

Narrated by comedian Howie Mandel, Tuneland gives youngsters a choice of seven rural scenes - a barnyard, a pond, a barn, grandma's house, a train station, a mountain and a pasture, each populated by a variety of magical animals, people and objects.

Tuneland will delight children and entertain parents with 40 beautifully produced children's songs and dozens of animated jokes and gags. A generation later, my kids had a tape of Disney songs that the whole family listened to at least 300 times on car trips, thereby convincing me to buy each of the boys his own Walkman.įor preschoolers of the multimedia age, it may well be "Tuneland - Starring Howie Mandel," an interactive musical cartoon on CD-ROM that runs under Microsoft Windows. It was Bozo the Clown, a five-platter 78 rpm collection as I remember, thereby showing my advanced age. Speaking of kids, when you were really little, did you have a favorite record or tape that you played over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over until it drove your parents absolutely crazy?
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If you buy the full software package (which often includes a written manual) you'll have the original floppy disks should something ever go wrong.įor information, contact Club Kidsoft, 718 University Ave., Suite 112, Los Gatos, Calif. Should your hard disk ever crash, or should you trade in your system for a new one, you'll have to call up the company and get another unlocking code. The copy protection scheme the company uses makes the installation from the CD good only for your particular computer. If you find a title you like, I recommend that you resist the "get it now" temptation and order the entire software package by mail. While it opens the door to dozens of programs your kids may enjoy, a subscription to Club Kidsoft can also pay for itself by alerting you to titles that appeal to you but do nothing for your youngsters. There's also an on-disk catalog, searchable by title, category and age group, with screen shots of each program, a full description and information adults may need about recommended age ranges and hardware requirements.

In addition, each compact disk contains a couple of simple games for the youngsters, a video featuring a couple of young DJ's (actually more of an "infomercial" for computer makers and software publishers) and four audio tracks of music, sound effects and kids' jive talk that you can play on an audio CD player. The Macintosh disk contains 30 demo programs and 42 unlockable titles.

The second issue of Club Kidsoft, released this month, contains 26 demo versions of programs for DOS computers and 30 unlockable software titles. From the CD, the program is transferred to your hard disk.
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If you like a program, you can call Club Kidsoft's 800 number and order it by mail, or in many cases, exchange credit card information for a code number that "unlocks" a full version of the program stored on the CD. A disk-only subscription is $19.95, while the magazine alone is $9.95.
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For $29.95 a year, your kids will get four issues that include a CD-ROM full of tryout software (in Windows or Macintosh flavors) and a slick, colorful magazine full of games, activities, and information about children's programs.
