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From: ssd@sugar.UUCP (Scott Denham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: little kids software?
Message-ID: <1544@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 88 03:47:57 GMT
References: <880001@acf5.NYU.EDU>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Summary: Try these.....

In article <880001@acf5.NYU.EDU>, sterling@acf5.NYU.EDU (John Burr Sterling) writes:
> I'm interested in software for little kids.  Say, 2 years old.  Is
> there any thing out there on the Amiga?
> 
I've had good luck with 3 programs that both my 2 year old and 5 year old
enjoy a great deal (though at a different level, of course). The favorite
is First Shapes (First Byte) which has some good pattern matching and 
color/size/shape exercises. The second favorite is JMH's Talking Coloring
Book, a kiddie Deluxe Paint of sorts. It also attempts to teach the names
of the colors. The 3rd (much to my astonishment) is Flight Simulator!! 
They both crash alot, but they get a kick out of it, and have gotten
reasonably proficient at keeping it in the air if I take off and get 'em
up to a few thousand feet or so. We also tried Match-it (the Other guys)
which mostly duplicates what's in First Shapes, and is rather clunky and
unexciting by comparison.
> John Sterling
> sterling@lang1.cs.nyu.edu