This is where you can send in your archived game!
The number isn't part of an address or discord id—I got it by keysmashing—and I haven't drawn a cover (wrote this up in a notes app), but here's a game:
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name: Captain Teach's Adventure
number: 40258
days to beat: 4 + 0 + 2 + 5 + 8 = 19
genre: Educational
theme: Pirates
platform: Family Entertainment System
feature: Tabletop Adaptation
feelies: Badge
notes: Captain Teach's Adventure was a moderately well-received 1983 edu-tainment game released on the FES, starring the eponymous educational 'Captain Teach'. The family-friendly character sailed players around the Atlantic, teaching basic maths and literacy through the medium of ocean trivia*. PAL and SECAM editions came with a spyglass badge** marking you as a member of "Teach's Crew". They also released a trivia board game*** that got forgotten pretty quickly.
There are only a few hundred questions, over half of which can be encountered on an average play-through, except for 10 hidden questions that each only have a 0.001% chance of appearing per playthrough. I had to access the debug menu**** to get footage of the last few.
*people meme the ones like "if Sally the Shark eats 3 pirates and 4 sailors, how many people has Sally the Shark eaten?", with the clips of pixel pirates frowning harder and harder as they're pulled underwater one by one, but most of the game was pretty tame
**I dug out my old one for this and whatever paint they used on the badge flaked right off in my hands, but other than that it's still good; it even has little sockets you could slot mini-badges into when you answered a certain number of questions from the game
***I think my older brother later stole the miniatures out of our version to convert them into Warhams
****I don't know why they left this in, but it does let you switch on the decidedly not-FES-compliant 'terror mode'
Yearning Rubber, 1997, Orange Pépin
