Tonka Construction

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Product Details

• Our recommended age: 5 - 20 years
• Manufacturer recommended age: 0 months and up
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00003IE7V
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #19,391 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)

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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description
Kids will have a blast taking charge of a fleet of tough 3-D Tonka vehicles. Help Tonka Joe and his team build buildings, bridges, castles, and a lot more. Kids can even repair and paint their trucks while they learn all about them. You and your child can explore five different construction areas in all.

Product Description
Kids will have a blast taking charge of a fleet of tough 3D Tonka vehicles. Help Tonka Joe and his team build buildings, bridges, castles and a lot more. Kids can even repair and paint their trucks!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars He explains construction stuff to his brother, January 24, 2000

By A Customer

My 4 year old received this for Christmas. This is the first product that he has used all by himself. I've noticed that his mouse control has greatly improved. I've even overheard him explaining to his 2 year old brother how each of the hotwheel construction vehicles are supposed to work. It really keeps a preschool boy's attention and lets them practice small motor skills as well as learn a little about those trucks that boys this age love so much.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good game, lousy UI, January 2, 2001

By A Customer

I bought the Tonka Construction Game for my 3 year old. First note to parents. This game ONLY runs under 256 color mode which means I have to keep changing the color depth down. Its annoying especially for someone like myself who programs software and knows it would have been trivial for them to allow the game to run under higher resolutions just not lower. Anyway, that aside the game is dearly loved by my 3 year old at least until he gets one of the trucks stuck in some corner of the map. It also has sub-par mouse movement making it not that hard to do and once it does you have no out other then killing the program using task manager (CTRL+ALT+DEL). HASBRO big tech note here, EVERY game should respond to the user hitting the escape key and perform some intelligent exit ideally from the current scene or at least the game itself. So despite all of this, I will probably look at Tonka 2 because the game premise is good and every kid loves trucks. Hopefully, they will fix these somewhat obvious UI issues in which case Tonka 2 could really be a good choice for children's software.

48 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Important Information Misleading, December 27, 1999

By A Customer

Hasbro lists 640X480X256 colors as a minimum requirement for this product. Unfortunately, that is the ONLY resolution that will work. You don't know that by examining the box. In fact, you won't know it until the program fails to run.

Hasbro Technical Support is no help, as all they do is point out that the software will only run in 256 color mode - which I already knew!

My five year old son was VERY disappointed on Christmas day - and so was I.

If Hasbro had labeled the product as ONLY running in 256 color mode, I would have known not to buy the software. I expected MINIMUM system requirement to list only that - and not MAX requirements!