Review
The Walkabout series focuses on children's ability to recognize shapes, sounds, and wild life vocabulary. There are three activities set up.

a.       Wander around a museum looking for parts to a fossil assembly. In the first room you must cursor over a picture to first find the animal, and then guess which voice the animal uses. The choices are visual hints themselves, as they’re shaped like the animal you need to select. Once you have identified enough animals, the bone becomes available and you can drag it to the box.

b.       The second room you must take a photo of the correct animal as the pop in and out. Once you have identified enough animals, the bone becomes available and you can drag it to the box, and then move on to the next set.

c.        The third room has you playing three different mini games to acquire the last few bone pieces. Each game is based around a Memory board similar to the old game show Classic Concentration.

The game moves at a fairly fast pace, and there's quite a few things to do around the rooms. Small animations play with each correct choice you make. 

• The 1999 series of Lightspan releases are the most abundant, as well as the most chaotic when it came to variations. Besides the manual reprints, there were also Spanish manuals printed for that entire series. Below is the Spanish manual (left) next to the regular two manuals for comparisons. As far as we know, there is no Spanish Language discs.

• Lightspan went all out for several of their characters, including giving Mars Moose his own universe of characters, theme song, and cartoon opening animation. The opening can be optionally viewed on all three Walkabout CDs.

Also of interest is what appears to be an original manual back from when they were experimenting with jewel cases. All jewel cases in our possession are just printed inserts, not real manuals. This featured booklet is the only one of its kind we've seen, and may have been from the original early 1996 print runs, or possibly just a temporary solution before Lightspan went with the more universal look, as seen above.

The manuals also went through some minor layout changes.