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A huge waste of money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: June 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my three year old son who was just beginning to take an interest in his older brother's SNES and I wanted a game that would be "appropriate" for his age. He has played this game about 4 times and is bored with it already! All you do in this game is lead Elmo through various "worlds" as he collects a certain letter of the alphabet. There is no challenge to the controls whatsoever because Elmo really only moves in one direction on the screen - forward. This game is too simple even for the youngest toddler. I think I'll let my son stick to Spyro the Dragon for now!

Sesame Street Characters are cute, but what a waste of $$$

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 16
Date: April 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'd rate this game at zero stars, but they won't let me. I bought this game for my nephew (age 5). With little help from me, he completed all 3 levels and the bonus stage in about 1 hour. Now he won't touch it. For the money being charged for this game, I expected a lot more than 1 hour of play before he tired of it. Using video games to help children learn is a great idea, but there was a whole lot more they could have done with this game and didn't.

the most boring game on the planet

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: March 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This video game is so boring that my three year old grunts whenever I suggest that we play "that really fun game." I try to encourage her to play in hopes that it will help her develop letter recognition skills. All it does is sharpen her whining skills. There are a few things I do not like about this game. I do not like that you can not save your progress. Every time you start the game it's always back to square one. Also,the way the controls are set up makes it annoying to quit. Worse of all there is such a long delay between the time you want to quit and when it actually does. The graphics are ok but the game is boring. It is so pathetic. I wished I could get my money back. When I bought this game I almost bought the Elmos number game. I thank my lucky stars that I did not. This game is so horribly boring that I can not even give it a one star rating. You will waste your money. The people who had anything whatsoever to do with this game wasted their time. However, if you like really boring games then this is the game for you.

Elmo's Letter Adventure for Nintendo 64

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: August 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

My 5 year old son, Scotty is already asking for Elmo's Number Journey. He plays all of the "Older-Aged" Nintendo games and gets a bit frustrated when his older brother is not around to help. This game made him feel like a winner and a genius, as he persued and beat each adventure. Scotty and his older brother think that the cutest level is when Elmo goes for a ride on a rocket ship looking for letters.

No Star Rating Here

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: November 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Do not, I repeat, do not waste your money. This game is the epitome of boring. My kids (4 and 5) do not like it all. They have several nintendo games and they simply refuse to play this game. I feel that it is my responsibility to spare you the disappointment that you will experience should you buy this game. It is slow, annoying, and it aggravates me. I am going to destroy it right now. SMASH SMASH SMASH

Good, not great

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: November 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Does a fair job of helping drill kids on recognizing both upper-case and lower-case letters. But the game-play is pretty unexciting. It almost seems like a computer game from the late 1980s or early 1990s; it's so simpleminded it almost seems like the creators were assuming that just the magic of having a video game would excite the kids. My four year-old son got bored with it pretty quickly and after a week or two did not want to play it anymore.

On the other hand, anything to help get these basic skills in is a good idea, and the game wasn't a complete waste of money. He obviously learned a little from it, and still does play it on occasion. But the folks doing educational games for gamesets like Nintendo need to work harder on making educational games as eye-catching and exciting as regular video games. Unfortunately, this seemed almost the only thing available for Nintendo 64.

BORING

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Sorry guys but this game is getting a ZIPPO rating from me. I bought this for my 4 year old son, and I was sorry I did. If your child knows anything about the alphabet they will be sadly disappointed with how incredibly easy it is. On the other hand, it could be possible (although i doubt it), if your child does not know much about the alphabet, maybe it would be educational.

My son was able to get through all of the stages within minutes of game play it was that easy. He played it a couple of times, and then it sat around and collected dust until I put it (and the Number Journey) up for auction. He never even knew they were missing.

I hate this game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: February 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is so pointless all you have to do is sit and watch the letters bounce around. The little kids may enjoy it but it is really weird

B-O-R-I-N-G

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: April 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is nothing at all but a waste of 60 bucks. It is apointless game ... to even THINK about buying it...take my advice, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!

I wished to star it a big fat ZERO...but noooooooo END

Boring Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The letter you are looking for is O; eight of them. You hop on a pogo stick through a path. On the path are a few O's and a few P's. You just sort of hop past the letter you are looking for and you pick up a point and in this case the highest "score" you can get is 8 points. Absolutly nothing exciting happens. When you want to find another letter it's back to the same old boring path but with just different letters. I think this game includes three or four paths or little scenes. One is under water, one is that path that I used in my example above and the other is in outer space. In all, the only thing you do is sort of just go by the letter your looking for.

This game is nauseating. The sounds are shrill and extreemly repetative. It's such a waste of money. When my 4 year old first played it she was delighted for all of ten minutes. She asked me to turn of the sound. Then she told me that she did not like that game. If I were forced to play this game the feeling is very much like that of having to pay bills, or doing your income tax return, or even unclogging a toilet.

The good news is that for some reason people want this game. You can always sell it. I was shocked to get twenty bucks for mine.

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