Sesame Street video games
These eggs travel down variously contorted chutes to land safely in the basket perched on Big Bird's head.
During this stage, Big Bird is seen with his basket and numbers flash on the screen progressively faster as he counts.
The game ends when too many eggs are dropped or a set number of counting sessions is performed.
Sesame Street: Countdown is a platform game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991.
First released as Sesame Street Art Workshop in 1995, it was reissued by Creative Wonders in 1998, and Encore Software in 2002 and 2005.
Elmo invites users to join him on his deep sea submarine to explore shipwrecks, sunken cities and lost treasure.
Skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision making are taught in three play modes, five activities, and two levels.
Unlike many video games, there are no enemies to defeat and no races against the clock, play revolves around choosing the correct answer to problems and navigating areas with different vehicles.
[11] The Nintendo 64 version of Elmo's Number Journey has been somewhat popular amongst speedrunners in recent years due to the game's short duration.
[12] Elmo's Preschool is a CD-ROM game developed by Creative Wonders and Children's Television Workshop in August 1996.
[citation needed] In this game, Elmo goes through the looking-glass in his room to find the little red monster he sees there.
Skills emphasized include object identification, visual discrimination, vocabulary, matching, and reading.
Grover's Travels is a 1998 CD-ROM game developed by Encore Software and Children's Television Workshop.
In this parody of Gulliver's Travels, users join Grover as he meets Big Bird, Elmo, Mr. Snuffleupagus and more.
There are six activities designed to teach numbers, shapes, sound recognition, story comprehension and emotions.
Big Bird, Elmo, Oscar the Grouch, Rosita, Zoe and the Two-Headed Monster also appear.
The game was reissued by Creative Wonders, including as part of the two-disc Kindergarten Deluxe CD-ROM set, and later by Encore Software with different packaging.
Pals Around Town is a computer game published by Hi-Tech Expressions in 1987 and programmed by Children's Television Workshop.
The game was developed by Creative Wonders and Children's Television Workshop in 1997, and re-released in 1998, 2000 (by Mattel Media), and 2004 (by Encore Software).
Concepts emphasized are safety, healthy eating and recycling; skills developed include critical thinking and problem-solving.
In January 2010, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced plans to make Sesame Street games for the Xbox 360, which will use the Kinect accessory.
The game teaches basic logic, directions (North, South, East and West) and sequencing.
[citation needed] Sesame Street 1-2-3 featured two different games: "Astro-Grover," and "Ernie's Magic Shapes", and was released for the NES in 1989.
In Astro-Grover, Grover and his little aliens buddies called 'Zips' teach basic math like counting, adding, and subtracting.
Sesame Street: Big Bird's Hide and Speak is a game for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990.
and the Nintendo versions of Elmo's A-to-Zoo and Cookie's Counting Carnival, this game utilizes motion controls and is packaged with special Wii Remote and Nintendo DS stylus jackets that are intended to make them comfortable to use for young children.
is the third of four Sesame Street games targeting the Wii and Nintendo DS to be published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
As with the Nintendo versions of Elmo's A-to-Zoo and Cookie's Counting Carnival, this game utilizes motion controls and is packaged with special Wii Remote and Nintendo DS stylus jackets that are intended to make them comfortable to use for young children.
Sesame Street: Sports was published by NewKidCo and was released on PlayStation and Game Boy Color in 2001.
Telly, Zoe and Grover are on a quest to find King Oscar's missing Royal Pig.
