ClueFinders 3rd Grade Adventures: Mystery of Mathra

[@Animezingly]

The nostalgia is literally painful. I need this all the time.

[@diegoaleman8451]

Animezingly WEEABOO!!!!

[@Laura6ando]

Animezingly LMAOO

[@yuu5974]

Yeah seriously lol

[@aeronblack9249]

Animezingly I feel you

[@kip_c]

I honestly can't believe I spent hours on some of these puzzles

[@Graycata]

Me too. I used to stock up on sneeze berries

[@gabbysell3568]

Me too omg, I was kindergarten whe. My mom got this for me

[@topcatninjahousepetsdigian9336]

THE GRADE LEVEL'S BACK THEN TENDED TO BE MISSLEADING"

[@angelocudiamat3643]

OWEN! 1:42

[@Abelhawk]

Anyone else on a nostalgia binge?

[@jackgreentheweirdonce-ler969]

Me

[@Stargenese]

Same!

[@katgod5601]

Yeah I'm gonna go look up the putt putt games next

[@LadyJuse]

These games need to be on Steam...

[@emari1000]

These game need to be on xbox LIVE !!

[@mikehikes710]

Yes are they available

[@jamesferris665]

Yes

[@bushpilot223]

@@mikehikes710 I downloaded them on MyAbandonWare website, and used Virtual box and installed Windows 98. Cluefinders is running great! As well as many other games! Novalogic games and James Combat Simulations .... The nostalgia is amazing 😂

[@katerinakittycat3849]

​@@mikehikes710 wait they're on steam? I didn't know that

[@Dingdongtime]

oh my god I am so filled with emotion. I played the shit out of this as a kid!!!

[@WolfRiddle]

Kanra-tan me too

[@jenniferadamson3519]

I played this game so much as a child. I have been trying to remember what it was called for 15 years. I think about this game at least 4 times a year, more than anyone should think about this game. 10/10

[@bonslurpenstein]

Same! The worm sorting in particular has always stayed with me, the weird sounds they make when you move and place them... just burned into my brain. Just found this after years of fruitless searching and ever finding the right game.

[@BrendynRobertson]

This is a classic. I REALLY wish the ClueFinders games would be on Steam.

[@LucyAdroit]

I would be buying ALL of them if they were even though I’m 24 now - just to finally beat them 😂

[@mondenkindqueen]

You can find them on abandonware sites if you look.

[@Meimoons]

Is it just me or was anybody else always stuck on the lava number bridge when they were a kid? Then again, I was always terrible with math...

[@jasonblake3976]

Literally always had a calculator nearby for that section.

[@chandlerg5908]

Goo Falls always had stressed...

[@chandlerg5908]

i think part of it was the creepy ass music

[@SNSimone15]

I'm honestly amazed I was able to get past the beetle part

[@sherriwhite1894]

I’m still shocked I managed to beat the game. It took me 4 months of going to the library computers just to play. Lava levels did take me almost a fourth of that time.

[@caroldefender4144]

Is it just me or are there a lot of Beatles references in the Goo Lagoon?

[@AceAttorney9000]

I really wish these games were rereleased on Steam. Someone (I don't remember who) rereleased the Humongous Entertainment games on Steam, so why not these?

[@nickkelley9139]

+AceAttorney9000 Carmen Sandiego would also be quite welcome on Steam.

[@anthonybrandt5517]

You mean games like putt-putt Freddie fish pajama Sam spy fox and outside sports

[@marsmech]

Dude i played this game when i was a kid. I didn't realize they drew it in ms paint.

[@zephyr1181]

That was how those QuickTime cartoon games looked. Reader Rabbit was pretty similar. Easy to render on a slow CPU before GPU acceleration was a thing

[@caseycat]

​@@zephyr1181Freddie fish was similar

[@natehausmann3030]

*Fletcher Limburger*: Well.... peanuts, anyone?... that's what folks are saying- and there's an old superstition about a monster and a lost city. *Santiago*: Superstition? *Leslie*: Lost city? *Joni*: Monster? *Owen*: ...peanuts? *All*: OWEN!! Gets me every time! HAHA!

