...but whatever happened to NewKidCo Gameboy Color announced one month ago?
NewKidCo Creates a New Market for Nintendo's Game Boy Color With the Introduction of Sesame Street Titles
ELMO'S 123s(TM) & ELMO'S ABCs(TM)
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 1998-- Edutainment Titles Based On The Ever Popular Children's
Television Workshop Program Help Teach Basic Number
And Letter Skills To Children Ages 3-6
Available Mid-November For $24.95 Each
"...Continuing its mission to become the leading developer of interactive games for children, NewKidCo will introduce Elmo's 123s and Elmo's ABCs for the Nintendo Game Boy Color -- helping extend the appeal of the popular hand-held game system to an untapped, younger audience. Targeted to children ages 3-6, each immersive title features the wildly popular Elmo character leading preschool-aged players through entertaining and challenging activities. Both Elmo Game Boy titles offer hours of engaging gameplay for young children just grasping letter and number recognition, while providing a head-start on learning simple spelling and math skills. Elmo's 123s and Elmo's ABCs are expected to ship in early November for the suggested retail price of $24.95 each.
Elmo's 123s and Elmo's ABCs mark NewKidCo's second collaboration with Children's Television workshop to develop interactive games for young children. The first titles in their partnership, Elmo's Number Journey(TM) and Elmo's Letter Am), represent the first-ever PlayStation(R) titles designed for the preschool set (children ages 3-6).
Elmo's 123s
Designed for easy use by young children just developing eye-hand coordination, Elmo's 123s provides valuable and fun activities such as ''Beam That Number'' and ''Sum Up, Sum Down'' that enhance number recognition and help children comprehend simple addition and subtraction concepts. Hosting the title from his Flying Saucer, Elmo is accompanied by tiny spacemen called Stars that children must count, add or subtract. To provide children with a sense of accomplishment, players are rewarded for successfully completing each activity through a special on-screen demonstration -- such as Elmo blasting off in his spaceship. A variety of skill and difficulty levels promotes replayability for hours of portable edutainment.
Elmo's ABCs
Children will delight with the opportunity to utilize their new knowledge of the alphabet to identify upper and lower case letters and spell simple words. Similar to Elmo's 123s, controls are easy-to-use for young children and many levels of play are available for long-time enjoyment. In the most basic level, children identify letters on a ferris wheel by their case and are rewarded for three correct answers with a congratulatory dance performed by Elmo. Once they have mastered letter cases, children continue learning with simple spelling activities including ''One Little Word'' and ''Spell The Secret Word.'' These spelling games range from picking the missing letter from a short word, to eventually creating a three-letter word from six letters provided..."
source: © 1998 biz.yahoo.com
...this release is conspicuously absent from newkidco.com and NewKidCo personnel have not acknowledged our [repeated] requests for information regarding this situation...as we have cited previously we believe this NewKidCo product line coupled with Gameboy Color® could prove to be a formidable edutainment platform for pre-schoolers...so what's the problem...or is this another situation of another Alpha business unit not seeing what is staring them in the face...how does one announce only 30+ days ago two mid-November shipments and then bury [and conspicuously avoid] its existence?... |
