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Re:I Miss Microsoft Encarta by vanderZwan on Monday August 19, 2019 @02:17PM (#20740243)
Are you kidding me? The only way hearing the opening screen again[0] could evoke more warm fuzzy nostalgia with me is if at the end it would crossfade into Baba Yetu from Civ IV's main menu screen[1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fRX4R6MY4A

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e0Qelqp-Cc

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Re:I Miss Microsoft Encarta by somebodythere on Monday August 19, 2019 @04:25PM (#20741456)
The MindMaze[1] music takes me back. I spent three-digits hours on that game as a little kid.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT-VbFcck6A

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Re:I Miss Microsoft Encarta by jcranmer on Monday August 19, 2019 @04:33PM (#20741525)
It shouldn't be that hard to build MindMaze on top of Wikipedia. I wonder if anyone's done it?

Although I do remember the hard geography questions very frequently just being "What is the county seat of (insert random US county)?"

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Re:I Miss Microsoft Encarta by daturkel on Monday August 19, 2019 @08:58PM (#20743012)
Check out Wikimaze: http://wikimaze.appspot.com/
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Re:I Miss Microsoft Encarta by mxfh on Monday August 19, 2019 @04:12PM (#20741362)
Though Encarta evokes a bit more of Civ VI Sogno di Volare to me, but I share the sentiment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQYN2P3E06s

Besides Encarta, the mid 90s where also the time where I was first able to buy satellite imagery on CR-ROM for all of Germany from my collected lunch money and years before Microsoft's TerraServer changed the world, which itself was long before Google Maps took over.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8q89q4/microsofts-terrase...

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Re:I Miss Microsoft Encarta by vanderZwan on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:16AM (#20745274)
Either way, Microsoft should bring back Encarta and hire Christopher Tin to compose something for the occasion ;)
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Re:I Miss Microsoft Encarta by cabaalis on Monday August 19, 2019 @05:06PM (#20741833)
Did anyone else play with the gravity simulations to try to send the moon flying around like crazy?
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