Mia's Reading Adventure: The Search For Grandma's Remedy |  | From: Kutoka
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 714
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP, Mac OS X, Windows 95
Genre: Arcade Games
ESRB: Early Childhood
Media: DVD-ROM
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows 95
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 1.3
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 02120
Model: 21202
UPC: 632332021202
EAN: 0632332021202
ASIN: B0000DBYKP
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Exciting, interactive, learning adventure with Mia the mouse | | • | 9 full-featured literary-skills activities each with 4 levels of difficulty | | • | Specially adapted, navigation engine for complete control over Mia | | • | Teaches spelling, vocabulary, reading, phonics, word recognition, and more | | • | For kids ages 5 to 9 |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 20
A little slow... November 19, 2009
Avid Dad (Burlingame, CA)
My daughter played the game and she did enjoy it. She finished it over 3 short sessions, but would lose interest after about 30 minutes. Moving through the screens seems slow and awkward. Sometimes it seemed hard to figure where to go next and I was the one trying to figure it out.
The animation was nice and you can increase the difficulty level. But it don't expect it to be very educational. It is a game with some light reading mini-games inserted awkwardly into the game play.
If you want better educational software, I would pick up the Jumpstart Advanced games in the red boxes. Those games seem more geared to education and I felt they were worth the money. I would avoid the newer Jumpstart Advanced World games in the gold boxes as they require you to pay a subscription.
 You get what you paid for September 19, 2009
PorkChopExpress (CA)
This game looks great but lacks direction. You direct Mia to walk from room to room but along the way you are suppose click things. Which things you are suppose to click is not intuitive nor are there really any clues. For example, in one case you are in the attic of a house. There is stuff littered throughout the attic (bats, balls, boxes, toys, etc). Of the 10 things in the room only 2 or 3 actually do anything. In addition of the 2 or 3 things that do do something, only clicking very specific parts of those things do anything. So for example, if you are suppose to click the bat, only clicking one end of the bat results in a reaction. Often times when my daughter needed help, she ended up clicking every square inch of the screen hoping something would happen.
The actual challenges aren't bad but there are few and like I said of above can be hard to find.
Save your money! DO NOT PURCHASE. May 27, 2008
MV (Sherman Oaks, CA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this game for my two kids 5 and 7 and sat thought an interminable 2hrs while they played it.
The game doesn't come with instructions so you have to find them on the disk. Unfortunately even after reading them I did not find the game very intuitive.
One of the first things to occur is that the mouse gets violently mugged by a Rat. I wasn't expecting that when I bought the game.
It was a complete mystery to me how to save during the progress of the game until (yet again) I looked at the instructions. The progress of the gameplay is not instinctive and I had to look at the instructions (again) several times in order for the kids to progress further.
The complexities of the different mini games are too simple and repetitive, or too hard for the two of them to play without significant help and input from me. I was gritting my teeth much of the time due to the minigames.
On the positive side; the kids were able to handle the interface well, they liked the characters, music and graphics. You can change the complexity level of the game at any time during gameplay by going back to the main menu. It is fairly slick EXCEPT for the save feature which sucks (it should save automatically during the progress of the game).
This is NOT a learning game it is an adventure game with word puzzles, there is NO teaching involved. Since I bought this game expressly for my kids to LEARN I do not recommend it for anything but adventure/ entertainment play.
FYI: For all the "educated" parents out there READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. They tell you how to skip any animated sequence (including the intro movie) - hit the SPACEBAR. How to save - hit F3. How to skip a minigame and win while playing it - hit ESC. How to go to the main menu - hit F2. Oy!
 more like going to a movie than playing a video game. January 29, 2008
Celia (Manahawkin, N.J., U.S.A.)
Definitely a game you have to help younger kids with. Adventurous and realistic, good graphics, my four year old stayed up way past bedtime to find the remedy so grandma would get better. She is five now and I still have to help her, but, this is a game a child can grow with. Mia the mouse is adorable in this engaging story. Some teaching of reading but more abstract problem solving, detective work, and searching for clues. Good game for a slow paced Sunday afternoon.
 helped my child with telling time December 21, 2007
Rita I. Defalco (BLAIRSVILLE, GA . US)
this game helped my child with her math skills. the levels helped boost her confidence.i would have liked the game to change a little as the level increases.
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