Science Reviews

I bought this for my son's third birthday. He's already an avid entomologist. The larvae arrived just as expected already shedding its skin, which each one did multiple times. It was fascinating for my husband and me as well. The three of us found ourselves glued together watching these amazing creatures as the larvae shed it's final skin and entered the pupa stage. Several days after the fully-formed ladybugs emerged (they were yellow at first), we set them free into our back yard. They have a distinct appearance which is slightly different than the ladybugs we're accustomed to seeing around here. Therefore we have been able to easily identify them when we come across them in our yard.

We received about 14 or 15 ladybug larvae and all survived to become ladybugs except for one, which I consider to be pretty impressive. The container was especially effective because my son was not able (or tempted) to manhandle to ladybugs, yet it was easy to keep the water filled with the specially designed lid and water tube. We had an excellent view of all the events taking place inside. I would recommend purchasing books to go along with this. We had four different simple books relying upon excellent photographs and easy-to-understand descriptions. This heightened my son's (and our) anticipation and helped us to better understand what was happening.

I can honestly say that this has been well-worth the price we paid for it. Soon we're going to get a refill kit of ladybug larvae and begin anew.

My 3-year old absolutely LOVES ladybugs, and this item was a big hit with her. We kept it on the kitchen counter, near where we eat, and the ladybugs and their activities were always a popular dinner conversation topic! When the weather turned warm enough, we released the ladybugs in our yard and watched each and every one of them spread their wings and fly away. I am sure we will order additional larvae and do it all over again. The product is sturdy (we just had to remind our daughter not to jostle or try to lift the dome) and makes it easy to achieve successful results. A very fun and experience for the entire family!!

My 4 year old daughter is a ladybug nut. We got this for Christmas and sent away for our larvae which come in a tube in the mail with all the food they need. Even the adults were fascinated watching the larvae turn to pupa and then to ladybugs. The customer service was very helpful when we called because our bugs stopped doing anything. They told us the bugs were "dormant" because it was too cold in my daughters room. We moved them to a warmer spot and within 30 minutes had ladybugs!! Definitely worth the cost. It is clean and sturdy thank goodness! Although the inside does get slightly messy (of course). We loved it.

In this game, you are Ulysses, an astronaut whose ship crashes on a foreign, yet seemingly familiar planet. Not long after crashing, you are hunted down by gorillas and put in a prison. Your mission is to escape and find out exactly what is the secret of the planet of the apes. The game is more like the original PLANET OF THE APES movie than the Tim Burton remake, (though the apes look more like Burton's apes).

I have heard other gamers complain that this game is too much like other games (e.g. Tomb Raider). Seeing that this was one of the first games I have bought since buying my new system, I really have nothing to compare it with.

I really enjoyed playing the game. I found the story interesting and wasn't phased at all by the "outdated" graphics. The game does only let you save after completing a level. However, though I found this feature rather frustrating at times, it also made the game more challenging and difficult to beat. This isn't a blow-em-up action game. Instead, it is more of a physical boxing match interspaced with various quests.

Recommended for basic gamers and any fans of Planet of the Apes.

Nice graphics and interesting gameplay make this title a value priced winner!!! Provided many hours of interesting gameplay, including puzzle and combat---with big hairy apes none the less. Analog compatible. Very good value. Would highly recommend.

This is by far the best game Ubi Soft has come out with. Other games like Gunfighter and Largo Winch don't even come close to being as good as Planet of the Apes. The graphics are as good as they get on playstation, even better than c-12 final resistance. It's hard to beleive that a brand new playstation game that is so good sells for so cheap. Go get it now!!!!!

