Reference -Encyclopedia
World Book 1997 Multimedia Encyclopedia
The World Book 1997 Multimedia Encyclopedia CD-ROM (IBM/World Book) represents the first significant improvement in multimedia encyclopedias since Microsoft?s Encartadefined the playing field several years ago (more…)
Storybooks
Casper’s Brainy Book
Casper’s Brainy Book (Knowledge Adventure) takes the venerable art of the interactive storybook and executes it with heretofore unseen panache. Although the basic dynamic of watching a page being read and then clicking on it to find hidden animations may quickly become tiresome for adults, the product is not intended for adults; it can, in fact, be customized to three age levels, all between four and eight (more…)
Literature
Barron’s Book Study Notes (Corel CD Home) is essentially a conversion to CD-ROM of selected volumes from the Barron’s Book Notes series. There are study guides for 101 classic literary works written by 65 different American and European authors (more…)
Creativity Tools
The best thing about Book Workshop(Sunburst Communications - ages 5-12) is that it’s so darn easy to use (in fact, the earlier version of the program was called “Easybook“) (more…)
Storybook
For a disc that strives to push the boundaries of interactive entertainment, Jungle Book (IBM/Powerhouse Entertainment - ages 5-9) feels an awful lot like old hat. The groundbreaking part of the program is the speech recognition technology – “learn the language of the jungle” and you can navigate parts of the game using only your voice and a microphone, which comes packaged with the disc (more…)
Old Strategy Games Intelligent Game Reviews
