Features

• Play 12 fun Garfield games, with three skill levels
• Features original voices from the Garfield shows
• Learn cool facts about 30 types of cats around the world
• Use the computer to help Garfield pick the right parts for his perfect kitty

Amazon.com Review

Are you ready for the Thinking Chair? It's Blue's birthday, and thatmakes for lots of mystery-solving fun. Formatted to resemble the populartelevision series, children have to find three clues to solve the biggermysteries: What does Blue want to give as party favors? What games will herguests play at the party? And what kind of cake does she like?

There's a whole slew of new characters to meet in Birthdayland, many games toplay within the party planning, and four different places to "skidoo" to.This is the most fun we've had with deductive reasoning in a long time. Withthree levels of difficulty that can be set for individual players during thesame game, it's entirely possible the toddlers will be the first to solve themysteries. As a guest at Blue's party, each person can also select a specialgift for Blue and design his own card. Grab your own Handy Dandy Notebook andjoin the fun. --Jill Lightner ... Read more

Reviews (12)

Blue's Clues fans should really enjoy this!
My 2 year old son enjoys this game a great deal. It has a huge amount of content---with 4 complete Blue's Clues games. Along with that, there are little side games like finding noisemakers, drawing pictures, and completing puzzles. Some of those you have to hunt a bit for, but that's part of the fun! Steve is a big part of this game, which is nice, as a lot of Blue's Clue merchandise doesn't include him, and that always disappoints my boys---they are big Steve fans! I would say the age guidelines (ages 3-6) are just about right, but my 2 year old enjoys it anyway---just doesn't totally get how to hunt for clues. You can set the level of how hard you want it to be to find clues. Certainly worth the reasonable price!

3 Year Old Independent Fun...Forget the Clues!
I bought this for my son right before his 3rd birthday. After playing this game once, he has figured out how to navigate through the program and the computer without help.

Forget actually finding the clues because the fun part is clicking on the background objects in each scene to see what they do. (My son cracks up every time he clicks on the pig to see him dump his face in the mud and go "oink oink") Even the balloons pop if you click on them. Some of the games are appropriate for even a 3 year old too.

My son is learning how to use a computer and playing with his favorite character, Blue too. Maybe he'll get to the clues next year but for now, this keeps him well entertained when I'm cooking dinner or just needing a break!

The best game for prescholers!!!!!
I have a 3 year old and a 4 year old. This game will keep thier attention for hours, taking turns and working together. It is great because EVERYTHING does something when you click on it. It keeps thier attention and they don't even realize they are learning. I am currently looking for more comperable games. Any suggestions?

Love it, but a few gliches
My daughter (2 1/2) is an avid Blue's fan, and this was our first computer software purchase for her. While she enjoys it immensely, she is also frustrated by the wait time (she keeps telling Steve to hurry up and move into the next scene.) I am not very pleased with the sound quality. The songs go much faster than the graphics, thus Steve is finished moving well before the music is finished playing. Overall I find it engaging for her level and if you have the extra cash recommend it if your child likes Blue.

My son loves this!! Very educational / never dull
My 3 yr old son loves this 2-cd rom game. It's very educational and it keeps his interest. He gets so excited when he finds the clues. Everytime I look he's playing this game. His alphabet & number comprehension has improved alot. 5 stars from me!! ... Read more

Features

• 5 fun activities build essential typing skills
• Finger placement, home row technique, editing mistakes and lots of good typing habits - learn all this and more as you progress through 5 exciting and challenging activities
• Throughout your typing adventure, get private lessons from Rafiki, and plenty of laughs from wild and wacky TImon & Pumbaa
• Skills accomplished -finger placement, home row technique, edit mistakes, accuracy & speed, & letter recognition to word processing
• CD-ROM for Win95/98/Pmac

Reviews (1)

Some of it's good, some of it's bad...
OK, it's a fun way for my young kids to learn the basics of typing - splatting bugs by pressing the right keys is pretty fun. The price was unbeatable.

The down side: It teaches only basics - letters and numbers. No shifted keys. No ten-key. It also runs only with the CD in the drive. It is also very difficult to install on Win2000/WinXP - you have to create a shortcut on your desktop for the setup.exe program on the CD, change the shortcut's compatibilty mode to Win95, then install the thing. Yeesh. BTW, don't accidentally hit (or rest your wrist on) the Windows key while you're typing; it royally messes up the color palette - to the point of having to quit and start over.

It got my kids started with typing in a fun way, but it was a bit of a pain to get it working. You win some, you lose some. This was a draw.

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Amazon.com Product Description

Kids will have a blast taking charge of a fleet of tough 3-D Tonka vehicles. Help Tonka Joe and his team build buildings, bridges, castles, and a lot more. Kids can even repair and paint their trucks while they learn all about them. You and your child can explore five different construction areas in all. ... Read more

Reviews (6)

great game, horrible implementation
Most kids love trucks and construction, so this game should be a smash hit. There are lots of trucks to paint and use on a wide variety of fun construction tasks -- building a castle, clearing an avalanche, etc -- and the kids do love it. But they also get very frustrated. The game crashes often and you can't save, so all the work is lost, and about half the time the crash requires you to reboot the whole computer. The cursor disappears at important times and they game is fussy about getting a veicle to a precise spot before it will let ou move on. Also, it's not always clear what is expected next.

Great idea but badly developed, more's the pity.

Good game, lousy UI
I bought the Tonka Construction Game for my 3 year old. First note to parents. This game ONLY runs under 256 color mode which means I have to keep changing the color depth down. Its annoying especially for someone like myself who programs software and knows it would have been trivial for them to allow the game to run under higher resolutions just not lower. Anyway, that aside the game is dearly loved by my 3 year old at least until he gets one of the trucks stuck in some corner of the map. It also has sub-par mouse movement making it not that hard to do and once it does you have no out other then killing the program using task manager (CTRL+ALT+DEL). HASBRO big tech note here, EVERY game should respond to the user hitting the escape key and perform some intelligent exit ideally from the current scene or at least the game itself. So despite all of this, I will probably look at Tonka 2 because the game premise is good and every kid loves trucks. Hopefully, they will fix these somewhat obvious UI issues in which case Tonka 2 could really be a good choice for children's software.

He never gets sick of it!
Is it possible to wear out a softwear program?! My 5 year old has been playing this game for over a year and between this and Search & Rescue he never wants to play anything else! He finds it incredibly rewarding - worthy of a good belly-laugh - when he can print out his works of art and certificates! We definately got our money's worth!

Great distraction when kid is driving you insane
Even when we have the most well behaved children in the world, sometimes they act up. That is when we stick him in from of the "Truck game". He is 2 1/2 and he does not get tired of it even after winning multiple times. And yes, it is a 256 color game; so, right click on the desktop and change the screen colors (no big deal). When you need peace of mind, it is totally worth it.

He explains construction stuff to his brother
My 4 year old received this for Christmas. This is the first product that he has used all by himself. I've noticed that his mouse control has greatly improved. I've even overheard him explaining to his 2 year old brother how each of the hotwheel construction vehicles are supposed to work. It really keeps a preschool boy's attention and lets them practice small motor skills as well as learn a little about those trucks that boys this age love so much. ... Read more

Features

• Play Star Swing Challenge with Bedtime Bear, filling the sky with happy thoughts
• Catch a little love in a basket, with Love-a-lot Bear and Tenderheart Bear
• Help Good Luck Bear collect 3 icons to open his treasure chest
• Toss gifts to Share Bear's friends at a birthday party
• Open castle windows with Friend Bear to reveal a Care Bear pair