[@animemangaluv13]

this game was EVERYTHING

[@someperson2871]

I LOVED THIS GAME!!!

[@shannonkovach2493]

I used to play this game all of the time when I was young! My favorite part was the singing plants in the Goo Lagoon. At the time I had no idea what it was alluding to, but since them I have become a HUGE Beatles fan, that's so funny.

[@masteryamchasstudent1439]

I love the Beatles too. I love their music.

[@alika207]

Who doesn't love the Beatles? And like you said, I got all the Beatles references in this when I watched it back the other day!

[@fa1rygutz734]

for some reason that song scared me half to death when i was little

[@creeperflowey2969]

I *knew* it! I always thought they were a reference to something.

[@RedRag684]

Gets abducted by a blood thirsty monster. Calls a bunch of 7 year olds.

[@RobinPochita]

The imagination is wild.. I remember this being top quality animation as a kid. Looking at this now.. yikes. Still loved/love it.

[@Katzykeens]

I love how awkwardly they walk away after a talking monkey just sang them a song

[@Jaxymann]

This game was my CHILDHOOD! I remember spending hours in Computer class in elementary school on it!

[@caroldefender4144]

Me, too! Only I played it on my home computer! Those colorful berries and beetles drew me in!

[@Link77793]

Piece out

[@Cam_Toons]

this would make an awesome kids show..

[@iHeartsNostalgiaPit]

+Cam Toons yeah big missed opportunity

[@topcatninjahousepetsdigian9336]

YUP"

[@declancarey3337]

This could be for PBS kids.

[@jesseking1403]

I would absolutely buy this game if it was released on steam, just for the nostalgia alone

[@tara7206]

What is steam? I’m a millennial

[@SB-qh6cr]

@@tara7206website where u can download games from

[@breezehxme]

@@tara7206millennials know about Steam lmao. It’s a program/app on PC where you can buy thousands of games and more.

[@iBenjamin1000]

I remembered playing this game today and thought "I bet someone played this game on youtube". I was right. Even the sound effects are nostalgic. Vasco de Gama was a Portuguese explorer. The Monquistadors are the conquistadors.

[@chdreturns]

One of the few good educational games... Along with Carmen Sandiego, and Oregon Trail.

[@chdreturns]

Ah nostalgia... I played the hell outta this game.

[@Exotic_Tofu]

+chdreturns the jump start games were pretty dank too tho!

[@DPS1194]

+chdreturns Speaking of which, Carmen Sandiego made a cameo appearance on one of these games as well!

[@alika207]

I agree with you about the former two! What is Oregon Trail?

[@darkroselight3835]

I found it! I was starting to think this game was a fever dream I'd had as a child.

[@blbprime11]

I remember these puzzles being much harder.

[@pallasdiana4206]

A: This was made with 3rd graders in mind, and B: the puzzles were set to 1, which I assume is the lowest difficulty.

[@iBenjamin1000]

Funny how I remember every detail about the monkey kingdom, but less about the goo lagoon and practically nothing about the Lost City. The appearance of Mathra at the end of the game got me so excited as a kid, because I liked the idea that there was a monster somewhere in the world, even if the world was within a computer game.

[@haileyg_johnson5145]

I remembered being blown away by the graphics when I was younger! Lol we have come a very long way. My nostalgia is out of control right now!

[@shock44SquirrelyShock]

Aaah the nostalgia! Thank you so much for uploading this man.

[@DeluxBass]

IKR!!!

[@brittanyking8650]

I’ve been thinking about this game for awhile, then had a dream about it last night where I was on a hardcore hunt for it and couldn’t take it anymore. Found it today. I could cry from the nostalgia, and the insane itch being scratched from finding it!!

[@Jansenbaker]

THERE IT IS! I finally figured out what it was. And I only barely remembered a dragon was on the cover, and a fading feeling of it. I'm so glad I found it finally.

