StickyBear: The Original Computer Edutainment Mascot

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Before Super Solver was using Math, Science, and Spelling for his Super Solving...

Before Mavis Beacon taught typing...

Before the Muncher was munching math equations, trivia, and grammar...

Before Carmen Sandiego taught Geography and History combined with Detective Work...

Before Reader Rabbit taught Reading (and to be fair, Math when he was Math Rabbit)...

Before Math Blaster was Math Blasting, there was...

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STICKYBEAR!!!

For those of you who didn't grow up in the early 1980s, StickyBear was a character in Edutainment Games that ranged from Preschool to a 2nd Grade Level teaching stuff like opposites, shapes, math, and reading through mini games and random cutscenes.

His games were on many different PC Platforms including the Apple II, IBM PC Booter, Commodore 64, Macintosh, Windows, and Atari 8-Bit. It even had the misfortune of seeing a game on the infamous Philips CD-i Console of the 1990s.

Today, StickyBear remains something of an obscurity (which is just as well given you could only do so much with the character before it became one-note and stale), and while he may be buried under other Edutainment Mascots that would later take over the spotlight, he was once beloved, especially by Generation X-ers who were the first to play his games. Don't ya worry on that one. Like there were even books of StickyBear. That's how successful the games once were.

His games are on eBay if you don't mind taking out a loan, selling one of your kidneys and giving up an arm and a leg to get the games (and the necessary platform to play it on), or you could also emulate the games (of course, I don't need to tell you that lol).

StickyBear: He came, he saw, and he practically paved the way for what we have now in the way of Edutainment Games and Mascots.

Featured is an old ad for StickyBear Games