Winter or summer, rain or shine, players can get a shot of electronic-sports action with Barbie Super Sports, which lets girls try out two sports-snowboarding and in-line skating. Young athletes will enjoy slamming snowmen and setting spinning gates awhirl as they negotiate obstacles, navigate slalom courses and, of course, fly over jumps of varying difficulty. Both sports activities start in the same way: players receive a minimal budget of points for clothes and equipment before they hit the available courses. They rack up more points by making jumps and performing other smooth moves. These points can then be spent on better snowboards or skates, ones capable of performing even more stunts. Aimed at less computer-experienced girls around five-years-old, the courses provide lots of action but comparatively few challenges. Super Sports is fun, but there is nothing here that is especially difficult. Super Sports has a few technical problems-it crashes easily and often, and there are places on the ski hills where it is easy to get hung up if you fall, making it impossible to continue. The courses themselves are too few in number and too narrow in their range of difficulty, making play repetitive. The lack of variety in the courses also means it is easy to get the higher-cost snowboards and skates. [+]

Let your child escape into a fairytale world courtesy of the Barbie As Princess Bride CD-ROM, and help Princess Bride Barbie prepare for her magical wedding day. Prince Ken has had to undertake a long journey and while he is away, Princess Barbie dreams of her wedding day and waits for Prince Ken's return. Barbie is helped by Butterfly Fairy, in her preparations for the wedding. Invite the guests, make and decorate the cake, sing love songs, retrieve items from the well, conduct the orchestra, help Prince Ken to sail home, design the wedding dress and photographs and many more exciting fairytale activities. The game can be played in two modes: the first plays the adventure from start to finish in "Story Mode", and the second, "Magic Mirror Mode", allows players to complete the activities in any order. The CD-ROM is accompanied by an excellent booklet, which should be read before beginning. It is very easy to follow and it uses simple language and visual clues. Particularly useful are the helpful tips for troubleshooting if problems arise. The music of Barbie as Princess Bride can be played on any audio CD player by starting with track two. The manufacturer's recommended age is 4 years and above, but help will certainly be required at the lower end of the age range. [+]

Adiboo The Mysterious Music Machine imaginatively introduces children aged 4-7 years to musical instruments and sounds. Adiboo and his pals arrive in a strange world and are surprised to discover a bee that doesn't buzz but sounds like a horn. After a short boat trip they find a bird that imitates a helicopter and a leaf that explodes. They have arrived in the land of the mysterious music machine. In a conversation with Adiboo, the sad music machine admits he's feeling miserable because he has lost his sounds, the unusually named zicabongs, and as a result all the inhabitants of the land have started to make strange noises. The aim of the game is to help Adiboo bring back all the zicabongs to the music machine so he can play his tune again and restore the proper sounds to the land around him. Children are encouraged to find their way around the colourful and imaginative land and carry out various tasks before they can successfully retrieve the zicabongs. In one of the challenges, you have to drag a singing shell through a set of pipes that play different noises; and in another you have to assemble an animal band who play different instruments. Games can be set at different levels and there is a booklet to guide you. Children will learn how to put low and high sounds in the right order; how to distinguish between rising and falling sounds and they are encouraged to detect the tones of instruments which are being played at the same time. [+]