| | |  | Toys | Home » » » » V Tech - V.Smile Smartridge Bob the Builder | | | | | | | Description: | | Bob the Builder is always willing to lend a hand in town. Today Bob is having a very busy day and needs help completing his tasks. Help him by using your brain-building skills such as problem-solving and logic, and then you'll see why Bob's assistance is always in such great demand. For use with all V.Smile Learning Systems (sold separately). | | | Features: | |
• Bob the Builder engages child in learning adventures
• Learning Zone games teach letters, numbers, colors, counting, patterns and shapes
• Smartridge educational game works with V. Smile? TV Learning System and the portable V. Smile Pocket
• 3-5 years
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 1.2 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 7.3 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.29 pounds | | Package Length:
| 8.4 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.3 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 17 reviews |
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 lack of instruction for what the child is suppose to do & poor graphics making the goal objects hard to seeJan 05, 2008
Well, I'll start by saying I have my Master of Elementary Education and I am myself a gamer so I am more picky about things than others might be. One thing I don't like about the entire system and all the games is that they are designed so that the screen 'bounces' the whole time your child plays. This is trying on the eyes. That aside, some games are better than others. The graphics are too small on this game and blend in with the background.
Also, there is no game play instruction for the child in any of these games, so you have to figure out which objects are 'good' or 'bad'. For example, in this game, falling books are 'bad', and so is running into the blue cat, which causes you to loose life points. My son wanted to have his character play with the blue cat that is normally part of the stories.
I really expect better overall design and thought about how a child plays a game, and more instruction to the child is needed. Since this was my son's first system, I'd hoped they would provide pointers to him on what to do. In the VSmile ELMO game, one of the internal games gives some direction on what to do (such as: "hit the colored buttons to ...."), but I haven't seen that on this one yet.
Honestly, he was almost as ready to play on the grown-ups Wii bowling game and needed about the same level of assistance from us. When I was a girl, I played Mario Brothers. Perhaps my memory is off, but I thought the graphics back then were a bit better (or at least the same) in terms of contrast between objects internal to the game and it wasn't as hard for me to figure out how to play the game (how to move and what the goals were).
At one point in this game, Bob climbs up on a roof to find missing cutouts while trying to aviod roof pieces of the same tan/yellow color and pattern from falling on his head. Given that the cause of the roof holes is someone kicking brown boulders into the roof, it would have been better to have those as the hazard. They would have been easier to see. As it is, the little squares that fall and look just like the roof Bob is trying to fix blend in too much with the roof so my son doesn't see them coming.
I'll add one other comment: We bought the second joystick hoping that my son's younger sister would one day play with him. The games do not easily guide you or your child through how to select options such as "two player". In addition to that, I would love to see the games have a two player version that allows one player to play on the easy level and one player to play on the harder level. Smart programing would allow for this since many families are like ours and have several kids of different ages that could play the same game, just with minor differences. Failing that, it would be nice just to be able to toggle between the easy and hard settings more easily.
Son loves it!Jan 02, 2008
This is definatly a little boy game, my daughter is not intrested. The alphebet part isn't as helpful as one would think because it doesn't actually identify the letters just has you pick them up in order with arrows to tell you how to get to it, so I kid like my son can rush through it and not really pay attention to the letters and not get much out of it. It really does help with matching skills and such. and hand eye cordination. It is a fun game for my son and he enjoys playing it over and over but he just doesn't get as much out of it as I would like.
 Bob the Buider V.Smile SmartridgeMar 08, 2007
My 3 y/o son love this game the race to pick up fruit and collecting nuts and bolts with letters is even more fun. He plays his v.smile every single day and with the left hand adjustment it even better. GET THIS GAME! GET A V.SMILE! FIND PEACE WHILE THEY LEARN!
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Bob's GameFeb 24, 2006
Overall the game is pretty good for my 3 year old. The graphics are pretty good and the game is fun. In time, when he masters the game, there are no additional levels to expand the game.
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Fun for a 4 year old!Feb 20, 2006
My son is 4 and he loves his new Bob the Builder V-Smile game. He picked it up and immediately starting playing (he didn't need Mom's help at all!) Good purchase!
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