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By Dana Anderson
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Play-doctor app has cute games but jarring sounds.
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Dino Hospital HD
What's It About?
First, kids see a hospital building with eight rooms and eight dinosaurs. Once kids choose a dinosaur, a close-up of that room appears and the rest of the hospital vanishes. Choices for what kids can do for the dinosaur pop up on the bottom of the screen, each for a game related to the dinosaur's health problem. Players apply antibiotic ointment, insert IVs, administer medicine, and more. Kids earn stickers as rewards. There are 28 mini-games in all for preschoolers to enjoy pretend play and learn a little, too.
Is It Any Good?
Most of the games in DINO HOSPITAL HD are harmless fun, and some are even educational (putting numbers in the correct order, matching objects to an eye chart). Many preschoolers will like choosing which dinosaur to assist and pretending to perform medical tasks such as giving shots, taking x-rays, or cleaning teeth.
On the downside, some of the sound effects border on annoying or scary -- many of the dinosaurs are crying, sirens are blaring, or the heart monitor is beeping in the background. There are also not many directions given and, while kids can often figure out what to do by what's happening on the screen, some games leave kids guessing. Finally, the app seems to have a crashing problem at times. Dino Hospital HD is a cute concept, but it could be improved.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Explain to your kids that going to the doctor or hospital doesn't need to be sad or scary.
Tell your kids the names of the procedures and problems the dinosaurs are having so they can learn some medical vocabulary.
App Details
- Device : iPad
- Subjects : Math : numbers , patterns , shapes
- Skills : Health & Fitness : body awareness , Emotional Development : empathy , Thinking & Reasoning : deduction
- Pricing structure :
- Release date : July 18, 2012
- Genre : Education
- Topics : Animals ( Dinosaurs )
- Publisher : Joy Preschool Game
- Version : 1.0
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 4.0 or later
- Last updated : October 1, 2025
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