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= MSB Dinosaurs: How to Play the Games =

Article ID: 154341

Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005

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 * Scholastic's The Magic School Bus Explores in the Age of Dinosaurs

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SUMMARY
This article discusses how to play the games included with Magic School Bus Explores in the Age of Dinosaurs (MSB Dinosaurs).

Meteor Meltdown - Jurassic COLORADO
The object of the game is to eat as many plants on the face of the volcano as possible while avoiding the rising and falling floodwater and the falling meteors. You use the arrow keys to move your dinosaur from side to side and up and down. You can choose to be one of two players: Stegosaurus or Hypsilophodon. You receive PaleoCards for completing levels. There is a high score table presented at the conclusion of the game.

Nest Watch Game - Cretaceous MONGOLIA
The goal of this arcade-style game is to protect a dinosaur nest from egg-stealing predators. Click on the oncoming predators with the cursor, and the mother dinosaur will prevent the predators from reaching the young dinosaurs and the nest. You win PaleoCards as you successfully progress through the levels and protect the nest. A high score table is displayed at the end of the game.

Marathon - Jurassic TANZANIA
This is an arcade-style game in which the player controls a running dinosaur that is being chased by a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The goal is to avoid the various obstacles using the arrow keys and keep running until you reach the finish line. You complete a level by crossing the finish line without stumbling too many times and being caught by the hungry Tyrannosaurus Rex. As you advance to each new level, you must run farther to reach the finish line.

Dino Madness - Triassic ARGENTINA
This is a board game. The object of this game is to make it to the end of the trail before your opponent. You progress along the trail by solving the challenges along the way. Play begins by clicking on the dice in the center of the screen. You move ahead the number of spaces indicated on the dice by correctly answering the question you are presented with. You can choose to play a single player game, in which case you compete against Liz, or you can choose a two-player game and compete against another person.

Skeleton Puzzle - Triassic ARGENTINA
In this game, you are given the silhouette of a dinosaur and several puzzle pieces. The puzzle pieces consist of bones and sections of the skeleton. You must put them in their correct places. When the skeleton is completed properly, it is colored-in so that you can see a picture of the dinosaur. After completing each puzzle, you are presented with another skeleton that needs to be assembled. The order of the puzzles goes from Triassic dinosaurs to Cretaceous dinosaurs. You win a PaleoCard each time you successfully complete a puzzle.

Foot Print Puzzle - Jurassic TANZANIA
The object of this game is to assemble the pieces of a puzzle so that they form a picture of prehistoric ground with various dinosaur footprints on it. Click on the arrow keys at the bottom of the screen to scroll through the various pieces of the puzzle. When the puzzle is assembled correctly, dinosaurs walk across the screen, stepping in the footprints, and you receive a PaleoCard.

Name Game - Cretaceous MONGOLIA
The object of this game is to arrange colored stones, each of which has a distinctive sound associated with it, so that the stones form the pronunciation of the dinosaur at the top of the screen. You must place each one of the colored stones in a different depression. Once you have placed the stones, you click on the button that has a mouth on it. The sounds of the stones are pronounced in the order in which they are arranged in the depressions. You must rearrange the stones until the pronunciation of the name of the dinosaur is correct. After the name is correctly pronounced, you are told the meaning of the dinosaur name while a small animation of the dinosaur is played.

Dino-Sizer - Triassic ARIZONA
The object of this game is to match the size of certain dinosaurs with ordinary objects. A picture of an object is placed on the screen, and you are asked to click on the dinosaur that is the same size as the object. When you click on the correct dinosaur, the dinosaur walks up to the object to demonstrate that it was nearly the same size or height.



MORE INFORMATION
You can run the games from the different geographic locations within the game, or run them from the back of the bus. You can cycle through the games by clicking the red slot machine handle that is attached to the device on the far left wall of the back of the bus.

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