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 Finding Nemo: Nemo's Underwater World of Fun
With the Disney/Pixar motion picture Finding Nemo, The Academy Award-winning creators of Toy Story, A Bug's Life, and Monsters, Inc. take the art and technology of computer animation to a whole new level in a stunning underwater adventure with memorable characters, humor, and heartfelt emotion.
Finding Nemo: Nemo's Underwater Challenge, is brimming with mini-games and puzzle challenges involving the Finding Nemo film's central characters, Nemo, Marlin, and Dory. Each game is geared to entertain, challenge, and inspire kids to exercise their creative and critical thinking skills. The games include puzzles designed to cultivate exploration, cooperation, and problem solving. Following the movie's message, Nemo's Underwater Challenge will help teach courage, perseverance, trust, and the value of coming to the aid of one another.
The software is compatible with both PC and Macintosh computers.
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 Finding Nemo
by THQ
The water looks so real in this video game that you fear your TV might spring a leak. This adventure roughly follows the plot of the movie. In the first level, you try to steer Nemo to school, learning how to swim through bubble rings, pick up pearls, and blast through piles of rocks. Fifteen levels later (we counted 18 plus a bonus game), you reunite Nemo with his father, after hours of mazes, memory games and live clips from the movie. Here are the important details. First, there are little or no noticeable differences between the PS2, GameCube or Xbox versions of this game. Second, some of the levels are frustratingly difficult to complete; especially the gear mazes and the sliding square puzzles. Our testers would've liked more 3D exploring in the game, and noted that controls are awkward for the backward-facing levels. Each level is recorded on an innovative record keeping screen, and it is easy to save games, which you'll need to do often in order to make it through all 18 levels. As with many other videogames, when you "die" you are sent back to the start of the level. There's some wonderful programming in these games, including the fighting the water currents (you really empathize with what real fish have to put up with), the ways you can dart again rocks to move them, or pick up pearls with a fin. The bottom line? This is a beautiful, rich and challenging game with minimal educational value, that will take many days to finish. Developed for THQ by Traveller's Tales. Copyright © 2001 Children's Software Revue.
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 Pond Aquarium 3D Deluxe
by SelectSoft Publishing
You won't believe your eyes! Transform your PC into a peaceful paradise! You will be mesmerized by fantastic scenery that comes alive with fanciful aquatic life. Includes 30 Freshwater Fish Favorites and 20 Scenic Backgrounds with a waterfall.
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 Aquazone Deluxe
Win95/Win98/Mac Packaging: Retail Box
Publisher: Mindscape Product Code: AQUAZONEDO
The Virtual Aquarium. Just like a real aquarium, your fish are alive, each with its own unique personality and behavior. You care for them and you customize your aquarium exactly the way you want. You can even breed your fish for limitless generations. Aquazone exists in real time, so even when your computer is turned off, your Aquazone aquarium is alive. This deluxe version contains more plants, more accessories, more fish and more backdrops plus a free copy of Tropical Fish Hobbyist magazine.
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Aquazone II Deluxe With Guppy Pk (rel 8/99) PC : www.amazon.com
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 The Magic School Bus Explores the Ocean
by Microsoft
The Magic School Bus Explores the Ocean is an interactive science adventure that helps children learn about the wonders of the ocean as they join the Magic School Bus class to explore the seven ocean zones. Available for both Macintosh and PC platforms, this CD-ROM software is designed to entertain and encourage a sense of adventure and exploration, especially about science and technology. The Magic School Bus Explores the Ocean teaches key science concepts in a fun and age-appropriate way. (Ages 6-10)
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 Zoo Tycoon Expansion Pack: Marine Mania
by Microsoft
Good news animal lovers! Microsoft's Zoo Tycoon gets another expansion pack, this time it's all wet with Marine Mania. First it was zoo animals, then dinosaurs (the Dinosaur Digs expansion pack, which is also included in this package), and now it's marine life. Marine Mania lets you build a water park like SeaWorld, complete with dancing penguins, bottle-nosed dolphins, or your own version of Shamu the Killer Whale.
