Wishbone Activity Zone
Reviewed by Cynthia A. Sorrels
Published by Palladium Interactive

Age Group: Age 8 and Up Type: Thinking Games Price: $ 34.95

Description:

Wishbone Activity Zone is a series of games, stories and puzzles, along with video clips from the TV show and online games.

Features:

• Monster Factory: Plays like "Wheel of Fortune" game. You guess the word.
• Plot Puzzles & Twisted Tails - the only original game in this endeavor.
• Robin Hood's Merry Match - a strategy game for 1 or 2 players.
• Prop Master - Find the missing props and figure out where they go.
• Hatbox Hop - a "Q*bert game with Wishbone.
• Monster Maze - a maze with monsters you need to navigate.
• Tom Sawyer's River Ride - really lame, you only move side to side and don't move up the river at all!

Reactions: Oh, I know there are lots of Wishbone fans out there! Me, too. Unfortunately, this title isn't up to snuff. The games are a mish-mash of old games adapted to a Wishbone theme - Plot Puzzles is the only thing we saw that's remotely interesting. Prop Master should be fun, but the props don't go in any logical place and there are no hints or tips to figure it out - you move the cursor around on each page until it turns into a pawprint, then click, and you get one of the props. In Monster Maze, you only have light in a very small area, so the monsters grab Wishbone before you see them. We've come to expect more from Wishbone!

But there are online games, right? Got me! I logged on in an attempt to save this miserable review, and while the pages loaded v-e-r-y slowly, once they were up, the game area was empty. Yep, I'm running Netscape 3.0 with all the plug-ins, so it should've had something. In fact, it was a temptation to give this one a JUNK award, except that there are a few die-hard Wishbone fans who may like it. You know who you are!

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