#bookworm adventures

[dedalvs]

Top 3 Games That Don't Exist Anymore

LEMMINGS (1991)

Absolutely incredible puzzle game (based on the great lemming myth) where you attempt to guide a horde of lemmings to their home. Obstacles get in their path, so you have to give them jobs (building staicases, bashing through walls, digging, through the floor, stopping other lemmings from moving) to help them get home. It was cute, simple to understand, and INCREDIBLY difficult—especially once you got to the difficulty level "taxing".

WHAT HAPPENED TO IT

Folks just forgot about it and it kind of bounced around, never getting picked up when things like the Wii online store came out. After some remixed variants it never got a proper release.

HOW TO PLAY IT NOW

Aside from emulators, there's a free (with purchases) iOS/Android version of Lemmings now. The functionality is similar, and it's definitely cute, but it's not exactly the same in terms of gameplay, sound (the music!), and the levels are different. I'd love to be able to play the original levels again.

BOOKWORM ADVENTURES (2006)

Utterly incredible spelling game. You play a cute little bookworm who has to travel through time and literature to battle beasties by spelling words. The longer the word you spell (and the more value the letters have as in Scrabble) the more damage you do. It's cute, it's educational, it's fun, it's competitive (there are records for biggest word, most damage, etc. so you can compete with friends); it's a nearly perfect game. And there was a sequel, too!

WHAT HAPPENED TO IT

EA purchased PopCap games and then, one day, for apparently no reason, removed it from their online store. And that's it. It's gone. Forever.

HOW TO PLAY IT NOW

You can pirate it, but otherwise, the closest I've found is a mobile game called Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey by Bacon Bandits. The core functionality is there, but it's not really as clever or as cute or as fun. There's an Easter egg for fans of Bookworm, and bless them for creating a very similar game, but it is just not the same.

UNIRACERS (1994)

Also called Unirally, this was am awesome concept that was perfectly executed. You're unicycles that race really fast and do crazy tricks. All the stunts have names, you get points for them, there's track obstacles. It's simple, pure, unadulterated fun.

WHAT HAPPENED TO IT

This absolutely drives me up a wall. Pixar sued the makers of Uniracers because they said their unicycles looked like the unicycle in their short film Red's Dream from 1987. Like ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Thematically, the two things aren't similar at all, and, as the creator of the game said, "[t]here's not a lot of ways you can bring life to a unicycle without looking like the one Pixar did". Like...duh. The judge who made this ruling did irreparable damage to video games.

HOW TO PLAY IT NOW

There's no legal way to play this game, and, thanks to Pixar, there likely never will be. I've never encountered anything similar. It was such a unique play experience.

[nakakabaliw]

A trend in twitter rn showing off their "loser" games. I dont think im a game nor a loser

[one-time-i-dreamt]

The worm from Bookworm Adventures taught me magic and we ate nachos at the beach.

[nostalgicfun]

hi hello sorry I just needed you to see the absolutely legendary move I just pulled in Bookworm Adventures 2

[nimrodimus]

games now are often like full of messages reminding you to take breaks. my favorite instance of games Before that guilting you not to quit is bookworm adventures. look how sad they made him.. how could you..

[chrismas95]

Cryptmaster

[gl6mp]

you think having a garten of banban fixation is bad wait until you hear about people with bookworm adventures deluxe fixations

[enbyss]

bookworm adventures truly was the height of gaming. you can beat up polyphemus by spelling out "PUSS" or "GAY"

unfortunately "CUNT" and "YEET" don't work. someone should mod it

[speedane]

The new esper, huh?

[sincerelyyellingback]

I'm building a virtual machine just so I can play Bookworm Adventures, my favorite puter game. I tried and failed to do this last summer, but I think I found the problem. Hopefully, it will be smooth(er) sailing this time around 🤞

[mich-al]

[doolallymagpie]

i beat bookworm adventures 2! now there’s no more bookworm to play :(

[pathostozenith]

any bookworm adventures gamers in the chat !? !?

[the-iron-shoulder]

Okay so this genre (spell-to-attack) is criminally underpopulated. What examples do we have? Bookworm Adventures, Letter Quest: Grimm’s Journey, Word Realms. Surely that can’t be it, right?

Seriously, if anyone knows any other examples of the spell-to-attack genre, please tell me 🙏

Obscure Games from My Childhood: Bookworm Adventures (1 & 2)

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[dontronick]

Bonnibel has heterochromia ALL of the time now

I make the rules AND enforce them!!!