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Amazon Minimum Age: 48 monthsBattery Description: 4 AA Binding: Toy Brand: LeapFrog EAN: 0708431202092 Item Dimensions: Label: LeapFrog Manufacturer: LeapFrog Manufacturer Maximum Age: 120 months Manufacturer Minimum Age: 48 months MPN: 20209 Publisher: LeapFrog Release Date: June 12, 2006 Studio: LeapFrog Features:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: The Leapster Handheld Learning System teaches your child by playing with them! Play and learn essential pre-K through 2nd grade skills, with one interactive system. Children will educate themselves through action-packed learning games for reading, math, critical and creative thinking, story comprehension, vocabulary, and much more! Backlit screen for easy viewing Headphone jack for quiet play. The Leapster software library features games for pre-K through 4th grade. What it Teaches: -
Amazon.com Product Description: Here is one handheld gaming system that both parents and kids will be able to agree upon. The Leapster Learning Game System takes the brain-building principles that Leapfrog laid out in its early electronic learning devices (which have an interactive book format) and applies them to a video-game format. Leapster draws kids in with familiar video game templates—all of which have a secret weapon: a built-in learning component. LeapFrog hopes that kids will become so engaged in the gaming aspects and familiar television and movie characters offered by this toy that they won't even notice they're learning and reinforcing valuable reading, math, and language skills.
As with the manufacturer's LeapPad products, the Leapster does require the purchase of additional cartridges to expand its capabilities. Kids can choose from a star-studded list of their favorite characters to play educational games with, such as SpongeBob SquarePants, Thomas the Tank Engine, Dora the Explorer, Nemo, Cinderella, Batman, and more. Leapfrog's own cartoon star, Tad, narrates a few as well. While stocking up on the extra software titles can get expensive, it gives parents some control and input on which characters they'd like their kids to learn from. Plus, characters for these titles are appropriately matched to the maturity of the targeted grade level (pre-K through 4th grade).
Each game offers multiple skill levels so kids can ease into new territory at the beginner level, then challenge themselves with more advanced learning problems as they understand the concept. If kids are stumped at any point during a game, they can hit the Hint button and receive a friendly push in the right direction from an animated tutor, Edison the firefly. Edison also appears automatically if kids answer a question incorrectly several times in a row and coaches the child to reach the correct answer. The Pause button lets kids stop the game for a snack break and pick back up again where they left off. Designed for portability, the Leapster fits easily in a backpack or tote bag and is ideal for more purposeful edutainment on the go, whether a quick game on the bus to school or hours of playtime during vacation travel. This learning system runs on four AA batteries or on a rechargeable battery pack when combined with the Leapster L-Max Recharging System (sold separately). Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Great educational toy....Who knew??I had difficulty a few years ago buying my son a portable video game and I finally decided on a Gameboy Advance (DS and PSP not popular then & too expensive!) over the Leapster b/c the Gameboy had so many more games available. Boy, what a mistake! The gameboy requires ALOT of reading and my son just finished 1st grade this year, so he really didn't get much use out of the gameboy. Then, just a couple of months ago, our neighbors were moving and gave my 3 yr old daughter their leapster with about ... Read More Rating:  - These things are JUNK!It's no wonder LEAPSTERS are only under warranty for 3 months. They are crap. My daughter got it for Christmas and barely used it and 6 months later it's a paper weight. Went online and found several sites dedicated to grieving parents whose Leapsters also died after a couple months. DO NOT BUY A LEAPSTER!!!!! THEY ARE CRAP!!!!! Rating: - Great PurchaseI bought the Leapster for my 4 year old daughter and she really likes it. She learns so much. It is durable too. She has dropped it on concrete so many times and it still works. I do recommend that anyone who purchases the Leapster also get a carrying case. The cartridges are hard to keep up with for a preschooler and a carrying case may have prevented my daughter from dropping it so much. I am glad over all that I got this for her. Rating: - Best Game System I bought this for my four year old for her birthday. Within days she was able to identify letters that we had been struggling with. Now she walks around the house saying things like "Drink starts with D". I am so glad I bought this for her, she has learned a lot. But the great thing is she has fun so it's something she wants to do all the time. I have to make her put it down and go play. I love it. Recommend to all with small children. Rating: - She Love's it!!Absolutely LOVE it! On a 2 hour plane ride, we didn't hear a peep out of her. We bought 3 games to go along and the carry case. (15$ at Walmart) Its great for the car too. If I try to play, I hear "thats mine"! A must have for any preschooler. JL |
