First of all I would like to give a big shout out to SonicOlmstead for purging the original review, so I could have an opportunity for a redo, this time I made sure I was at the right game page, so technically this is a bonus review (originally intended to be my review for the day) so without further ado, on with the review.


So the Learning Company had quite the habit of releasing certain games as bundles (Broderbund never did that, Mecc never did that), I still remember the first bundle I got in December of 1999, but that's for another day, today we're talking about what came with adventure workshop. This bundle being the original edition that came with Carmen Sandiego Word Detective, Super Solver's Gizmoes and Gadgets, and Cluefinders Reading Adventures.

So believe it or not this was how I first got to play reading adventures but I won't review the games here because they're good for a separate thread.

The developers however did fix a noticeable problem found in Gizmoes and Gadgets, in the OG CD-rom version Morty Maxwell's mouth kind of goes off the rails after the first paragraph of script he has, it briefly gets fixed in that one but then it goes wild again and in the end of the game he was given new dialogue rather than recycle one of his losing lines after Super Solver defeats him in one of the races. At least I could play this on something Higher than Windows XP considering that I couldn't use the original PC disc on the XP due to Sound Card issues (at least that was the case according to the error message)

Sadly I wish I could say the same for Carmen Sandiego Word Detective, you can't get far in the Adventure workshop release you click on a suspicious icon and well the activity won't open which is a shame. However Word Detective could be playable on Windows XP, all you had to do was set the screen resolution to 480x640 and the colour scheme to 256 colours

Post Review Follow up: Well I'll give the developers credit for making at least one game playable (and giving me access to play Cluefinders Reading Adventures as I had no way to get my hands on it) I'll give it a perfect rating for it's lineup

This concludes my review, come back tomorrow where I will reviewInsaniquarium Atlantis the Lost Empire: Search for the Journal