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Christmas used to be a time for stuffed animals, toy wagons and Barbie dolls. In the 1990s, however, Barbie has her own CD-ROM and Santa is more likely to send a naughty child the STONED virus than a lump of clay...
...Barbie Fashion Designer $45; Mattel; ages 6 and up Girls--or young Calvin Kleins--design doll clothes with this CD-ROM, print them on special paper and make them without sewing. Why pay for whatever bizarre Barbie outfit Mattel offers next when your angel can make...
Interactive adventures don't get much better than Dreamworks' scary new title, Goosebumps, based on the book series by R.L. Stine. Kids nine and up can explore a haunted village and solve clues as they try to find a way out. Video clips of the cd-rom's main character, Lizzy, and her friends add a realistic touch to the adventure, while visits to haunts like the Full Moon Cafe--with its menu of scrambled brains and blood pudding--add to the eeriness. The game mixes parent-stumping logic puzzles with a rich landscape that kids will find endlessly intriguing...
...makers did the macarena--a hand flap here, a hip swivel there. But their efforts to improve home computers amounted to the same old song and dance: incrementally faster processors, modems and CD-ROM drives, with an occasional dip toward better design. Toshiba, however, wowed the crowded desktop dance floor with a balletic new product that blends the functions of a computer with the capabilities of TV and stereo. With its radical design, innovative features and ability to attract a crowd, the Infinia Home PC is a critical...
...easy to see why. The charcoal black Infinia (priced from $2,148 to $3,548) resembles an arresting 2001: A Space Odyssey-type monolith. Toshiba has included the usual alphabet soup of goodies: 17-in. monitors, Pentium/200 processors, 32-MB ram and 8X CD-ROM drives. The mix creates a superb AV package, controlled by a large, hi-fi-like volume knob, an addition long overdue...