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Europa Universalis, The Total War Games, Victoria 2, Battlefield 1942, AoE 1+2

all helped with history a lot.
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Cooking Mama taught me how to crack an egg without screwing up.
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I am serious, helped a lot during a fund-raising cooking session when we made muffins. :3
 

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Suprised no one said it yet, but games like Freddi Fish and such, learned me a lot when I was a child. I had lot's of games like that, which also had math and spelling stuff in it..

And for the dutch people around my age and older, remember RedCat?
It was a serie of educative games:
Math
Topography
Spelling
History
English
Biology

All packed in awesome platformish games.

Also, didn't rayman have some games like that?
 

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pokemon thaught me to read english, at the age of 4. I'm very good at english these days, and one of the best in My study year (havo 5 for the dutch people, reading this thread)
 

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- A lot of games helped me understand English when I was younger. And they still do, my English improves every time I play games, that's only logic.

- Pokemon helped me think a few steps ahead, same for Fire Emblem. Also Pokemon learned me a bit about nature and that water is good against fire for example and mud too.

- All those FPS games I have played helped me so much with multitasking, thinking strategically and of course pure reactions. Also I learned so much about WW 2 thanks to MoHAA and CoD 1, UO and 2.
Other recenter FPS games learned me about recent technologies used in the military and the kind of weapons they use there.

- FIFA has learned me tons about football history and players. Always handy to know on quizzes.

- Age of Empires 2 learned me history, events and people.
 

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Running a few massively successful guilds on Ragnarok online helped me learn quite a few leadership and people skills. Not that I really NEED them outside of other vidyagaems, but I have the skills if I ever need them.

MMOs in general made me infinitely more literate. I used to type like a moron, and i'd have likely kept on that track if I didn't want to sound more intelligent when communicating with others in-game.
 

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Shogun Total War taught me alot about japanese history and helped me pass my finals at school ^^

Also when I was younger I had a few mathgames that helped me alot.

Counterstrike helped me type faster... mainly to abuse others when i was like 14 lol

a certain web MMO (dark-future) taught me to backstab people... not that i do it but i know how
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There was a Genesis game called Soleil (it's a bit like Zelda) that there was a puzzle on one room about crossing 3 chickens from one side to another with certain rules to follow, and this test were presented on a job test! Well, i got it right >-p

Also, Phoenix Wright helped me a lot with "thinking outside the box".

And Resident Evil were my co-teacher in english.

Not to mention all those agility, reflexes and strategy babble.
 

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Vulpes Abnocto said:
toguro_max said:
And Resident Evil were my co-teacher in english.


So do you talk in clipped sentences and over-emphasize some words?
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(Oh the horror that was the voice acting in RE1)

I don't know what you are talking about.

The teaching was found near the desk.

There is nothing here.
 

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I have been able to read far above my grade level since I started school thanks to the NES and its lack of voice acting.
 
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- The Mario RPG's helped improve my English, when I was younger. Back then, I didn't read as much, so gaming served as a substitute.

- Minecraft taught me quite a few things. I didn't know about Obsidian (volcanic glass), before. I did look online about Obsidian, though. I didn't have a clue where leather came from before Minecraft. Now, I know that cowhide can be made into leather.

- Phoenix Wright gave me quite a few legal skills thought most of it only applies to Japan since the Phoenix Wright games are based off the Japanese legal system

- I didn't know about EMP's before COD.
 

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-Many and many games helped my vocabulary(but not learning games).

-Once, at school I made a story out of a game I played few days ago(but I tweaked it a little).
 

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