Arthur's Computer Disaster

Arthur's Computer Disaster is the twenty-third book in the Arthur Adventure series. It was written and illustrated by Marc Brown and published by Little, Brown and Company. It is based upon the first half of Episode 14 of Season 1, Arthur the Wrecker, and it is also the first Arthur Adventure book to be based upon the cartoon as opposed to being a book first and then deciding whether or not to adapt it into a cartoon.

In the story, Arthur plays a game, and accidentally breaks his mother's computer. In the end, he finds that it is not in fact broken, but he gets into trouble for disobeying his mother's orders to stay off the computer.

Differences from the cartoon

 * When Arthur started playing Deep Dark Sea, he was wearing his pajamas. In the cartoon, he was playing on the computer before changing into his pajamas.
 * When Jane tells Arthur and Buster it is tax season that she needs to use the computer all day, she was making a phone call in the kitchen. In the cartoon, she was on the computer when she told them.
 * When Arthur and Buster find out that the Brain is not home while searching for him to fix the problem, Mrs. Powers told them. In the cartoon, Mr. Powers told them.
 * After the Brain couldn't find the problem with the computer, Arthur and Buster then go to the computer repair shop. In the cartoon, they did not go to the computer repair shop, Jane came home right away, forcing Buster and the Brain to leave.
 * After the computer incident, Arthur calls his mother on the phone about how things are and responds that everything is fine. In the cartoon, Arthur did not call his mother.
 * The main character in the game Deep Dark Sea was a bear wearing goggles, a snorkel, air (what do you call these?) on its back, a swimsuit, and flippers. In the cartoon, the character in the game was wearing a metal diving suit.
 * When Jane uses the computer once again, but decides to play Deep Dark Sea instead of working on her taxes, she grounds Arthur by telling him "No computer games for a week." In the cartoon, she said "I'm forbidding you to use the computer for a week. Fair?".

Goofs

 * When D.W. tells Arthur she's afraid that their mother will lose her job and that they will all lose the house and live out on the street and get pneumonia, the text incorrectly used the homophone "ammonia" which refers to NH3that is condensed to a liquid, when the actual homophone would be "pneumonia" which refers to a disease in the lungs where someone could have trouble breathing.