LGR - Treasure Hunt Math - DOS PC Game Review

[@funkophone]

Man, the old dot matrix. That takes me back.

[@shorty1k]

That's so nice that your dad used to play this with you. My dad hates computers and games.

[@Snotnarok]

Oh goodness the Dotmatrix printer, that brings back memories just the noise.

[@Victoria-ty9qv]

I have been looking for this game for years! Thanks for sharing; it brought back a lot of good memories.

[@darthsmack7090]

Dude...I've spent years trying to remember this game. And here LGR had a video of it this whole time.

[@ImSquiggs]

This one's going on the "weird games to speedrun" list too.

[@ValStinks]

i love that youve had this game since you were six and you never realized those are messages in bottles not buoys

[@shimonl4214]

I actually paid for a registered copy of this back in the day, for my elementary school kids. Today I volunteer at a local school helping kids with trouble in arithmetic, and the kids there love to play THM. (I have a linux laptop with DosBox running the game)

[@gemmeliusgrammaticus2509]

How ‘bout “Grammar Games”?

[@BlueWizardMustDie]

As a fellow Clint, I give this video an automatic thumbs up.

[@LGR]

Kudos, fellow Clint.

[@pentelegomenon1175]

But if you notice, during gameplay his name appears as CLÏNT.

[@jopeteus]

I wouldn't never got into DOS without you videos. Thanks!

[@touhouguyII]

This channel is just so relaxing to watch:D

[@ZyXxny]

Oh man, I remember playing this in day-care before I could even read, let alone in English. Never knew the name of it or anything, and while I remember the gameplay I had completely lost all hope of finding out which game it was. This is probably the first game I ever played and the nostalgia is simply overwhelming. Thank you for this review, really made my day :D

[@stu1701E]

Wow! What a huge primary school nostalgia trip. Thanks.

[@alexdemoya2119]

"While the PC speaker molests your ears for a little bit" as a way different meaning on a college campus these days

[@breakingaustin]

The 'dinghy' is a rowing boat with a man in it and the 'bouys' are bottles containing the math problems on parchment like a message in a bottle Clint come on now 😂😂

[@TeaAndFloppyDisks]

I was about to say the same about the buoys being bottles, but isn't a dinghy technically a small row boat? Now, I'm curious to know the story of the poor soul who got shipwrecked or something and kept sending out bottles with math problems instead of calls for help. Unless they really were calls for help...

[@LGR]

@PikaChamp112 I plan on covering the SNES version whenever I get around to a SimCity series review.

[@erogeguy8887]

CLINT CLINT CLINT dad CLINT dad

[@LGR]

@VicTheVicar Yep, an NX-2400! It actually is a color dot matrix printer, which is pretty awesome.

[@TheYamatoSushi]

I had similar problems with my Epson Stylus 460 printer twenty years ago, for some strange reason, one part of the printer where paper would get out was little bumped up, and that made similar results with as yours did.

[@LGR]

@HighTreason610 Hehe, it's an NX-2400 Rainbow. Lovely printer. I've actually been meaning to do a quick video about the thing sometime, since its color dot matrix printing is just fascinating to me.

[@LGR]

@Danny77uk Sure! I just don't own a lot of it, compared to MS-DOS and PC stuff. Anything in particular? I'll actually be looking at a game for 68k Macs here in a couple weeks...

[@brainfossil]

PHREAKINDEE!!!!! I love you so much right now. i used to play Word Games at Camelto so much when i was a kid but i couldn't remember the name or even the company that made it. I have been trying to remember for...no joke....probably at least 5 years. This video with that comapny logo of adventure learningware completely jogged my memory. Please, keep this up. You are my lord and saviour.

[@LGR]

@Gmanster64 I've actually seen a video online of someone using this to learn cubes with the custom problems!

[@LGR]

@GeorgesVI Awesome, glad to know there's some interest! I just need to find a replacement color ink ribbon for the thing and I'll get to making a video :)

[@LGR]

@Blurredman Boy? Never heard it said that way before. Ha, are there also floating girls? Not where I come from - America, where we pronounce everything "incorrectly".

[@LGR]

@shaurz Never heard of it, so I wouldn't mind having a copy to mess with if you want to send it!

[@LGR]

First one sounds like Math Blaster Plus, which I have a review of. Not sure of the second.

[@LGR]

@CrAzY3AGL3 Any future at all? Well, sure! There are infinite futures at this point, so one of them is bound to include a Duke3D review.

[@LGR]

@30LayersOfKevlar maybe so but they will always be buoys to me ;)

[@billtscherno5852]

Don't go to Crystal Lake. The place is cursed, cursed! It has got a death curse. You're doomed if you stay there!

[@R33Racer]

Damn I miss them printers.

[@LGR]

@DylanMayhew I loved the Super Solvers games! Especially Spellbound. And as for Oregon Trail, wait until the end of the month ;)

[@LGR]

@BrianPicchi I'm getting a lot of questions about it, perhaps I should amend the video description! It is a Star NX-2400 Rainbow ; a color dot matrix.

