Hawaii High: The Mystery of the Tiki is a neat CD-ROM mystery game especially recommended for girls. To a 9-year-old girl like me, it seems like most computer games are made for boys – Mortal Kombat, for example. Hawaii High stars a girl from New York, named Jennifer, who visits Hawaii and takes us along on her adventures. And the illustrator, Trina Robbins, makes it look like a comic book.
First we see a map of Hawaii. I click the mouse whenever there is something I want to know about. Be sure to do this because it does some really cool things!
Jennifer meets a new friend, and together they go to the beach, where they find a stolen Tiki doll. They want to return it to the museum. They go on an adventure through the forest, where they see lots of friendly animals. When they get to the museum grounds, they have a choice of going one way, where they will meet people and play a game, or the other way, where they will enter a maze. If you find the right way out you can return the Tiki. I get to pick out Jennifer's clothes and hear the girls talk like teenagers. I also get to know lots of things about Hawaii and even learn Hawaiian words.
Hawaii High: The Mystery of the Tiki, Mac & PC CD-ROM: US$39.95. Sanctuary Woods Multimedia Corp.: (800) 872 3518, +1 (415) 578 6340.
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