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Ms. Frizzle takes her class, and Arnold's cousin, Janet, on a field trip to the planetarium. But it turns out to instead be a field trip up into outer space to explore the solar system. However, after blasting off, Ms. Frizzle goes missing after the bus gets hit by a meteor shower. She then contacts her class and tells them how to find her. They'll have to play the games on the planets and moons and win tokens. For each token they find, she will give them a clue. After getting three, the player will have to try to guess which planet or moon she's on.

he Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System is the first installment in The Magic School Bus series of PC games.

The Magic School Bus video game series (both original titles and activity centers) are targeted for children ages 5-10.

From Wikipedia:

The Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System

This game is based on both the book The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System and episode "The Magic School Bus Gets Lost in Space". The user can fly the bus to any planet he or she chooses and play experiments and click on things there. To win the game, the user has to discover the whereabouts of Ms. Frizzle. To do so they have to play a "whatsit" game to earn a token (for a total of three missing tokens in order to find Ms. Frizzle) which gives them a clue as to which planet Ms. Frizzle is on. Once Ms. Frizzle is found, the bus will return to the classroom and the game begins again. All nine planets, plus the moon can be visited. When the gas giants are visited, the bus lands on one of their moons. The game was one of the chosen few "highly visual scholastic programs" in the Citrus Country library System's new youth CD-ROM station in 1997. The Spokesman-Review deemed it a "fact-and-fun filled ride".

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

- A Multimedia PC or compatible with a 486/25 or higher microprocessor.

- 4 MB of RAM (8 MB recommended for better performance).

- 6 MB of free hard disk space.

- Double-speed CD-ROM: The CD-ROM drive can transfer data from the CD-ROM at 300 KB per second while using less than 40% of the CPU bandwidth and has an average seek time of less than 400 milliseconds.

- MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions (MSCDEX) version 2.2 or later. Check the documentation that came with your CD-ROM drive.

- Super VGA display capable of displaying 256 colors at 640 x 480 resolution. "Scholastic's The Magic School Bus Explores The Ocean" requires a display driver and monitor capable of displaying 256 colors with a color palette in Windows. Using more than 256 colors may affect performance. A local bus video card is recommended.

- MS-DOS operating system version 5.0 or later.

- Microsoft Windows version 3.1 or later.

- Windows compatible sound card, such as:
- Ability to play CD audio through sound card.
- Speakers or headphones.

- Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device.

From the front of the Cds:

Scholastic’s
The Magic School Bus
Explores the Solar System

Microsoft Windows Compatible

Microsoft Home

Part No. 59090OEM

© & ℗ 1994 Microsoft Corporation.

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