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Kids these days.

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Learnin’ stuff on computers.

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[in an increasingly Southern drawl]
Back in my day we didn’t have no fancy pants

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touch screens with apps.

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Why, we did our eee-lec-tronic learnin’ on this!

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[intense stare]

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OK I’ll stop that.

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Hello.

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It’s stupidly cold outside right now

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(as I read this about 2 below zero, or -19 metric degrees)

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which means the heat pump video needs
to be delayed.

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I told you that might happen -

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I’m not going out there to film anything ‘til it’s at least a little warmer.

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If you’re here in the future or don’t
have the context, don’t worry -

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I’ll put a card up there when it’s out, and the context
is simply that

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I said it would be coming soon in the last video.

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Linear time sure is pesky.

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Today, though, we’re gonna talk about this
old educational toy of mine.

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Could you tell that I caught my hand on my sleeve?

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Was it that bad?

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Now, unlike a certain toaster, I’m not about
to attempt convincing anyone

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that this is better than today’s educational tech,

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be it an iPad or Chromebook or whatever.

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Those are wonderful learning tools, and they’ve
very much come in handy recently.

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Well for some kids, anyway.

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It’s a complicated mess I know that but I’m not here to explore that,

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just this silly thing.

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It’s yellow!

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And very clever, which is why I like it.

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This is the GeoSafari Junior,

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a revision of the original GeoSafari that, as far as I can tell,

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is essentially the same thing but with
a different color and slightly different design.

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It has been surprisingly difficult to get
information about this thing’s history.

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Educational Insights is the company responsible
for manufacturing it,

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and they’re still around!

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But its genesis is very unclear.

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For instance - its name.

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Why is it called GeoSafari?

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It has very little to do with geography or safaris, as
you’ll soon see.

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Someone has written on Wikipedia that this
is the brainchild of the National Geographic Society

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and that Educational Insights manufactured
it for them.

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That might help explain its name but I can’t
find any source to corroborate that,

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nor is there any mention of National Geographic on
its box.

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Further adding to the confusion is that Educational
Insights used the GeoSafari brand

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on many other things, including software.

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In fact, the GeoSafari has what some might
call the misfortune

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of being featured in Microsoft Bob,

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along with an actual geography quiz for
once.

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Hi - it’s me from the Future.

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By rigorously analyzing this box as shown
in LGR’s video on Microsoft Bob,

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I’ve been able to conclude that the original GeoSafari

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does appear to have been Geography-focused,

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and that the Jr version was a way to extend
the device’s abilities and appeal to a younger audience.

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However, the decision to keep calling it GeoSafari
remains slightly odd.

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I suppose they had achieved decent enough
brand recognition to stick with the name,

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and in the next section you’ll see that
the name is still alive.

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And that’s actually how I realized nobody
knows anything about this.

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See, on the Wikipedias somebody claimed Educational
Insights actually created Microsoft Bob!

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And they even have a citation for that!

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I mean, it’s wrong.

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Clearly this doesn’t say that Educational
Insights created Bob,

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it just talks about the GeoSafari game included in it.

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And GeoSafari Jr. is alive and well,

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but as a brand having nothing to do with this product!

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For instance, here’s the GeoSafari Jr. Kidscope!

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So yeah, what’s going on?

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Who knows!

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I reached out to Educational Insights about
the history of all this and hopefully they get back to me.

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This is filler that I’m writing now just
in case they don’t.

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It helps with pacing, see.

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I figure if they do get back to me, then this
will be a rather acceptable length of text for their answer.

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If they didn’t, well that’s a shame,

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but hopefully somebody in the comments will know somebody that knows.

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Anyway, the specifics of its history aside,

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let’s talk about how this thing works!

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The user interface is pretty basic,

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essentially just a number pad with a large enter key and three other buttons:

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clear,

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*makes I dunno noise*

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and the Knowledge Button.

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We’ll get there.

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To the left of the keypad is a simple LED
display,

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with some instructions to its left (and LEDs to help guide the user)

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and a power switch and volume control.

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Up the sides of this large blank space are
26 red rectangular LEDs,

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13 on each side.

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When you power it on, it makes a peasant greeting
noise and says

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[electronic Bee-doo]

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Well, hello! Nice to meet you.

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The LED beside “enter code number” is
now flashing.

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Now if it seems like something is missing
here, well that’s because it is.

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The large blank space is in fact a holder
for the various games it can play.

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They come in the form of these large cards,

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and the designers were nice enough to include a storage pocket for them right on the back.

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You’ll see that in the top right of each
card is a code number.

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When the card is placed on the GeoSafari you’ll
see that there are now items that line up

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with the various LEDs on the sides.

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And that’s how the games or quizzes work.

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Entering the code tells it what game you are
playing.

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Assuming it was a valid code, it’ll then ask
you if you would like one or two players.

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Then, because what game isn’t fun unless
it’s also a little stressful,

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you give yourself a time limit

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(and your opponent does as well,
if playing with two players).

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Now, an arrow lights up to indicate which player
is up,

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and the Knowledge Button starts flashing.

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For clarity, I’m calling it the Knowledge Button.

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For all I know it’s called Gerald.

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When you hit the Knowledge Button,

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the game goes beep boop beepity boopity like any good 
late ‘80s early ‘90s thing should

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and the lights they go a ‘blinkin.

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[beep boop beepity boopity]

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It will randomly select one item,
and now it’s up to you to answer the question correctly.

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If you do, you get a nice celebrational melody.

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[♫ ascending tones ♫]

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If you don’t…

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[BZZZZ]

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Real quick - I wanted to find out if the tones
it produces

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during the question shuffling are tied to each light or if it’s random.

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Let’s find out.

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[sound is chopped up and re-arranged in order of tone. 
A complete chromatic scale repeats three time]

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Well, looks like it’s random. Anyway...

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If you answer incorrectly you lose a point.

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[beep, BZZZZ]

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See, up here it tells you how many points
are possible in the game.

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You can try again, but you only get three
chances.

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[beep, BZZZZ. beep]

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On the third incorrect answer [BZZZZ]

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it shows you the correct answer and the Knowledge Button lights again,

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inviting you to move on.

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At the end of the game, it plays a ditty.

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Which ditty?

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Tell us, Will!

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[an electronic rendition of the William Tell Overture].

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They’ve included a fun Easter egg, too.

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If you play a perfect game, the melody is
extended

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and the lights do this fun celebrational display.

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[a slightly more complete William Tell Overture]

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Now this is pure excellence in design!

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[uncomfortably intense stare]

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Now let’s talk about these last two special
buttons.

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C is short for clear, and its function is
pretty clear.

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It allows you to clear something you’ve
entered in error.

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No harm done.

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The *makes I dunno noise* button is for when
you give up

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and just want it to tell you the correct answer

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[beep].

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If you use this question mark-adorned button,

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you forfeit all the points from that question

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because that’s what you deserve, cheater!

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Although this device is very simple and, I
think it’s fair to say, crude by 2021 standards,

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in some ways its simplicity allows it incredible
flexibility.

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The variety of concepts that are explored
in these games is immense.

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For example, there are simple vocabulary exercises,

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but sometimes there's an extra component such as learning the forms of baby animals.

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That tadpole’s a real sneaky one.

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Also, goats and sheep?

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Dastardly.

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But I suppose it’s never too early to get
your kids and lambs straight.

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But there’s so much more.

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I feel like this was one of those cases where
a limitation,

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that being the device’s form factor and simple operation,

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led to a surprising amount of creativity.

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Beyond simple vocab there’s identifying
shapes,

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reading descriptions to pick out which closet belongs to which kid,

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you’ve got spatial reasoning -

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Wowie Zowie -

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you can learn what tools to use for measuring
things,

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or basic units themselves

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(as you can see aversion to the metric system
 is indoctrinated at a very young age.

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This is where it all starts, folks!).

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There are games around pattern recognition.

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Learning the basics of agriculture

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(with fun facts to boot!).

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Action words.

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Counting money.

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Optical illusions.

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And even basic science concepts like discerning
between organic and inorganic materials!

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It’s really neat!

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The creators and artists did a great job making
these visually appealing to ‘90s kids

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as well as helping their parents understand what
skill each game was meant to develop

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with descriptions like visual sequencing,

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matching silhouettes,

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discriminating between properties,

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and even matching inventions to their animal
inspirations!

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That’s a very important skill!

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As is the flipside, matching animals to their
lunches.

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Actually, ehh this one is kind of important, anyway
it’s neat, isn’t it?

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As far as the way the games are structured,

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there are in fact only two kinds of game this can play.

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Either the game will ask for the correct number
as some sort of matching exercise,

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or it will be a multiple choice question with up to four
possible answers.

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And again, while that seems limiting at first
glance -

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it’s actually not, really.

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You can implement either one in various ways.

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For instance, matching can be literal simple
matching,

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but it can also be used for fill-in-the-blank type scenarios,

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math exercises like in the
money game,

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or even wordplay exercises like these

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which are apparently called rebus puzzles.

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This just taught me something.

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Multiple choice, while only allowing the answers
1, 2, 3, or 4, is actually even more flexible.

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With multiple choice you can either have a
game where the same question is asked of multiple items,

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for instance 
"does this key have a match or not?"