[@laurenmeredith6331]

I’m certain I played this game 5000 times as a child!!!!! Omg

[@Lilsweetings]

Oh my god the nostalgia is hitting me so hard rn

[@alexanon8345]

(whispers did you come here from brutalmoose)

[@Lilsweetings]

(whispers) no, I came here from Reader Rabbit lol

[@charliewyskowski7206]

3rdgradeadventures

[@lovefitch]

The nostalgia just hit me like a train. I remember in Elementary school way back in the early 2000s, my teacher would allow us kids to play the Cluefinder games on the computer before and after class. 3rd grade was ALWAYS my favorite, even though I had beat it several times. I wish I hadn't grown up sometimes

[@iBenjamin1000]

I remember I was smart enough to solve the puzzles but for some reason I would click random tiles on the bridges of the rings of fire until I got all the letters. So what I did was go to a given puzzle, complete it, then move out and back into the screen to redo the puzzle until I had 10-12 sets of berries (of course 10 would be enough since it's a 10x10 board with a few tiles filled in). This would be my first time grinding in a video game. I have no idea why I thought this was such a good idea. Maybe I didn't get the logic of the bridges.

[@Graycata]

I used to stock up on things from the puzzles as well. For some reason I didn't fully understand the instructions for a couple of the puzzles and struggled

[@Abelhawk]

It's fun to hear all the celebrity impressions that went over my head as a kid. The Beatles, Thurston Howell III, Rod Serling.

[@mysticdragonwolf89]

I spent hours playing these games... They were my N64 and Sega.... Wait....Mathra....Math-ra.....Math-sun god I just got that now....I’m 30 years old

[@CommanderWiggins]

I remember playing this game again and again as a kid, but never beating it. One day, I managed to get to the very last bridge puzzle and had just figured out the solution when the game froze. I was so mad that I never played it again and this game has haunted me to this very day. The Goo song from 36:46 lives in my head rent free.

[@Abletodoit675]

James Washington and Adrienne Long

[@Link77793]

Piece out

[@Firepuma27]

So many 60s references in this game.

[@bushpilot223]

I just built a Windows 98 computer, and this was the first game I installed. Lmao the nostalgia is literally killing me 😂

[@CaseyMenefee]

Thank you for sharing this so I could make my husband think I’m a freak for losing my mind over finally finding it. This really made my 2023.

[@EmprezzzTa3518]

Faithfully played this on my grandmothers computer when I was like 5-6 years old 😍😍😍

[@zephyr1181]

1:07:20 dude the video always glitched out when Laptrap sneezed. Thought it was just my PC.

[@MK1MonsterOck1989]

OMG I HAVN'T PLAYED THIS IN YEARS MY CHILDHOOD! =D

[@poohbear4515]

Am I the only one that sung along to the songs? Their kinda catchy

[@diegoaleman8451]

Alyssa Ross weeaboo!!

[@joelvarelajr6495]

When it's late at night and you're smoking and you have a thought about school playing this during math class. Good memories.

[@Brandonrouthsniece94]

OMG no way this was 20 years ago😢😢😢😢 right here right now I truly do wish I could go back to this time😢😢

[@aabaaabbbabba7174]

11 years later and this is such a nostalgia overload

[@rojiroco]

Oh my god! I finally found it! This game and Math Blasters were my whole childhood!!!

[@kaitlintropper2061]

I remember this game. So emotional

[@UltimateGamingChannel]

Wish I could play this on steam anyone know where I can play these today?

[@alexisryan1970]

Dude I've thought about this game so many times and could never remember what it was called or hardly anything about it. I remember the kids, puzzles, jungle, and goo. And especially the tile wall(trauma? That shits even creepy as hell now 😂) But as each scene popped up, and all the sounds, I was just overwhelmed with memory and nostalgia. I see a lot of people saying they remember the graphics being better but it's exactly how I remembered 😭😭 thank you for posting this!!!

[@HolySpitball]

Glad I found this it was a locked childhood memory that I just couldn't quite remember right. I remember the scary song though lol

[@alexisryan1970]

@@HolySpitball the beatle's one about their home dying? 😅

[@HolySpitball]

@@alexisryan1970 LOL no not the beatles the monkey "do you believe in monsters" song

[@biancacarey2550]

Your comment are my exact same memories and feelings😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮!!!!!!! I thought about this game for over 20 years!!! All I could remember was some berries and goo and something about adventure 😂😂😂😂 Langston Chapel Elementary school 2001 2002

[@brandongerhardt9954]

Man these songs are still bops

[@jonathanbaileyartanimation2992]

33:24 Ahhh…. Goo. Lagoon. A stinky mud pud-dell to you and me. But to the inhabitants of Bikini Bottom, a wonderful, stinky mud pud-dell.

