Customer Reviews

Oz: The Magical Adventure

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My daughter (4 1/2) absolutely loved this cd-rom. She sat for over an hour the first time having so much fun. She wouldn't stop until she collected all the gems and was able to rescue Dorothy in Emerald city! She was problem-solving, sequencing, doing maizes and improving her thinking skills and she did't even know it! There are 3 difficulty levels (she started on easy), so she will be able to play this one for a long time. All her favorites- the scarecrow, the tinman, the lion and of course the yellow brick road! This is the best and most creative/educational cd-rom I've seen. I'm going to buy several and give them for all the 5 year birthday parties coming up!

My 4 year old loves this game. Dorothy is captured by the Wicked Witch and the Scarecrow, Tin man, and Lion must save her. Good for boys, too, since the user is following the male characters to rescue Dorothy. Glinda is the help guide. The child must find nine jewels before the game is over. Each jewel is the reward for solving problems in three different areas. No reading is needed but math, logic, and spacial relationship skills are. The three levels of difficulty will keep your child coming back again and again. My four year old can complete the 1st (Bronze )level on her own but needs help in some areas of silver and gold so it's still challenging. Big plus is that your child gets to melt the Wicked Witch at the end.

Check out the screen shots of this product on Amazon.... The graphics are so well done--they beat almost anything I've seen.

This is an old game and I had to have a computer capable of running Mac OS 9 to enjoy it. But I had set up just such a system for my grandkids so that they could learn computer skills. The game action is preety good and does not require reading skill. I don't like the copy protection system which requires the CD to be in the computer in order to run.