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Disney's Adventures in Typing with Timon & Pumbaa | CD-ROM

by Disney Interactive

List Price:

$14.99

Publisher:

Disney Interactive

Format:

CD-ROM

ESRB Age Rating:

Everyone

Color:

Adventures in Typing

Platform:

Windows 95, Windows 98

Model:

1369901

Operating System:

Windows 98

Sales Rank:

1,184st

FEATURES

Teaches finger placement, home row technique, speed, accuracy and more
Multiple levels of difficulty with built-in level to match your progress
Motivate learning and typing proficiency with fun rewards.

ACCESSORIES

	Timon & Pumbaa: Hangin With Baby [VHS] Starring: Ernie Sabella, Kevin Schon, Quinton Flynn, Jim Cummings, Jeff Bennett Also With: Brian Swenlin (Writer), Daryl G. Nickens (Writer), Henry Gilroy (Writer), James W. Bates (Writer), Jeff Abel (Writer), Joan Considine Johnson (Writer), Kat Likkel (Writer), Kevin Campbell (Writer)
	Timon & Pumbaa: Grub's on [VHS] Starring: Ernie Sabella, Kevin Schon, Quinton Flynn, Jim Cummings, Jeff Bennett Also With: Brian Swenlin (Writer), Daryl G. Nickens (Writer), Henry Gilroy (Writer), James W. Bates (Writer), Jeff Abel (Writer), Joan Considine Johnson (Writer), Kat Likkel (Writer), Kevin Campbell (Writer)
	Timon & Pumbaa: Don't Get Mad [VHS] Starring: Ernie Sabella, Kevin Schon, Quinton Flynn, Jim Cummings, Jeff Bennett Also With: Brian Swenlin (Writer), Daryl G. Nickens (Writer), Henry Gilroy (Writer), James W. Bates (Writer), Jeff Abel (Writer), Joan Considine Johnson (Writer), Kat Likkel (Writer), Kevin Campbell (Writer)
	Timon & Pumbaa: Live & Learn [VHS] Starring: Ernie Sabella, Kevin Schon, Quinton Flynn, Jim Cummings, Jeff Bennett Also With: Brian Swenlin (Writer), Daryl G. Nickens (Writer), Henry Gilroy (Writer), James W. Bates (Writer), Jeff Abel (Writer), Joan Considine Johnson (Writer), Kat Likkel (Writer), Kevin Campbell (Writer)
	Timon & Pumbaa: Quit Buggin Me [VHS] Starring: Ernie Sabella, Kevin Schon, Quinton Flynn, Jim Cummings, Jeff Bennett Also With: Brian Swenlin (Writer), Daryl G. Nickens (Writer), Henry Gilroy (Writer), James W. Bates (Writer), Jeff Abel (Writer), Joan Considine Johnson (Writer), Kat Likkel (Writer), Kevin Campbell (Writer)

EDITORIAL REVIEWS

Product Description
Experience a typing adventure with Timon and Pumbaa!Product InformationLearn the fundamentals of typing with fun activities that build essential typingskills in the Disney Adventure in Typing with Timon & Pumbaa. Thistyping tutorial for children teaches essential typing habits while havingfun. Learn all this and more as you progress throughfive exciting and challenging activities. Throughout your typing adventure get private lessons from Rafiki and plenty oflaughs from wild and wacky Timon and Pumbaa.Fun activities build essential typing skills!Skills Learned Finger Placement Home Row Technique Edit Mistakes Accuracy Speed Letter Recognition Word ProcessingProduct FeaturesLetter Recognition and Finger PlacementLetter recognition finger placement and home row technique - who knew learningthe basics could be such a hit?Typing Words and Accuracytype words with an emphasis on accuracy - that's the correct way to quench Timonand Pubmaa's thirst.Typing PhrasesLearning to type phrases with accuracy more than with speed it the fastest wayto catch your dinner.Typing ParagraphsType paragraphs edit mistakes - c'mon get to it! Weary Timon and Pumbaa arestuck here until you get it right.Windows Requirements Windows 98 XP Vista (requires compatibility mode) Pentium 90 MHz or faster processor 16MB of RAM 20 MB free hard Disk space 640 x 480 monitor 16-bit color Windows compatible Sound Card and speakers 4X CD-OM Drive

Amazon.com Review
Gentle jungle murmurings overlaid with Robert Guillaume's gleeful voice give this solid, well-conceived typing program an unusual degree of appeal and staying power. While smacking bugs, catching grubs, and tearing away from dangerous enemies, kids are actually practicing the same fundamental skill-based keyboard activities as covered by such adult titles as Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. Some terrific components of this program include shadows that display which finger should be used to hit each key, a clock ticker that counts the seconds in each two-minute game, and the blissful fact that hitting the space bar will fast-forward you past the opening and closing credits. The mysterious, leafy jungle setting is delightfully alive, yet you'll likely need to turn the brightness on your monitor way up to see all the vital buttons hidden in the dark corners of the scene. Be forewarned: to truly conquer touch-typing, you need to drive those keyboard strokes deep into the body's muscular memory. Endless repetition is the only proven method for this. That means that while this program boasts five unique activities (for example, Rafiki gives "lessons" while Timon and Pumbaa play "games"), it is all keyboard practice, again and again. Kids receive encouragement with an enticing visual environment, progress reports, certificates, and frequent enthusiastic comments from Guillaume, but it is ultimately going to fall upon the parents to see that their children continue with this when the going gets, well, boring. Don't expect your child to see this through without your support. Stay involved, and they will. (Ages 6-10) --Jean Lenihan

Amazon.com Product Description
Lion King favorites Timon and Pumbaa are featured throughout the interactive adventures, customized private lessons, and dozens of activities that progressively challenge varying skill levels.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 24 reviews)

No Win2000, WinXP version by J. McGee (New York)

1 Stars
September 17, 2006
I will wait untill the game comes out in Win2000, or WinXP. I have an old one that worked on my old computer and the game was fun. Now it's worthless. I will sell it for a penny but no one will buy it. I thought Disney was in the business to make a profit once in a while. Everybody wants to teach their kids how to type in this computer age, and this is the only game around. And it dosen't work on the the current model computers.

Good, but only up to Win98 by Scott Walton (North Carolina)

3 Stars
October 02, 2005
I got this for my children and it seemed great. Very shortly thereafter I retired the old PC they were using and upgraded to a new one. Part of that upgrade was to use Win2K Pro for web security. None of our Disney CDs are compatible above Win98. Good software but incompatible in the new millennium. "Disney... surely you can do better than this." (And please do.)

This is the best...

5 Stars
July 30, 2005
This is the best typing program ever!! I loved that they used Timon and Pumbaa. It was so fun and entertaining for us kids, well still teaching us. I learned to type in a week or two because I could not stop playing it, it was so fun!!

THIS PROGRAM WORKS IF YOU GET THE PATCH by Bloodglutton (phoenix, AZ USA)

5 Stars
July 07, 2005
My wife (Ettin Cub) wrote a review today and was a little unfair. If you go to the Disney Interactive website you can download a patch for free which will resolve any issues the program may have with windows XP. That said, it's an excellent program. Our children are begging to play, and are getting to be almost as fast as typing as we are. Well, maybe not as fast as I am.

Great...if you can get it to work by Ettin Cub (Phoenix, AZ USA)

3 Stars
July 06, 2005
Excellent program. Fun, and kids actually LEARN! However, it's full of bugs - no pun intended. It is a big disappointment when it doesn't work.

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