Leapster L-Max Handheld Learning Game System -Blue
Leapster, a new portable learning system from Leapfrog, has just entered the children's gaming arena to compete with Nintendo's Game Boy Advance SP (GBA-SP). For young kids, Leapster is leaving GBA-SP in the dust.
The Leapster Learning Game System
Teaches the way your child loves to play! With the Leapster learning advantage, kids can play action-packed games that teach essential skills for preschool through 4th grade. Multiple learning levels, tailored tutorials and a wide variety of learning games that take advantage of both the multi-directional control pad and the easy to use stylus ensure that children are learning essential skills while playing the video games that they love. With Leapster, the name of the game is learning!
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The Leapster Multimedia Learning System introduces letters, phonics, rhyming, spelling, numbers, counting, addition, subtraction, art and music.
Use the Learning Guide card to the right to find out more about the general categories of learning for the Leapster Handheld Multimedia Learning System. By clicking a category on the Learning Guide card, you'll see a list of knowledge areas that children develop when they play with this product and the skills on which those knowledge areas are based.
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Unlike the GBA-SP games, Leapster games talk to the child, making it ideal for young children who can't yet read. Its screen is bigger (4 inches versus 3) and the video is smoother and more movie-like. In addition to the traditional multi-directional control pad, Leapster comes with a touch-sensitive screen and a special stylus attached to the unit so that kids can use the stylus to create art, write, and drag objects across the screen.
Gradeschoolers aren't left out either. Some of the more popular LeapPad games for gradeschoolers are the Turbo Extreme Handheld, the Twist & Shout Multiplication, the FLY PenTop Computer, the LeapPad Plus Writing Learning System, and Mind Mania Spelling.
What Leapster provides that Nintendo can never have is the ear of parents; parents see educational value in LeapFrog's products, and I'm confident that many will buy the Leapster instead of a GBA for kids under 8. The Leapster should send a wakeup call to Nintendo, who continually fails to cater specifically to kids under 8, for reasons that completely befuddle me.
Leapster games are produced by Leapfrog, a company committed to producing only educational products for children. By year-end, there will be 6 educational video games available. In addition to games focused on content learned in kindergarten and first grade, other games will feature SpongeBob Squarepants and Dora the Explorer
