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Bring your backyard to the computer screen in Mattel Media's Matchbox Caterpillar Big Dirt Movers. Featuring five unique construction and building zones and a fleet of ten Caterpillar machines, the game offers three modes of play -- exploration, task-based or beat the clock, each with its own rewards for completion and a printable certification of achievement -- 15 levels in total. Additionally, three levels of difficulty (easy, medium and hard) are provided in each zone. An in-game CAT Encyclopedia offers insight into each of the ten vehicles you'll be using, accessible from the game's Command Center where all options are selected prior to the game's start. The tasks vary within each zone, ranging from simply moving dirt to excavations, creating and paving roads, ensuring proper materials for each job (sand, crushed rock, etc.), erecting bridges, toppling trees and more. The zones consist of The Quarry, a rough, rocky environment with six pits located around the site -- it's rumored there's hidden treasure there so you'll need to hone your mining skills. At the Beach Zone you'll have to hurry to save the sandcastle and restore the eroding beach from the devastation caused by an unsecured garden hose (you see the entire game from a Matchbox-size perspective). Jump to the City Zone where rusted old cars must be cleared out and derelict buildings demolished to make way for a new park. Get busy constructing an airport to handle waiting passengers in the Airport Construction Zone -- start with a plot of dirt, excavate, mold and create drainage conduits. You'll see the airport actually spring up around you as you clear the land and create the areas needed. Finally there's the Blast Zone where you've got to move a mountain or two -- people are counting on you to clear a passageway over this rough terrain. The Matchbox vehicles used in the game include the Dozer, Material Handler, Compactor, Motor Grader, Asphalt Paver, Front Shovel, the Truck, Wrecking Ball, Backhoe and Pipelayer. Matchbox Caterpillar Big Dirt Movers is designed for children five years old and up and focuses on learning skills like carrying out logic-based tasks, following instructions and computer use while employing a simplified interface system.