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Perfect Software for Kids

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: July 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Humongous Entertainment turns out consistently excellent software for kids. It's very entertaining and very gentle, while requiring substantial cleverness from participants. I've been buying HE titles for my kids since 1994, and haven't yet been disappointed. My boys (now 6 and 7) still play titles I bought 5 years ago.

Freddi Fish and the Conch Shell is great, gentle entertainment for kids age 3 - 8.

I'm addicted!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: May 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I absolutely love this game! I enjoy playing regular scrabble with my family whenever we get together but since we live all over the country we all play email scrabble with each other. I love being able to write an email at the end - even if just a sentence or multiple paragraphs depending on my news for the day. I love getting online to check if I have any plays. Therefore, I am devastated that Infogrames, who bought out Hasbro has elected to discontinue the game on May 1st by not supporting the server!!!! I would be willing to pay a small monthly fee to support the server if they would find another one. I emailed Infogrames but have not received any response. Anybody else concerned?

Excellent game, awful implementation and support

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: April 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge Scrabble addict and play this game non-stop, but that is only because I love the game itself, and not the way they put this together. There are all sorts of bugs with the way it plays, and there is no chance of ever getting support from anybody. Their call-in phone support gives you an automated robotic voice which is almost impossible to understand. No humans anywhere.

Also, be warned, gameplayers are currently getting this message when they play:

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Hasbro Interactive em@il games

We hope you have enjoyed the Em@il games series and we appreciate your patronage of Infogrames products, but we regret to inform you that as of May 1, 2001 Infogrames Interactive will no longer maintain the server that exchanges turns for the Em@il series of games. Please ensure that all in-progress games are completed by that date to avoid interrupted games.

(Please refer to the software licensing agreement that came with your Em@il games for details on service duration questions.) ------------------------

So the game might not even work for you. Check on this before buying.

best computer game in our house

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: December 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is the best computer game in our house....and the most played! My 4 year old playes it over and over. She loves the characters, the music, and hunting for the clues. She doesn't get bored with it because it changes every time she playes it, and it really makes her think. This game was definitely worth the money!

very challenging

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Even though my daugter loves the characters, music and animation, we found this game to be very long (thank goodness you can save it and continue later!). This is the main reason why I am rating it only 3 stars. However, if you work with your child until you and she/he can find all the clues, then she/he will be able to remember are and master the game her/himself. Personally, we have yet to complete a game.

Game was fun- don't expect any support

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Despite the fun I had with this game, the support has been so awful that they lost almost all of the stars. I downloaded the game and they never sent me a cd rom. Since then I have lost the game to a computer virus. I have e-mailed to enquire why I never received a cd. I sent that e-mail almost 2 months ago. I have since sent three more e-mails. I have still not heard from them-and at this point I really do not expect to. It seems to me that the money I spent is as good as gone. Be warned! If you ever need support I can pretty much guarantee you will not get- and if you do, I would appreciate knowing your secret.

Probably the best series

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

My son started torturing the computer at the age of 2, and still does three years later. We tried many games, but the software from Humongous is really the best, and the Freddi fish is a beatiful series of a crime/detective type. It's wery well designed, kids have a feeling of interacting with an animation movie. We ended up having all F.Fs and Putt-putts (other series from Humongous). Would advise to any parent to have it.

Wish it had lasted forever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: September 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

My sisters and I loved this game, right up until they discontinued the server that passed our games back and forth. Now we can't play anymore and we sure do miss it. We are in four different states and we used to be able to keep in touch daily. After you take your turn you can add a message and it feels like you aren't very far away at all! It used to be so much fun to check my email and see how many Scrabble turns I had waiting. One sister and I always had several games going at once!

Great game, too bad it no longer can work (please read on)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The servers that supported this game are shut down and the game will not function without them. Sad.

The Hasbro Interactive web site is closed

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

They closed the facilitating site around May 1st. It was a great game. I am trying to find another E-mail game.

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