Preschool Pack
Published by Vicki Watson

Age Group: Age 2 to 5
Type: Thinking Games
License: $10, $20 for custom version
 
Description:

The colorful graphics, songs, and speech of Preschool Pack will be sure to capture the attention of your preschooler. From the main menu screen, which contains a cat which meows and winks when clicked, to the bee which frowns when a mistake is made in the matching game, you and your preschooler will appreciate the careful design and attention to detail of Preschool Pack. Through six different and entertaining activities your preschooler will learn about counting, number recognition, the alphabet, colors, matching, classifying, and memorizing his name, address, and telephone number.

The activities include: "Animal Homes", where animals must be placed in their appropriate homes - either farm, forest, or circus. Most of the animals have an accompanying animation and animal sound! "Balloons", where the user must click on a color block matching the color of a rising balloon before it pops; "Matching", a memory game with an animated bee rewarding the user who locates all matches; "Counting", where the user counts along with the computer as a variety of colorful images, from dinosaurs to dolls, are displayed; and "ABC's" where the user must find all letters which match a displayed letter. "ABC's" uses speech to pronounce each letter as it is selected. In the last activity the child will learn to spell his name, as well as learning his address and phone number. All activities are reinforced with cheerful music and animation sequences.

Kevin M. Jarrett (mailto:kevin.jarrett@compudata.comkevin.jarrett@compudata.com) adds: CPU SPEED AFFECTS ANIMATION SPEED AND DIGITIZED VOICE PLAYBACK RATES. On Jamie's 386, it sounds wonderful, and all the sounds match the activities.

On my 486, the voice pitch is perceptibly higher (although it just makes the woman's voice sound like a kid, which is neat anyway!) and some of the animations don't keep pace with the audio.On a 386 or lower class machine, which most people would say is perfect for a preschooler anyway, this is a great program. Plop it onto Dad or Mom's 486 (or heaven forbid, Pentium), and look out...it won't really be all that great. It might be funny, tho, as the animated bee zips across the screen so fast it's a blurà

Download Details

Requires:
DOS, 286 or higher, 640K, Hard Drive (approx. 2 Meg), EGA or VGA Color Monitor, Mouse, Not Microsoft Windows compatible

Filename: ppk22.zip

Filesize: 1122 KB

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