What is Ocean Life Volume 5: The Caribbean?

Sumeria won’t have to fish for long to reel in compliments on the latest underwater sequel to its Ocean Life series. A quick, easy interface; simple, catchy graphics; and copious quantities of QuickTime movies make this a great way to get your sea legs.

Granted, you have to actually care about Caribbean ocean life to really enjoy the disc. The narrator sounds like the teacher from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” (You’re just waiting for him to begin droning, “Bueller... Bueller.”) And let’s not forget about the price — fifty bucks ain’t cheap.

But for the money, you get a well-researched disc containing 50 minutes of original, narrated, underwater video on more than 200 species of marine life. And you know it wasn’t slapped together in some basement lab by kids cribbing from an encyclopedia. Additional info including tidal patterns, prime (and not-so-prime) diving spots, maps, and fish taxonomy round out the title.

Mahr, Joe. (January 1997). CD-ROMs. MacAddict. (pg. 84).
 

Download Ocean Life Volume 5: The Caribbean for Mac

Architecture

68K + PPC (FAT)

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.0

Compatibility notes

Minimum Requirements

• MC68040 processor
• 8 MB RAM
• 2X CD-ROM drive
• System 7.0

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II