Customer Reviews

Leapster Arcade: Letterpillar

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I bought my [...] daughter this game yesterday, she played it for 2 minutes and hated it. I played it for 5 minutes and now understand why she didn't like it. There is only one game on the cartridge- you pick one of three letterpillar faces and then you are supposed to use the arrow pad to guide the creature to eat letters. Level one has 1 capital letter and 1 number on the screen, if you eat the number the letterpillar gets sick and it tells you to eat the letter. Once you eat the letter, another one appears, and so on. If you run into the wall or a brick, the creature dies and after the creature dies three times, your game is over. We have the Kindergarten cartridge and the Disney Princess Cartridge and both of those have multiple games on each one and are so much more interesting to play. Don't waste your money on this one!

While my 3 yr old and 5 yr old play this game some, it doesn't compare to the other cartridges we own. There is only one game on the cartridge. It is simple, and I'm not convinced it has much educational value, as do most of the other Leapster games we have. I recommend you buy the Draw & Write or the Letter Factory. My children fight / "take turns" over those two games and they are educational.

We bought this game for our 3 and 5 year old - they do not like it at all! It is a very boring game and difficult to maneuver the caterpillars - don't waste your money!!! It kept their attention for about 5 minutes and then they moved on. They love the SpiderMan, Nemo, and Disney Princess cartridges the best!

My son received the Leapster system for his 4th birthday as a gift. It comes with this game. While this game isn't the most challenging, my son enjoys it. I am not sure at what level the previous reviewers children are at, but my son doing very well at school. Maybe they are academically beyond him. He knows all of his letters, their sounds, and can read three letter words. He can also write out all of the letters in the alphabet, uppper and lower. So while this game isn't extremely challenging, he still found it fun. I haven't found controlling the letterpillar to be difficult at all, as a previous reviewer said. The arrow buttons on the control respond fine when controlling the letterpillar. I think this game was great as a "free" game with the system, because it allowed him to get used to using the controller. And my son isn't electronically deprived. He uses our personal computer all of the time to play games. He also has a V-Smile with other games. We wanted this as a portable gaming system. Again, it was a good first, free game. I have nothing bad to say about it considering I didn't have to pay for it.

My grand daughter loves this and Running on Zero, one for letter skills, the other for math. Both are fun, and teach the child. They challenge your child to try harder, for a better score, even though there's no grading involved (the way it should be)

My son Travis recieved the leapster 2 gaming system for his 4th birthday and he is a very active child. This game came with his system. We recently found out that his speech impediments were due to a unilateral hearing loss of the left ear - so severe he has to wear a hearing aide for the rest of his life because there is nothing else they can do. We thought this game would help him to catch up on where he is behind - and it did. After 4 months of playing this game only he is able to talk a lot better and his teachers at school told us they see a remarkable difference in his starter spelling and his speech. This game helped my child be less frustrated - because we used to not be able to understand him - his beginning speech sounds were so bad. The level of the child I think is dependant on whether this game works or not. Besides it is not so expensive I would say don't waste your money. If it didn't come with the system I would have bought it anyway.

We bought cartridge for our 3 year old. We were going on a airplane trip and thought it would keep his attention. He used it for only 5 minutes and wanted the creature creation cartridge. He may get more into this one when he gets older.

My 4 & 5 yr olds love playing this game & eating all the letters. It is a fun tool for kids to learn with.

Found the letterpillar a fine afternoon rainy day breath of fresh air for my girls. Like that the letterpillar gets ill if it eats numbers. :)

If you're looking for a leapster cartridge that is worth the money & has real educational value, do not buy the Letterpillar Cartridge game. It is a huge disappointment. My son played it for 5 minutes & got bored. He already knows his letters, but I thought this cartridge would offer the chance to learn words, or find letters to make words. It doesn't really offer much educational value except to find letters instead of numbers. We're sending ours back to Amazon for reimbursement because it's such a disappointment.