Disney Tigger's Activity Center Ages 4-8

Disney's Tigger's Activity Center is an electronic version of games children in the 4- to 8-year age bracket once played with pencils and paper. In Spot the Dots, for example, users click on numbered dots to reveal the outline of a picture. In Bushels of Fun, they sort various vegetables into labeled baskets for Rabbit. Travels with Tigger is essentially a board game, one which lets one or two players race Tigger and Pooh around the Wood, encountering other Pooh characters along the way.

Of the entertainments offered, Tigger's Turtle Hurdles is the most challenging and replay-friendly. An exercise in logic, it challenges users to work out a preset pattern of colored turtles. If you can deduce the pattern correctly based on the clues provided, you can build a bridge of turtles for Tigger to bounce across, getting him safely over the river where his friends are waiting. Spot the Dots is also surprisingly appealing, as it proceeds from simple challenges--connecting 10 spots into an easily recognized shape, like a ball--to more complex images. Another nice twist is that several mystery pictures appear on each virtual canvas, eventually forming a larger whole.

In contrast, Activity Center's musical game, Tiggerific Tunes, is inflexible, hard to play, and acoustically uninteresting--a much weaker offering than those found in comparable games, while Bushels of Fun is somewhat repetitive. Travels with Tigger makes a good activity for two players, but may run too slowly to keep a single user interested.

In other words, Tigger's Activity Center is something of a mixed bag. The game does offer bright and bouncy enjoyment for smaller children, but parents considering a purchase may wish to consider whether the better of its five games--in combination with Tigger's irresistible personality--are the ones most likely to appeal to their children. (Ages 4 to 8) --Alyx Dellamonica

Amazon.com Product Description
Disney's Tigger's Activity Center offers kids the opportunity to hang out with Tigger and his friends in a variety of locations around the 100 Acre Wood. Five challenging and exciting activities will provide fun and sharpen problem-solving skills. Some of the activities are multilevel, providing a continuing challenge as the user's skill level rises. There are both single- and multiple-player modes for two of the activities.

The Mini Games are simultaneously too hard and too easy. The interface to them requires that you consult the manual, which I think is asking a bit much of a five-year-old. (Left is the X key, Down is C, Enter is F, etc. !?!) The games are designed to accommodate multiple players using only a keyboard, but I don't think most people would use these as multi-player games anyway. Once you figure out which keys to use, the games are too simplistic to be interesting. And even using the correct keys, it sometimes seems that the game does not respond to your keystrokes when it should. And it seems to have no mouse interface!

The animation is cool, but overall, a big disappointment.


Compatablity nightmare   January 4, 2002
Marie Provetto (Mill Neck, New York USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

Being in the computer business, it is very seldom I can't something to run. Well this is one program I warn you to stay away from. After spending 2 hours, I went to the Disney website and found out, it has problems with many 3d graphics card. Read this carefully, if you have a Savage card this product does not work, if you have a SIS (most Compaq's) it does not work. I have 5 computers in my home and this worked on one. In addition the one computer that the graphics will work on, the game freezes. If we would have kept the box I would have returned this product for sure. We have purchased most of the Fisher Price games and we also have allot of Disney and this one is not worth the money.


Tigger's honey hunt   September 23, 2001
0 out of 6 found this review helpful

I highly recomend this game. My son is 5 months old and he loves Tigger and the graphics of this game. We don't own the game but, my best friend does and I sat with my son in front of her computer and played the game with him. I have never seen him so excited about anything before except for food. So I do highly recomend this game.