Pajama Sam: Life Is Rough When You Lose Your Stuff

by Atari

Product Features

• Unique cartoon-style learning adventuresfor kids ages 5 and up
• 27 fun and interesting locations to explore
• Story elements change each time kids play the game
• Adventure encourages critical thinking and creative problem-solving
• For 1 player

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00009EFYO
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 1.2 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: September 9, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,860 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #58 in Software > Children's Software > Games
  • #67 in Software > Children's Software > Early Learning
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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This year's version of the Middle School Advantage CD bundle once again provides instruction and practice in ten subjects with a variety of different programs that vary in quality (4.2 is a cumulative rating). Typing Instructor is an excellent keyboarding tutorial, U.S. History is a history textbook on CD-ROM (it's read aloud, which is nice), and Advantage Writing and Vocabulary is a dry but useful writing tutorial. Also included are Classic Library (the texts of 2000 unabridged classics, from Shakespeare to Aesop to Dickens), Human 3D (a text, pictorial and animated tour of the human body), The Rosetta Stone v.1.7.7 (an immersive Spanish tutorial) and Basic Math 2 and 3 (a nice geometry and algebra primer, although a little tricky to use). A Microsoft Excel tutorial is tossed in. All things considered, you're getting a lot of solid content for the price, but note that a good deal of the material is most appropriate for eighth grade and beyond.Copyright © 2001 Children's Software Revue

Product Description

An Interactive Learning Adventure with Pajama Sam!Product InformationSam find his prized comic book in his messy room.  This is no ordinarymessy room. Sam dives in and finds a strange and fantastic world that resembleshis messy room. There are almost 30 places to explore and lots of friends tomeet.  Pajama Sam sets off in search of his lost comic book. He searchesfor lost socks in Agitator Lake rounds up dust bunnies at the Dust BunnyCorral explores the Spilled Soda Swamp and much more. In the end Sam finds hiscomic book and realizes that life wouldn’t be so rough if he put away hisstuff! Throughout the story kids meet lots of interesting new friendsand tackle fun challenges that will inspire them to solve problems in creativeways.  Kids are inspired to think in creative and flexible ways.  Youcan play again and again because new puzzles and new locations await each timeyou play.  Join Pajama Sam on his adventure. Kids will listen think andexplore for hours.Product Features Listen carefully for clues from the friends you meet! Help Sam find his comic book! The adventure changes each time you play. Unique cartoon-style learning adventures where kids choose where the character goes 27 fun and interesting locations to explore Story elements change each time kids play the game Kids have so much fun they don’t even realize they’re learning Pajama Sam’s character traits reinforce importance of teamwork and being a good friend -qualities parents value Adventure encourages critical thinking and creative problem-solving  Software pictured here is represented by the packaging for easier viewing. You will receive actual software on CD. Windows Requirements Windows 98 Me 2000 XP Pentium II 350MHz or higher processor

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32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yes, he has changed., November 10, 2003

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J. M Quiggins "Sole_Fish" (Owensboro, Ky. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pajama Sam: Life Is Rough When You Lose Your Stuff (CD-ROM)

Well, being a person who started my son out on pajama sam on the pc when he was 3 years old, i must say this was a perfect progression in the series. After the first few games, the concept was getting rather stale. It was time for some tweaks. Basically, they have given Pajama Sam a slightly older voice, i actually think it is the same voive actor with a few extra years tucked under his belt since the first Pajama Sam game. Either that, or this is a very reasonable impersonation. They've also given Sam a much messier room (realistic,huh?). And a much larger collection of odds-and-ends items to gather than in previous games. That aside, the issues that people have with the scene transistions...well, i somewhat agree. They can be annoying. The out-of-sync vocals at the start of the game, that should've been fixed. But, with minor glitches aside, get to the gameplay. Atari has added some musical interludes that date back to the 'Schoolhouse Rock' era. Very hummable and fun to listen to. The game itself is also a progression slightly in age. It feels like each pajama sam gets a little tougher as they progress. Maybe they are trying to follow the age of the players? The graphics are nice and very colorful. Plenty of puzzles to keep busy with. Some slightly more difficult than my 5 year old can decipher, but i enjoy helping him. Yes, Atari should have polished this a little more. But, in this rabid industry where half-baked game get released when they're only 60% done, i have to say Atari got to about the 94% mark. But, they didn't forget to make it fun. My son and i both enjoyed this game very much.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Game Play Good. Technically Poor., December 27, 2003

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David Wilson (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pajama Sam: Life Is Rough When You Lose Your Stuff (CD-ROM)

Pajama Sam is back! I bought this after reading most of the reviews below. I have to say is that they are mostly all true. Technically this game is in beta but the game play is still good if you can close your eyes to the technical snafus. The voice sync is awful, the game runs slowly (this is inexcusable with at animated cartoon type game) and it takes a minimum of 160MB on the hard drive. If Humongous could make their early DOS games run well why can't Atari do the same with game on toady's faster computers? Sounds like they wanted to get this thing out for the Christmas season. The voice does sound different. Weather it's the same kid but older or a different kid is difficult to tell but they game does lose something because of it.

On the plus side the game is still fun to play. Pajama Sam is still the cleaver, mischievous kid as he's always been. Although I wish Atari didn't have a hand in this (their quality standards seem to be a lot lower that Humongous' standards) I'm glad we have another Pajama Sam game. Hopefully a patch will be issued for this game and that will bring this game back up to Humongous' standards for the technical issues.

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Life is Rough When You Play This Game, September 19, 2003

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"isleofjules" (Salisbury, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pajama Sam: Life Is Rough When You Lose Your Stuff (CD-ROM)

Like one other review of this game, I must say I am disappointed. I bought this game for my 6 year old nephew to play when he visited. He was so excited when we loaded it onto the computer. He was excited when the screen came on. Then he started playing the game. There were constant interruptions in gameplay no smoothness of movement between scenes as we have come to expect from the other Pajama Sam games. We adjusted the computer running speed to see if that would help, it did a little bit. However, when he completed it the first time, he decided to try it again. The only change in location of anything was the jar for the fireflies and the trading cards within the scene. No other changes were apparent. He gave up after two times and has not touched the game since. After purchasing this game, my nephew says that he "likes the first ones better". We will be sticking with the first three games, thank you very much. Very disappointed in the game.