Customer Reviews

LeapFrog Leapster Learning Game Scholastic Digging for Dinosaurs

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This is a wonderful game for your budding paleontologist. You learn about different dinosuars eating habbits, match up pieces of a skeleton or a portion of a picture with a picture of the full scale dinosaur, run through mazes, and protect your nest from predators. Once you read 100 points from the aforementioned games you get to dig for fossils. When a skeleton is complete the game plays a video that give you the facts about the dinosaur and an animation of what things may have been like. My 5 yr old son played this game for 2 hours non-stop when we were stuck in a traffic jam and still loves to play it. His 19 month old sister always watches over his shoulder as he play and she can now tell you words like omnivore and herbavor and properly acts out with her toys what the words mean. I think this was a wonderful investment.

This game--like many a Leapster game--is pretty good, but when you get to the dinosaur maze, there are control-pad issues that you and your children will struggle with, such that it becomes a bear to navigate. Essentially, the dinosaur goes left and right just fine, but when you want it to go up or down, you need crackerjack timing and surgical precision. My children don't play this one very much due solely to that issue. Too bad. Seemed like a good game.

My 5-year old has spent many many many hours playing this game! He knows all kinds of dinosaur facts and keeps amazing us with his knowledge after playing this game. I have learned a few things too!

We chose this to combine an educational experience with one the grandaugter's favorites-dinosaurs. Although she is a year young for the age rating, her dad felt she could manage. Very good reception from her!

We purchased this game for my 4 year old daughter. So far she's had a lot of fun playing with it. It is fun and educational and the game gives directions which helps my daughter when she plays.

My son was not interested in dinosaurs at all before I bought this product, and now he wants to go to the Museum of Natural History. He loves this game. I was not as impressed. Children learn the difference between herbivores and carnivores. They learn that dinosaurs had to protect their eggs from predators. They learn that if you dig into the earth, you can uncover dinosaur bones which can be put together to form a skeleton. They learn traits of several dinosaurs. These are all good things to learn, but there could be so much more to this game. To me this was a game that could have been as involved as Animal Genius, but wasn't. To me Animal Genius is the best game available from Leapster, and this game is about a fifth as educational as Animal Genius. If my son already loved dinosaurs and knew something about them he may have been disappointed with this game, because it doesn't have much to offer.

My son LOVES dinosaurs and absolutly loved this. It keeps him busy for hours.

I got this game as a Christmas gift for my 4-yr-old cause he loves dinosaurs. It's a good game, good quality and everything, but he got bored with it pretty quick. There's so much learning stuff you have to do before it'll let you dig for the dinosaur bones. I'd recommend it for kids a little older 5or6 to 7or8 yrs probably.

Bought this for grandson's #5 Birthday along with Leapster II & Charger. Great game for Dinosaur lover's. Good traveling or "stay indoors" game for children.

Just gave this to my 5 yr old daughter yesterday; she loves it! What a great price too! I played each of the 4 games on it once to see what it was about, and it was entertaining for me. It makes you master level 1 before being able to pick level 2 and 3; which is nice b/c most of our other leapster games, let you pick what level you want from the start and then my daughter always picks a level that is too hard for her and hands it over to me when she can't do it. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with math or reading education, but it is very educational about dinosaurs. There is 1 game on there that teaches the difference between carnivors, herbavors, and omnivors and you have to make your dinosaur eat an animal...my daughter hands me the game and makes me do that part when it comes up; its nothing terrible or gross, she just doesn't really like the thought of making her dino eat a frog.
After you get so many points after playing each game, you get to dig for fossils which is cute and fun. I like this game so far and it seems that my daughter is enjoying playing it.