dtgreene: There is a game I remember playing during class in the computer lab at elementary school, and I am wondering if any of you might know what the game's name is. Here are the details I have:

* The game was for the Apple 2, which was the dominant computer in education at the time I played it.
* It was an educational game, hence why the game was played during class; in fact, I think an entire class session was dedicated to the game.
* In the game, I believe you had to identify rocks. When encountering one, you get a choice of features of the rock to check, and once you chose a feature, the list of rocks you had to guess between would be filtered based on this choice.
* One of the choices was color. Color, which was not at the top of the list, turned out to be one of the better first choices; choosing color would generally narrow down the list better than other choices. (I believe you don't actually get to see the color.)
* I believe you were rewarded for determining the type of rock with fewer choices made to narrow it down. There *might* have been a limit to the number of choices you could make; I don't remember if there was one (I want to say it's something like 3).

Any idea about what game this might be, and what the name of the game was?

Smannesman: Could be Rocks & Mineral Identification perhaps?

dtgreene: The link in your post isn't useful; it takes me to a page where it just shows a message to the effect of "you've reached a limit or the page isn't available online".

Do you have a better link?

nightcraw1er.488: And I thought watching paint dry, the game, was dull. But rock identification!

tremere110: Watch Paint Dry was awesome. It was hilarious when it was released last year - but I don't think Steam carries it anymore.

nightcraw1er.488: And I thought watching paint dry, the game, was dull. But rock identification!

bler144: Hey, it's not often you have an excuse to talk about cleavage in polite company.

nightcraw1er.488: Core, what a lovely pair of peaks there, and that valley so enticing. Geology, who knew eh?

bler144: ...

bler144: Hey, it's not often you have an excuse to talk about cleavage in polite company.

Smannesman: It works for me on all my browsers, but here's a screenshot.

dtgreene: Without a screenshot of the game, I can't tell if it's the game I played, but I actually remember playing the game in elementary school (4th grade?).

dtgreene: Without a screenshot of the game, I can't tell if it's the game I played, but I actually remember playing the game in elementary school (4th grade?).