Customer Reviews

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

5 star:		(12)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

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.

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!

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.

My almost 6 year-old loves this game. He doesn't even realize he's learning and we're looking forward to having his L-Max on long trips.

We bought this cartridge for the Leapster. Our grandchildren have been using it non stop. It certainly holds their interest and was a great purchase

My 6 year old daughter loves this game cartridge (several skills on one cartridge). And I love all she is learning and the self esteem it builds while playing! It has different skill levels, and the children must complete the game before "the reward" of a funny short game like "the claw". Wonderful.

My daughter was 4 1/2 when she got this. She couldn't set it down for days!! It teaches skills such as counting money, letter sounds and shapes. Throughout the game you collect different ingredients that you can use to make a secret Krabby Patty sauce, then Patrick tries your sauce and something happens to him. According to my kids, it's always something absolutely hilarious! One day I went online to find out the different combinations of ingredients and what they would do to Patrick. I came across a site for the regular (cheaper!) version of this game - not the L-Max "charge a few extra bucks for the exact same thing" game. On the site, I saw that they had a musical section for the older version. My daughter and I scoured her game to find it to no avail. Anyway, one day I finally let her play her Leapster on TV and we found the musical section! This is a HUGE letdown! She rarely ever gets to play her Leapster on TV, yet she adores the music part of the game. I really don't see why the good Leapster people would do such a thing. Had I known this sooner, I would have exchanged her Spongebob game for the older version -- and had a few extra dollars to boot!

Daughter has this.

Daughter is 4.

Daughter loves this.

Daughter plays with it all the time.

Daughter becomes distraught when it goes missing in the sofa cushions or when her brother steals it.

I love that it keeps Daughter busy for hours. :)

We got this for our son when he was 4 and it has been a favorite ever since. There were several games that he could pick up and do immediately on his own (using the lower levels). One game, the phonics game, he wasn't able to do without some help, but it gave us a chance to work on it together. Now that he's 5 1/2, he is able to do the phonics game on his own. It's nice to see how he's grown into the game. I think we still have a couple more years left with this game, as he doesn't regularly play the games on the harder levels.

Another nice feature is that for every game that your child completes, he/she gets to collect a drop of a secret potion that they can later use to help Sponge Bob create a secret recipe. Our son LOVES collecting drops of the secret potion--he feels very rewarded when he gets a drop, and he regularly updates us with how many drops he has of each color. It's a nice little incentive that ties the multiple games together into a fun goal.

I don't know if it is the fact that it is Sponge Bob or the game itself but my kid LOVES this game, of all his games for the LMax/Leapster this is his very favorite. Always talking to me about the "griddle grease" that he has to earn or has earned. (Which I think is gross, but he finds it endlessly fascinating)

This one teaches you a little bit of spelling, addition, money, and even some science. I would say this is appropriate for somewhere around Kindergarten aged kids.