The folks at Headbone Interactive are back again with their refreshingly original approach to kids' software. Like its predecessor, AlphaBonk Farm, this imaginative CD-ROM is part exploration and part escapade, topped with visual pizzazz and loads of silly fun.
This time the action moves to Pantsylvania, home of the Fancypants and their befuddled leader, Kingamajig. Kids can visit 10 different locations in this wacky world - the factory, Symfunny Hall, Kid U., the House of Beauty, the hub of Pantsportation, and more - all with plenty of songs, rhymes, stories, and games. At the Pants Factory, for example, kids can learn fun facts about famous inventions like the wheel or the computer. They can hunt for hidden numbers in the machine shop. Or they can run the See'em-Hear'em-Move'em-izer, a wild invention that lets kids select attributes to transform the ordinary ( cats or hedgehogs, for example) into the extraordinary (like a glow-in-the-dark cat that meows like an electric guitar and moves like a rocket ship).
Parents will be pleased to know that amid all this madcap fun, kids are learning, too. Pantsylvania provides up-close, hands-on (and humorous) experience with places like schools, factories, restaurants, and parks and their related cultural and social functions.
