A great game from an era when you could board a flight with only a metal detector to hold you up. Needless to say, a bit out of date. Thanks, Osama.

I don't remember buying this game

level 99 in lost luggage is nearly impossible to beat. your success is entirely up to chance. be careful

You're going to tell me that I didn't spend enough time to test the game. Well, I'm not a kid anymore and I must say that while I'm open to every new knowledge, planes and airport aren't really my field of interest.

However, Let's Explore the Airport (Junior Fiel Trips) did amaze me for its richness. Let me explain.

The aim of the software is to educate young children to everything related to an airport. You're going to find in there planes (well, outdated as the game was released in 1995), the luggage circuits, cockpit, hangars, shops, etc.. You can navigate from a location to another, though I must say that going back is sometimes very hard, as seen at the security gate for example. But to learn, you have to be aware of every area of interest, thanks to the button What is this?. With that, you'll see names with an interrogation mark. Just hovering will trigger the pronounciation of the object. And if you click on it, you'll enter the index (which is also existing on its own with the button Index).

More precisely, clicking on an object will send you in the definition page of the index. There, some highlighted words can be read aloud and lead to their own definition. The Read Aloud button will read the entire definition for kids that can't read or that are learning English.

However, it wouldn't be fun if you didn't have minigames. They're five: a trivia quizz (self-explanatory), What is this (associating a picture to a word), Lost Luggage (a puzzle game where you have to lead some luggage in the cart of the same color by changing the arrows on the conveyor belt), Find it (where a small picture is shown and you have to find in the right scene) and a coloring book (with a brush to color and a eye dropper to mix colors to obtain complex ones like green, orange, purple, etc..). Score are also kept as you can create several profiles (with the choice of the colors for each letter of the name of the player). Each game, except the coloring book, has three levels of difficulties.

As you can see, Let's Explore is really thought as an educational game. Contrary to Big Thinkers, you're not drown into overcharged graphics, even if these are clearly outdated. But as it's representative of its time, you have some areas that can be clicked on and allow a little animation to play. Kids can have fun with that. The soundtrack is nice too.

My only little problem is that everything is in English and it might be quite hard for kids that aren't native speakers, it might also be a problem for an adult, even if he's fluent in English as there are some technical texts in there. However, if it's for learning English, it can be a good way. Well maybe not with the airport, but with the two other games in the same series (farm and jungle), it could be really fun for children.

Anyway, don't worry, Let's Explore the Airport is excellent for learning how an airport work, though, you should be aware that given the age, security back then wasn't as tight as today. But aside that, I find the software interesting for non-English speakers in a course for learning the language.

No doubt some information from this game about airports is outdated, but offers a general look of how they work to a young audiance.

That, and hours of seeing random antics just by clicking on random things!

Those air traffic controllers probably have diabetes from all the donuts and coffee. 10/10

Get it for Lost Luggage. It's a conveyor belt puzzle game that's actually pretty fun. Just don't bother trying to beat level 99.

An Instant Childhood Arcade Classic, in which you get to learn about the Airport with Buzzy the Knowledge Bug in this First Installment to Junior Field Trips Series. As you know, the Airport is a very busy place where people come and go, planes landing and taking off. There's Jet Airplanes, Seaplanes, Helicopters, Hangers and much more! You can learn alot while you explore the airport:

How Luggage Travels
What goes on in the Control Tower
What Controls the Pilots & Copilots use
and
What all the people and machines at Airport are for.

With a Built-In Airport Encyclopedia total of 215 Items, a 15 Page Coloring Book & 5 Different Minigames to play, there's so much to see, do and Explore at the Airport since it's always open Ingame. Once you get this game, get ready for takeoffs & landings!

I explored the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ airport.

This game is very entertaining! By adding very helpful information around the airport, being entertainning with the animations, and having at least a chuckle with Buzzy the Knowledge Bug, this is a great game! The "Time to Play" section is always giving children a little fun espically "Lost Luggage" which is a fun game where you have to get all of the luggage to drop into it's matching bin. Each level introduces something new like red convayer belts that can't be changed by clicking on them, teleporters that drop the luggage to a random bin, or chutes that make the luggage go really fast! Though the first levels are simple and easy to beat, just wait until you get to level 99!