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| From: The Learning Company
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $2.10
New (4) Used (17) from $0.49
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 7770
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 95
Genre: Childrens Activity Software
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 4.9 x 0.4 x 5.5
Model: MEA3844AE
UPC: 772040775018
EAN: 0772040775018
ASIN: B00000JLB5
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: **No CA Sale** Brand New Factory jewel case. Ship daily via USPS w/FREE delivery confirmation. Platform: W3.1/95, NOT work on MAC by Creative Wonders. Expedited shipping is required for APO address/California Sales.
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Amazon.com Product Description
In Madeline European Adventures solve the mystery of the magic lamp. Use your problem-solving skills to travel. Obtain a passport, earn money and find clues. Madeline European Adventures takes you to France, Italy, Switzerland, and Turkey to emphasize critical thinking skills while having fun.
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 Bon Voyage, Madeline! July 14, 2006
Taran Wanderer (Chicago, IL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Boy, this game was so much fun! It is fun to replay it when it's raining out, there's nothing else to do or when I'm in the mood for adventure! I don't know what is it about this little childrens software that is so involving and somehow realistic, there's a feeling that I've travelled through the real European Continent whenever I come back from playing this game, it is absolutely delightful and one of my favorites!
Madeline had planned to go to camp with other girls that day, but things quickly changed when, under some steps at the Paris Train Station, Madeline spots a magic lamp. She softly touches the lamp and it begins to glow very brightly revealing a genie, who quickly befriends Madeline. Suddenly, a shadowy figure snatches the lamp from Madeline's hands and sets off in a train. Poor Madeline is left with nothing more than a map that the thief had dropped but Genevieve accidently tears it to pieces. After this, Madeline knows she can no longer go to camp, instead, she decides to follow the thief and rescue the genie. Before she leaves Paris, however, Madeline will have to do some searching and finding in order to adquire some things she'll need.
As you play, you'll be able to explore different areas in France, Switzerland, Italy and finally, Turkey, meeting all kinds of interesting and warm characters as you travel. Also part of this enchanting little adventure game are a few sets of activities. Different word games allow a child to learn over one hundred words both in Spanish and French. The game includes pictures of different European landscapes and monuments that you can color and then print out. Finally, the best one, in which you can learn about the location, flag, name and capital of nineteen different countries by doing series of matching, after each one you get right, you'll be told an interesting fact about that country. The graphics, backgrounds and animations are of the same quality as most Madeline products such as the books and the TV series, keeping it more appealing by sticking to a rather simplistic outlook. The music is pleasant and adds a very nice touch to the mood of the story, blending quite nicely with each different situation and place.
This little masterpiece should be checked out by all little children, especially those who may be attached to Madeline and her adventures. I found this game to be delightful and much, much more entertaining and with more replayable value than Madeline and the Magnificent Puppet Show, which was cute, just not as involving. Perfect game, 10/10.
 Preaty good, but Madeline's Cristmas in Texes is SILLY!!!!! August 26, 2005
This game is fun, but there are some complantes. First of all,the game is the same EVERY TIME YOU PLAY EXECT THE POSTCARDS! What I mean by that is the postcards are different every time, but that's only the decorations. It's educational, that's for sure. It taught me about how every countrie has different money(Madeline must trade her money for the native money every place she vists). It also made me ask if Istanble was the capitle of Turkey(It was). I too, am disapointed that this is the only game of it's kind(the only Madeline adveture game), but I don't think they'll ever make a Madeline Cristmas in Texes but they DID go to New York on the show and they use a car or airplane in almost every show. Over all, this game is fun, but I recomend don't buy it unless you have a young child.(Also, what was the the point in Madeline just standing around when sunndenly a bunch of balls bounce around the corrner?) ~Russian Blue Witch
This game has been standard through 2 computers. December 23, 2004
Ook says the Librarian (Canada)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
We first bought this game when our daughter was three and it was great lapware (and that was two computers ago). By the time she was four and a half, she was playing it on her own. Now she's six and still plays it with her younger sister.
An adventure game for kids, with puzzles to solve (that aren't THAT difficult for the tykes) and new places to explore this game is fun for funs sake (there are things to learn, but having fun and figuring out puzzles is the heart of this game). I'm not saying that I don't like the games where you send a character into one room for one kind of activity and another room for another activity (Like Madelines Thinking Games). There's a need for those too, but I think that fun adventure games with less 'structure' are also needed, and European Adventures is a great one.
The interface is well designed, the software doesn't glitch out this game is reliable. I don't know what it is with lapware and educational games, but I seem to often have problems with them, despite having a system more powerful than what's needed. On our old Win95 right through to our current WinME machine (with a Win98 in between) we haven't had any problems with this game (except when the CD was scratched, but we had backed it up).
My only complaint is that there isn't another game like it. The other Madeline software isn't as 'free-flowing'. I wish they'd put out a "Madeline's Christmas in Texas Adventure" or something. In the interim, I can see the older daughter getting a little bored of this game, but the younger one is doing quite well with it. This game is going into its fourth year in our house, and that's not bad.
0ok
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