Munchers#Versions

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{{Infobox video game series

|genre = Educational

|developer = MECC

|publisher = MECC

|released = 1980s-1990s

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Munchers is a series of educational video games produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) for several operating systems. The series was popular among American schoolchildren in the 1980s and 1990s and were the recipients of several awards. The two original games in the series were Number Munchers and Word Munchers. The brand name is currently owned by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, but is defunct.{{Cite web|title=Licensing Opportunities|url=http://www.hmhco.com/at-home/featured-shops/the-learning-company/licensing-opportunities|access-date=2017-01-17|website=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt}}

Number Munchers is the first educational game in the Munchers series. Designed to teach basic math skills, it was popular among American school children in the 1980s and 1990s and was the recipient of several awards.{{cite web|title=Awards of Excellence 2005|url=http://www.techlearning.com/shared/printableArticle.php?articleID=174910603|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924113737/http://www.techlearning.com/shared/printableArticle.php?articleID=174910603|archive-date=2015-09-24|access-date=2013-01-25|publisher=www.techlearning.com}} An updated 3D version, Math Munchers Deluxe, was released in 1995.{{cite press release|author=|title=MINNESOTA EDUCATIONAL COMPUTING CORPORATION (MECC) ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF MATH MUNCHERS DELUXE.|url=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A17430246/AONE?u=sfpl_main&sid=AONE&xid=e00d294e|publisher=Academic OneFile|agency=PR Newswire|date=1995-10-24|access-date=2019-06-25}} Word Munchers is a spin-off of Number Munchers designed to teach basic grammar skills. It was popular among American schoolchildren in the 1980s and 1990s and was used as a teaching aid widely used in schools. Though the gameplay was the same as in Number Munchers, specific to Word Munchers were the modes of play, which includes parts of speech such as verbs or adjectives. Teachers had the options to select the vowel sounds and how difficult the word sets would be, such as whether to include words that break pronunciation rules. These games were followed up by other titles that focused on areas like fractions (Fraction Munchers) and trivia (Knowledge Munchers Deluxe), and the original games also received deluxe versions.