Menus of verbs, nouns, and prepositions are available to help build commands. This handy feature prevents the player from using words the game doesn t understand, and permits the mouse savvy to play with little or no keyboarding. These are not true graphical adventures. The pictures help the player to visualize his surroundings and sometimes provide mouse shortcuts. The remaining games utilize VGA graphics and look quite nice.
Later games add a much needed menu system for conversations.
The games also have a few minor problems with Windows '95 . Every so often, Windows likes to halt the games with ominous sounding incompatibility warnings. As the online documentation suggests, the warnings seem to be the product of a paranoid operating system s imagination, and can safely be ignored. Screens like this swamp trek interface add some variety to later games. All the games employ a bit of MIDI-like music for atmosphere or the occasional joke.