[@zesty2023]

Actually I'm pretty sure those "boeys" are notes in bottles.. just you know.. not to scale. XD The thing your controlling looks like the ship from the title-screen.

[@LGR]

@Raggikomm It was being a printer.

[@bafendo]

another awesome review. gotta love Dot Matrix printers.

[@LGR]

@TheArchitecturalGuy Indeed, I have a name and was also a kid once. Strange but true!

[@pubesz]

I wish "Oh shiny swords, must have!" was a Duke Nukem one-liner.

[@stulog]

If it makes you feel any better, I habe the same problem with my laser printer I use for work. It is amazing for how much things change, how much stays the same

[@laurenhiya21]

ARG talking about old math games makes me think of some sort of 1st person maze game I used to play at school but I don't know the name of it and it's bugging the heck out of me ;-; (hopefully I'll figure it out eventually) Anyways, I recently started following you and I've been watching most of your older videos (and a few of the newer ones) and they're all just awesome :> So keep up the good work :D

[@YEUWYU]

hey man, have you thought about making a retrospective video about shareware like you did with copy protection? it would be awesome

[@LGR]

Hmm, that would be cool, will give it some thought!

[@HighTreason610]

Woah, a Star printer! What model is that? I have an XB24-250 (Huge machine for 15"x11" Fanfold Paper) and a bunch of old Panasonic printers, the Star was still my main printer until recently. Good review anyway, but for me, the printer is the best part... probably because I am strange.

[@mgbon2]

On the math theme... there was a game which all I remember from it is at the end you get to build a spaceship from a choice of 3 tops, middles and bottoms. ARGH I'm wracking my brain for it! Also, there was one with a flat bed trailer and shapes or something... oh the nostalgia! Dammit!

[@AlphaStarDX]

Bit late, I realize, but I think that second one is called "Amy's First Primer".

[@TheMarg0r]

0:20 and now I very faintly hear LeChuck's theme! You truly have good taste in games, and game music.

[@Hornyk19]

Monkey islandddddd anyone else heart warm when the music started at beginning of game?

[@itohnobue]

It's very cute that you have dad records there :)

[@LGR]

@Paperclown Just how old do you think I am?

[@LGR]

@Blurredman Haha, that's cool, I figured it was a regional difference of some kind and I had never heard of saying it that way. I guess we both learned something!

[@tombert512]

This game actually seems kind of fun. I went to school a bit post-DOS, but I think this would have been a pretty rad game to play to teach math.

[@themoley91]

Omg as soon as I saw the coconut level all the memories came back..l

[@LGR]

Totally can!

[@lb5491]

Man, Jamestown, NC... Went to Jamestown Middle School!

[@mistamontiel]

6:55 L0LLL GREAT 0UTR0o0 Awh man. Math simulation. Right on bra. The only D0S I got to rock, only command line I ever knew was to run Math Blaster. Pretty sure that's all I was rockin'. Intense..sick..fun math simulation. Love it, thanks !!

[@Ronckie]

ahh it's really cute that your dad played it too :)

[@LGR]

By plugging it in :)

[@tombert512]

Color Dot Matrix printers are pretty much made of rad. I don't really know how they work, but damn are they cool.

[@hitherescotty]

I had an Acer monitor that fried while playing this game. Bad, but fond, memories.

[@HoboGirl09]

Oh man I always hated when printer's would jam especially on those old ones. sometimes made me want to throw the damn thing out the window.

[@TheIdleCrow]

that reminds me I just got my hands on a educational game today for my old macintosh, along with 2 other games, I got super solvers out numbered, and I actually found out i remember this from when I was a kid, maybe this is a game you could do as well? (random note also got gretzky hockey, and super teris) and you should so do oregon trail! sorry I just love that game so much! lol

[@VicTheVicar]

Is that a Star printer? I had a Star LC-10 (b/w), with a 9 dot matrix! A reliable thing, but the paper almost never came out straight. I've always wondered how much better those 24 dot matrix were.

[@TheSimoc]

Remember this! This had an odd bug that some very rare times, this game run with overspeed. Having played this dozens or maybe hundreds of times, that happenes on a few times, and next time it ran at normal rate again. It was like what the the "turbo" button did with some old games, but my 33MHz 486sx didn't have turbo button! Would be interesting to find out what was the technical cause. Btw, do you, Clint, or anyone else here, remember another DOS edutainment maths game called MathFun, or something like that, can't recall exact spelling, but from same era, and IIRC we had to collect some keys we got by solving math exercises, and particularly I remember it having nice background music. At least it sounded nice as a kid.

[@LGR]

@mistamontiel I enjoy a good RTS, AoE being my favorite series. Sins of a Solar Empire is probably the most recent one I have thoroughly enjoyed.

[@PCGamer77]

3:56 New idea for a dirty expression: "Winking the clam."

[@Gamer208010]

Can you still get ink and paper for those old dot-matrix printers?

[@IIIJFRIII]

Lol! O my word, that printer. You should just have that thing printing all day and give it a free web cam channel.

