As a rising rock star in the real world of math, you and your band need to struggle through a 10-city tour, earning enough money along the way to produce a killer music video that will send your song soaring up the charts. How do you raise the cash?...

Put your child on the path to becoming the next Ernest Hemingway (or if you want your young scribe to make gobs of money, Michael Crichton) with this lively writing program that encourages children to tap their artistic tendencies. At a loss for...

Fact filled and free, this animal excursion seems much more like work to kids who are iised to having their data doused with games and puzzles. No, you’ll not find any riddles to solve, mazes to navigate, or lost friends to rescue here....

An interactive storybook.

Whether you’re a chess king or a mere rookie, Wigby the Wizard of Chess and his unruly assistant, Wanda, will keep you ahead of your game. For newbies, Wigby offers a simple yet solid tutorial that teaches the basics in nothing fiat. If you...

Kids who think they know it all will find their reputations on the line as they dodge Troggles and devour tasty trivia on topics ranging from math to cars. Players pick a subject such as “famous people” and then race around the board,...

A deadly meteroid is headed straight toward Earth and only MAAX, a supercomputer with an attitude to match, can stop it. The catch? The mean-spirited machine has a mind of its own and refuses to save the planet unless you, with the help of Bill Nye...

Renowned monsterologist Colonel Picklewart teaches kids the ins and outs of tracking a wild asparagus-snatching snagglysnort in this CD-ROM activity book that seems to be more paper based than pixel oriented. Unlike most other hands-on CD-ROMs,...

Load up the canoe and sharpen your fishing spears, you’re about to set off for a 3D journey down the Amazon. Thanks to a strange Incident at the Museum of Ancient Art, you suddenly find yourself stranded in a town called Belém. Here you...

Play and learn. Teddy bear, chicken and duckling need help to shoot gulls, catch worms and pick water lilies. You must be quick with the mouse before you score points.

The king entrusts you to foil a ruthless baron’s plot to seize the crown. How? Study the diagrams of the baron’s castle to outsmart him with your knowledge of medieval times. Sound boring? What if there were a few 3D rooms with chatty...

A bunch of bungling Bumptz have crashed their spaceship in Bette’s backyard here on Earth and you, along with Mo the Pack Rat, have to help them escape from Bette’s basement and make it back to their ship, But bouncing these little...

Bats aren’t evil, blood-sucking, terrorists on wings — they’re just different. And you’ll probabiy think they’re kind of cute after listening to the charming story of Stellaluna, a young fruit bat that is separated from...

The starting point is Stockholm. The journey continues southeast to northwestern Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. In the Baltic Mission you can visit 22 places around the Baltic Sea. Your mission is to get to know people and gain...