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Or "which category does this belong to?"

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And that itself can be done in lots of different ways

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like here with this anagram exercise.

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But, you can also pose a different question
with each item

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such as this case with identifying objects or judging optical illusions.

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These games all have the same multiple choice
syntax, if you will,

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but the implementations are so different you wouldn’t likely notice.

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And that’s why I love this thing.

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It hits that perfect sweet spot between

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cleverness, simplicity, ingenuity, and flexibility.

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And of course it’s just littered with LEDs,

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none of which are blue!

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So that’s guaranteed to make me happy.

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One thing that I wanted to find out, though,

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was how those codes work.

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It seemed plausible that the game would have
a database of some sort

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and that these codes called up stored games.

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But on second thought that seemed kinda dumb.

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After all, surely they’d want to sell you
more of these games at a later date!

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So, the codes actually define the parameters
of the game.

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It was pretty easy to figure this out,

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first there are different games with the same code.

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Compare these two and you’ll find that the
answers are the same for each given position.

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There are multiple duplicates like this,

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but it’s not like that would really matter and in any case

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the content in the middle can
be shuffled around to mask it.

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But the dead giveaway was this card that I’ve
apparently never noticed before.

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A make-your-own game with blank everything.

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Sadly, I don’t have the manual for this
and haven’t been able to find it online.

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I’d love to get into the specifics of exactly
how this coding scheme works,

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alas we’ll just have to not.

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Someone named Donna Young runs a website which
has some downloadable guides on the subject,

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but to access them I’d need to create some
sort of account

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[in a really complainy-tone] 
and like there could be a paywall for all I know

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and I just didn’t need that right now so just know

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that the codes were literally encoding the game’s parameters, OK?

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We can live with that, can’t we?

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I think so.

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Besides, someone will probably pop into the
comments to answer this within a few hours of this going live.

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Anyway, the last thing I want to do is take
this thing apart and explore its insides.

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I don’t expect they’ll be all that interesting,

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but maybe there’s some hidden secrets in here or something.

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Maybe it’ll have the location of Jimmy Hoffa
in there.

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You never know.

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But for this part, we’re gonna go scriptless
for a change.

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Now I’ll record an outro which will go after
I do this next part.

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Movie Magic!

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Hey, it’s the unscripted part!

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We’re gonna take this apart. That’s about it.

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Before we do though…

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this takes six (but really it’s four) D cells.

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Uh, not very important… but now you know!

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[it beeps Hello! as the batteries are shuffled]

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Apparently I left it on.

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It has some sort of auto power saving mode
where if you leave it on for very long

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it will “turn off” but I imagine it is draining
some power

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because that is a physical switch.

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So, uh, you can’t see it because of the
way the lighting is situated

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but this is very translucent and it looks like the back comes off first.

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So we’re gonna tackle that first.

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[squeaky high-pitched nonsense]

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One thing that I’ve done is I’ve shot
all the B-roll that I need before I’m doing this

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just in case I break it.

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I don’t think I’m going to but, ya know…

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good to be prepared.

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Oh!

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And these screws are different lengths.

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Yay!

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The two shorter ones go in the middle.

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The top middle.

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Your eyes are there, not there.

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My eyes are there.

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Your eyes are there.

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Oh, by the way there is a label on the back
that says

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“Made in China for Education Insights.”

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No mention of National Geographic…

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again I don’t think they had any part in this.

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Oh, and there is a plug for an AC adapter
back here!

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Makes sense.

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I just never noticed that.

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[more squeaky nonsense]

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There are what look to be some clips here
so I think the back is locked into the bottom.

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I’m gonna try to remove it.

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[squeak squeakin' squeak squeakity]

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There’s two more tricky screws.

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This is why you don’t force things,

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because you’re probably just being silly.

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[squeakity]

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There we go.

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There are two circuit boards going up the sides

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and those would have the LEDs.

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How difficult will it be to remove them?

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We will find out.

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[squeakin']

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Well it's just a bunch of LEDs.

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I’d I, um..

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I’m sure this is not shocking.

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Uh, no support components - just LEDs.

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There’s an interesting detail, the plastic
here is just like melted.

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Like they slipped this in underneath this
goopy bit.

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[squeaker squeak]

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There is some very old dust falling out of
here.

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That’s… cool.

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[squeak squeak squeak squeak squeaker...]

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Ya know, when Honda made their first hybrid vehicle,

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I’m sure they learned some things.

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So those were Educational Insights.

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[PUNS!]

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That’s really weird how they’ve don…

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the wires for the battery terminals are like underneath this thing that’s been melted down,

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it looks like.

