Travels in Europe 3 CD-ROM Set (Jewel Case)

Rating:
Summary: Definitely NOT Rick Steves quality.
Review: This CD collection was apparently written ten years ago, and at the time might have been okay. The files are all bmp and avi, so they are small and crappy. There are a few bugs in the navigation, so you find yourself trying to trick it into doing what it is supposed to do. One particularly annoying aspect, is the fact that it assumes you have a 640x480 monitor, and therefore is a pathetic little display in the center of your blacked out screen. And the final insult of this item is its total lack of an uninstall utility, which in hindsight, would have been its most useful feature.

I assumed that this was associated with the excellent Rick Steves Travels in Europe videos, books, action figures, etc. product line, which is why I bought it in the first place, but after buying it, I feel like I have just been had. If it came with dinner and a movie, I might have considered it a case of date rape.

Finally, I gave it two stars instead of one, because it might have been an okay item in 1995, and I am the idiot who assumed it was something it wasn't , and therefore share some of the culpability.