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How the Leopard Got His Spots

Microsoft Home1995

Bring Rudyard Kipling's classic tale to life with animation, sounds, videos, games, and the music of South Africa. More than a story, it's a engaging learning experience that lets you explore the people, animals, music, and art of Africa --or explore Kipling's life and writings. Surprises appear just by clicking your mouse. Click the animals and watch them play a game of ring toss! Keep clicking to bring 15 beautifully illustrated pages to life. Children at all reading levels can build their skills by listening to the story, reading along as Danny Glover narrates, or clicking on any word to hear it pronounced or defined through sound, video, photos, and animation. Discover more just by clicking words in the story. You'll never know what you'll find! Play four enriching, challenging games for hours of fun. You can play alone or with P.J. Rabbit. Choose the Traditional African stone game called Mancala, put together a puzzle, paint the animals with crazy camouflage, or match music. From "Just So Stories" by Rudyard Kipling, author of "The Jungle Book" and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack

Microsoft1995

The Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack (BOMEP) was a collection of thirteen 16-bit simple games sold separately from Windows. It was published in the Microsoft Home series of software. They were selected as the best games from the previously released Microsoft Entertainment Pack series.

Microsoft Golf 2.0

Access Software1995

Microsoft Golf 2.0 (or Multimedia Edition) improved the graphics as well as adding video segments, more voiced samples and sounds for a more interactive experience. The layout of the UI is also changed a bit but the game largerly remained the same.

3D Movie Maker

Microsoft Home1995

Microsoft's 3D Movie Maker allows you to create your own 3D movies. Place your actors and props in the scene, choose actions for them to perform, and add sound effects, speech, music, and text. You can also explore the studio and theater building to find the lost pages of the Talent Book and learn the actors' stories.

Microsoft Dangerous Creatures

Microsoft Home1994

Dangerous Creatures allows the user to investigate animals according to several categories: Atlas (animals by country), Weapons (animals that had teeth, venom, or claws), Guides (related animals), Habitats (animals from a given environment), and Index (an alphabetical list of all animals covered). Animal articles have pictures, descriptions, and video clips. In addition a user can be tested with quizzes on the animals.

MindMaze

Microsoft Home1993

In any pre-2008 version of Microsoft Encarta, press ctrl z to start MindMaze. MindMaze is a built-in quiz shipped with pre-2008 versions of Microsoft Encarta. Players advance through a cursed castle maze, answering questions to move from room to room. The player is transported back in time to break the curse on King Miser the First's castle. The castle consists of several floors, each floor holding 100 rooms in a 10x10 grid. To unlock a door between rooms, the player must correctly answer a multiple-choice, timed trivia questions.

The Ultimate Haunted House

Brooklyn Multimedia1993

The Ultimate Haunted House places the player in the middle of a bizarrely humorous and eerie haunted house populated by Wilson's wacky characters. The player must explore 13 rooms and find 13 hidden keys before 13 hours on the mystery clock run out. Gameplay consists of interacting with the a cast of ghoulish residents who populate the house and move about it, and in collecting and exchanging an inventory of items with them. All of the main characters, as well as the house itself, contain artificial personalities that react to the actions of the player; the moody characters and the opportunity to explore the house in any order creates near-infinite replayability. Dozens of activities and puzzles embedded in the game also have consequences. These activities include a monster assembly lab, monster movies in the screening room, cooking a concoction in the kitchen, composing an organ tune, and other traditional puzzle games adapted to the computer. The game contains many clever voices and the opening tune "Monster Mash". The following is a block of promotion copy for the game: Come join the cast of characters in Gahan Wilson's The Ultimate Haunted House. Enjoy wandering through the 13 mysterious rooms and participating in wacky activities. You will meet weird characters and maybe even make one yourself. Try baking with your favorite disgusting ingredients in the kitchen and visit the dancing cockroaches in the bathroom. Take a break and watch TV or one of the movies. But don't forget to find the 13 keys and escape... or you may be trapped in the house forever! A cast of characters populate the house and make appearances throughout in the game. These include Frankenstein, a vampiress, a two-headed monster, a mad scientist, and a kid (transported there by the mad scientist's lab ray). Gahan Wilson is a ghost in the game, but there are two Gahans: one good, one evil, and deciphering which is which is one of the elements of game play. The thirteen rooms include a menagerie, kitchen, foyer, torture chamber, the monster lab, the screening room, the game room, a library, an attic, a bathroom, a basement hallway, a music room, and an art gallery. There are also a variety of monsters whose interaction with the player is limited to placing curses upon them.

Microsoft Entertainment Pack 4

Microsoft Corporation1992

Designed for Microsoft Windows environment as stress relief for that busy office. Titles include: - Chess - Chip's Challenge - Dr. Black Jack - Go Figure! (mathematics theme) - JezzBall (Qix clone - trap bouncing balls) - Maxwell's Maniac (pong clone) - Tic-Tac-Drop (puzzle game)

Microsoft Golf

Access Software1992

Microsoft Golf is a golf simulation game based on the Links. You have 18 courses you can play. You also have the ability to change to numerous different clubs and type of shots depending on the wind and terrain.

Microsoft Entertainment Pack 2

Microsoft1991

Microsoft Entertainment Pack is a collection of casual games for Windows. This pack includes: – FreeCell – Jigsawed – Pipe Dream – Rattler Race – Rodent's Revenge – Stones – Tut's Tomb – IdleWild (a screensaver program)