The main screen
Grammar Games is an Edutainment Game for PC and Mac created in the 1990s by Davidson & Associates, the same company that made the Blaster Series.It consists of four minigames:
- Rainforest Rescue alternates between a grammar quiz and a video game, asking players to answer grammatical questions in order to fill up their fuel tanks and then allowing players to fly a helicopter around the rainforest, putting out fires and saving animals.
- Jungle Gizmo asks the player to pick the correct form of a noun, and each correct answer builds a new component of a Rube Goldberg Device.
- Falling Fruit asks the player to insert appropriate punctuation into sentences by moving a toucan around and catching the correct punctuation marks.
- Hidden Wonders is an editing exercise in which the player corrects all of the errors on the page.
This game provides examples of:
- Green Aesop: "Rainforest Rescue" involves saving the rainforest from bulldozers and forest fires. In addition, the writings used for the activity's grammar quiz often includes warnings about deforestation.
- Native Guide: In the "Falling Fruit" and "Hidden Wonders" stories, the main character often has one of these or at least tries to acquire one.
- Noble Savage: Any natives featured in the "Falling Fruit" and "Hidden Wonders" stories will follow this trope.
- Rube Goldberg Device: As noted above, you construct one in "Jungle Gizmo".
- XenoFiction: Although most have a human protagonist, some of the "Falling Fruit" and "Hidden Wonders" stories are told from the perspective of a jungle animal.
