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WINNIE
THE POOH IN THE HUNDRED-ACRE WOOD
US Gold/Sierra, £12.95 disk only
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Winnie
the Pooh in the Hundred-Acre Wood, the second of
the US Gold/Walt Disney/Sierra products, is another
jolly game boasting super graphics that's fun to play
and of possibly dubious educational value, unless you
regard lines like, 'This is Rabbit's Kitchen. It's
full of vegetables -- no wonder he's so healthy!'
as being educational! It's a simplified adventure game
that concentrates on teaching children of 8 or over
to think logically, develops their mapping and reading
skills and lets them have a bit of fun in the process.
Each
character in Hundred Acre Wood lost an important belonging
when a blustery wind came up and blew them everywhere.
It's up to you to find things like Owl's books of poetry
and Pooh's honey pot, and return it to its rightful
owner. The objects are placed randomly each time a new
game is played, which adds greater holding power to
the stories. Input has been made as easy as possible
by numbering the several text options available, and
the beautifully drawn pictures are speedily accessed
from disk for each one. An added bonus is the typically
Milnesque sense of dry humour used in the text.
The
US Gold/Wall Disney/Sierra line up promises releases
soon of Mickey's Space Adventure and Goofy's
Word Factory, featuring the famous characters in
an adventure game and a sentence construction/arcade
game respectively.
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