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So they’ve used the actual plastic of the
case as a sort of hot glue.

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I’m just gonna set this over to the side.

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[squeakin']

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And... I’m somewhat surprised ‘cause I thought
this might be too old for this practice

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but there’s just a blob.

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I was hoping there might be some discrete
ICs that we could see.

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And there probably are on the other side,
I’ll try to remove it.

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But, the most impressive thing and I knew
this would have an actual speaker and not

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a piezo buzzer in here just by the sound is
that it has an actual little tiny speaker!

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It’s… the sound quality of the boops is
quite good.

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[the squeaking continues]

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OK, here we go!

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Here we go!

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We got it!

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Here’s the board.

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We’ve got the LED display,

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which I don’t know if this would be cust-

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oh, it’s socketed!

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I don’t know if it’s worth trying to remove
it but it’s actually…

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it’s in some sort of a socket!

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But anyway there’s the LED display…

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can you even see this?

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It’s in frame!

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Barely, I think I’ll give you some other,
some other close-ups

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but we’ve got the LED display, the four LEDs there, the volume potentiometer,

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the power switch, and mainly what’s on here

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is a bunch of transistors

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and this fairly la - oh! So that was a heatsink.

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That’s what this was.

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Probably the power transistor for the speaker.

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Why did they think it needed a heat sink?

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It’s not like it buzzes all the time.

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Let me see if I can confirm that’s what
that is.

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Oh ya know what? It’s prob-

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I’m thinking it’s probably a voltage regulator now that I think about it.

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So maybe it does get warm enough.

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And surely if… if it has an AC adaptor

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it probably needs one.

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I’ll take a picture of that component and
find out.

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Here’s some movie magic for you:

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Yes, that’s a voltage regulator.

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So the speaker is driven by the other transistors.

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See, I recorded both.

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That way I can look it up later!

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But I think that’s it for taking it apart.

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Now let’s finish out the video.

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So, that’s the GeoSafari Jr.

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A really intriguing device that demonstrates
what a little ingenuity,

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a simple electronic game,

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and a bit of cardstock can do.

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While the blank canvas of a touchscreen certainly
lends more opportunities

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for fun and games than this thing ever did,

00:18:35.679 --> 00:18:40.007
there’s just something about this device that tickles my fancy.

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Sure, I’m nostalgic for it,

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but even now making this video

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I’m impressed with the variety of concepts it explored 
with nothing but a bit of paper

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and totally rad graphic design.

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Oh, and I also love the little things they
used to do back in the day

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like put a fake speaker grille here on this side to make you think this is in stereo.

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Ah, such a classic.

00:19:02.895 --> 00:19:05.121
Nothing like stereo boops and beeps

00:19:05.121 --> 00:19:06.549
[hello! beep].

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Anyway, thanks for watching!

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Heat pumps should be next and I hope you’re
pumped about that hot topic.

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Ok I’ll go…

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♫ educationally smooth jazz ♫

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If you’re here in the future, don’t worry!

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Well, maybe you should worry, actually.

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That’s a problem!

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How are you in the future?

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We gotta get Picard on this.

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I’m not here to talk, ah, gah.

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Frah frah frah!

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And now it’s up to you to answer the question
correctly.

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If you do, you’ll get a nice… ble celebrational sound

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[buzzes]

00:19:42.250 --> 00:19:42.859
hah!

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There are games around pattern recognition,

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learning the basics of agriculture,

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actions words,

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counting money,

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optical illusions,

00:19:51.101 --> 00:19:53.855
and even basic science con… haa!!

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We screwed up the order!

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OK, learning the basics of agriculture…

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[intense shuffling]

00:20:08.142 --> 00:20:11.783
[under breath]
...simple vocab there’s things like identifying shapes…

00:20:12.366 --> 00:20:15.196
descriptions to figure out which closet belongs to which kid,

00:20:15.196 --> 00:20:18.594
flip it around, got spatial reasoning wowie zowie,

00:20:18.594 --> 00:20:21.511
learn what tools are used for measuring things…

00:20:22.749 --> 00:20:25.039
there are games around pattern recognition…

00:20:25.500 --> 00:20:28.545
learning the basics of agriculture…

00:20:29.905 --> 00:20:31.536
action words….

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counting money…

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optical illusions and then this

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OK!

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I think we’ve got it.

00:20:41.617 --> 00:20:42.227
...words,

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counting money,

00:20:43.513 --> 00:20:44.794
optical illusions,

00:20:44.794 --> 00:20:50.357
and even basic science concepts like discerning between organic and inorganic materials.

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We did it! 
[laughs]

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My acorn is missing.

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Did you eat the acorn?

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You owe me a new acorn.