When we pulled this box out of some other box, the only thing we could remember about it was the midi file version of the Beethoven piece that is used as the soundtrack to this game. Doodle oo doo doo doo doo doo doo…oh, never mind. We couldn’t remember anything else about the game except that you played a guy who skipped around a mountain to that infernally beepy music. But then a flood of memories rushed back when we found this video of some incompetent playing the game:

You see what a terrible job they are doing? It’s like watching our little sister play. We are overcome with frustration and the urge to shove a small girl with curly hair out of the computer chair and show her how it’s done.

Treasure Mountain was just one of a number of these educational-type games that we possessed (we also possessed games such as Leisure Suit Larry which were educational in a very different sense, but that’s neither here nor there). Our personal favourite was Midnight Rescue, in which the player was called upon to use his or her mad reading comprehension skills (which we possessed in spades) to save a school from some strangely garbed robots with disappearing paint. Treasure Mountain was, by all accounts, too young for us, even when we did fall into its recommended age range of 5 – 9. This game was actually purchased for our younger sisters, but we were (are) bossy, especially when it came to the realm of the computer.

The tragedy of charming old computer technology is that there are no longer any computers in our possession that are capable of reading this game. Computers are obviously incapable of nostalgia.

Monetary value: Isn’t there a vintage computer game museum somewhere? Call us.

Nostalgic value: Doodle oo doo doo doo doo doo doo…

Disposal status: Disposed.