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Worth The Money - 2 1/2 year old son loves it

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 15 / 15
Date: January 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have bought almost every software title I can for Blue's Clues, Winnie, Disney, Dalmations etc... This Dora game holds my son's attention more than any other except the Tonka Trucks game. It works well on my PC and also plays well on our Imac.
If you do have a Mac run it on OS 9.3 or lower. OS X doesn't like it much.

If your child loves Dora and is under 5 buy this.

Kids Like Repition

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 14 / 14
Date: November 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have b/g twins - almost 4 - and this has become their favorite game! Yes, I got bored with it very quickly - but they LOVE it - and they now get on the computer themselves, and pop it in. They love typing their names in and "owning" the whole game (without my help). I'm sure they'll tire of it soon, but we got it during the summer, and it's November and they still "play Dora" almost every day! Kids LIKE repition!

Great Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 16
Date: December 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my 3 1/2 year old daughter. She loves Dora and I knew she would love the game. My 5 year old daughter loves it to, she just plays the higher level. It has a lot of fun learning activities and it is really cute. I'm really impressed. I've bought several computer games in the past few years, but this is the best one I've seen yet.

Beware of this product

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 15
Date: December 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

My daughter loves this game, but after installing the game, I realized that it had also decided to install some software from Gator.com.

If you are not aware of what gator is, it is a massive online privacy violation. It will track all of your web travels, giving gator information that you have entered into webforms. This has nothing to do with the game, and is a blatant violation of your and your childs privacy.

If I had a way to give this a lower rating I would. My daughter played for about 5 minutes before she ran into a hang that needed the computer rebooted, and we couldn't play anymore. Go somewhere else to find your childs games

Dora

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: September 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Dora's backpack adventure was too easy. My three and a half year old completed level 2 in about 15-20 minutes. The third level is only harder because it the activities are in Spanish. She loves Dora but was bored with it the second time around.

My 2 yr old played through this game in 20 minutes.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: February 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

There is very little interaction so it's more like a cartoon with four short activities thrown in. The activities don't have a repeat option so when they're done, you're forced to move on.

The graphics are nice but we could get almost the same amount of interaction with the TV show. A big disappointment.

Is a Fine Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: July 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a fine game. I do not think it is as educational as it is billed. However, beyond that, it is a cute game and follows the traditional Dora method... You have a problem and you look at the map and use the things in the back pack to reach the final destination and collect the final item you need.

It is my opinion that there are better software games that are educational available. I would probably buy some of the Freddie Fish games and JumpStart games before I would buy this game.

I rated it a low three stars (or possibly a high two stars) for several reasons: 1- My son quickly grew bored with this game and stopped playing it after only a few weeks. 2- The voice of Dora is annoying and 3- I don't find Dora educational, and this software is the same- it's not very educational. It doesn't really teach Spanish although Dora will use Spanish once in a while. It doesn't really teach problem solving since the backpack and map and characters Dora runs across pretty much tell her what she needs to do and how.

Enjoy.

Novelty more than the game itself

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: December 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

My twins have mixed feelings about this game. They're 4 and while both enjoy it, they quickly tire of it. Since children have short attention spans that may play into it. It's also possible that the challenges aren't enough to keep them interested. I vote for the later as I've seen them walk away from it many times. It's the romance of interacting with Dora they enjoy more than the game itself. It's the familarity of the characters more than the challenges.

The sticker portion of the game is the most fun for my 4 year olds. They love to pull down the various characters and put them in odd places for a laugh. Your children will probably quickly be bored by level 1 so the challenges do increase a bit (particularly during the balloon portionof the game). I do dislike the fact that there's no CD-ROM case included as it's already been scratched a bit. There is an instruction booklet with an 800 # should you have issues or problems.

That's not to suggest it's all bad. There are a couple of adventures here that I've observed involve them more than others. There are problems with the software, however, and it should be noted. First, it's difficult to end the program once you get into it. You can't just exit. I realize this is to prevent children from accidently leaving the program but when I have to close it out to go on line or run another program it's annoying. I have to parade back to the beginning of the game. If you hit escape you don't leave and if you right click nothing happens. There's no icon for quitting the game or saving it where you are (although it apparently does save whatever previous game you were in although since I don't play it I can't confirm that).

Although it's not perfect, Dora's Backpack Adventure does offer some distraction and learning opportunities for children. It's age range is appropriate though you should be prepared that they may be bored. They will more than likely come back to it either for the novelty of Dora's world or to try challenges they understand and can solve.

Not good for active children

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: January 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought this software for my nieces... and they were pretty excited to see Dora on the box. They ripped it open with glee and we installed it.

Well, I guess Quality Control is missing in the Lost City - the software simply wasn't translating my mouse clicks in a standard way, and so interacting with the software became a adventure! The software worked great in terms of seeing and hearing Dora... but when we tried to interact with Dora and her friends, well, that was an exercise in frustration!

As a software developer, I found it unusable. Totally unusable. It was so wrong, I sent a note to tech support.

Tech support responded in a day or two, but unfortunately their reply didn't offer any advice in correcting my usability issue.

I suggest something else - my nieces were very disappointed. I was disappointed too.

good for 10 minutes of entertainment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: October 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

My 3 year old completed the backpack adventure in 10 minutes. Then she completed the hardest setting in another 10 minutes. Now the game sits on the shelf and she won't touch it because it's way too easy even for a three year old. Save your money on this one.

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