Let's Explore the Jungle

Let's Explore the Jungle is a video game in the educational genre developed by Humongous Entertainment, Inc. and published by Humongous Entertainment, Inc. originally released in 1995. It is currently playable on Windows.

This game allows children to explore Humongous versions of the jungles of South America, Africa and Southeast Asia, and learn about the plant and animal life found there. Like the titles 'The Airport' and 'The Farm', this game features Buzzy, the knowledge bug, as a guide. He reads aloud the questions, the answers and the names of the objects. He also gives hints and tips and points out interesting facts.

Children can explore the three environments, each with plenty of locations, where they can click on things to see fun animations or, instead, ask 'What is this?' and go to a micro-encyclopaedia of each object that describes it and shows its provenance. The 210-item encyclopedia also has an index, so kids can go directly to the items: if they click on the image on the page, it will take them to a place where that bug, bird, plant or animal can be found. The encyclopedia has text, but it also reads it to the child if they wish; you can also have them read each word just by holding the cursor over it. The pages also have colored and hyperlinked words that are topics from other pages in the encyclopedia.

The game also has 5 mini-games, such as Trivia or Find It (images related to the game are shown and then you have to go find them), or a 15-page coloring book (which is printable and has mixable colors) and Jungle Jumble (spelling/mismatching game). The Anteater Feeder mini-game is just for fun, a 100-level arcade version of the old fairground shooting game, except the weapon is an anteater's tongue and you eat bugs. These games have difficulty settings, to make things harder or easier.

Let's Explore the Jungle is available at a reduced price on the following websites and is no longer abandonware.