Curious George Preschool Learning Games

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Summary: curious george ..laughing while learning!!
Review: I bought this and my 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 boys they love it!!! the puzzles are great, star shooting game of shapes is great for hand eye coordination and the pie game is awesome they are learing letters, matching, size differentation, all the while laughing!

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Summary: Buggy
Review: I bought this because my son liked another Curious George game, Downtown Adventure (which I highly recommend but the age range should be 4-8, not 3-6). This game is from a different company and is of very poor quality. The pie fight game crashes in the middle every single time we play, on two different computers. The jukebox game is incredibly slow to load, way too slow for a 3 year old to tolerate.

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Summary: Slight & Sloppy
Review: 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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Summary: Encourages New Skills, Reinforces Others!
Review: 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!

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Summary: Lot's of fun
Review: 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!

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Summary: Encourages New Skills, Reinforces Others!
Review: My just-turned-four-year-old *loved* this CD! We checked it out from the library, and after playing it with him, and seeing how much he learned & how much he loved it, we bought it. The Jukebox game encouraged the emerging skill of rhyming. The Star Patrol reinforced shapes, and encourged learning some new ones (hexagon, etc.). The Pie game was his favorite. This game encourged sorting (same, different, slightly different). We've played many a CD-rom, and this one, by far, is the easiest on parents. No annoying sounds or voices. And the animation looks just like the book, so it's familiar and soothing.

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Summary: A review of the first edition
Review: We checked this out from the library (actually it is an early version called "Curious George Early Learning Games") and our 2 1/2 year old daughter loved it. She finds the error signs amusing (eg. a pie in the face). We like it because the voices a re smooth and non-irritative; they are normal speech in appropriate pitch, and therefore easy to understand. Furthermore, the words flow together well, without the typical computer pauses. Best of all, this program has a very nice puzzle game, which plays to one of our daughter's strengths.

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Summary: navigation problems
Review: We used this a few times. It has a design flaw, which is that you have to exit the game to get back to a place where you can make choices about what you want to do next.