The Games Domain
http://www.gamesdomain.co.uk

A favourite with kids of all ages, with its game reviews, previews and patches. It also has great links to dozens of games pages from arcade, board games and chess to Warcraft, Warhammer and Warlords.

Happy Puppy Games On-Ramp
http://happypuppy.com/games

Offers top 10 games on the Net, demos, shareware games to download, and multiplayer and networkable games for kids to play across town.

K5 Educational Software Gopher
gopher://gopher.well.sf.ca.us:70/00/education/k-5.software

It may have less pizzaz than others, but this Gopher site on suitable educational software is a gem. It offers alternative assessments from professionals about many of the products discussed here.

MVP Educational Shareware
http://www.mvpsoft.com/

Another shareware site, this has some excellent products. Includes action and adventure games.

Children's Software Archive
http://qv3pluto.leidenuniv.nl/steve/reviews/archives.htm

This is a list of Internet archive sites and/or indexes that include children's software.

Diskovery Educational Systems
http://www.diskovery.com/Diskovery

Claims to offer affordable software to over 2,000 educational customers throughout the US. It looks a promising outlet for edutainment products. A particular gem is its CD-ROM by publisher listing. It includes listings for Broderbund, Compton's New Media, The Voyager Company and Grolier, for example.

SoftInfo
http://www.icp.com/softinfo

Trying to track an elusive product? SoftInfo, the ICP Software Information Center, claims to have the largest data base of software information in the world online 24 hours per day. It describes in detail more than 16,500 software products and over 4,500 suppliers from the world over. SoftInfo contains textual software product descriptions, company and contact information, an intuitive search facility, and direct links to their vendors' home pages when available.

The Children's Software Company
http://www.childsoft.com/childsoft

One of the better organised commercial sites, but based in the US. It includes a software guide and catalog, What's New (Specials) and a subscription to an electronic newsletter. It also encourages voting for the best children's software.

The EdRev Page
http://www.echidnahouse.com.au/

An independent, educational software review service from Echidna House for teachers, librarians, parents and resellers, specialising in CD-ROM software reviews. The Australian-based service offers reviews by subscription.

Children's Software Reviews
http://qv3pluto.leidenuniv.nl/steve/reviews/welcome.htm

This collection of Web documents is intended as a repository for volunteer reviews of children's software produced by the users of the newsgroup misc.kids.computer.

The Children's Software Company's catalogue index
http://www.childsoft.com/childsoft?index@45601nlhc

A gateway to a large range of non-attributed but informative reviews of edutainment programs.

School PC Australia
http://schoolpc.acp.com.au

Soon to be launched at the above URL, our Web site will contain all of Linda Bruce's reviews published in Australian PC User, categorised and updated monthly, plus the latest education news, case studies and more for anyone interested in using computers in the education of school-age students.

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