It's a well documented fact that the job of teachers and educaters everywhere is to take fun concepts (for example, crossword puzzles) and use education to drain every last drop of fun out of them (for example, crossword puzzles with the week's vocabulary words in them, to be done for a grade). Although the past couple generations of systems have thankfully been spared this phenomenon, the same cannot be said about the systems of yesteryear. This section covers those games released for the NES which attempted to trick children into learning through the premise of video games.

Of course, it would be wrong to have a section on edutainment without allowing you to learn something while doing so! So what will you learn here? You'll learn the "Golden Rule" of educational games (nobody can ever be hurt); You'll learn Bowser's secret political affiliation; But most of all, you'll learn just how completely unfun and boring learning can be! Let's get started...

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