.com The ever-so-mischievous monkey is at it again. Join Curious George as he plays exciting arcade games. He's hunting down circles, targeting triangles, and having the time of his life with patterns, shapes, and letters. Come join the fun in a series of skill-building games especially designed for active learners. Each game requires the listening skills and the critical-thinking skills that build a foundation for reading. Children explore at their own pace and are gently challenged to build critical-reasoning and reading skills in a magical environment. This product is especially designed to make learning to read fun. Activities include Jingles Jukebox (poetry), Pie Fight (pattern matching), Star Patrol (shapes, letters, colors), Super Fruit Catch, and The Puzzler (puzzle making). As a special bonus, you can print your own Curious George storybook.
M**R
Serious script and play problems
It feels like the programmers rushed this game to market without putting it through beta testing (the testing where people who act as real players put the game through its paces). The failure to remember game progress and the need to completely exit the game at certain stages are incredibly annoying for both parent and child.
E**T
Can't escape!
My 4 year old is just learning to use the computer. The games in this software are creative but the navigation is not user friendly. First, it uses only a small square in the center of your screen. You choose a game from the delightful menu but you cannot get out and back to the menu if you want to move on. The games are much too long for my son's attention span and I had to use the task manager to quit the program if when I wanted to leave without finishing the game. I am very new in the kid software realm and could have been missing something but this was much tougher to use than any of the others I've bought.
S**R
Amusing, But Problematic at Times
I just bought this game this afternoon for my four year-old twins. They like it, but it has a few issues that are HIGHLY irritating. For one thing, I wish the initial game-choosing menu was a little more clear. We found the Fruit Catch game by accident. Also, on some games, it uses 100% CPU resources! This is bad, especially on the already hot-running small-form factor machine I have set up for them. And most irritating of all, on many games there is no way to stop and try another when your kid wants to try something else. I've actually had to do a Ctrl+Alt+Delete application termination just to get out, and then I have to start the program all over again to play a different game (another review mentioned this glaring design flaw). No wonder they are no longer making this game! It's packed with problems. However, it is entertaining and my girls seem to like it well enough.
W**Y
Lot's of fun
My 3 year old enjoys this game, except for the jukebox thing. The puzzles are fun, with 3 levels of difficulty and some added animation when the puzzle is finished. The fruit catch is a little bit difficult, but a great way to get a feel for using a mouse. I definitely recommend this game!
J**N
Preschool Computer Lab Teacher = Thumbs Up!
I have taught computer lab to preschool children for two years and have used this program both years with much success. It is a great game for my older 3 year old students and my 4-5 year old students. The boys love the rocketship shooting shapes game, and everyone thinks the pie fight is funny. The puzzle game is also popular.The only problem that I have had with this game is that the menus can be hard for a young child to navigate if he is unfamiliar with it - some require reading (i.e. "start" or "play"). But once they have an understanding of how to make the games work, they do wonderfully.I have also noticed that the only way to exit the pie fight game is to lose - if you keep answering correctly, it will play almost indefinitely (more than 10 minutes in a preschoolers' mind is FOREVER). You should see the look of confusion when I tell a child that he must LOSE the game in order to play something else - they are so programed to only WIN!Overall, I recommend this game to anyone with preschoolers.Note: I have successfully used this program on both Windows XP and Windows Professional 2000. Works great on either platform.
K**R
Slight & Sloppy
I bought this on impulse at a Toys 'R Us in Ottawa while on a care trip, so I may have a Canadian edition. First, the upside: my 3-year-old likes it. The art is nice. The downside: The program is supposed to remember progress from session to session. It doesn't. And the songs included, which were supposed to match the songs in the juke box, were not the same songs and were in Dutch. (I guess someone at Simon & Schuster Interactive grabbed the wrong file when it was time to burn the masterCD-ROM!) The space game is a thinly disguised version of Space Invaders. Even though George is recruited to "collect" shapes from asteroids, my son immediately referred to shooting at the asteriods as "killing" them. And in no time, my son was yelling "Kill, kill, kill!" as he played it. I don't think that was supposed to happen. The puzzle game works, but it is just wooden puzzles as software. The juke box game didn't work too well for my son because he liked to give the "wrong" answers because they were funnier.
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