Here is a fun bonus stream for DOSember. We're on Windows 3.1 for the most part, which isn't DOS but it runs on DOS so good enough for me. First up are a duo of edutainment titles from Selena Studios. It's Read-A-Rama and Spell-A-Rama. Supposedly these games might of been distributed by Maxis Games, but that is very questionable see the LGR video on Read-A-Rama below for more info on that.
Read-A-Rama is a boring board game where you have to help some genie get his magic lamp back from a hungry giant. Along the way you'll meet Thunder Jammer, Rainbow Girl, and Lightning Dude who will edutain you with word matching and spelling questions. Spell-a-Rama has us play as a New York fly who loses his store's key in the depths of the New York underground cave system. He'll meet a spider, a bat, a gorgon, and a bee. Normal New York cave inhabitants. If you recognize some of the voices in these games, that is because it stars Lani Minella, known for voicing Eriko Christy from Illbleed, Rouge the Bat from Sonic Adventure 2, and of course Bubsy from Bubsy 3d.
After that I take some suggestions from chat with the first being Zoo Explorers: Zoo-Opolois. This started with a nice rap and honestly it seemed perfectly fine. The cursed bits were that the first image I found wouldn't mount correctly and then any time a video file played in game it would crash. We can probably thank Quicktime 1.1.1 for that.
Finally we have probably the most well known of tonight's batch with I. M. Meen. Published by Simon & Schuster Interactive, I. M. Meen starts with a wonderful musical number sung by the titular I. M. Meen. If this animation seems familiar to you, it's because this game was made by Animation Magic, the same folks who worked on animation in the Zelda CDi titles as well as King's Quest VII. I. M. Meen has sucked us into his magic book which has transported us to his evil labyrinth. It's up to us to roam the labyrinth, solve grammar problems, rescue children, find the key to the way out, and of course punch the ever living shit out of anything that moves. That includes spiders, trolls, and of course grim reapers.
*Hey apparently the composer of the CDi Zelda games and I. M. Meen also had a song in PS2 rhythm game Frequency and it kinda slaps. To be honest a lot of his CDi stuff slaps so it makes sense.