This well-thought-out title is an interactive story beautifully narrated by Academy-Award winning actor Ben Kingsley. Kingsley, in the role of the Story Teller, offers a pleasant, pleasurable stroll through an Amazon village and its surroundings. The story follows jungle-boy Kiyeko's effort to retrieve the Night, stolen by a couple of snakes reminiscent of Disney's bad-guy animal characters, through 11 different animated scenes - from Kiyeko's village in the Amazon jungle, through the forest, to the snakes' lair, and back again. The well-drawn graphics, which integrate 3D backgrounds with 3D animations, and movie-style quality of the title are lovely to look at, regardless of your age.
Pixeline: og hulen i træet is the second game in the Pixeline series. Play with the toys Pixeline has in her treehouse and partake in a number of activities all based on Danish children songs.
The Universe According to Virgil Reality brings science alive for kids through interactive animated experiments, many of which they can perform at home!
In Search of the Lost Words (1996) is an enchanting educational game geared toward building reading and comprehension skills in older children. The graphics are charming, and the gameplay quickly becomes immersive, drawing the player into a simple but interesting storyline.
Gameplay
The interface is intuitive and easy to use; a simple point and click selects and names objects, some of which are highlighted for later use in a sidebar. Each object when clicked will reward you with a cute animation, and some are gateways to minigames, mostly memory and match-up challenges, all the way through the main action that give you extra adverbs and adjectives that come in useful later. At the end of each stage, there is a section of the story of the egg, and by extension the creature, that has gaps in it that you must fill with the “lost words” of the title.
Once you’ve found every word (and some of them are not obvious at all, like clicking on a large vase only to have it called a parrot because that’s what w
This game came out in 1996, helping children growing up as the main character, Adiboo, interacts with us in various mini-games, sometimes fighting the mean monster-blob, and most times teaching children reading, singing, and many life values.
An educational computer game in which Elmo hosts a handful of minigames meant to teach children about the basics of numbers, letters, shapes, facial expressions, and music.
Mighty Math Zoo Zillions teaches kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade students the concepts, facts, and thinking skills necessary to build math confidence and develop a strong, lasting understanding of math! Innovative activities teach number line concepts, addition and subtraction, counting money and making change, problem-solving skills, and early three-dimensional geometry. Learning and understanding math is fun with the entertaining creatures of Zoo Zillions!
The Casper Brainy Book builds reading skills with its entertaining interactive Storybook adapted from the motion picture by an award-winning children's author. The Casper Brainy Book also includes Games and Puzzles the build vocabulary and memory skills. Designed for pre-readers and early readers, Casper age-sensitive activities continually adapt to your child's ability, so the Casper Brainy Book Grows with your child.
JumpStart Toddlers is a game released by Knowledge Adventure in 1996 that focuses on educational concepts for toddlers. It would later be replaced by JumpStart Toddlers (2000). It is also known as Jump Ahead Toddlers in Europe.
The player's guide and mascot for the game is Giggles the gopher. In the game, the player can click on many different items in a playroom and play seven different activities. During an activity, the player can use the Button Bar at the bottom of the screen to access the other activities or return to the playroom.
Haunted Mansion is an obscure shareware adventure game written by Harley Bradley.
B&W point and click adventure game created with HyperCard.
Description from the author:
Haunted Mansion is a simple game of creepy sounds and surprizes. Your older children will love it as mine do. The plot is simple..... "It's easy to get IN to the mansion....NOT SO EASY TO GET OUT !!!" You must find two hidden keys to exit the house. However, even if you don't find them, the house is a lot of fun to explore.
An educational games for young children to start learning English, the game has several courses divided up in areas, which themselves are different themes for building word comprehension. The game is based on a book called "English With A Smile".
The different areas are
- The Gatehouse (numbers)
- The Q family house (family relationships)
- The Paint Factory (colors)
- The Tailor's Shop (clothing)
- The Gym (parts of the body)
- The School (classroom)
- The Grocery Store (food)
- The Theater (feelings)
The game came in 2 CDs where CD 1 is the 4 first areas and CD 2 is the latter 4 areas. Later revisions of the game combined both CDs into 1 and as such there was no need to swap CDs while playing.