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SpongeBob SquarePants: A Day in the Life of a Sponge
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Publisher: VTech Electronics Category/Genre: Educational Handheld - Activity Center Platform: VSmile Price: $19.99 Online Enabled: No Graphics: Medium. Can be hard to see when playing on the VSmile Pocket. Playability: Easy. Young players can jump right in. Reading Level: Medium Release Date: 04/18/2006 ESRB Rating: E

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Parents need to know that the game's graphics can get difficult to see when it's played on the smaller VSmile Pocket system. This smartridge offers a lot of content by providing 13 different activities. Kids practice matching, rhyming, making change, and much more.

Families can talk about why SpongeBob and his friends are fun to play with. Also, parents can ask kids to name which activity they like best. Is it their favorite because of the game or because of the material that's being covered?

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Reviewed By: Jinny Gudmundsen

Owners of the VSmile TV Learning System or the VSmile Pocket can now play educational games with their favorite porous pall in SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SPONGE.

This video game cartridge contains 13 activities. Nine are a part of a learning adventure, and four are located in a separate section called the Learning Zone. If kids opt to participate in the adventure, they join SpongeBob as he goes through his day; each of the things he does translates into an educational arcade game.

To help SpongeBob get dressed, kids match pairs of rhyming words in his closet. Before going to work, SpongeBob fishes with Patrick by netting numbered jellyfish that complete patterns or answer math problems. Other activities include skiing down a sand mountain while handing out leaflets to odd- or even-numbered skiers, driving boats to solve logic problems, making correct change in a party store, and dancing at a party while matching colored confetti with colored buttons.

The Learning Zone provides kids with four more activities that focus on matching geometric shapes, finding differences between two photos, working with weights and measurements, and completing number sequences.

All of the activities can be played on two levels of difficulty. While playing the learning adventure, the cartridge will save the progress of the player as long as the cartridge isn't removed from the unit.

A Day in the Life of a Sponge offers a large number of varied activities. Some are better than others, but kids can simply skip the ones that don't interest them.

We tested this software on both the VSmile TV System and the handheld VSmile Pocket and did notice that a few of the graphics were hard to distinguish when playing on the smaller handheld version. As a result, players were sometimes unable to accomplish the game's educational objective. For example, because they couldn't read the number on a passing skier, players couldn't determine if the skier was odd or even. Overall, though, players will enjoy diving into SpongeBob's world -- and they'll learn something, too.

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