[@mikemoyercell]

I had that game too - I remember that the original disk was blue. I think it was a 720k disk.

[@Laternater]

Whenever I see these videos of much older games makes me want to hunt down an equally older/capable PC and give a format I haven't really tried much out. I have played on the diskettes and floppies before, but not nearly as much as CD's. First game I can remember playing was DOOM. Though, I know I've played others before but cannot remember the names to them. I'm no computer wizard but I'd imagine most any PC that has the appropriate slots would have most of these games work.. I think.

[@tifforo1]

I think edutainment month should review the different versions of Treasure Math Storm. That was one of my favorites as a kid.

[@tifforo1]

I guess the month ended years ago, but there could still be a follow up.

[@Jodie842]

Hey can you do some more classic mac software reviews?

[@Namyag2357]

When you're on the beach with the shells, don't hold down the directional arrows. Just tap on them and the dude walks automatically.

[@Blurredman]

@phreakindee Just checked wikipedia and it does say that Americans pronounce it Bouee. Most of European countries seem to say Boy. I'm not disrespecting you. But it took me by quite a surprise to see it pronounced so differently. :) I love your vidoes by the way. I drewl each time I see a new one. Also, the reason Americans and namely British spell things differently is because of dictionary addition and social characteristics. Like connexions being irradicated because of people's choice.

[@evilmiera]

Monkey Island music playing over copied floppies seems somehow appropriate.

[@Singular8ty]

Oh, I remember this, Gemini/Kris Asick failed at fractions while running through a compilation disk of shareware/hack games, I actually think the episode was just uploaded to youtube, although there is still about 90 or so that are not on youtube.... Also, I get you entirely about the whole play games/fool parents into thinking you're doing something "useful". Parents can be so easily fooled.... Oh well, I'm doing just fine in college doing Computer Science Engineering, so....

[@sirrvs]

*MANANANANANA* *SCRAPE* *SCRAPE* *LOW BUZZ* *HIGH BUZZ* *MANANANANANANA* Good god, dot matrix printers were loud. :)

[@endrightwinglunacy]

I had to rent a car from Enterprise a few months ago. They were still using a dot matrix printer in there :)

[@sugarfrosted2005]

+endrightwinglunacy Wouldn't be surprised if they use legacy hardware that near requires it.

[@endrightwinglunacy]

sugarfrosted Yep, if it aint broke, don't fix it. It was actually kinda nice to hear the screechy sound of that thing. Brought back memories of school projects and computer paper.

[@zesty2023]

Im pretty sure the thing you're controlling is an over-head speed-boat. : )

[@spiderjerusalem100]

Nice review dude, could you review some modern pc games like Team Fortress 2 and Nation Red? Cheers, bye bye.

[@Gmanster64]

You can make your own problems? *Adds some quadratic equations* *gives to 6-year old*

[@mistamontiel]

phreakindee !! How do you feel about some RTS..? I've had a nostalgia rush on Age of Empires II. But StarCraft 1 ? Preferred..but ya man..RTS @ their finest. Streaming your review here now. Cheers & thanks much !!

[@BrianPicchi]

What printer is that?

[@Moonbeam143]

The boat looks like a glass of soda with a straw in it.

[@30LayersOfKevlar]

I think the buoys may be in fact bottles with messages inside of them :D

[@MattBytesRetro]

Since you like this, you should try QuizKids, I uploaded it to UG awhile back.

[@SwedishEmpire1700]

only math program i played as a kid was Cheops Pyramid.

[@cornsyruptrucker]

CLINT….and dad

[@widowmakerx7]

Bottles!

[@Blurredman]

@phreakindee Sorry if I came over superiour. That's the problem with the internet. You cannot read into the tone text :)

[@goldencherry77]

I laughed at least 200,000,000 times every time I watch these :)

[@PLJR91]

hey i have this game installed on my DOS pc's and it is so funny..

[@kasager21]

I stumbled upon your channel while looking for any reference to a game I used to play with my brother way back when, neither one of us can remember what it is actually called and in searching through the Wikipedia dos game list the only one that sounds right is Treasure Hunt. Do you know this game?

[@Altorin]

how in the hell did you get a printer that old to work?

[@InsanePsychoRabbit]

I *know* I had this game when I was little, but I have _no_ idea where I got it.

[@ItsHyomoto]

So, Chrome has decided this is my de facto link to KZbin so don't be surprised if your hits for this video go up :P

[@Xegethra]

they look like strapless bras to me....however this game doesnt look that bad, could have done with some level variety though. kinda wanna see what the volcano would have been like, and the bypassed creek heh

[@ImIndoPeople]

Ah kindergarten class then the famous DOS ahhh the days

[@senorverde09]

Grab nuts whilst avoiding crabs :D

[@Kevlux86]

yes yes yes to the comment(s) about the monkey island music!!

[@ProblmSolvd]

Even though you've probably said it at some point, I'm going to guess 27-32 now.

[@PlayButtonPone]

A wing sword

[@Waldimart]

Good old paper jam. Why do printers love to eat paper?