[@jukebox_julia]

all the illustrations look like they couldve been illustrated in MS paint i love it

[@TARDISFanMan]

You missed some awesome quips from Owen! If you go back and replay the game, and use the video phone after the songs sung by the monkeys and the goo flowers, there's some funny stuff.

[@XmCLoLLiPoP]

1:07:17 OMG.. that jump. made my day!

[@jaydenreza2956]

Good times good times the nostalgia

[@BrowncoatGofAZ]

Is it bad that the call of Mathra still sends shivers up my spine to this day?

[@zodiacproductions5288]

This is my favorite clue finders game . I love Mathra and the goo lagoon

[@topcatninjahousepetsdigian9336]

1:06:50 THE BIG DOOR CLOSING BEHIND YOU ALL BY IT'S SELF WAS ALWAYS A BAD SIGN🙀😨😰"

[@g0nk_droid]

Im sitting here smiling like an idiot at this beatles parody song remembering pretty much all of it from when I was a kid.

[@EvanYoungMusic]

Oh man... Limberger just dies... Dark...

[@moviestigma7792]

Found the whole Cluefinders collection at the drift store today. YAY!

[@Zephyr_Weiss]

Token Ginger, token Asian, token Hispanic and token black character lol

[@tylerb3023]

Owen was my boy back in the day. Dude was the coolest person I knew.

[@TheDeLowl]

I FOUND IT!! I can't believe it!! I've been looking for this game forever! No one I talked to had even heard of it, and I was beginning to think I had dreamt it up, but here it is!!!

[@courtney6541]

Am I the only one who thinks this game is super dark? I mean, it went over my head as a kid, but a grown man is luring kids into the remote jungle, kidnapping people, and poaching animals. WTH this is a kid's game!!!!

[@frozarburst6350]

oh man. I remember playing this when I wasn't even in the third grade. I've gotta replay it just to remember.

[@connormacdonald4722]

Wow, this aged...badly, but I still love it.

[@whytho9891]

I have been looking for this game for years,I remember playing back in elementary

[@phoebe1025]

This was my entire childhood ooh the memories

[@zachtheobald3802]

1:42 Magic School Bus reference! Gosh these games really bring out the nostalgia in us!

[@lryuzaki1192]

I was thinking about this game the other day. And how much I was dying to replay it. Unfortunately, I believe the game was given away. I had this game, Math Blasters (not the old one), 5th Grade Adventures and this game. Guess which game was memorable the best and more fun out of the three? This one! ❤ So many awesome memories...Oh my god, I miss this game so much. This and Chip's Challenge needs to be put on Steam as many have suggested. Though Joni always slightly annoyed me as an obnoxious red head, teeny-bopper, Lara Croft look-alike, even as a kid. Domineering and talking over Santiago ordering him around and showing off when it came to walking over the shaky branch. Tough, never scared of anything. A Mary-sue before that term came into being. haha. Omg, the songs were so memorable and fun. I think my favorites are the Goo Lagoon songs. Funny how the singing plants are referenced by the Beatles. Someone is a Ringo Starr fan. Monquistadors conquistadors Vasco De Gama Hehe God so many references to things in this game. Lindbergher (Charles Lindbergh Spirit of St. Louis) Oh, and I loved Mathra (Godzilla reference "Mothra") I wanted him as a pet. Pythagoras brilliant philosopher and mathematician. Haha Laptrap sounds exactly like Timon, but that's not Nathan Lane. Still every time Laptrap talked I heard Timon but nope, different voice actor, Les Hedger was it?

