## Description
_Ultimate Educational And Fun Kids CD!!: Hundreds of titles on 1 CD_ is a UK
home made compilation of shareware, freeware and demo games and Windows
desktop files that was sold in the UK probably at car boot sales and on-line
though this cannot be verified. The CD cost £3 and came in a plastic wallet
with a wraparound paper cover.
The CD contains two folders _The Content Folder_ and _The Extras Folder_ and
has no top-level menu to guide the user.
* The Content Folder. This is where the games are, they are grouped by category, each game is in a separate folder which contains all the files needed to install it and a ‘Readme.txt’ file. All the games are either freeware or demo versions and are generally WIN 3.x or WIN 95 games, there are no DOS games. The categories are;
* Art and Craft: Twenty four programs most of which are about drawing or colouring in, among them are Sean’s Magic Slate and Wonkarific Colorizer
* Blue’s Clues: _Blue’s Clues_ is a US television series for preschool children. The thirty-one games here come from Seasons One, Two and Three.
* For Parents and Teachers: Thirteen programs ranging from a crosswords game – CrosswordPlus; a word-search generator _Word Search Factory_ to kid-safe browsers and teacher aids
* For The Very Young: These are games that are suitable if you must let the very young play on your computer, they include Banger V1.0 which makes noises whenever a key is pressed and the BiggieBoy Garage Door Simulator.
* Just For Fun: Twenty two game folders containing such goodies as _The Absolutely Useless Noise Making Program_ which, as it says just makes funny noises; _Crying Screaming Baby_ \- give it toys, give it milk and it will be quiet … just not for very long; Roadskunk from Nickelodeon in which you hunt the skunk; Virtual Dragon in which the player raises a dragon from an egg.
* Letters and Words: Twelve word based games including Acorn Arcade \- a word/picture recognition game, the _Secret Squirrel Decoder_ which encrypts and decrypts messages, the Superman Activity Center: Hidden Profiles word search game
* Memory: Seven games including Bongo-Mania \- A promotion for Disney’s George of the Jungle; Lucky Charms Memory Machine; and Nicktoons Memory Challenge
* Numbers: Seven maths programs, six of which are games while the seventh is a calculator that works out how much you’d weigh on any planet in the system. Among the games in this section are Penny Penguin’s Math Bingo and Counting On Frank: Magic Numbers Game
* Other Games: A further twenty eight games including freeware games featuring well known cartoon characters such as
* Animorphs – The Yeerk Pool
* Casper the Friendly Ghost – Casper’s Treasure Hunt
* Tinkerbell – “Fly Tink, Fly
* and others as well as games such as Splatberry Pie and Pop a Penguin
* The Extras Folder contains a menu that opens in a browser window, the four sections of the menu are:
* Email Stationary: One hundred and eleven ways to tweak e-mail messages, all in .eml format with subjects ranging from angels singing to _Wallace and Gromit_
* Backdrops: Over one hundred wallpaper pictures all in .jpg format
* Desktop Themes: There are three links on this page;
* The first link opens a browser window showing the Themes folder on the CD, all of which are child oriented. The user has to select and copy this folder.
* The second link opens the Program Files folder on the user’s computer, this is where the user pastes the Themes folder
* The third link installs _Desktop Architect_ \- free software used to install the desktop themes.
* Printables: This link opens an index of the CD’s folder in a browser window from which the user can choose from over three hundred .gif files to print, the subjects range from Barbie and Bambi to witches and Yosemite Sam.
Ultimate Educational and Fun Kids CD!!: Hundreds of titles – 1 CD