Blue's Birthday Adventure - PC/Mac

Product description ------------------- Windows 95/98 Macintosh CD-ROM .com ---- Steve, Tickety, and Slippery ask your child for assistance preparing for Blue's birthday party! There's so much to do. Create a personalized card for Blue, select a special present, play lots of multi-level games, explore in and around Blue's house and yard ... and, of course, find and solve new Blues' Clues. Help Steve figure out what party favor Blue wants to give her guests, what she wants to eat, and more. With so much to explore, create, play and solve, every day can be a birthday celebration with this original adventure. Blue and her friends help you learn essential early learning skills, including critical thinking and logical problem solving; deductive reasoning; spatial perception and relationships; sorting classifying, and matching; colors, shapes, and patterns; sound discrimination; and counting. P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); Review ------ The of contention in the second of two Blue's Clues software titles is that while the Nickelodeon TV show is a big hit, this byproduct follows the show and TV format a little too closely. The premise is like one of the show: All of Blue's friends are present--Steve, Tickety, Slippery--and they need help preparing for Blue's birthday celebration. Just like in the TV show, kids look for Blue's big paw-print clues--in this case in Blue's house and yard--to figure out what kind of food Blue wants at her party, what guests to invite, what party games to play, what gift to buy. Throughout, click-on hotspots provide silly distractions. Fun thinking games, such as the Present Store, Flower Picking and Gift Wrap challenge kids' logic and skills of observation and pattern re. Kids even get to make a virtual pizza for the party. Indeed, while the learning's laid-back in these game; the play's the thing. But there's something of a linear feel that reflects a half-hour on television. Children choose one of four pathways, each of which pose their own set of activities that move the action closer to party time. This is a problem-solving adventure, you see, and not so much a drop-in-anytime activity title, which means younger children not have the patience to get with the program, as it were. A 1998 Parents' Choice® Silver Honor.Reviewed by Don Oldenburg, Parents' Choice® 1998 -- From Parents' Choice® ( /exec/obidos/subst/partners/marketing/parents-choice.html ) Based on the Blue's Clues TV show, this is a scavenger hunt game where children explore Blue's world to find presents, party hats, plates and other supplies needed for an upcoming birthday party. There are four adventures called pathways, each with a different set of clues and birthday items to find. It's fun but challenging, and kids may need help at times. There are a total of nine directed activities for which parents can set difficulty levels. These activities include matching objects and instrument sounds, making puzzles and fixing party favors. Kids can also make and print cards for Blue. Testers enjoyed the program, playing for hours at one time. Our two criticisms are minor. Kids have to get used to the cursor disappearing with each screen change. They often have to wiggle the mouse to find where the cursor is on the new screen. Also, the program ends when the three clues are found and the mystery is solved. Children accepted this but still wanted to go back to the unfinished aspects of each pathway. Teaches: logic, memory Age Range: 3, 4, 5, 6 Copyright © 2000 Children's Software Revue -- From Children's Software Revue® -- "Subscribe Now!" ( https://secure.tradenet.net/childrenssoftware/csroffer.html ) See more ( javascript:void(0) )

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