Most recently, Scholastic's The Magic School Bus CD-ROM series by Microsoft received the FamilyPC Family Tested Software Recommended Seal in the education category and was named Top Picks of 1997 by the Toy Testing Council. The series won: Software Publisher's Association Codie award for Best Elementary Educational titles and the National Parenting Center Seal of Approval. The team received feedback from teachers and parents to inform their products. In 1998, Scholastic's The Magic School Bus Adventure Series Volumes 1, 2 and 3 were announced. īy 1997, Microsoft Home was struggling due to a crowded market.

The games were based on the books and the PBS show.

After the contract, Music Pen grew from 5 people to 40, and was based in New York. The company hired the garage shop Music Pen to create a program, a company started 15 years prior by concert pianist Wu and composer Philip Lui who wrote programs that taught music comprehension. At the time, many companies lacked the expertise to develop multimedia project so turned to smaller new media companies. To access the home market, Microsoft created a video game brand called Microsoft Home, and a software series was created under that umbrella. Scholastic, which created the 'Magic School Bus' television series on PBS, licensed its content to Microsoft. Most of the original software games were created by the software company Music Pen Multimedia in collaboration with Microsoft and Scholastic Press, the publisher of the Magic School Bus book series. The interactive adventures are part of the larger franchise and based with The Magic School Bus original series books and public television series (which originally aired on PBS). The Magic School Bus is a series of educational software video games developed by Music Pen and published by Microsoft via their Microsoft Home brand.

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