GA-10: Kids' Stuff ------------------------ 1613 Children's Games #1 Small Programs ------------------------ Archery try to hit the moving target. You get three trys from five different positions. Play a friend or the computer. Good for hand-eye coordination training. Baby (BBABY) Baskin, Dave $5 use the "1", "2" and "3" keys to position the firemen to rescue the baby from the burning building. Brain Child (BRAIN) Scoresby, Kevin $10 is a memory card game along the lines of "Concentration." Instead of regular playing cards, the cards have various pictures on them. The program works easily with either the keyboard or a mouse. Crazy Cards 2.2 (CCARDS) Khobey Software $5 is based on the popular television show Card Sharks. The game uses a regular deck of cards and you are to guess if the next card turned over is going to be higher or lower than the one that is currently being viewed. The one with the most points wins. Chameleon 1.4 (CHAMELE) Robert F. Litt $5 is primarily for younger kids, but the program is clever enough to make all ages want to test their reflexes. If you, in your persona of a large Chameleon, catch a fly, your color gets brighter; when you miss, the Chameleon gets darker. Keep missing and it turns black and dies. GuessA# 1.03 Khobey Software $5 is a guessing game for young children. You guess a number between 1 and 500 and the computer tells you if your guess is high or low, accompanied by colors and sounds. If your three-year-old takes more than seven guesses to find the number, better give the little tyke a copy of Knuth's book on Searching and Sorting Algorithms. Memory (MEMRYDS) Sapir, J. David $5 is based on the old TV game Concentration. A deck of 54 cards is layed out face down. You try to match the cards by turning up two cards each turn. Kids love this game and are often better at it than adults. War (WAR-RM) Metlen, Richard D. $0 is similar to and played like the card game of the same name. It is intended mainly for young children. Wari is a strategy (stone-capture) game. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1613 -------------------------------- ------------------------ 1614 Children's Games #2 Small Programs Disk ------------------------ Battle Peters, Scott $5 Try to shoot as many battle ships as you can before the shark gets to you. Arcade fun for the under-6 set. BlockC 1.0 Gordon, Joby W. $5 is a computerized version of the old game "dots". From 2 to 8 people may play, but the computer does not play. Instant Recall (IR-MJH) Himowitz, Michael J. $0 is a memory game that was inspired by the old hand-held game called SIMON. The object is to follow the order in which the computer lights up the four colored squares. The longer you match the pattern, the more selections the computer makes until you reach the limit or miss. A different tone is played on each square. There are four levels of difficulty. Although the colors are nice, the program works fine on monochrome. Match2 is patterned after the old TV game, "Concentration". MicroLink Otra 1.2 (MLOTRA) Lancaster, Bob $5 is an excellent version of the memory game, Simon. In it, players take turns trying to repeat an ever-longer sequence of flashing squares, using the numeric keypad or mouse. We have some other Simon-type games, so normally we would not have added another one, but the quality of Lancaster's games is unsurpassed. They are fun, fast, colorful (while still being usable on mono systems), and well-designed. NunGame Stern, Steven D. $0 is a counting game for 5 year olds. It asks the child to count up the faces on the screen and type the number. CGA-compatible video required. Numtime teaches young children to tell time. Reflexes (REFLEXE) tests your reflexes by having you press the space bar when it says `go'. Saves all the times and shows average times for boys vs. girls. Good for leaving on a computer at grade school and letting everyone try. Written by nine-year-old John Thompson. CGA graphics and BASICA required. Spell Elliott, Alan ASP $20 is a spelling teacher disguised as an Olympic game. Choice of difficulty is allowed from very easy words to difficult words. Words can be added to the extensive list and the length of time the word is viewed can also be altered. The author of this program tells us that it was tested by a fifth grade youngster for several weeks who went on to win her school's spelling bee! Trainman Baird, Chuck $5 is a variation of the game Hangman. A train moves toward a ravine over which the track is out. With each correct letter guessed, the traintrack is built a little longer over the ravine. The object is to get the correct word before the train runs out of track and crashes into the ravine below. BASICA required. Graphics NOT required. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1614 -------------------------------- ABC Paint Aboshanab, Belinda $15 #27709/3290 is an educational computer-aided coloring program for young children. The child is given a picture to color for a letter of the alphabet from A-L. Up to 50 different colors can be used. EGA/VGA and a mouse are required. Also on this disk is READ MY CHIPS (RMC), a number guessing game. Bert's Dinosaurs 3.0 Wierenga, Theron $22-$32 #27709/3920 is coloring program for children. It is also useful for introducing young children to the computer. The child places various dinosaurs on a variety of backgrounds and then colors the picture. Requires VGA and a mouse. Dr. Motes' Colorbook 2.0 Motes, Dr. Andrew ASP $10 #27709/4089 is a coloring program for children. Nine pictures are provided for coloring. The program forces the user to go through the color selection menu after every mouse click, but is otherwise easy to use. Requires EGA and a mouse. Magic Crayon Alive Software $18 #27709/4092 contains three coloring games for children 3 to 12. Coloring Book lets you color in pre-drawn pictures. Color Shading contains hidden shapes to be colored. Color Memory is a memorizing game. Music cards are supported. Requires a mouse and EGA/VGA. Coloring Book 1.4a [CBOOK1] (10-93 CD) Russell Holloway $15 #12524 is a computerized coloring book that includes 10 pictures. You can change the colors in the picture, go to the next or previous pictures, erase the colors in the current picture or restore the original colors of the picture. EGA Coloring Book Swope, David C. $20 #27185/2221 [2 disks] is a coloring book aimed at kids 3 and over. It allows children to use over 500 colors and patterns to color the pictures. Very young children will need adult assistance to use this program. Picture icons are provided for most of the command selections, and you can save the creations of up to five artists. Colored pictures can be saved as PCX files. Pictures can be printed on both black and white and color printers in two different formats. Funny Face II Z-ware $20 #27185/2222 is a computerized version of Mr. Potato-Head, only better. It lets children create heads by selecting from a wide range of hair styles, eyes, ears, mouths, noses, eyebrows and beards. Faces can be colored in, saved in PCX format, recalled and printed out. Support is included for 180 different dot matrix, laser and color printers. The sound can be toggled on and off. It is easy to use and requires CGA or better. A hard disk or high density floppy is required. (The authors can no longer be reached at the address provided in the documentation.) Kid Paint Compass Systems $5-$18 #27185/1813 is an animated, EGA coloring book for very young children with sound and animation. The "paint brush" can be moved with the keyboard, a mouse, or a joystick, but the author recommends the joystick because, he says, "it is more child-proof." The program is guaranteed to delight young children, especially when they see how easy it is to re-color a figure (even plaid colors!) just by repeatedly pressing a key or button. Only two pictures come with the program, but more are available from the author. Action Graphics Just FUN Software $17 #20026/4482 allows you to build things on your screen and animate them. You are given several shapes and colors to choose from to form your own drawings. You just point to the shape and drag it into the drawing area. You can easily move, resize, and color objects. You can set them in motion, either rotating, pulsing, or filled with moving patterns, and more. The program is designed more for amusement than actual CAD work, although simple CAD work is possible with it. Requires VGA, 512K RAM, and a mouse. Crayon Box Kapusta, Philip P. $10 #20026/4553 is a coloring and sketch book, plus a math, counting and color quiz. Over 450 colors and patterns are included for painting nature scenes or drawings created by the child. The math option displays one inch numbers and prompts the child for answers. Ten skill levels are available. The counting and color identification option randomly shows numbered and colored marbles. The child must identify and count the number in each group. Req. EGA+, mouse. Dot2Dot 2.0 (10-93 CD) Nelson, Ken $10 #20026/4176 is a colorful game of dot-to-dot for children. Letters or numbers may be used in the puzzles. After the drawing is complete, it can be colored in on screen. There is very little in the way of documentation with this, but it apparently requires a mouse, EGA/VGA, and a hard disk. Bert's African Animals 3.0 Wierenga, Theron $22-$32 #12279 is a coloring program for children. The child places animals from Africa on a variety of backgrounds and colors the picture. A window is provided for children to write a short story about their picture. The image and story can be printed on a variety of printers, including the DeskJet 500C. Req. 512K, VGA, mouse. Dr. CodeMaster 1.2 Just For Me Software, Inc. ASP $17 #4554 is a "mad scientist versus the world" story combined with a three math puzzles and guessing game. You must prevent the evil Dr. Codemaster from freeze the Earth by breaking the code activating the freeze ray satellite's self-destruct sequence with clues that are provided. Features include photographic images, animation, and sound effects. Requires VGA, hard disk. Kid Fun Jarrett, Eric $13 #4256 is a set of games for kids. It includes ESP, a number guessing game; KIDLIBS, a funny story generator; MATH FUN, a math tutor with sounds and special effects; 8-BALL, a "fortune teller" that answers yes/no questions; and more. ]]]]]