Manufacturer: Disney Interactive Find all Disney Interactive reviews ESRB Rating: Everyone Platform(s): Macintosh, Windows 98, Windows 95 Release Date: December 31, 1969 Average Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars

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User Submitted Disney's Adventures in Typing with Timon & Pumbaa Reviews (cont...)

Buy this and your kids will be bored with it in 30 minutes and you'll feel stupid for giving Disney your money.

Date: 2001-01-04
Terrible waste of money
I bought this software for my kids for Christmas 2000. I have a boy 3 and a girl 8. They were totally bored with this in about 20 minutes. There are very few things to actually do in this program. You can adopt a dog from the adoption center, use the art center for typical things, feed and play with your dog in different parks. Once you pick your dog from the dog adoption center you can NEVER change the dog you have. The only way is to create a new signon name when starting the game. Also there is many famous landmarks for London and Paris shown. But once you click on the landmark a picture of the landmark and a brief description is given. Way to boring for any child I know of (even adults for that matter).

Save your money and buy something else. I wish I did.

Date: 2000-12-30
Great way to teach a child to type
This is a great game/teaching tool which will help any youngster ages 4 - 15 to use a keyboard. It keeps your attention via interactive voice and animation as well as frequent games which test your skill. The scorecard reports on your progress as well as identifying where you need help. In one week, my children's typing skills increased 10 fold. I recommend this to anyone.

Date: 2000-11-15
Time to give Mavis her walking papers!
This is not one of those cutesy titles that only pretends to be about education. This is an extremely well-designed, well-thought-out program that effectively teaches typing (i.e., keyboarding). Anything even remotely associated with The Lion King may trigger the gag reflex in survivors of the whole Lion King blitzkrieg, but rest assured: Timon and Pumba do not have center stage here; the lessons do. Never sacrificing the functional for the cute or gimmicky, this program is structured, yet adaptive, and uses a gradual progression of exercises to provide just the right degree of challenge as the user progresses. In other words, the program captivates by providing variation (to keep things from getting dull) and by making the goal seem easy while maintaining just the right level of difficulty. Both my wife and nine-year-old were instantly hooked and have progressed dramatically. I do have a few minor complaints (for example, icons for navigating through the program could be more intuitive or--Heaven forbid--identified with actual words), but overall, this is a finely crafted tool that condenses a one-semester high school typing class (of yore) onto a single CD-ROM--but without the boring teacher.

Date: 2000-11-10
Adventures in Typing with Timon & Pumbaa
My seven year old son rushed to my compter as soon as the Amazon box arrived. He was not disappointed as he was easily able to put the CD in my I-Mac himself and click on the icon to start the adventure. It held his interest for an hour as he moved through the excercises guided by the Disney characters. When I wanted to work at my desk our son simply moved to his dad's PC and with a little help was able to install the typing tutor at Dad's desk as well. The typing excercises and games are perfact for a young child and my son is not even aware that he is learning to type. We have had the CD for 3 days now and Patrick sits at the keyboard with his hands in the correct position and is able to type simple works without even looking at the keyboard. He has learned all on is own with no help for us. For my son it is essential that he learn to type as soon as possible. He is dyslexic and is struggling with writing and spelling. Soon he will be able to use a keyboard with a word processing program in school but he must first learn to type. I highly recommend this software. I rated it a 5 but Patrick says it is a 4 because he says it is not his absolute favorite thing to do but it is "really great!".