Customer Reviews

Magic School Bus 3-CD Bonus Pack Vol 2: Dinosaurs, Solar System & Earth [Old Version]

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I'd like to preface this by stating that my 6-year-old and I only spent a (frustrating) hour with the Dinosaurs and Solar System CDs, so my opinion may change after more time spent with them and the Earth CD. So far, we love the graphics, sound and the few activities we were able to find. However, the software doesn't appear to be very user-friendly and we are having difficulty determining what activities are available and how to access them. There is no main menu to show you how to navigate through the CD and many of the screens do not feature an "Exit" icon to allow you to exit the program or return to the main menu.

We are very PC-savvy and use other computer games/activities. I wonder if we're overlooking something obvious here. Does anyone have any advice on this CD set? We enjoy the cartoon and would love to have the CDs supplement it.

Magic School Bus has been a great way to get our kids interested in science of all kinds. They come back to these CD's again and again (some of them we've had for a couple of years). The graphics are good and the games are fun and educational. The solar system CD was especially great -- the kids learned not only to name all the nine planets (in order) but also understood and remembered lots of interesting facts about space.

Our 6 year old loves this software and plays with it frequently. So many children's titles are poorly executed and quickly grow boring. The adventures are fun and absorbing and painlessly teach a wealth of facts.

A quick example: I learned quite a bit about volcanos just watching my child performing the experiments. Good software is hard to find, you've found it here...

Our 6 year old is a huge MSB fan to begin with. He has movies, books and now CD's! It has given him a closer, hands-on experience. There's enough to do that's challenging and fun and its pretty easy to figure out the first time or two. Its really brought the stories to life.

these seem like very old titles, written for win/3.1 and possibly working on win/95, but incompatible with the modern microsoft operating systems. out of 3 titles, two failed to install on my child's win2k system at all. one installed, but didn't function right. its graphics are the 10 year old primitive 256 color 640x480 VGA, 2-dimensional and flat. the game's audio wouldn't turn on. i can only guess that the other 2 titles were even more antique. a major dissapointment, because science related titles for small kids are so rare and hard to find!

i have encountered other children's titles that were poorly written for win/3.1 or older versions of windows, and hadn't been updated in 10 years, which wouldn't install or run right under win2k, but these are titles published by microsoft itself!!!

I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF THIS GAME COMES WITH INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO NAVIGATE AROUND IT?

THIS WILL DETERMINE IF I WILL BUY IT AS MY DAUGHTER LOVES MAGIC SCHOOL BUS BOOKS.