[@tylerb3023]

🎶 Here in Liverpuddle, We're all in quite a muddle 'Cause since the monster's comeback, He's ruining the goo. It used to be reflourished The goo has kept us nourished Now, our lovely home's impurish, And we miss fresh goo (goo...) Goo, goo, what happened to you? You smell like old socks from Mathra's shoes (hoo...) Goo, goo, there's just one thing to do: Find the key, stop the monster, And clean up the goo. The falls of goo are waiting, So stop your hesitating! We're all asphyxiating And choking from the goo. The goo round here is stinking We miss our fresh goo drinking We're not so good at thinking We're depending on you (you...) Goo, goo, what happened to you? You smell like old socks from Mathra's shoes (hoo...) Goo, goo, there's just one thing to do: Find the key, stop the monster, And clean up the goo. 🎶

[@yuu5974]

Holy crap I found it!!! My life is complete. This is insane.

[@Tsumefan2]

and he would've gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids

[@cassandraolivarez]

Omg!!!! I remember I wanted to go to computer class just to play!

[@shiningkingghidora]

There needs to be a Cluefinders cartoon

[@Abletodoit675]

James Washington and Adrienne Long

[@Link77793]

Piece out

[@EmilyLynne1993]

Just that very beginning intro with the shooting star sound brings back so much nostalgia lol

[@anowlwithinternetaccess6879]

Dude I've been thinking about this game for years since I haven't played it since I was 7. Forgot the name and most of the things, now the nostalgia has returned and I searched so long to find it.

[@ryangreen9722]

Santiago is Fred Joni is Daphne Owen is Shaggy Lesli is Velma Laptrap is Scooby-Doo

[@hibbiea8841]

Mario is Guide

[@Gamespectives]

A really great game. Somehow I remember the "do u believe in monsters" song xD I started playing this game in 1st grade. This was so hard for me. Watching this now when I'm 26.. gosh they are so easy . Stupidly easy maths. (I'm disappointed u didn't play it in the hard difficulty) Also I didn't figure out mathra was a machine.. if I was older the aviation oil would have been enough proof xD Also the goo falls GameMaster stone face still creeps me out. Gave me nightmares as a kid. He's staring into my soul!

[@NDHFilms]

Two decades later, I will sometimes hear Do You Believe In Monsters playing in my head.

[@alexdionisos]

That haunted my nightmares in like 3rd grade

[@chandlerg5908]

i did NOT know the geography part in the lost city

[@Zaku-x109]

I still have the disc+case :3

[@ryanc5572]

This game was my life when I was a kid.

[@BeckyBandJesus]

My favourite childhood game

[@joshlewis5065]

Holy shit the dust on these memories

[@xXxBlindsnowxXx]

Omg I haven't seen this in years, I don't even know half of what happens in the game because I was too little the understand any of the math lmao

[@LiminalSpaceMan192]

Do they make educational kids games like this anymore?

[@Unownzone]

The graphics looked so much better in my memories😂😂😂

[@JSTRonline2]

Fucking took everything my sister and I had to beat this game...oh the memories. It makes me wonder why we so damn bad.

[@mikehikes710]

I loved these games as a child

[@drkinferno72]

Isn't it irresponsible to send kids who know nothing about survival to the rain Forest?

[@MegaSparkster]

Videogame logic

[@LadyJuse]

+drkinferno72 the only logic is in the puzzles

[@drkinferno72]

LadyJuse not even SAS members go right away

[@SinnedNogara]

"Gesundheit" Don't know why that was so funny but it was.

[@comicnerd420]

The song at 9:00 is a bop 😂

[@katanarama1]

Never realized mathra was a play on mothra from Godzilla 😂

[@TonyShumway-hc8qj]

2 Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. ClueFinders 3rd Grade Adventures: Mystery of Mathra Scooby Doo The Mystery Begins.

[@spiderbits2923]

37:05 Dang they included that potential epilepsy trigger in a children's game? Yikes!

[@WYO_Dirtbag]

Spider Bits It was a different time.

[@theartoftimelapsemore424]

1:33:39 "I'll get those kids yet! They haven't heard the last of Fletcher Q. Limburger!"

[@benjaminodhner1175]

The Young Pride Landers from The Lion Guard symbolized kids who play these Cluefinders education games with Math Bingo board games!

[@albertyu750]

I've been on a nostalgia binge as of late. Came across this series along with Carmen San Diego. At the risk of sounding old, it's a shame they don't make games like these anymore.

[@KNakanishi]

I think my favorite thing about these games is that it looks like all the graphic design was done with MS Paint.