Sesame Street First Steps | 
| From: Nova Development US
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 457
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Mac, Windows XP
Genre: Arcade Games
ESRB: Early Childhood
Media: CD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: SSRTLXT
Model: #
UPC: 727298405699
EAN: 0727298405699
ASIN: B000WMQZ0K
Release Date: September 15, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | Developed by trusted experts in childhood education, Sesame Street® First Steps is an exciting new way for parents to interact with their children while encouraging learning. Along with Elmo, Ernie, Burt, Big Bird and many more of Sesame Street s most loveable characters, parents and children can sing songs, play games and learn the fundamentals of language through a variety of charming and e |
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SESAME STREET FIRST STEPS
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 10
 Seemingly made by people who hate children and parents October 4, 2009
Beau Yarbrough (Hesperia, CA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
There are lots of good computer programs for young children out there. Those programs have clearly been tested with actual children and parents and even educators have been consulted on what works and what doesn't.
Sesame Street: First Steps is not one of those programs.
This is a slapped-together program done by a team that clearly has no parents on it, was quality checked by no one and pushed out onto a public that, unfortunately, trusts anything with the name Sesame Street on it.
THIS IS A TERRIBLE PROGRAM.
First, children are able to use only the mouse or the keyboard while a given section is running, not both. Why not both? Just because. Now, try and get a toddler to understand this -- I certainly don't.
Secondly, because apparently the programmers believe all children need constant orders being barked at them by pixelated Muppet drill sergeants, the on-screen characters tell children what to do at any time there's not keyboard input.
"Remember how to play Silly Songs? Press the keyboard," Zoe orders. Without pausing for breath, she immediately repeats this until a child presses a button. "Remember how to play Silly Songs? Press the keyboard. Remember how to play Silly Songs? Press the keyboard. Remember how to play Silly Songs? Press the keyboard. Remember how to play Silly Songs? Press the keyboard."
The moment the child stops pressing the keyboard, she starts back up again. This continues until the parent quits the program in disgust. All the other "games" work in an identical fashion.
And Zoe? The songs aren't silly and pressing the key during, say, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" just puts up one of three identical graphics in the sky, none of which are silly or even amusing to small children.
Now, if you want a program that will let your kid play on the computer and get hand/eye coordination going (especially with the mouse, which is an abstract concept for kids at first), get some genuinely silly things going on, do it at a child's pace (and allowing for things happening away from the keyboard without some cartoon harridan going ballistic) and even lock down the computer with a screensaver to protect parents' programs and data, the Giggles Fun Time for Babies programs do all that. There's still more chatter from the on-screen cartoon dog than I'd prefer, but it's not a constant refrain when other things might be going on in the house (and bearing in mind a young child's attention span).
Do NOT get this program. I cannot imagine what prompted other people to give this good reviews, but this is honestly the worst "toy" I've come across in my child's lifetime.
Great cd-rom for toddlers August 25, 2009
H. TORRE
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This cd-rom is great for toddlers with no mouse skills, and it evolves for kids who learn mouse skills while playing. My only complaint is that about 80% of what is on this disc is available online at [...]
 My 18mo Old Loves It. June 27, 2009
Richard Metzler (Tampa, FL)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this for my 18 month old from an Apple store. She loves it and starts laughing and jumping when the computer comes out for the game. Best part is the keyboard or mouse activities. Plenty of games to choose from. Highly recommend.
Great First Software Program For Little Ones May 11, 2009
A. Glass (New Jersey)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just happened to notice this software on Amazon one day and thought since my niece already seems to be entrhalled by the computer, I would buy it for her to use with me at my house. My niece is only 20 months old, but she knows how to work the mouse. I also show her videos and such of various characters and she does know Sesame Street as well. I believe there are 4 different activities that can be done, but so far my niece and I have only done one of them, which was coloring a picture with the mouse. Ohhh boy did she just love doing this. She got so excited watching the colors fill in while she was moving the mouse! Of course her filling in is swooshing back and forth and up and down, but the program actually automatically fills in the rest of the picture after the child fills in about 1/2 or more. To children this young, though, it does not matter. She got a kick out of seeing it and then guessing what it was. Also, she did not want me to stop to check out the other activities yet, so we've not gotten that far for me to review them.
Overall, it's a very simple program and great one for a very young child to start learning the mouse. My niece LOVES it and loves identifying all the Sesame Street characters.
1.5 year old loves it October 12, 2008
Tavares Forby (San Diego)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
My 1 and a half year old loves it. But the graphics are a little horrible. But that does not matter to the 1 year olds....
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