The Papa Louie games were featured on Cool Math Games, and gained popularity from there. Cool Math Games is a popular childhood website created in the 90's that feature many more childhood web games such as Run, Fireboy and Watergirl (LINK) and more.
The first Papa Louie game was Papa's Pizzeria, released in 2007. Over the years the began to release more restaurant based games that many kids enjoyed growing up.
Papa's Pizzeria lobby
Papa's Freezeria toppings station
"during school when we had free time with the school chromebook laptops, me and my friends would always play papa's freezeria, it was our favourite and my one friend would never it seriously and always add way too much whipped crème and toppings it was so funny." PHL.M
Poptropica is a island exploring game with problem solving quests. Each Island has different themes and storylines that players can complete. Created in 2007, Poptropica became popular in the years 2011 and 2012. It is a multiplayer online game that was made for kids ages 6-15. One of the main developers and designers is Jeff Kinney who is popularly known for his late work, Diary of a Wimpy kid. Poptropica is still playable today on Cool Math Games.
Poptropica home page
Poptropica island map
"My teacher let me and my class play Poptropica during school when we would go to the computer room. It had a lot of educational elements like I remember island storylines about history and science. I remember playing the Diary of a Wimpy kid island and the Willy Wonka island, those were my favourites" SAM.M
Girls Go Games website was the home of many Barbie, dress up, makeup, nails, spa, and many more games growing up. These two websites have many solo online games that kids would usually play alone or when hanging out with friends. The website has a variety of games that were simple but addictive to play. Some popular games on Girls go Games would be Sara's Cooking Class. Shopaholic, Love Tester, Makeover games and more. The website is still active and has a variety of games to still play.
"I use to love playing girls go games with my cousins, we all took turns on the home computer trying different ways to style the person. Sometimes for fun, we'd all not take it seriously and the people would look really bad and get bad ratings. My all time favourite game that I remember would be a barbie hair salon game where I try to recreate and match a hairstyle. I loved playing that game" EMM.F
Akinator is a person guessing game where the computer genie would ask a series of questions until it's able to guess of the person we are thinking about. The questions eliminate as many character options, based on the players yes no or maybe responses. The game has such a large database that the game became very popular for being able to guess who the player is thinking of. It was a very entertaining game that I'd play a lot with my friends growing up.
An screenshot of what Akinator looked like in 2014.
"In my opinion, Akinator is the most fun when the genie isn't able to guess the person I'm thinking of. Or i'd get excited when I think of someone not really famous and its able to guess them." SAM.M
The memory of using the home computer or going down the the schools computer room and playing Purble Place. The game has 3 different game modes that you can find when clicking on the different buildings. The school building on the left has a tile matching game called Purble Pairs, The cake factory in the middle has a cake making game called Comfy Cakes and the final shop on the right is the guessing game called Purble Shop, through deduction you guess what character behind the curtain looks like.
The game was developed by Oberon Media for the new Microsoft Vista. When Microsoft Windows 7 was released, the game was also included on there. Purble place can only be played on those Windows and was not included in future releases.
Purple Place home page
Purple Pairs, Comfy Cakes and Purple Shop
" I remember in 2008 when I was in kindergarten, my class would often have class trips to the schools computer lab and we were allowed to play different computer games. The game I'd always play was Purble Place. My personal favourite game mode was the cake making game." EMM.F
