Thomas & Friends: The Great Festival Adventure

by Hasbro

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005Y4QA
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: September 8, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,758 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #95 in Software > Children's Software > Games
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Thomas and his friends are getting ready for a festival. They have to prepare the rides, sort the goods coming in for the event, and even catch up with some runaway cows before the festival can take place. What's more, they can't move a piston until they're cleaned up in the engine shop. Thomas & Friends: The Great Festival Adventure offers a series of games to computer users as young as 2 years old. As Thomas, Harold, and the other trains and tractors prepare for the festival, they enlist the players' aid to do everything from keeping track of the number of passengers who can fit in a passenger car to conducting the festival band. Early sorting, color matching, and shape-recognition skills are given a workout in the process. The game also seeks to keep its young target audience engaged by including long animated sequences of Thomas going about his business and interacting with his various friends as he does.

This program gives an excellent introduction to educational computer gaming for kids and parents alike. With bright, simple graphics and easy-to-run activities, it is both simple to use and varied enough to maintain player interest. Thomas fans will be delighted with the opportunity to polish up and oil the various locomotives, and the animations will provoke laughter and delight among train-loving kids. The end result is a package that will please early learners immensely. (Ages 2 to 6) --Alyx Dellamonica

Amazon.com Product Description

Join Thomas and friends on a great festival adventure! It's classic preschool play for young Thomas fans. Kids ages 2 and older will love helping Thomas and company get ready for the big festival on the island of Sodor. There's a lot to see and plenty to do at every stop, including color matching, shape sorting, and counting.

Kids can play through seven engaging activities filled with rich 3-D graphics and animations and plenty of their favorite characters and locations. Go with Thomas on his journey around the island or choose a favorite location. Players get certificates of completion for each activity. Also see new video sequences featuring Thomas and his friends.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars XP issue, July 10, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Thomas & Friends: The Great Festival Adventure (CD-ROM)

My son's had this game a while (I'm assuming it's the Hasbro Interactive branded game) and recently we upgraded his PC to XP.

Of course the game didn't work, but by selecting Properties on the game icon you can move to a Compatibility tab and run the game in 98/ME mode - Works fine like that.

Ryan's 7 now and the game is simple, but he still enjoys it from time to time, for its attractive graphics and Ringo's familiar naration.

I'd recommend this to anyone with a youngster interested in Thomas. Before we had this Ryan never went near the PC, now he's computer literate above his age (not entirely due to this game, but it piqued his interest).

28 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Dishonest, misleading system requirements, April 2, 2004

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Peter Krogh (Nevada City, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Thomas & Friends: The Great Festival Adventure (CD-ROM)

Who runs Windows 98 or ME anymore? Nobody. This software will not run on ANY NT-based OS, including 2000 and XP. I've tried.(..)

For Atari to continue selling this (I don't care who they bought it from) is criminal.

Do not buy this title unless you're running a 9x-based machine. Better yet, don't buy it at all or anything from Atari until they sell software that will run on operating systems that are not five years out of date.(..)

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dangerous, August 31, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Thomas & Friends: The Great Festival Adventure (CD-ROM)

Have you ever seen a 3 year old addict? Buy this game and you will. No more Reader Rabbit. No more Mickey Mouse Toddler. No more JumpStart. Thomas, Thomas, Thomas! And it hasn't stopped with software. He's moved on to videos and books. He's recently begun playing DIRECTLY with the trains. We've tried to get him into rehab but they're all full.