There are also 13 bonus levels for accomplished players. For younger children, ages four to eight, there's Disney's Activity Center, Tarzan. It's packed with less frantic computer game play, incorporating educational components like the Jungle Journal, a story-making application that comes with a secret code and online functions so kids can choose to share or keep their writings to themselves. Journal entries can be dressed up with background scenes from the movie they color themselves and pictures, so kids can personalise their storytelling and print it. The Trash the Camp musical game is surefire fun, mixing learning with play as kids click on Terk and other apes to compose music in a campsite cluttered with gear.
Different items make different sounds and can be set to play in a wide variety of combinations.
There are pots and pans to bang with kitchen utensils, brooms, barrels and other luggage to pound on, a croquet mallet and ball for additional percussion and a host of other neat-sounding stuff. Rounding it out, Terk will smash plates on her head to simulate a cymbal crash. The program records the compositions children come up with and can print them out on song sheets, accompanied by lyrics kids make to go with tunes. A third title, Disney's Print Studio, Tarzan, isn't a game but will still thrill kids who love to make things on the computer and print them. We welcome your feedback.