I can’t help it. When I find these old PC games, especially for only a buck or two at thrift stores, I buy them. Most of them I already have old copies of; the few I don’t, I’m sure I could find. Regardless, I pick them up.

Really quickly:

I bought The Time Warp of Dr. Brain because I already have an original of The Island of Dr. Brain and wanted to put them next to one another. I haven’t tried to run this on a modern PC yet.

Mixed-Up Mother Goose is a SCUMMVM game by Sierra similar to the old King’s Quest games. I played it a lot as a kid and seeing an original copy made me smile, so I bought it.

Both of these Incredible Machine CDs are the later rendition of the series. I was a fan of the earlier games but haven’t tried these newer ones. I like referring to games that were released in 2001 as “the newer ones.”

As for Cap’n Crunch… I’m a sucker for records, CDs, and video games that came in cereal boxes. Despite being designed for Windows 95 (I’m guessing), I was able to get the good Cap’n’s game up and running on my Windows 8 laptop. The goal of this game is to build up your Crunchling. This is done by beating different mini skill games (like jumping and running) and also feeding it an unhealthy amount of Cap’n Crunch cereal — like, piles of cereal taller than the Crunchling, over and over again. That can’t be healthy, can it?