the game itself is fine, provides hours of fun to the kids, and is a central magnet to all the boys that come to our house for playdates.the turning on the game is a pain, pausing and going back and stuff is just not graceful. whoever wrote the software needs some good spanking. my husband is a software architect and i was a software engineer. it's a pain to get it to run right and it has too many annoying bugs. when the game is paused too long, it messes up the screen display which has to be shutdown and restarted to have the right display. maybe it has something to do with using this on a mac instead of pc, but it claims to be a mac version.