It's summer holiday time and the Adiboo Choo Seaside Adventure CD-ROM invites young children to join Adiboo Choo and his friends in travelling to the seaside for adventure and learning games on the beach. On the golden sands, with a colourful boat moored in the sea, children are encouraged to play and learn with crabs, fish, buckets and spades, and shells. All learning games have seaside themes and are clearly introduced and explained by Adiboo Choo's two fun friends, Pompom and Chipin. To start a game, children simply click on one of the main objects on the beach. When they've clicked on a seashell, children can start to create a simple necklace of attractive shells by dragging and clicking with their mouse buttons. Adding to the realism, these actions will even create small imprints in the sand as they do it, and traditional seaside sounds such as seagulls and waves add to the experience.
All the activities in Adiboo Choo Seaside Adventure are clearly introduced and it is easy to leave a game if you've had enough. Children are encouraged and praised throughout--when fishing you have to put a number of fish in a net and happy smiling fish appear when a task has been successfully completed. Shape and colour recognition and counting skills are taught in a fun way, and a detailed accompanying booklet for parents means they can be assured that basic skills are being taught. Also available: Adiboo Choo Countryside Adventure. --Justin Hunt
