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This title seems to be a very hard to find one and might not have been commerciallised. It was produced for the World Fair of 1992 in Sevilla. When you start this disc, after a short animation of the Atomium, one of Belgium's largest national monuments. The Atomium represents an iron molecule structure and was built for the Brussels World Fair in 1958. The disc is divided into eight subjects: history, country and people, economy, state and politics, arts and culture, education and science, tourism and Belgium in Europe. Some of these subjects are themselves divided into groups, like arts and culture, where you can choose between music, literature, paintings, etc.
Each of the subjects you select actually starts an audio sequence, accompanied by a slideshow, illustrating the subject. There is however no way of 'looking things up', like we have in our traditional Interactive encyclopediae, no index or directory to browse through. This makes it more like a presentation of Belgium than a real encyclopedia, as the publishers call it themselves.
A presentation maybe, but a very nice one nonetheless. The sequences are all very interesting and I did learn a few things about my home country! |
