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Arthur's Preschool

Arthur's Preschool

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Not Compatible with WIndows 2000 or XP
Review: I'm a bit disappointed that it doesn't work on Windows XP and Windows 2000.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A great learning adventure!
Review: My four year old will sit for hours at the computer with Aurthur. It is very easy for her to change activites and print items. I am very pleased with Aurthur's preschool and would recommend it to all.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A great learning adventure!
Review: My four year old will sit for hours at the computer with Aurthur. It is very easy for her to change activites and print items. I am very pleased with Aurthur's preschool and would recommend it to all.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Good games, marred by bad implementation
Review: My son has been using this for the last two months. He's 2 & 8 months, slightly under the recommended age for it.

As a game, it should have a lot going for it. For a new user, there are a variety of skills tested, from counting (using baseball), to alphabet (using a robot builder), to shape sorting (using piggy banks of different sizes & coins to match).

However, it is quite flawed in many ways. In most games, the instructions on what letter to select, will stop abruptly if a key is pressed or the mouse is clicked.

For example, in the alphabet game, Arthur will say something like, "Hand Brain the upper case letter A", & there are 5 choices. If however, my son happens to click anywhere on the screen, Arthur will stop before the sentence completes & my son will click at random. It's tough to pick a letter if Arthur doesn't say which one is to be picked!
That sort of thing happens in many of the games, so for us, quite a few of them are un-playable.

If you play the games more than a few times, there's not much variety in the games. The almost exact same things happen each time, even if they were completed correctly the last time.

Quite soon, I'm not sure if my son is learning new stuff or simply remembering the game's prompts from previous experience.

Bottom line : Good game with possibilities for a month or so, will become old hat after that.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Not Compatible with WIndows 2000 or XP
Review: My three year old really enjoyed all of the games and skill areas. The ladybug bridge activity was especially good for spatial skills. I would highly recommend this for 2 - 3 year olds as a first software program for preschool skills, but most of the games are too easy if the child has already mastered basic preschool skills using another program. My son had already mastered Elmo's Preschool before we tried this, and therefore it was mostly too easy and not as effective.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent as a first preschool CD
Review: My three year old really enjoyed all of the games and skill areas. The ladybug bridge activity was especially good for spatial skills. I would highly recommend this for 2 - 3 year olds as a first software program for preschool skills, but most of the games are too easy if the child has already mastered basic preschool skills using another program. My son had already mastered Elmo's Preschool before we tried this, and therefore it was mostly too easy and not as effective.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great software!
Review: This application is a bit older, and I don't think the publisher has upgraded it to XP or 2K. But that was not a problem for me, I have a bit older system.

My kid loves it! It's great. She is a big fan of Arthur and they really captured the essense of all the Arthur characters. Some of the activites are skewed a bit young, but for my 3 and a half year old, that was fine. It's the fist thing she asks to do if she sees me sitting at the computer. Highly recommended.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great software!
Review: This application is a bit older, and I don't think the publisher has upgraded it to XP or 2K. But that was not a problem for me, I have a bit older system.

My kid loves it! It's great. She is a big fan of Arthur and they really captured the essense of all the Arthur characters. Some of the activites are skewed a bit young, but for my 3 and a half year old, that was fine. It's the fist thing she asks to do if she sees me sitting at the computer. Highly recommended.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Windows Incompatability Problem-Very Dissappointed!!!
Review: This CD-Rom is not compatable with Windows XP and it should be stated clearly somewhere on the packaging. The whole thing froze my computer. Extremely dissappointing!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Windows Incompatability Problem-Very Dissappointed!!!
Review: This CD-Rom is not compatable with Windows XP and it should be stated clearly somewhere on the packaging. The whole thing froze my computer. Extremely dissappointing!


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