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Dragon Tales: Learn & Fly With Dragons
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: TOPICS Entertainment
EAN: 0078073565344
Address: Early Childhood
Feature(s): Teaches essentials skills like arithmetic and logic11 engaging activities and 3 unique adventures3 levels of play automatically adjust to child¿s progressStarring popular characters and voices from hit TV showAutomatic help allows for independent play; for ages 3 and up
Format(s): CD-ROM
Autographed: False
Memorabilia: False
Item Dimensions: Weight 2 lbs.
Label: Topics Entertainment
List Price: $19.99
Manufacturer: Topics Entertainment
Model: 356534
MPN: 356534
Number Of Items: 1
Package Dimensions:
Height: 1.4"
Width: 5.4"
Length: 1.4"
Weight: 0.22 lbs.
Platform: Macintosh, Windows XP, Mac OS X, Windows
Product Group: Video Games
Publisher: Topics Entertainment
Release Date: 2004-06-23
Studio: Topics Entertainment
UPC: 078073565344
Editorial Reviews
Product Description:
Dragon Tales: Learn & Fly With Dragons lets young children visit Dragon Land and discover great activities and minigames. Cassie's brothers and sisters will earn to fly, as they play with your children. The games and lessons will develop independent learning skills.
Customer Reviews Average rating - 3.0
Rating - 4 Date: 2007-05-07
Content: A good program. Needs to be updated to OS X
Summary: Dragon Tales: Learn & Fly with Dragons
Rating - 4 Date: 2006-01-02
Content: My son has been playing this since 2 1/2 year old. He can play it by himself, although he does use some trial and error, especially the pattern game and the what's missing game. My 5 year old daughter who loves Dragontales shows, is not interested in this game, which suggests that the game is too easy for her. I like that the program automatically advances levels, unlike many of the other software we have.
Summary: Good beginner game
Rating - 2 Date: 2005-05-13
Content: This game markets itself as appropriate for 4-6 year olds. I bought this for my 5 year old and she beat it in less than 30 minutes. The game itself is extremely short - only 6 activities. This may be better for 3 and 4 year olds just learning to count and learn shapes. But for those already competent or even familiar with them, its a waste of money.
Summary: Better for the younger set
Rating - 5 Date: 2004-11-22
Content: My four year old enjoys this. The look and sound of the software is the same as the PBS show. Some of the activities my four year old can do by himself while others require some help from mom or dad. The software gives directions for your child to follow. There are activites such as counting and shape sorting and other activities that require an understanding of bigger/smaller, up/down, etc. We have about four computer games. In order of preference our son likes Dragon Tales followed by Little People Farm/Airport, then Clifford Thinking Adventure and then Finding Nemo. Overall, Dragon Tales Learn to Fly is a good value that runs well on my older Windows 98 system.
Summary: Fun and Educational
Rating - 1 Date: 2004-09-22
Content: This game does not work on a Powerbook that can't change its resolution to 640x480. That includes most of the older Powerbooks on which you'd be likely to be running children's software. In addition, the error message you get is just plain wrong: it complains that the color depth is wrong, even when it is not. So I looked in the manual, which was incorrectly formatted for the Mac (contained gremlin characters at the start of every line), and this issue was not even mentioned in the trouble-shooting section, nor was the requirement of a 640x480 monitor mentioned anywhere. So I called Scholastic, and went around twice with their automated product-selection menu, which insisted that it has no products for the Mac starting with "DRA" or "LEA". Finally I got a human, who put me on hold for a while and then explained that the software doesn't work unless it can change the resolution. (And this, by the way, is a silly requirement - all my other educational titles work just fine drawing their 640x480 graphics in the middle of a larger screen.)
On the whole it was a thoroughly disappointing waste of time. Clearly the folks at Scholastic did not test their software on a variety of machines, and despite the simultaneous Mac/Win release, are not serious about supporting their Mac customers.
Summary: doesn't work, and poorly supported
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