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Jumpstart Advanced Preschool |  | From: Knowledge Adventure
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $9.99
as of 11/21/2009 10:04 CST details
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 972
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows Me
ESRB: Early Childhood
Media: CD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Age: 2 - 4 years
Operating System: Windows 98
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 20159
Model: 20159
UPC: 876930001079
EAN: 0876930001079
ASIN: B000EXU99K
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Motivating reward system keeps children engaged | | • | 4-CD set helps kids practice and build essential preschool skills | | • | Activities address 50+ skills from math and pre-reading to music and art | | • | Based on state educational standards; auto leveling adjusts to child's pace | | • | Learning Profiler determines child's learning style and adjusts play |
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Product Description
JumpStart Advanced Preschool is the complete Get Ready For School program. Now including JumpStart Toddlers, it delivers more fun and engaging activities than ever in this 4-CD set. Students Learn: Patterns Upper case letters Lower case letters Number recognition Spatial awareness Counting Quantities Colors Shapes Sizes
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Alright--but won't get much use from us November 9, 2009
mommyofone
I have been shopping for a fun and educational computer game for my three year old for several weeks now--who would have thought it would be so difficult! The product descriptions and reviews listed for this product (JumpStart Advanced Preschool) are contradictory and confusing, so I thought I would share what I have found since purchasing this game.
This is a 4-CD set. Each CD contains a distinctly different game. The CD must be in the drive to play each game.
Disc 1 is called Explore and Learn and was formerly sold as JumpStart Preschool Classic. This game consists of a school room in which many objects are clickable. Some lead to educational activities, others lead to educational songs/animations. Each activity has three levels of play (after a certain number of correct answers, it will ask if you want to advance to the next level). The activities/songs/animations cover quite a diverse variety of educational skills--I was impressed. However, my daughter and I find play to be very slow and cumbersome. More often than not, she knows the correct answer long before the characters finish talking, and it takes so long for the activity to advance that she ends up clicking all over the screen trying to get it to do something.
Disc 2 is called Fundamentals: My First Adventure and was formerly sold as Jumpstart World. This game requires online registration prior to play. Very little content is offered with this CD. Paid membership is required to access further content. The game is a 3D virtual world that can be freely explored and provides many fun and/or educational activities and interactions. Navigation through the world certainly requires different skills and thinking processes than traditional "workbook style" children's computer games, which is good. However, the world is in constant motion and I worry about exposing such young children to such overwhelming visual stimuli. I have no intention of getting the membership.
Disc 3 is called Language Club and was formerly sold as JumpStart Languages. This game consists of four houses (English, Spanish, French, Japanese). Entering each house leads to a room in which many objects are clickable. Some lead to activities, others lead to songs/animations. Each activity has three levels of play. There are a few fun things to do and a tiny bit of cultural information may be picked up by the player. However, I doubt very much that much of the languages will be picked up. The characters speak in voices that are impossible to understand (unless you already know what they're saying) and the foreign words are not displayed on the screen.
Disc 4 is called Art for Fun. This program essentially consists of several different "backgrounds" and coloring sheets. Blank spaces can be filled in with colors, stickers can be added to the pages, and sometimes text can be added to create a story. In my opinion, this offers only very limited creative options. My daughter has not been very interested in it so far.
One review expressed concern that circles and ovals are mixed up in this program. I have only come across circles in any of the games (never ovals). The circles are very slightly flattened, and it is possible that some players would prefer that they be called ovals.
This product does not contain JumpStart Toddler. I have not come across any player assessment tests. The software was easy to install and works reasonably well on our computer. It does crash occassionally.
Bottome Line: This product was not quite what I was looking for. I was hoping for an educational game somewhere in between discs 1 and 2: a game with a linear story line that requires educational activities/puzzles to be solved in order to progress. I did not find that with this product. Disc 1 is the only game that is likely to get much use from us, and I imagine that it will not keep my daughter's interest for long because it is so slow and cumbersome.
 Deceptive and Cheesy October 26, 2009
Reason and Faith (Washington State)
Since when did the industry consider it appropriate to seize the user's computer on exit to run commercials for the product you've already purchased and REQUIRE an internet connection just to play what you've loaded to your local system? You cannot get more intrusive as an advertiser than that. In addition to such cheesy tactics, this game producer also provides a game for $20.00 that has a functionality comparable to a downloadable demo. The child can do precious little in this game, (without going online to pay MORE for what should have been bundled in the shrink-wrapped version) and what he can do seems to have had little user testing behind it. It is just a desperately poor implementation bordering on deceptive. Never again...
Mixes up circles & ovals! October 7, 2009
L. Massie (Agoura Hills, CA USA)
I have the version that states it works with windows Vista as well. I have not yet gotten to the part where you have to purchase the on-line subscription to go past level 2, but I keep reading about it! If that's not bad enough, both the Advanced Preschool & the Kindergarten mix up circles and ovals and teach that they are opposite of what they really are! I called customer service three times, talked to a customer service person once who said he had vague rememberance of having heard of this problem once or twice, but was unaware of any patch or downloadable fix for this error. He said he would research it and call me back. I have not heard back after over a month. I also called after that two other times & left messages after being on hold for a long time, but never got any calls back. I bought both preschool & kindergarten as the 4 disc bundle pack (with bonus disc) at Costco & am planning to take them back!
Have trouble using on Windows Vista/ bad customer service July 23, 2009
J. Elsis (N.J)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Easy to install at first but after a few minutes of playing the sound went out. I tried another day with disc 2 and after a few minutes the picture went out. I called tech. support and was emailed information about a patch which I had to install. After doing so I tried running the game and my computer went black and I couldn't do anything with it, after about 2 hours I got my computer up and running again. I called tech support and left a message and I also emailed them but no one got back to me. I am having a bad experinece with this game and the company so i would never recommend this to a friend.
Do NOT purchase Jumpstart Preschool for Windows Vista - NO product support from Jumpstart July 22, 2009
R. Zimmerman
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased Jumpstart Preschool for my daughter. The program was installed on my machine running Windows Vista. The program worked for about 5 minutes, then all of a sudden the sound for the game stopped working. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the program, but nothing would bring the sound back (sound works on all other programs on the computer).
I attempted to get help from Jumpstart through the following channels:
- 3 Emails sent to customer support
- 4 Phone calls placed to technical support (4 messages left on their recording)
- 2 Phone calls placed to customer support (2 messages left)
- 4 posts on the Jumpstart message board at jumpstart.com
ALL attempts to contact Jumpstart have failed. I have yet to receive a single response from Jumpstart, and they CANNOT be reached by phone.
In conclusion, the program simply does not work, and the customer service is non-existent. I returned this program back to the store as defective merchandise.
STAY AWAY FROM JUMPSTART PRODUCTS!!! (1 star is too much)
Don't just take my word for it. Try calling their customer "care" line yourself and see if you get anyone to pickup or answer your call. Their phone number is 1-800-545-7677. Let us all know how that goes.
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