Leapster L-MAX SW Game: Sponge Bob(Lic.)

by LeapFrog

Product Features

• A refrigerator has just rolled off a trash barge and become the hot new restaurant Bistro Below Zero
• Help SpongeBob collect ingredients and make a new, improved Krabby Patty sauce
• Four exciting learning games include: Counting Claw, Conveyor Chaos, Bubble Scrubber, and Kitchen Chemistry
• Teaches essential kindergarten and first grade reading and math skills
• For use with the Leapster L-Max Learning Game System, sold separately

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 5.2 x 9 inches ; 1 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0008FUD04
• Item model number: 30443
• Manufacturer recommended age: 5 - 7 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #102,883 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Krusty Krab is facing new competition and SpongeBob needs your help to collect ingredients and make a new, improved Krabby Patty sauce! Play four exciting learning games that teach essential kindergarten and first grade reading and math skills. Then plug into the TV and unlock even more learning fun! What it Teaches: * Phonics * Reading * Addition * Money * Science

Product Description

The L-Max game SpongeBob Squarepants Saves The Day teaches your kindergarten kid essential 1st-grade reading and math skills. The Krusty Krab is facing new competition and SpongeBob needs your help to collect ingredients and make a new, improved Krabby Patty sauce!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

41 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a Wonderful Game! A review of the LMAX SpongeBob game, March 22, 2006

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Pam Tee "Busy Mom" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Leapster L-MAX SW Game: Sponge Bob(Lic.) (Toy)

My young children (boy and girl; 4 and 6 this month) are not allowed to watch SpongeBob but that doesn't keep all three of us from enjoying this game. It is simply one of the best Leapfrog LMAX/Leapster game cartridges that we have.

**Skills and Games**

Word Building
Arrgh. Some of SpongeBob's friendly jellyfish have letters inside them. There is a water cannon that can be used to knock the letters out. On the first level, children are shown the last two letters in a word: such as _ a t. They can `free' letters which then float up to fill in the blank to make a word such as hat, cat, etc.

[I have noticed this is helping my preschooler `get' the entire word building concept.]

Phonics and Attributes
In this silly and fun game [even mom likes!], Patrick must move around three conveyor belts collecting objects. Sometimes these objects are just anything that is `yellow' and sometimes the objects are shapes, items with start with a certain letter, items grouped and equaling a certain number of things, and in the advanced round: items which are grouped and equal to an equation such as (8-3).

Money and Addition
SpongeBob is at one of those grab-a-prize machines. He gets to try to grab something if he has the right amount of change.

[This has been great for my kindergartener and preschooler. The latter can now identify various coins, while the former is learning not only to count change (for example, that 4 quarters make a dollar) but also to count by 5's and 10's.]

Music
There is a fun section in which children can play around with instruments and sounds.

Five Stars. [A]. Better background story than most of the cartridges. Better graphics other Leapster cartridges. Lots to learn. Good humor for all ages.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars We love Spongebob!, January 8, 2006

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my3boyz (Highland, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Leapster L-MAX SW Game: Sponge Bob(Lic.) (Toy)

My boys are all big SpongeBob fans, so it was no surprise that my five year old loves this game. He loves to count out the coins to play the "claw machine" game. We have about 8 leapster games and this one rates in the top two!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not the best game out there..., March 7, 2007

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c2 (Dublin, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Leapster L-MAX SW Game: Sponge Bob(Lic.) (Toy)

If you have diehard spongebob fans in your house, be sure to grab this game. It is a lot of fun for the games sake and it teaches how to count change, some math and introductory word formation. However, if Spongebob gets on your nerves when he's on television, it's worse with this game! I think of all the games we have, this one is the least challenging for my five-year-old. The Batman game provides more of a challenge and it seems to be more fun for him. This game is just okay, and isn't played as much as I thought it would be. My five-year-old loves Spongebob, but this game just isn't as much fun as some of the others, especially Letters on the Loose, Batman, Spiderman (all spelling and word formation, fantastic game!), and Number Raiders.