Math game that featured Bach and Mozart

October 10, 2013 6:36 PM

Around 1995 I played a game on the Mac in school that was for educational purposes, supposedly for the purposes of drilling math skills, and had Mozart Symphony no. 40 (1st movement and but I think 3rd as well), Bach BWV 999, and possibly some Paganini as well, as background music. Do you know what it was?
posted by Busoni to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Response by poster: Actually upon further research I think the protagonist looked like the guy from Midnight Rescue but I'm not finding any videos on YouTube that match up with what I remember.
posted by Busoni at 6:42 PM on October 10, 2013

Best answer: OutNumbered!, another Learning Company game:

In lieu of original musical scores, OutNumbered! uses famous classical pieces as background music. The music played in the halls is from Mozart's 40th Symphony, specifically, its first and fourth movements. The music played in the rooms are based on Rachmaninoff's variations on Paganini's 24th Caprice.

posted by jedicus at 7:13 PM on October 10, 2013 [5 favorites]

Best answer: Oh man I remember that game! Do these videos ring a bell?
posted by radioamy at 9:41 AM on October 11, 2013

I think most of the Learning Company's games used classical music. Treasure Mountain / Treasure Mathstorm used "In the Hall of the Mountain King" incessantly. I thing Treasure Cove and Operation Neptune may have had original scores though.
posted by clorox at 1:38 AM on October 15, 2013