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Candy Land Game (Jewel Case) | List Price: $9.99
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Platform: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95
Brand: Atari
Binding: CD-ROM
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Preschool helper (2 different games) [Posted on 2003-12-02]
For those who got comfused on the similar titles like me, let me help. This is an edit of my earlier review. Candy Land Game (this one)3 stars It looks like the board game at first glance. You can have 1-4 players and each player takes turns clicking on the candy machine to get a card and then moves. The 1st to reach the end wins.
You can click on each specialty picture to have a mini adventure: sorting with plumpy, throwing gumdrops at gumdrop mountain, planting candy flowers with Grandma Nut, Making patters and colors with lollopo, builing a sundae with queen frosteen, scaring lord licorice, etc. It is mostly designed just to play around with as there are no goals at the mini stations. My 3 yr old quickly dismissed the main game as too hard. You have to click where your character is going to move to by yourself, and it is confusing to young kids. But she could play around in the other areas herself. It is good if you play with your toddler. Ages 2-5 recommended. Candy Land Adventure (4 stars) King Candy was kidnapped by Lord licorice and all the candy from the candy store was taken as well. Two kids (1-2 players) have to save king candy by going around in a roller coaster cart and helping the candy land characters. The adventures are coloring, numbers, ABC order, matching, etc. Each area gives you a prize and after you get them all you can rescue king candy. There are no dice or things to roll, you just pick where you want to go next.
We got this game for our special needs pre-school. The children love playing it, and it teaches them different things as well. They can finish the adventure in about an hour, so they can possibly do it all in one sitting. Or, they have a saving option that shows a picture of where they stopped in the game for easy retreival of up to 9 games. You can play each area more than once for hours of fun. Great toddler teaching game. Ages 3-8 would probably enjoy this.
Candyland comes alive! [Posted on 2004-04-09]
My girls (...) always want to play the board game Candyland - there are just not enough hours in the day for mom to play all the time with them...so, this is the perfect alternative! In fact, they prefer the computer game to the board game now.
The Candyland game comes to life! The different places have different areas to click & play for as long as you choose, then back to the game! Lord Licorice is ticklish & afraid of the dark-try visiting him! The kids learn to recognize their colors and learn some matching skills as well. And it's just plain fun!
I recommend this for ages 3 & up.
1smileycat :-)
not just for kids [Posted on 2004-10-13]
I admit to being age 65 and love fairy tales, Candyland, etc., which I played with my three daughters (all grown now).
I got Candyland in a Cheerios Box and sent it to my granddaughter then bought another box and tried it myself. I really love it as a relaxer and building the ice cream sundaes is FUN!
You are never too old!
Computerized Candyland [Posted on 2006-10-25]
I got this game thinking it would be similar to the board game, but it's way different. This computerized version has a storyline involved that doesn't really seem to fit the board game version. Even though this isn't very similar, my kids really enjoy the game.
The very first time we put this in the computer, my son (4 years old) clicked on the hardest level. He got through it on his own without much help. His favorite part is the train that chugs around the game.He understood the concepts put forth in the game pretty easily, even on the hardest level.
My daughter (2 1/2 years old) didn't really have the attention span to stay with the game for very long. She probably won't be ready for it til she is 3 or maybe even 3 1/2.
This teaches some good skills for preschoolers. Number and letter recognition seemed to be the highlight of this game from a parent's viewpoint.
fun and runs on XP [Posted on 2006-11-06]
Software came in a cereal box and is dated 1997. Just found it and surprisingly it runs on my XP machine. I didn't know you could set the icons on XP to run old windows software via the properties. But I didn't have to do this for CandyLand. My son laughed and laughed. An example of good gaming with the variety of picture changes from clicking one thing on the screen.
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