The expansion pack fits right into the existing core gameplay of Zoo Tycoon. You manage your park, listen to your customers, plan the layout, listen to your "specialists" (zoo keepers) for the right mix of exhibit size and food for your various critters, and watch everyone enjoy the park. Add an amphitheater to any pen and you've got ample seating for a show. There are 20 marine animals (from jellyfish and sperm whales to orcas and great white sharks) and some animals (dolphins, orcas, etc.) double as terrific entertainers. Once again, you can always mix animals, and of course the only violence comes from mixing carnivores with the gentler fishes. But Marine Mania is as kid friendly as ever, so the best you get is some thrashing during a great-white feeding frenzy, rather than red-tinted waters. Drop a human in the pool and they simply swim out. Darn. Keeping with the kid-friendly theme, the game also features an encyclopedia entry on each critter, which makes the gameplay almost as educational as a trip to a real water park.
The only problems are the game engine and graphics. Microsoft targeted low-end computers, which is fine, but as time goes on each expansion pack looks more and more behind the times. The animation in Marine Mania is simple and quickly becomes boring, and that's something that should never be said about a shark feeding frenzy or trick-performing dolphins. Still, the expansion pack is an absolute must for fans of the original game, particularly those who skipped Dinosaur Digs since Marine Mania generously includes that earlier expansion pack. Parents should strongly consider this series a fun learning tool as well. And naturally, fans of water parks, marine life, and the Zoo Tycoon series can't go wrong here. --Andrew S. Bub
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 Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania and Dinosaur Digs Expansion Packs (Mac)
by Aspyr Media
You'll make a huge splash by adding killer whales, manta rays, and other exciting marine animals to your existing zoo. Have a whale of a time as you combine land, marine, and prehistoric animals to build the wildest, most exciting zoo ever!
Features:
• The newest expansion pack to the top-selling Zoo Tycoon franchise will provide more than 20 new marine animals including the bottlenose dolphin, giant squid, and a great white shark!
• Create your own customized killer whale and dolphin shows! Amaze audiences as your featured stars tail walk, flip, spin, play with balls, and perform other unique tricks!
• Add exhibit tanks, animal toys, aquatic themed buildings, and fun new attractions such as the boat ride and shark tunnel. Guests even swim with the dolphins!
• Fun and easy tutorial lets you plunge into the game right away.
• Overflowing with challenge--10 new scenarios put your Zoo Tycoon skills to the test!
• Also includes the Zoo Tycoon: Dinosaur Digs expansion pack! Evolve your zoo with more than 20 prehistoric beasts, 100 building materials, and six challenging scenarios.
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 Aquaman War Of The Water Worlds (PC/MAC)
by CD Comics
AQUAMAN SPRINGS TO LIFE IN CDROM! Aquaman and his allies find themselves confronted by an army of super villains who unleash a devastating suction machine that captures the creatures in Aquaman's watery realm. Will Aquaman be able to save the Earth's oceans? Great For Kids or Adults! With Multimedia action in every panel you discover items the provide plot clues and animated hot spots. Complete with soundtrack to totally immerse yourself in the story in this wonderful interactive comic book adventure. Made by DC Comics sure to be collectable!
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 Rosetta Stone Thai Explorer Ages 6+
by FAIRFIELD LANGUAGE
From the publisher:
The Rosetta Stone makes it possible to learn a new language the way you learned your first language: without translation, memorization or studying the rules of grammar!
Now learn a new language faster and easier than ever before possible, with the award-winning CD-ROM program that fulfills the promise of true interactive language learning. This immersion style, multimedia program is revolutionizing the way the world learns languages from Dallas to Delhi, from Stockholm to Sydney--from five year olds to university graduates. The Peace Corps and USAID use The Rosetta Stone and the US State Department uses The Rosetta Stone to train diplomats and foreign service officers.
The Rosetta Stone is fun, it's easy to use and best of all--it really works!
- Rigorously designed program calls for user response and gives instantaneous feedback.
- Carefully sequenced, step-by-step instruction can be entered at any point.
- Twelve different Run Modes allow users to thoroughly work the materialusing their own learning style.
- Native speakers and over 8000 real life color pictures.
- Voice-record and Dictation modes in addition to Listening and Reading Comprehension.
How is This Program Different?
Unlike language learning programs that rely on text translation, The Rosetta Stone uses carefully selected pictures to clearly convey the meaning of each new spoken phrase. By invoking the mind's inherent ability to connect sound and meaning, learning occurs naturally and easily, the way you learned your first language as a child. With each new concept your comprehension is verified with instantaneous feedback confirming your progress. The program systematically integrates new vocabulary with new grammar in a natural, intuitive process as it builds on what you have mastered in the previous chapters. There is no other program that teaches and gives the feeling of success like The Rosetta Stone!
