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.
Children join author Ludwig Bemelmans' brave little Parisian schoolgirl as she and her eleven roommates travel the continent, in Madeline European Adventures. This educational game, intended for children ages five and up, is designed to help players develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills, as well as an awareness of foreign languages. As they travel with Madeline from Paris to Switzerland, Italy, and Turkey, players will help the girls solve four main mysteries -- one in each country. Children can also become familiar with the locations, capitals, and flags of 19 European nations, and the game encourages players to learn over 100 words in Spanish and French.
Clue is a full-motion video adaptation of the popular board game of the same name. It is an amalgamation of two earlier CD-i titles where (up to six) players take turns investigating a mansion where a murder happened, uncovering clues and evidence to reveal the assassin. There are three storylines with four difficulty levels, each with a unique solution making it altogether twelve different mysteries: Deadly Patent (from Clue), The Road to Damascus and Blackmail (both from Clue 2: The Mysteries Continue).
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.
The Fennels Figure Math is an educational adventure game with a quirky and surreal setting. You play as Baxter, who, alongside his lazy cousin Frizzie, must collect five food items for a party in their eccentric Great-Great-Great Grandfather's bizarre house. From ice sculptures in the North Pole Room to alien-infested trailers, you'll solve math-based puzzles to progress. The game combines whimsical storytelling with educational challenges, making math fun and engaging.
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!
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.
A game for kids following "Lefty" and "Righty" as they attempt to get back the letters than Victor the Virus stole. The game teaches kids how to read and type.
Microsoft's 3D Movie Maker allows you to create your own 3D movies. Place your actors and props in the scene, choose actions for them to perform, and add sound effects, speech, music, and text. You can also explore the studio and theater building to find the lost pages of the Talent Book and learn the actors' stories.
Jackpot Jubilee is a single player slot machine game.
The shareware version of the game has a single, traditional, three reel fruit machine with a single pay-line whereas the full registered version has three differently themed machines and a reel hold option. The game screen shows the machine being played in the centre while to the right is the player's stack of coins, the player clicks on a coin to transfer it to the machine so that they can play. An unusual feature of this game is the way cash is paid out, if/when a player wins and collects their cash the coin stack on the right is updated immediately while the coins collected do a little dance across the bottom of the screen before eventually disappearing.
Jan Pienkowski Haunted House is an adaptation of the pop-up children's book of the same name by Jan Pienkowski. In this game for children of ages 4 to 8 they explore a haunted house that's filled with strange creatures and fun-filled games. There is no real horror to be found, but strange ghosts and monsters from both Earth and beyond do hide out in the house. Each room features original art from the pop-up book and can be explored at will. Clicking on hotspots in the room activates funny animations that will appeal to children. These are accompanied by sometimes ominous music but mostly funny sound effects. Using a map of the house the player can quickly travel to any part of the house. There's no real objectives rather than to have fun and explore.
You will learn all about the many creatures which inhabit our planet's oceans; how humans have interacted with it throughout history; and oceans in general. It's all accompanied by a wealth of information which is supplemented by quizzes, videos and pictures. You can even take a narrated tour with one of many different characters, each of whom explores specific subjects relating to oceans. Keep on learning with interactive games and quizzes. Exciting articles will help you to understand the depth of water. You will learn many secrets of marine animals with hundreds of interesting quizzes and 15 of intriguing games. Look how amazing open water in front of your eyes! Explore the world of the oceans with: more than 700 colorful articles, information about hundreds of marine creatures, more than 100 video clips, and more than 1000 photos. This software title was also made with the cooperation of the World Wildlife Foundation.
Max and Marie Go Shopping is an educational adventure game where the player must help two young anthropomorphic dogs, Max and Marie, buy all the necessary things for Aunt Lisa's party.
Each location in the city is represented by a full-screen scene where the player can click on things and people to interact with them, or just trigger a funny animation. The player can move between various places in the city by riding a bus, or just by clicking the icon that allows him to instantly move to any location.