3D Dinosaur Adventure

The game was the third best selling Macintosh product in the week ending October 11, 1997. 3-D Dinosaur Adventure was reviewed in the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Guide Book where it was praised for its "text, beautiful graphics, and amazing sound effects". Characterizing the program as one of "the programs to load on [an older child's computer] first", the authors warned that the programs were resource intensive, "tak[ing] nearly 10 megabytes of disc space [and requiring] a sound card to get the full effect". Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond argued that the small Knowledge Adventure was able to produce a better game than Microsoft's Microsoft Dinosaurs. The Educational Technology Handbook praised the game's animation sequences for bringing the experience to life in a way that students would remember. PC Mag noted the high tech effects were limited, though thought the title was a good reference tool. Retrospective reviews from the modern era have been more mixed. RetroJunk's 2009 review found the game to be innovative for its time. Bustle's 2016 review, however, deemed the program little more than a glorified encyclopedia.

• 1994 – Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Award Platinum Award • March 1994 – Electronic Entertainment Editors' Choice Awards: Best Edutainment Title (Honorable Mention) • 1994's Best Overall Education Program by the Software Publishers Association as part of its Excellence in Software Awards Program. • Top 100 CD-ROMs from PC Magazine 1994