Something that the other reviewers fail to mention is that this game is hard. A drunken Stone Cold Steve Austin hard. Level one (of 64) took me about an hour to complete! The enemy AI is so aggressive that any attempts to attack their base is met with extreme prejudice, and simply trying to kill one enemy soldier is an enormous task. Something that bothered me was that in multiplayer mode, the two (or 3/4) opposing teams begin right beside each other unlike, say, Starcraft where you can assemble an army hidden away and then send them out to attack. The temptation to start a melee from the offset just turns into a mindless bloodbath. Another point worth making is that your little Tic-Tac shaped combatants swear like sailors. People from the U.S. may not be able to decipher the broad Glaswegian and Geordie accents turning the air blue with comments. I certainly can and personally I think it adds to the game no end. Just note that despite its cartoonish appearance, it may offend your granny. So if you don't have a lot of patience, or if you have an extensive game collection, you might tire of Team Buddies due to it's merciless difficulty.

This game is awesome. I only have the demo, and i already like it!!! The object is to build things by crates, like teammates,weapons, and other cool stuff. If you're looking for a really good action game, you just found one.

if you like adventure one player mode or 2 player mode this is the game for you. you can make bazokas ozis shotguns tanks. all sort of stuff i am telling you you should definetly consider buying this game. it may look chep but you are getting more then you paied for. it is a really good game.

I bought this game and love it I have played it thriugh entirely at least like 10 times. You have 3 ships all have special powers (i suggest the 3rd one it's my favorite) and you can earn a forth one. Once you beat all of the missions you get the original asteroids and a new ship. I highly recommend this game.

This is a new cartridge for an old game. This means if you don't like original Asteroids, you'll not like this one too. But if you've fighted in a wireframe universe for years you cannot miss this one. Many new hazards and enemies will cross your way, ready to be blasted out! There are five space systems to fight in, three ships (four, if you're good enough to win the last one) each with its special defense, the original game hidden (not very well) somewhere and passwords to keep progress made. So what you're waiting for?

This is a really good game. You have 3 ships to choose from, each with their own special things that they can do. The only thing that I think is bad is that the last zone is way too easy, and the fact that when you play in expert you don't get any special weapons. But the graphics are great and the whole storyline and gameplay is really cool. This is a great game.

First of all, from all of the Batman games out on the gameboy this is among the best. The graphics are great and sound is good. The music is catchy but after a while tends to get on your nerves. The in game sound is great and the gameplay is great too. You face super-villains like the joker, mr. freeze, poison ivy etc all led by Two face whom you face at the end as he showers bullets on you with the aid of an helicopter. You get to play as Batgirl too. If you are looking for a good action title and also are a great fan of Batman, then this game should definately be on you list. Try it, you'll not be disappointed.
OVERALL
GRAPHICS-5/5
SOUND-3/5
GAMPELAY-4/5

The product description you see on this page is for the BATMAN BEYOND GameBoy cartridge. BATMAN: CHAOS IN GOTHAM gives game players the opportunity to drive Batman's vehicles, employ his weapons, and also direct both Batman and Batgirl in adventures against major adversaries like the Joker, Two-Face, and Poison Ivy. More than just a modest scroller, this game will entertain you for a long time (and game play is challenging, too). To top it off, the graphics have been inspired by the excellent Dini-designed animated Batman of the mid-late 90s. If this gave had a rumble pack with it (like that on the SW: POD RACERS game), it would be perfect.

Is it just me or is this game really Batman Beyond inside a Batman Chaos in Gotham box, this review was not meant to help anyone, I've never played the game.

What we have is a game worth buying. It has good graphics, the futuristic vs medieval vs monsters works, and watching armies clashing on the battlefield is a great site to see. Let me tell you though, there is little or no support , nobody plays online, no storyline, and the campaign missions are the same. Although this game is pretty much dead, it's worth the $.

This game is another starcraft clone. That said it's a very good one. The races have at least as much variety as starcraft's and they all have more units. The graphics are good and the sound is great. If you like starcraft then you'll probably like this game to. It is easy to see how it got a mature rateing. Blood stains the battle field and the screams of defeated units fill the air as huge, great looking armies tear in to one another. A great addition to it's genre over all.

This is a very fun game. I love the fact that the sound isn't overwhelming. The action is good. There isn't any swearing! The different races are easy on the eyes. Even the insectoid one!

Lots of 3D texture detail. Realistic sound effects.

5 stars on fun. 4.5 stars on gameplay. I found out the hard way that it likes to lock up sometimes if you have "fast mouse" selected.

A fine game even for the kids!

Many of you might be familiar with Michael Ende's classic children's novel "The Neverending Story" or 1984 film of the same name. These works portray a race of tall giants, possibly made from stone themselves, who delight in nothing more than the eating of rocks. In one scene, a Rockbiter (as they are known) pedals to the Ivory Tower by stone bicycle only to devour it in a fit of hunger.

Amusing as this might sound, it is pure mythology and bears no relation to the actual world. Rocks, such as the Prospector's Mystery Rock, are almost unfailingly inedible and unpalatable to the human digestive tract. Rock can seriously damage the human body through ingestion, from either physical scraping, piercing, or blockage of passageways of the esophagus all the way down through one's intestines or poisonous chemical leakage. This "rock," a children's educational toy, is an artificially created stone which can be picked away at with supplied "archaeological tools" to reveal even more inedible goodies. These hidden finds include four gemstones, three fossils, and three mineral deposits, all of which should be kept out of the mouth of both finders and related kin. Fossils, like standard rocks, are made out of mineral rather than organic material, and thus apply to the same rules of treatment.

While none of these items themselves contain deadly poisons, consumption of such material is a bad habit to develop. This behavior is often amalgamated under the term "pica" - the compulsion to eat non-foods, especially mineral deposits like rocks or clay. While often seen in small children who "don't know better," the pica obsession is also displayed by pregnant women.

I bought this for my nine year-old daughter. She was excited at first, but after hours of scraping and uncovering nothing, she got a bit frustrated at the slow pace. Also, the plastic tool wore down quickly, slowing things down even more and requiring much more elbow grease! I finally knocked the clay matrix against a hard surface and broke off a good chunk so she could see the objects inside. Then it became much more easy and fun to retrieve the treasures!

My almost 8 year old daughter had a lot of fun with this. Not only did she like digging the items out of the rock but liked washing them off and trying to figure out what the items were and recording the info in the journal and in the end learning about each item. It is messy - lots of dust - but a few newspapers spread out works o.k.

This follow-up to the spectacularly frustrating early R-Type games is different enough from those blood pressure increasers to stand on its own, but retains enough of the classic R-Type style gameplay to satisfy long-time fans of the series. Be forewarned that this title emphasizes the need for steady nerves and, sorry to say, a certain amount of trial-and-error as opposed to the all-out, non-stop, shoot-everything-in-sight-and-then-shoot-some-more-in-case-you-missed-something mayhem of other PlayStation side-scrollers like G Darius and Thunder Force V. While not as heavy-handed as the two earliest installments (available on Agetec's R-Types collection for those with oodles of time on their hands), R-Type Delta does demand that you learn from your mistakes, because you must be able to anticipate the patterns of the enemies and their attacks as well as the locations of surprise obstacles if you wish to progress. There is simply no way in Hell you will beat this game on your first attempt if you haven't seen the game played and beaten before, no matter how skilled a joypad jock you are (or THINK you are). One wrong move spells doom, and when you're in unfamiliar territory, you often can't tell which moves are the right ones to make until it's too late.

Aside from the difficulty, my biggest complaint is that your force module, while being a very useful tool, is...well...stupid. There has been more than one occasion where I have been killed because the module got stuck behind some indestructible object when I needed it the most; I was sadly reminded of the one-player version of the Super NES classic Secret of Mana, where you get your backside handed to you because your computer-controlled allies believe they can help you out by trying to run through a wall instead of going around it.

Otherwise, R-Type Delta is a very solid game. Graphics, sounds, weapons, and gameplay are all perfectly satisfactory, if not as outstanding as those in Einhander (which yours truly deems the best 2-D shooter yet released in the U.S.). Continues are limited, so be prepared to invest a considerable amount of time. And keep in mind that throwing your controller against a wall may make you feel better, but it won't help your performance.

I'm impressed. I never thought it would be this good, tons of hidden stuff, great unique levels, great effects.

The only thing bad is the cg is a little weak, but I didn't buy it for that anyway.

Many people (including myself) consider R-Type to be the premiere side-scrolling shooter series in existence. When the 3D (OK, actually 2.5D) R-Type Delta was announced, I was skeptical. How could Delta live up to the 2D glory that was R-Type, or R-Type Leo?

To say it did would be an understatement. Irem and Agetec have crafted the best side-scroller on the PSX, and perhaps the best modern side-scroller. You take your pick of three R-Type ships (with a fourth hidden), the R9, R13, or RX, each with its own unique Force Module and individual weapons, and invade seven levels of dark, bio-mechanical Bydo Empire-ridden evil. Enemies from previous R-Types are included, but in full menacing polygonal 3D, and even the level designs are from the old games, but again, redone for the 3D generation. Delta is more than a great-looking package, however - it succeeds in creating an immersive universe that sucks you heedlessly in, including a haunting soundtrack that shifts to reflect the on-screen events. Of particular note is the 5th level (dubbed by me as the "Sewer Level"), in which you must dodge your way among drifting pipes and other garbage, weird alien slugs firing on you the whole time. It's suitably murky and bubbly -- almost smelly. And the boss will be familiar to R-Type fans....

Gameplay, thankfully, remains 2D. You scroll from right to left, charging up your force module, and laying waste to the droves of semi-organic Bydo enemies that are an R-Type trademark. The R9 has a standard module, the RX's homes in on the enemy and fires remotely, and the R13's is connected to the ship by a deadly and fully manipulative stream of energy. Each ship has a Beam weapon and a screen-wasting Delta weapon, and the pyrotechnics involved are blissful creations, with no slowdown. The ships handle differently enough to make mastery of each a daunting, yet rewarding task. R-Type has never been a bullet-dodger, but relies strictly on patterns and memorization. And like the prior games, Delta is a very tough nut to crack, even on the Easy difficulty. A true Delta master will not be satisfied until Hard difficulty is conquered with all 3 (make that four!) ships. It's advisable to master control of your Force Module, as well as recognizing when to raise or lower your ship's speed (easily done with the shoulder buttons). Thankfully, Free Play can be obtained through a few hours of play, and trust me, you'll need it!

R-Type Delta offers old-school gameplay in new-school clothes, a formula many have attempted, but few have succeeded to such a degree as this. Long-time fans of R-Type may be turned off by the 3D graphics, but rest assured, the gameplay is solid as ever. Hopefully Delta will win the series some new fans. You will not find a better side-scroller on the Playstation.

Great toy, I us it every day. Great for wind, rainfall, and temp. Easy to setup and use.

My son got this for his 7th birthday. He loves everything having to do with science. There are a few different ways you can configure the components of the weather station - including temperature, wind direction, wind speed, rain gauge, etc. - but we have yet to find a way to connect EVERYTHING at the same time. It would be perfect if there was a way to attach all the devices at once. Also, the instructions state there are 7 connectors but there were only 6 in the plastic package.

I got this for my 9th birthday and you can see the temp indoors and outdoors. you can show how fast the wind is going. It can also show which way the wind is going. I loved the toy and liked putting eveything together.
Alexander

Fast delivery, games worked perfectly, would do business again, an asset to amazon

ilove the game but i have aproblen in level 5 icant find the oracle to offer the birds .
pls if you can help as yhe game is leaving me restless as icant find the oracles i have the gems but where do i offer the birds
pls advies

the panels before the elevetor that leads to the room before the oracle (u know with the electrical floor panels)
are the way of the oracle
in the room of the orcale u must follow the stones in the way of the oracle
it's 4 sqaures
when u finish 4 sqaures like the way of the oracle then u continue to the other 4 sqaures by order until u get to the oracle!
preety hard to explain, contact me at icq# 77115556