Tonka Town

by Atari

Product Features

• Children explore and interact with talking buildings and vehicles, and help friends with important jobs
• Four kid-friendly TONKA vehicles from which to choose
• An area to print achievement certificates and coloring pages
• For Ages 3-6
• For 1 player

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00009EG6Y
• Item Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: October 14, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,706 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #75 in Software > Children's Software > Games

Product Description

Tonka Town comes to life on your PC!Product InformationJoin Chuck The Dump Truck and all of his Tonka friends in the town whereevery building and vehicle talks - even buildings and parking meters!  Youwill sign in and create your own personalized license plate. There are so manyjobs to do in Tonka Town.  You can do everything from collecting the mailto picking up litter to putting out fires around town using one of the fourtrucks to complete your mission.  With teamwork you and your favoriteTonka Town buddies can help save the day!Educational Features Encourages critical thinking Fosters listening skills Emphasizes teamworkFun Activities IncludedCollect and Deliver MissionsThere are several mission where you must find a collection of missing items. Youcan find most of the items just about anywhere around town. You can find othersitems like coins and mail in the parking meters and mailboxes.RaceDrive any of the truck to M. LE Scoreboard. Your truck will be taken to aracetrack and paired against one of the V8 crew. The race pairing depends onwhich truck you are currently driving.  Watch out because your opponentmight try ot slow you down by dropping things like oil slicks and tacks. Construction Zone CatchOh no! Chris Crane has swallowed his lunch whole!  Now he's got a bade caseof the hiccups and he's dropping construction materials everywhere. He needsyour help!Fire FightingLightning has struck a dumpster outside of some Tonka Town buildings. Wind hasblown the sparks and there are fires raging around the buildings! They needyour help to put out the fires.Police Chase and BumpWhat are we going to do with that V8 Crew?  They are teasing some of thebuildings in Tonka Town again. Can you bump them out of Tonka Town back to V8Ville where they belong?Trash CollectionThings are really getting out of hand. The Tonka River is full of trash. Can youhelp fish the trash out of the river?IncludesT

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Fun for Little Kids, November 28, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Tonka Town (CD-ROM)

My 2-1/2 year old son loves this game. You can switch between four vehicles and do different activities by driving around Tonka Town. My son especially likes chasing and bumping the bad guys out of town as a police car, putting out the fires as Hook and Ladder fire engine and the race game. There are different levels of the game you can progress through and you can get a certificate everytime you finish a task. I only wish that the game allows you to stay at or adjust to a difficulty level instead of automatically bumping you to a harder level when you finish a task. Although this game may be too easy for kids over 6, I think it's great for pre-schoolers.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Mixed feelings about "Tonka Town", April 16, 2005

By 

William G. Phelps (San Diego County, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tonka Town (CD-ROM)

I have very mixed feelings about the Tonka Trucks program. I use it at a shelter for abused and neglected children age six and under. I have not had any of the technical problems that other people have mentioned. We run this program on an old, donated computer with Windows 98, and it does just fine (except for jerky graphics in an introductory sequence about an airplane). In fact, it has the most impressive graphics that I have ever seen in a children's program. The children who are at least three-and-a-half years old enjoy it; for some of the more aggressive boys it is by far their favorite program. Even adults get a kick out of playing it for a while. The problems are these: (1) it does not seem educational at all. I think I have a broad view of what is "educational"; I'm not one of these people who think "educational" only means learning letters and numbers. I like educational programs that let children play, such as Reader Rabbit Toddler. However, although the Tonka Trucks claims to be educational, I just don't see any educational value. It only teaches children to play video games, which they learn all too soon anyway. (2) It encourages aggressiveness and bad behavior. There is a big emphasis on "bad guys." One of the activities is to intentionally crash the police car into "bad guys." After they get done playing on the computer, the children want to crash their tricycles into other tricycles, and generally push and act aggressive. (3) Some children (especially girls) find this program boring. (4) On the other hand, some children enjoy this program too much. It gets them all worked up. Of course, the children I use this with are extra susceptible to getting worked up, but there have been problems with children crying and kicking the computer when they use this program, either because they had trouble winning the races, or because they were angry when their time on the computer had to get over. (5) Finally, this is the least important, but the program is much too slow to get started. It goes through way too many title screens and introductions. Whoever designed this program never waited for this program to get started while sitting next to a couple of hyperactive four-year-olds while the program loaded on a old computer. However, having said all of these complaints, I would still have to say that this program is a real technological marvel, and many children enjoy it immensely.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Graphics!, April 30, 2006

By 

Samer Alaqeel "Mom" (Dallas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tonka Town (CD-ROM)

I bought it for my 3 year old. He loves to drive the car around, but still does not know how to follow the arrows. My 7 year old daughter loves the game! I really liked the graphics and the buildings talk even when you bump into them. Really fun ran on XP no problems! Get this one it is much better than the old tonka games condtruction and search and rescue (those have poor graphics).