonk! Series (Apple II/C64/Atari 8-bit, Angelsoft, 1983/1984/1985)

Before he played a role in creating the interactive storybook with Just Grandma and Me, he created a book series made to be the basis of a series of educational games. You can play them in your browser here, and digitally borrow three of the books here.

The Apple II version of Tinka's Mazes has two disk side, and must be run in this alternate in-browser emulator that supports disk swapping. In the C64 version, this can be done by following the instructions in the description below the game.

Manuals for the Atari 8-bit versions of the first four games can be found here, here, here and here. You can read an article about the franchise here.

Duncan the Magic Dragon: Rappin' the ABC's (Video, 1993)

You can watch it here.

Discovered via GreatSphynx's stream of Everything is Terrible's Kidz Klub movie.

You can find a couple more videos in the series on YouTube: Mighty Machines and Firefighters (also here).

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MegaTraveller 2 : Quest for the Ancients (DOS, Paragon Software, 1991)

You can play it in your browser here.

You can download the game's hint book here. You can find my post about the first game here.

Bugs & Bombs (DOS, Awkward Software, 1997)

You can play it in your browser here. (May run slowly in Firefox.)

Tip: under Bugs, you can choose whether bugs are player-controlled, computer-controlled or not present; this enables single-player.

Taco Bell: Tasty Temple Challenge (DOS, BrandGames, 2000)

You can play it in your browser here.

Pure Magic aka The Werefox (Book, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth & Ingrid Fetz, 1973)

You can digitally borrow it here.

Elk Attack (Atari 2600, Mark Hahn, 1987)

Unreleased port of the obscure Taito arcade game The Electric Yo-Yo. You can play it in your browser here (controls: arrows, Ctrl, number row).

Snack Attack (Classic Mac, TIMW Enterprises, 1998)

A children's board game with voice acting. You can download it as snack_attack.sit here or here, and run it on modern systems by following the instructions below the image.

Tip: the ketchup bottle is your dice.

Open this in-browser emulator.

Drag the file you downloaded onto the emulated desktop.

Open The Outside World, then Downloads, and open the file you'll find there. If nothing new appears afterwards, close and re-open Downloads.

Open the folder that will have appeared and run the game. Don't worry about the shareware notice - it's a thirty-day time limit, but closing and re-opening the emulator resets the emulated drives except for things saved in Saved HD.