System Requirements
Macintosh: 68k Mac with 8 MB RAM or PowerPC Mac with 16 MB RAM, 256 color display
PC: IBM or compatible PC running Windows 3.1, 95, 98, or NT, Minimum screen resolution of 640 x 480 with 256 colors
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 The Sacred Mirror of Kofun
Jean-Michel Cousteau Productions/Enteractive
Dive to the Depths of Your Imagination
Your daring undersea mission in the Pacific is cut short by an urgent S.O.S. Clues point to the legendary Sacred Mirror of Kofun, an ancient Japanese artifact of power and protection that brings peril to all who oppose it.
Strange events lead you through eerie underwater reefs and wrecks, onto exotic tropical islands and into the intrigues of an international cast of characters.
Take the plunge and immerse yourself in this underwater adventure of brain-twisting mystery and high-tech suspense.
- First adventure game with original underwater footage
- Thousands of realistic 3-D images to explore
- Gorgeous fully rendered 360 degree explorable environments
- More than 80 hours of gameplay
- Over 2 hours of vivid full motion video
- Puzzles and clues to challenge you at every turn
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 Atlantis Underwater Tycoon [CD]
Grab your snorkel and fill up your air tank as you embark on a journey to conquer earth's final frontier - the ocean floor! Design and develop a deep-sea metropolis with gigantic maps that will keep you engaged for hours as you build and manage a thriving underwater world.
Features:
• Design & develop a deep-sea metropolis with gigantic maps
• Build and manage thriving underwater worlds in exotic locations
• 33 challenging campaigns for non-stop game action!
• 24 different game characters. 1,000s of underwater options
• [Windows 98/ME/2000/XP]
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 Deep Sea Challenge
Win95/Win98 Packaging: Retail Box
Publisher: Expert Software Product Code: DEEPSEACPR
Get in the fighting chair against the big trophy fish of the Atlantic. You can almost smell the sea air as you experience the thrills and action of deep-sea fishing off the coast of Florida. The high quality graphics give you the feel of the bite, and the pressure of reeling it in.
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 Virtual Deep Sea Fishing
Win95/Win98 Packaging: Retail Box
Publisher: Interplay Product Code: DEEPSEAFPR
3D Accelerator Card Required. Angle the world's biggest game fish in a beautiful, action-oriented, real-time 3D environment. Go after 18 varieties of saltwater game fish in 13 exotic locations using your mouse to reel in your trophy as it twists and turns on your line in the ultimate battle.
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 Let's Go Read! 2: Ocean Adventure
From: Edmark
Media: CD-ROM
Platform: Windows, Macintosh
Take Reading to Greater Depths! Building upon your childs mastery of letters, Lets Go Read! 2 explores how letters combine to form words, and how words combine to express meaning. Dozens of captivating, skill-building activities teach your child the skills to sound out, recognize, build and comprehend hundreds of new words. It is an endlessly fun voyage toward reading fluency!
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 Secret Paths To The Sea
Platform: Windows 95/98
Publisher: Purple Moon Media
Category: [Windows 95 Children-Age 8-12 ]
Release Date: May 11, 1998
The adventure begins as you escape to a secret lighthouse...
Join Nicole, Nakili, Ginger and four other friends in a unique girls-only hideaway. Then set off on seven unique and exciting paths that lead past tumbling streams, misty waterfalls, tropical seas and even the frosty Arctic! It's a whole new friendship adventure!
Includes Secret Paths™ stones!
- Explore 49 new beautiful seascapes and landscapes.
- Solve dozens of challenging puzzles to gather secret stones.
- Get to know seven girls who need your help on "life stuff," like best friends, families, and their own true feelings.
- Discover seven full-c
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 Adventures With Barbie Ocean Discovery
Ages 5-Up
by MATTEL MEDIA
From the publisher:
Help Barbie search for sunken treasures with Sandy the dolphin and her ocean friends! Save the undersea animals when you and Barbie find the treasure hidden deep in the ocean! Play games to uncover clues and pieces of the treasure map.
Each item you find brings you closer to solving the mystery of the gold and jewels. Keep playing, there are all kinds of wonderful secrets hidden under the sea....
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