Dora the Explorer Adventure 3-Pack
$29.95		(Win98/Me/XP/Mac) (Mini Retail) (DORA3PKDR) Note: Dora Animal Adventures is not Mac Compatible!

Publisher: Atari

Ages 3 & Up

Ratings:

Dora Backpack Adventure:

Dora and Boots need to return her books to the Library, and they need your help to get there! Along the way, you’ll help them solve problems, figure out puzzles and play games with their friends Benny the bull, Isa the iguana, and Tico the squirrel! Watch out for the Grumpy Old Troll and that sneaky fox, Swiper! With Dora, even returning books to the Library becomes an adventure!

Features and Activities:

• Multiple locations with exciting games to play!
• Discovery clickables bring Dora’s environment to life!
• On-screen Sticker Book 2 ways to play – Adventure and Freeplay Modes
• 3 adjustable difficulty levels
• All this and learn a little Spanish, too!

Dora Lost City Adventure

Dora’s special teddy bear is lost!

Join Dora, Boots and her trusty Map on a journey through exotic locations to the Lost City, a mysterious, hidden place where all lost objects go. Along the way, you’ll meet Pirate Pig, Mami Bugga Bugga and Señor Tucan and help them regain their lost objects, too. Be on the lookout for hidden stars throughout the game and collect them in your very special “star pouch”!

Features and Activities:

• Multiple locations to visit with cool math-related games to play!
• 2 ways to play — Adventure and Freeplay Modes
• Printable math activity sheets
• All this and learn a little Spanish, too!

Dora Animal Adventures

Note: Dora Animal Adventures is not Mac Compatible!

Join Dora and Boots on an incredible journey to find and care for all sorts of animals! Meet creatures that live in the rainforest, swim in the river or stay awake all night long! Kids help Dora reunite baby animals with their mothers, snap photographs for a journal and water-ski with a pink river dolphin. Inventive gameplay encourages the building of basic preschool skills — counting, logical thinking, interpersonal abilities and even simple Spanish words. It’s time to catch a star, sing and dance, and feed the animals — so Vámonos! Let’s go!

Features and Activities:

• First game to feature Dora’s cousin, Diego (who can talk to the animals!)
• An in-game jukebox for kids to choose their favorite Dora songs
• Counting activities in both English and Spanish, and other use of simple Spanish words

Requirements:

Windows 98/Me/XP: Pentium® II 233 MHz or higher Memory: 32 MB RAM (64 MB for XP) Hard Disk Space: 85 MB free CD-ROM Drive: 8X Speed Video: 2 MB Windows® 98/Me/XP-compatible SVGA video card* Sound: Windows® 98/Me/XP-compatible sound card* DirectX®: DirectX® 8.1 (included) or higher *Indicates device should be compatible with DirectX® version 8.1 or higher .

Macintosh:Operating System: System 8.6 or higher Processor: 233 MHz G3 or higher Memory: 32 MB RAM Hard Disk Space: 85 MB free CD-ROM Drive: 24X Speed Video: 2 MB video card

Reviews:

Computing with Kids by Jinny Gudmundsen

"Making her computer debut with this software title, Dora embarks on an adventure to return books to the public library. Preschoolers can choose to play the game as a story in the “Backpack Adventure Mode” or they can jump directly into the activities in “Freeplay Map Mode.” In either mode, the seven activities have three levels of difficulty, and kids earn stickers for printable art activities."

"This software was a big hit with our preschool testers. Its learning exercises are simple and provide a lot of mouse practice. It cocoons little ones with help when they are confused. Swiper, the troublesome fox in the TV show, periodically sneaks up and must be banished by clicking. In addition, the program entices kids to explore (and thus use the mouse more) by hiding tons of clickable animations at each location."

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