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Toys : LeapFrog® Leapster® 2 Learning Game System - Pink
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Minimum Age: 48 months Binding: Toy Brand: LeapFrog EAN: 0708431307070 Label: LeapFrog Manufacturer: LeapFrog Manufacturer Maximum Age: 10 years Manufacturer Minimum Age: 48 months Model: 30707 Publisher: LeapFrog Release Date: July 01, 2008 Studio: LeapFrog Sales Rank: 926 MPN: 30707 Features:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: The LeapFrog Leapster 2 is such a bright, fun handheld, they won't believe it's educational! Children learn school skills from the animated games, interactive touch screen and stylus while playing with more than 30 games featuring characters they love. The games cover everything from language and reading skills to math and science concepts. And the Leapster 2 system offers many options for creative play. Leapster 2 is the only handheld preschool gaming system that connects to the LeapFrog Learning Path, an online, interactive tool that allows you to see what your child is learning. Kids can also connect online for extra activities and rewards, while parents connect to get updates and see firsthand what their children are learning. With additional games featuring your children's favorite characters, there's no limit to their learning. This is simply the best way to entertain and educated your children so don't wait and pick up this up today. Included and additional games teach a range of subjects: Amazon.com Review: Put innovative creativity and fun at your kids' fingertips -- and watch them learn in the process -- with the The LeapFrog Leapster 2 Learning Game System. This battery-operated handheld game system goes where your children go, and brings plenty of learning fun along. It comes with two pre-installed educational games, and many more are available: purchase an optional SD card separately for access to additional online games and to take advantage of other online features; or you can purchase game cartridges to add to your Leapster 2 repository. The included games have skill levels suitable for children ages 4 to 8.
We found the initial set-up to be relatively easy: install the four required AA batteries, and navigate through the self-explanatory screens to create user profiles for up to 3 children (which come in handy for accessing online features). After this quick set-up, a menu screen will appear, where you can choose to play the pre-loaded games, go online, or insert a game cartridge. Fun and Learning Leapster 2 games are designed to grow with your child ages 4 through 8. The console is pre-loaded with two games: The "Dragons to the Rescue! Learning Game," is a "video game" type activity with four different levels, the first helping kids identify letters and numbers, the most advanced giving them spelling and multiplication practice, all while navigating a dragon past monstrous storm clouds and scrambling to collect magic crystals. The "Creativity Castle Art Studio" is a rather low-tech art program. Players can select a background scene to "color" using the stylus and "decorate" with fun animated stamps. While it does foster creativity, this program is somewhat clumsy -- your Paint program on your PC does a much better job. But "Dragons" was fun enough to keep even an adult tester enjoyably diverted. Unfortunately, an SD card is required for taking advantage of much of what the Leapster 2 has to offer -- which is a drawback, because it must be purchased separately. Without the SD card, which offers more memory, you cannot save artwork, download new games, or take advantage of the online "Learning Path," which will be available August 2008. (This online program allows you to register and upload your children's Leapster 2 profiles to show you their learning activities and their progress.) In the meantime, without the SD card, you can still purchase game cartridges. And you still can plug your console -- with the included USB cable -- into your PC for your children to view and print "rewards" for completing different game levels (for Dragons to the Rescue, they're certificates of achievement) or to print pictures to color with actual crayons (to encourage some "old-fashioned" creativity!) You must first install the Leapster 2 software on your computer, which comes on the included CD-ROM. What's in the Box Leapster 2 Game System, USB cable, CD-ROM Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - SD card feature does not functionI purchased two Leapster2s from different stores and neither one could detect an SD card. They could not detect a new SD card nor a used one that I cleared. This negates what was a major selling point for me which is being able to download free games and for my daughters to be able to save artwork and such to the cards. I might as well have bought the regular Leapster and saved my money. I checked out the Amazon comments a little too late. Others have complained about the SD card feature with the Leapster2 and their are complaints about picture quality with the Leapster Lmax. When companies give you less than what you are paying for it is called a "RIP OFF". I used to expect more from Leap Frog. Boy do I wish Sony made a competing product. Rating:  - Great educational toyThe leapster 2 is fantastic, great quality, my son has dropped it several times and nothing has happend to it. He loves the new games that came out to go with it and even the ones that are already on the system. Its very educational too, he's learned to write all of the letters in he alphabet and do addition and subtraction. It really makes learning fun. Better than a game boy. Rating: - Already in StorageI bought this for my 4 year old son a week ago and so far we are really disappointed. I did a lot of research and chose the leapster 2 for my youngest son. I should let you know that my family is very electronic oriented. Both my children have been playing games for several years on the internet and both have had leapster type reading books as well as some simple hand held games. WE also own a Wii that both kids absolutely love. here is my rundown of the good and the bad: the bad: * upon turning on the device we are greeted with a Siezure warning. We have to sit through this every single time we open it up. Grrrrr. * the preinstalled games are fun and exciting - for about 5 minutes. My son actually gave me the device ... Read More: Rating:  - Beware of pre-installed gamesThe preinstalled games are "Dragons to the Rescue". The first game is just a digital art game -- simple but innocent. The second game is the reason we took it back. It is supposed to be a learning game where the Dragons collect crystals and answer questions to build words or numbers. But at the beginning there is a mean storm cloud that evily says, "I HATE the sun and all the pretty colors." He goes on to laugh wickedly. I'm sure this game is considered "tame" to many other computer games, but frankly, I was shocked knowing this was a Leapfrog product. I guess I assumed the pre-installed games would be Tad and Lily and Professor learning to spell or something like their videos. I called customer service to see if the games could be removed, but was told ... Read More: Rating:  - SD card woes on Leapster 2I have created a fix for anyone to try. I am an IT hardware person and was fed up with waiting for leap frog to fix it so I tried to fix it myself. I have gotten great feedback from this fix so try it out. http://jdrwebnow.net/leapster2_fix.html Any questions or comments email me at jdrhunter@gmail.com As for the device itself my four year old loves the games and I hear her repeating...reciting what she is getting out of it. I have on occasion turned it on and played the walle game. I do wish the batteries would last longer. |
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