I remember playing with 2 different toys/games when I was younger and at a friends place, but can't remember their names and can't find them anywhere.
One was a tape player. I believe shaped like a robot. It could talk and play games and I specifically remember having a tape about children in the woods and you were able to choose your path in the story. i.e take this path or turn around.
The other was more of a puzzle game. There were 9 squares with pictures on them and you would try to match, for example, the front ends and back ends of cars and try to make it so they were all laid out in a 3x3 grid with every picture matching up.
Any help with the names of these would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

oh oh I did the card one, I think it was called mix n match, though that was the style of game, not the company. There were car ones, and pirate ones and helicopters, I had a 6x6 bear one. Really popular when I was a kid, along with knuckles