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Software and Games : Software Categories : Children's Fun & Learning : Activities & Interests : Printing & Painting
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Avanquest Software
Scooby Doo Phantom Of The Knight
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Europress
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VU Games
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Focus Multimedia Ltd
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Alternative Software
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VU Games
Great Games and accessories for all Consoles from Gamesbuyer.
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Avanquest Software
If your child is getting that Fimbling Feeling, try Fimbles Fimbling Fun, one of an excellent range of CD-ROMs and console games produced by the BBC. It includes lots of songs, stories and video clips from the popular TV programme. Let your child join the Fimbles and their friends for fun and enjoyment in a world of make believe.There are lots of learning situations, all designed with fun in mind. Objects must be found: a suitcase, a pebble, a feather, a shimmy shaker, and blue footprint, all of which lead to various activities, including a music game, a maze game, a collage, a suitcase game, stories, tickling games, songs and discovery sequence videos. All these wonderfully exciting activities will lead children to meet Florrie, Pebble, Ribble, Rockit, Roly Mo, and Baby Pom, and if any help is needed, Bessie is always on hand to tell children what everything on the screen does.
Also included are activities designed specifically for adults to play and do with children, so that the learning and fun can be developed after the CD-ROM has been switched off. These include printing out and colouring in, finding games, and more. All of the games can be played at different levels of skill and difficulty to cater for a range of abilities. The BBC has developed this CD-ROM in line with the national curriculum at the foundation stage, and recommends that it is suitable for children aged 2 years and above. Skills which can be practiced and developed include mouse control, listening, following directions, observation, cause and effect, and creativity.
Accompanying the package is a first-rate, colour instruction booklet which is extremely well set out and it should be read by parents or helpers before play is commenced. --Susan Naylor
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Focus Multimedia Ltd
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Avanquest Software
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Ubisoft
Kids embarking on Laura's Happy Adventures will encounter free-form problem solving and dizzying graphics as this program takes them from attic to underground fairy kingdom. Laura finds an enchanted diamond in her grandfather's rock collection and is given a task by the talking stone: she will unlock the stone's mysteries if she sets out on a mission to please the people she loves.This program is "designed on extensive research of girls' social orientation" and will "challenge girls and develop social skills", according to the blurb on the box. This program's nice-girl emphasis on pleasing people is bound to raise some eyebrows, but we found that the CD-ROM delivered a more total experience than the blurb promised. Laura's Happy Adventures is a game within a game within a game. A player will find a magic bracelet, on which grandpa discovers a mysterious inscription. Then Laura must skip clear across town to the fortune-teller to discover what the inscription means. The fortune-teller then asks for an exotic feather before she will explain the message, and the adventure branches out in another direction... Thus the game weaves an interactive web that is easy to get caught up in.
This game has some annoying features. The program must be negotiated using the keyboard or a game pad: the mouse isn't an option. Manoeuvring Laura around her vast world using arrow keys is as clunky as her little Playmobil figure. And aligning her in front of doors, people and objects so she can interact with them is nightmarish. As the point-of-view swoops, zooms and circles around our heroine, an unskilled player may succumb to vertigo before figuring out how to control game play.
Now for the good news: the game is so absorbing your child will return to it repeatedly. And its free-form structure encourages resourcefulness. Kids must take some initiative, nose around and discover what needs to be done. If they don't, Laura simply stands there, fidgeting and tossing her hat. Other characters in the program give advice and hints, but only if the player makes Laura "ask".
Parents will probably need to help younger children get the hang of negotiating Laura's world. And if your youngster is prone to motion sickness, you might want some Dramamine nearby to help them stomach those dramatic graphics. Otherwise, this is a good exercise in deduction, listening and non-linear thinking. It is likely boys would enjoy it too--if you hide that pink box and those awful blurbs from them. (Ages 6 to 12) --Anne Erickson
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Focus Multimedia Ltd
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Avanquest Software
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Nova
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VU Games
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Tivola
If you want to be a Viking then you'll have to test your mettle by performing a series of difficult tasks. Vicky the Viking--The Big Trial invites you to shoot arrows and test your courage in many other ways.Vicky has a tough overbearing father who doesn't think much of his son. On the eve of a major journey to a new land, Vicky pleads with his father for the chance to accompany him. At first his father scornfully rejects the idea as it will require a great deal of courage, perseverance and strength. But eventually he agrees that Vicky can join the rest of the crew if he demonstrates his strength and successfully completes a number of challenging tasks.
Vicky the Viking--The Big Trial is a lively title and it begins with our hero firing arrows into a colourful target. Vicky is intelligent and friendly and quickly introduces you to all the different characters in his village. The colourful Viking characters chat among themselves and you simply click to make the action continue. Vicky is led to different locations such as the edge of the sea where he has to perform a range of tasks. Each of the games is at three levels of difficulty. In the arrow contest, you click to fire arrows at moving targets. You can quickly repeat the instructions, adjust the level if you get stuck and it's easy to travel to another location.
This is an engaging and exciting title for children over four years old. Vicky talks frankly about his worries about not being able to have the courage to perform the tasks and children will be quickly drawn in to help him. This entertaining title also passes on the valuable message that brains are always more valuable than brute strength. --Justin Hunt
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Avanquest Software
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Avanquest Software
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Vivendi Universal
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Focus Multimedia Ltd
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Universal
Jurassic Park III Scan Command CD-ROM is a rather novel idea for a game. The story outline is simple enough--Evil Dr Corts intends to take over the world with an army of mutated dinosaurs. To make matters worse, the bad Doctor is holding five children captive in Jurassic Park, and you want to rescue them. To do this you need your own dinosaurs, which you'll grow by manipulating their DNA.This is where the fun comes in, as you use bar codes to help give them their characteristics. The software comes with a bar code scanner for the capture of these data-bits. It is about 18cm long, made of blue plastic, and looks rather like an oversized marker pen. It needs three AAA batteries to supply its power. The first barcode you need is in the game manual. Thereafter you can wander through the house and beyond, grabbing barcodes from wherever you like. The scanner can store up to 25 bar codes at a time, and you download them to the PC using a serial connection and then create the DNA and powerful dinosaurs. And let the action begin!
Jurassic Park III Scan Commandis a very clever idea. All the scanner really does is collect random sets of numbers, but it's neat, and once you get the hang of scanning, very easy. The multi-level game isn't bad, either.--Sandra Vogel
Plus FREE Dino Defender
A terrible storm has knocked out power in Jurassic Park and the huge dinosaurs are on the rampage. As a member of the elite Dino Defender squadron, it's your job to capture as many dinosaurs as possible while you try to restore power in this dramatic and exciting CD-ROM game.
Read Amazon.co.uk's review