What is The Magic School Bus: Volcano Adventure?

The twirly-haired, crackly-voiced Ms. Frizzle is back, along with her magic school bus and class of overachieving kids. This time, they’re exploring volcanoes. The Magic School Bus Volcano Adventure offers a wide and healthy range of education and entertainment. But while activities are numerous, most skimp on content, leaving you thirsting for more information about our explosive little friends.

Activities include a world volcano map that would be pretty cool if it bothered to tell you anything about the volcanoes, and a game in which you must save houses from becoming lava lunch by putting down blockades — it's mildly entertaining for about 90 seconds. Other activities aren’t as lame, such as the Frogger-type game where you maneuver the magic bus across a lava river by jumping on logs and the like.

The best activities offer more engaging bits of knowledge in interactive ways. For Instance, the make-your-own-volcano lab lets you experiment with thicknesses of lava and varying levels of gassiness to show

you how different types of volcanoes form. Another activity feeds you fun facts about four major volcanoes, such as how loud they sounded when they erupted and what kind of lava they spit out. Very cool. Unfortunately, there’s just not enough very cool stuff on this CD to engross you for long.

Lu, Cathy. (December 2001). The Magic School Bus Volcano Adventure. MacAddict. (pg. 56).

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Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 8.1

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver