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Science Genius: Solar System Explorer (PC)

Focus Multimedia Ltd

System Explorer Experiments to entertain, excite and inform! Have you ever wondered how rockets work? Whats the difference between a star and a planet? How does the sun warm the Earth? Well nows your chance to find out! Try out 100 interactive experiments on your computer as you join the team of Smart Kids in a virtual laboratory. Experience all the fun without any of the mess! If you do decide you want to get your hands dirty, you can always print out a list of everything you need with full instructions on how to recreate all the experiments in your own home. Making science fun! Take part in exciting experiments based around energy, light and sound, living in space and astronomy, exploration and mechanics. Each one is bursting with cool and intriguing facts that will help you understand more about how
Secrets of the Universe (PC)

Focus Multimedia Ltd
Fun School 5 - SPACE Ages 6-9 - Jewel Cased

Europress
Hugo in Space

Hugo
Greenstreet Picture Maker Space (PC)

Greenstreet Online Ltd
Tonka Space Station

Hasbro

Construct and operate a functioning space station with an arsenal of out-of-this-world Tonka vehicles. Drive a Tonkonium Extraction Vehicle through a maze of lava pools and explosives, or speed a Terra Racer through the low-gravity zone of the station's sporting arena to entertain your station crew. In Tonka Space Station, you decide whether to build defence grids to demolish hazardous space waste, or focus on food production for your many hungry workers. With the ultimate motor pool at your fingertips, the fate of the station is entirely in your hands. Doing the job well can result in promotion--work your way from a lowly Photon 3rd Class all the way up to Galactic Commander.
The game's primary goal is to build a functioning station, one that balances the needs of its residents with other important considerations like safety, productivity and research. To this end, players build modules--sporting arenas, habitats, communication hubs, defence grids and harvest areas--on the platforms available in the station. To build a module, you are given a specialised Tonka vehicle and an arcade-style mission; to construct a harvest module, for example, players drive a Bio-harvester through an obstacle course of hostile alien plant life, snatching edible berries from the jaws--er, pods--of the carnivorous vegetation.
Tonka Space Station has some stunning anti-gravity effects, and the machinery and settings of the space-station activities are satisfyingly realistic. The need to stay on top of safety, industrial output and the happiness of the station's people provides an engaging framework for the main focus of the game: the arcade games and the Tonka vehicles these activities employ.
In this sense, Tonka Space Station is slightly disappointing. The variation between the vehicles is not nearly as wide as it could be, and players accustomed to real-world Tonka products may yearn for more options than steering, shooting and avoiding danger. None of the vehicles, in other words, does anything as amazingly cool as what even the simplest front-loader or backhoe can do. If you can get past that, however, this game is perfect for players who are interested in space sciences and enjoy simpler arcade-style activities. (Ages 5 and up) --Alyx Dellamonica