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Excellent game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: January 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Zoombinins Mountain Rescue may not be quite as good as the original title, only because it is a bit more challenging, but it is still an excellent game..far, far better than most games out there! We own the original game, and sure, it is easy to get attached to it. The truth is, this new game is enormously educational and worth every penny. The graphics are better, but that's not as important as the fact that the logic puzzles are just as outstanding if not better than the original. This game is better for kids about 9 and up, while the original one could be played by kids a bit younger.

Disappointed Mac Owner

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 21
Date: October 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Don't order this if you own a Mac. It's for Windows only! I was so disappointed because my daughters and I liked the first Zoombinis so well. We've had it for about 5 years, and we still get it out and play with it. I couldn't decided whether to give this new one 1 star or 5, because if it's as good as the first one, and as good as the box made it look, I'm sure it's excellent. Mac owners need to find a way to show software companies that we will provide them with enough business so they can afford to develop these good programs for us too!

Be Careful!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 17
Date: June 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

We have other Zoombini games and love them but can't even use this one. We purchased a brand new computer with a pretty advanced system yet we can't play this game and it was a waste of a purchase.

After 40 minutes on the phone with Dell and being assured we had the most up to date Video Card, Sound Card and Cd-Rom drive we are still unable to install this game. We have had no help from the company's tech support either. Unless you are an expert in Video Card Drivers and can get past the "UNABLE TO SET VIDEO MODE" error message that we got I'd be careful in purchasing this one.

Zoombinis Mountian Rescue!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 14
Date: July 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Zoombinis Mountian Rescue is a great game filled with tons of logic puzzles. Your goal is to fill up the boolie figure with boolies, and then the mayor will come back. You get to create your own Zoombinis, or have them made by the computer. You won't be wasting your money when you buy it! ( It makes a great gift by the way)

zoombinis mountain rescue

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: January 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

My children loved Zoombinis 1, and were delighted to find Mountain Rescue in their Christmas Stocking. What a disappointment. After three weeks of trying we have only been able to get as far as the title page when the program crashes and we have to press the "reset" button and restart the computer. Communication with Broderbund/Learning Co has proved unhelpful as so far they have only come up with the standard advice of update drivers, delete temporary files, close down unnecessary programs etc. Three weeks after Christmas Day my children have still been unable to play with their present. A big thumbs-down so far, I'm afraid. I would be interested to hear if anyone else has had the same problem - particularly is they have managed to resolve it!

Update - it's now April - nearly four months after Christmas - and we have got no further with playing this. Other friends have tried it on their PC's with the same results. Borrow it first, before spending your money!

Nearly the end of August now - and still trying. Keep visiting support to see if any patches come out (they haven't) and updating drivers to see if that makes any difference (it hasn't).

An excellent software. I recommend this!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This software has many brain-using games, and they are really fun!
There is a story about the Zoombinis so I would recommend you to buy
"The Logical journey" first as it is the first of the story. But,there is a problem. I have two computers, one is XP, and the other is Windows 98. When I tried to use this game and the "The logical journey" on my XP,it didn't work. But on the 98 one, it worked! So well, if you have a XP edition...
But,(here's another but !)XP users don't be disappointed. There is another software named "Island Odyessy" that you can use.
Otherwise, everything is ok. I would say it has been a lot of trouble keeping away from my computer when I have this software running. So be careful parents and everyone, because your child or you will be stuck to the computer and the parents WILL have to drag your child away from the computer. :) All of the software is games, but I think it will be good for the children AND adults because it keeps your hard brain become soft.
Also, it might improve slow minds too.(I myself am a very slow person.:)
I hope this will be a great help to you.

Not on a Mac

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: August 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Despite being advertised as running on Mac the Cd supplied has only PC files on it. The company website states that support is no longer offered on this product. A pity as my kids loved the first Zoombinis.

fun logical the best!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I love to play the game. It is really entertaining and I never get bored playing far too many times. I would rate it more than five stars if I could. Zoombini Abloopa highly recommends all kids play the game and commands all kids to love zoombinis. (Zoombini Abloopa is the great king of zoombinis after the game happened.) One more thing. The kids at my school tease me that Zoombinis are really bad and stuff, but I think that the Learning Company gets sad because after all that work and trouble, to make the game they still say bad things. Thats all

Disapointed

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First of all this software is okay. Unlike the 1st one I easly conquered all the levels in just 10 hours or about 10 playing days. It's still fun, but after you win the game it starts to get a little lame. Although I didn't have any loading problems the screen froze once. The graphics were good and the games were exiting at first. Overall if its on sale you might as well buy it.

ZZZZZZZ What A Bore

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 14
Date: June 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Zoombinis Mountain Rescue was really,really boring. I have played the first on and it took me like 2-3 years to work on it. (only because 1) I didn't play it all the time and 2) I always wanted my dad to help me) ok now we are at a new type of adventure. I had to admit it was sort of enteraning at first then it got just plain boring. I was able to finish it in maybe and hour to an hour and a half and the worst part is you don't have to use all 635 (or something like that Zoombinis) you just need about 180. So I would not recomend this for somebody who want a chanllege, but if you want something fairly easy stick with this. If you want a chanllege take the oringal Zoonbini Adventure.

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