1990s children's video game identification

September 27, 2023 7:22 PM

I have this bit of dialog stuck in my head from a children's (presumably somewhat educational) video game from the 1990s: "To make fried ice cream I need three cups of sugar", and "How sweet it is". What is the game?

It was some sort of cooking minigame and I think this was only a small part of the overall game which had other elements.

posted by xxx9038709992203 to Media & Arts (7 answers total)

Could it have been Logical Journey of the Zoombinis? There was a pizza & ice cream making minigame & those lines ring a bell. (I'm not 100% certain on *fried* ice cream being in there though)
posted by CrystalDave at 8:12 PM on September 27, 2023

I only remember the “make me a pizza” line from zoombinis, but I didn’t play it, my kids did. But it sounds probable.
posted by Windopaene at 8:28 PM on September 27, 2023

Response by poster: That video isn't triggering any memories so I think it was something else. The "fried ice cream" memory is very specific with the way it's said.
posted by xxx9038709992203 at 8:30 PM on September 27, 2023

Could this be from the cooking minigame in Suikoden or Suikoden 2?
posted by gathfach at 8:49 PM on September 27, 2023

a quick search turned up fried ice cream as a thing in both The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie pc game and Wallace & Gromit 3: Muzzled! but the "three cups of sugar" doesn't track with either, nor are either from the right year.
posted by juv3nal at 9:15 PM on September 27, 2023

Best answer: Reader Rabbit's Interactive Math Journey! ("how sweet it is", "fried ice cream")

You can watch a let's play or download the whole thing (might not work on a modern system, though).

I never played it myself, but I found it using this YouTube caption search, super useful for stuff like this.
posted by Rhaomi at 10:18 PM on September 27, 2023 [15 favorites]

Response by poster: Thanks, that's it!
posted by xxx9038709992203 at 10:32 PM on September 27, 2023