i played this when i was very young
i think it was actually exceptionally good edutainment for lil nuggets who are actually huge nerds
I can answer this!
This is one of a small handful of games The Learning Company made with Warren Robinett (if you recognize that name, it's probably because of the Atari game, Adventure), that all have the same engine and interface. They kind of scale to an expected age range, because the subject matter gets increasingly more complicated.
- Gertrude's Secrets, a variety of games and activities about shapes and colors meant for players 4 to 6 years old.
- Gertrude's Puzzles, which is kinda that but more of it.
- Rocky's Boots, which is about computer science by way of logic gates, and is intended for 7 to 11.
- and Robot Odyssey, which takes the logic stuff from Rocky's Boots and turns it into a whole meta-puzzle game about wiring robots to solve puzzles with an element of danger.
- [edit] Oh, and 3 years after all of those, TLC also published Think Quick!, which lends a medieval fantasy bent to the whole thing that sort of vaguely resembles a primitive Legend of Zelda dungeon.
It's kind of amazing how much TLC got out of that engine!
