What games have you actually learned from?

[Cursed Frogurt]

I've learned plenty of little things from games, especially expanding my vocabulary as a child.

I became aware of a lot of artists from playing rhythm games. I actually never heard Jumpin' Jack Flash before the cover in Elite Beat Agents.

 

[McNinja]

Spy Fox, Pajama Sam, Putt Putt, Freddi Fish.

Motherfucking childhood edutainment at it's finest.

Spoiler

I actually remember some of those characters from my childhood.
Some of the first games Iv'e played...

And they didn't suck. I remember playing all of these games. I got stuck on one of the Pajama Sam levels, and when my brother played it he got through it with almost no problem. That's when I learned that my brother is better at videogames than I am.

You know if they put these games in schools children would learn more.

 

[Anadinolin]

i learnt from games that if you generally hit or shoot something it gets hurt and or dies.

 

[Koroviev]

Professor Layton has significantly improved my logix.

 

[William Dickbringer]

i've learn a lot of english in videogames when i was young. I had english class in school, but i got better than others because i was playing games (which were 99% of the time in english back in the 80's and 90's, now at least 90% of them are translated or subtitled) and that i had often to look in a dictionnary for words that i didnt understand, which helped improved my english vocabulary...

oh yeah me too teachers were impressed by my large vocabulary
although when I was young I asked mom(who knew nothing about games) what hp (didn't tell her from games) stood for she told me horse power so for a while when I was young I thought hp for a character meant horse power

 

[Georgie_Leech]

Playing Civ 2 gave me a bit of knowledge about world History, as I'm geek-y enough that I actually read the civilopedia things that popped up when I built, researched, or trained things.

 

[Fledge]

Age of Empires 1+2
Age of Mythology
Caeser III

...infact, all historical RTS games.

PLus there's Assassins Creed II, for obvious reasons -- and probably more.

 

[ZiggyE]

The Kingdom Hearts series told me to never trust a man with yellow eyes >.>

 

[veloper]

civilization series
total was series
europa universalis

The flavor texts and the historical backgrounds in these games are pretty good.

 

[dibblywibbles]

video games have taught me...well nothing I hadn't already learned from books. read a book people! haha but really I don't think video games have really taught me anything other than I kinda suck at COD.

 

[StraightToHeck]

Skies of Arcadia: Legends taught me that if you and someone else are playing two different files of the same game on the same memory card, be sure to double-save.

On a completely related note, it also introduced me to the concept of childhood trauma.

 

[july57]

Gran Turismo 5: crashing into a wall at 150 mph will only slightly dent the bumper.
Battlefield 1943: The pacific islands used as airfields during WWII are tiny.

 

[the fake]

age of mythology and all the assassins creed games

 

[EOD Tech]

I read an article about a guy who saved someone's life using what he learned from the Medic training in America's Army.

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

JRPG's taught me bucket-loads about mythology. Or maybe didn't teach me DIRECTLY per se, but got me interested in it. I'd play an earlier Final Fantasy and wonder at the bizarre names the monsters and weapons had, and would occasionally just type them into google on a whim. When I realized that most of these creatures were named after real-world equivalents, I began to literally search up almost everything from JRPG's that didn't have ridiculous D&D-esque names. This in turn got me interested in the respective cultural mythology these creatures/terms sprang from, and got me obsessed with mythology.

 

[dakorok]

Minecraft taught me logic gates.
Starcraft 2 taught me to optimize build orders.

All those edutainment games back in the old days taught me math, science, and reading.
Gods, does anyone remember Number Munchers? That game was AWESOME back when I was 7.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

Pretty much every good RPG I've played has shown, and taught, me a different life lesson. Games like Secret of Mana, Secret of Evermore, Final Fantasy 3 (that's 6 if you're Japanese), Chrono Trigger, Grandia 1, Breath of Fire 3, Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete, Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete, Wild ARMs and the like.

Though, the best thing I learned was from Secret of Evermore...

Toaster dogs with laser cannons kick ass!

 

[GWarface]

Red Alert 2 taught me basic english skills when i was a kid... I memorised what the units said when clicked on...

 

[Wes1180]

Headshots make you awesome, Unreal Tournament
What a tourniquette (ha ha spelling) is, from americas army
(funny note, both of them use the unreal engine)

 

[The Night Shade]

With MGS 1 i learned english