Clever Island.com Three Month Online Subscription

by ACTIVISION

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005MO8O
• Item model number: VA8005
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 29, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,242 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Clever Island is an educational subscription Web site that provides activities designed to help children learn and explore in an interactive environment. Clever Island activities focus on skills such as language, numbers, space, logic, and critical thinking. The site delivers CD-ROM-quality graphics and animation directly to your home, through your computer modem, in a safe, advertisement-free environment. Clever Island specifically targets children 3 to 8 years old. Each time your child logs on to Clever Island, the site calculates your child's age and offers activities appropriate for his or her age group. Clever Island activities are designed so that children can play even if they can't read. A skills chart helps parents track the progress of children who use the service.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Dishonest and fraudulent practices, December 2, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Clever Island.com Three Month Online Subscription (CD-ROM)

I would like to bring your attention to the fraudulent practice of Clever Island (very appropriate name for this company - real clever!). I purchased an item online and a pop-up offering me my so called free gift. It was a free 10-day subscription to Clever Island. I closed the window after I found out it was for children 3-8 years old (my child is 21). I didn't put my credit card number in but my card was charged 69.00 exactly 10 days later. I sent this information to the National Fraud Information Center http://www.fraud.org/

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst kids product I've ever owned, January 9, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Clever Island.com Three Month Online Subscription (CD-ROM)

I bought this product for my 5 year old son thinking
it would be a great way for us to spend time learning and exploring on our computer. Boy was I wrong.
First of all it took me 3 tries to get the program to install
correctly, it would always crash during loading. Once I did get it installed I realized that the product was simply a thinly veiled attempt to get me to sign up for a longer more expensive subscription. Finally after sitting through what was essentially a comercial for the product my son was able to get in and start playing games, or so he thought the navigation was so poorly laid out that my 5 year old son had no idea what to do, and I'll confess neither did I. After randomly clicking on everything we could I was finally able to get to some of the activities. Unfortunately they proved too boring and repetitive to hold my son's interest for more than a few seconds. Not only that but I was appalled by some of the values expressed by the characters in the activities everything from a rude, wise cracking, skateboarding mascot to a character whose only purpose was to wipe his running nose on his sleeve at every opportunity. Throw on top of this the fact that the program would periodically crash or prompt me to load external software from another site and I was glad when my son decided he'd had enough.

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow! What a nice surprise!, March 13, 2003

By 

Bobby K (Springfield, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Clever Island.com Three Month Online Subscription (CD-ROM)

We picked this up for our daughter and she LOVES it! The characters, graphics and sound are all wonderful. Her reading and math skills have improved significantly after a few months of Clever Island. It is well worth the cost. Thanks! Keep producing great products!