Reader Rabbit Playtime for Baby & Toddler [OLD VERSION]

I just bought this version of Reader Rabbit Playtime for Baby & Toddler (2000). I put the disk in my Mac and got an error code about the disk not supported in the classic environment. Bummer! After reading software troubleshooting posts, I'm understanding that this software doesn't run on newer mac machines. I'm running the current version (10.5.8) of Mac OS X. Hope that saves somebody from making the same mistake I did!

You must have the CD in to play! Not very cool. Although my biggest peeve (and main reason for 2 (instead of 3) stars) is that every time this program is ran it changes appearance settings and messes with resolutions.Yeah, I should've paid more attention to the description. I'm really not interested in buying and owning software that is nearly a decade old. But alas...

I love this program and only because I already had it installed on my computer did I get it to work. I only needed a new disc as a child had broken the old one

I started playing with my daughter on the computer at the age of about 8 months. Our favorite site is [...] which has wonderful activities to help children learn how to read. However, after spending a year on starfall, I was craving for something new. After reading some research, I settled on Reader Rabbit game. We've been playing it for about a month now, about 20 min a day. I am not a big fan of letting toddlers to be rewarded for random hit on the keyboard, that's why I gave this game 4 stars and not five. We don't use this feature, and Anna is not interested in the computer mouse yet, so I do all the moving around while she tells me where she wants to go. Her initial favorite was choo-choo train with letters, then it changed to shapes place and to coloring place. She is still not interested in any mini-games that involve animals. She knows all the animals and can do all the sounds, but for whatever reason anything that involves animals (unless they happen to be kitties) doesn't interest her at all.Despite this game having engaging graphics, Starfall stays her favorite. We always spend at least 10 more minutes there before her computer time is over.

I stumbled upon this game a couple of weeks ago at the library with my 2 year old. I had remembered how fun the game was for my older children and I wanted to purchase the game for my little guy. I bought the game even though many reviewers noted that it wouldn't work on vista 64 bit. Well, I got it today and sadly no, it doesn't work on my 64 bit vista computer. But it DOES work on my daughter's 32 bit windows 7 computer. Yay! We had fun playing with it this afternoon. Now I just need to get him a smaller mouse.

Beware, this product does not work with the current version of Mac OSX and there is no update on the companies website.

We played this game at a children's museum and loved it! I came straight home and purchased it. My 2 year old is learning how the mouse moves the cursor on the screen. She loves it. My 3 year old niece likes it, too. She can play it on her own, navigating the various screens. Both levels of play have easy and more difficult games. For some, you simply have to move the mouse to color in a page or to pop bubbles. They can also work on letters, numbers, animals, etc, but we didn't buy it for the academics as much as the computer skills. If you want your child to work on beginning computer skills, this is a great purchase.

This program is a lot of fun and has a variety of activities to delight little ones. Because the activities can all be done just by moving the mouse or trackball (without pressing buttons), even a very beginning mouser can manage it. Pressing (or pounding on) keys also causes things to happen on the screen, so even without using the mouse your child can have a great time if you are brave enough to let him or her pound on your keyboard (not necessarily recommended - my daughter made off with my Z last week!) Many of the toddler activities are simple enough to do that a younger child can enjoy them too (but they still have learning potential for the toddler). My only complaint is that the program seems a bit buggy. It periodically locks up my computer so I have to reboot, which is very frustrating for my daughter. Overall it's a lot of fun.By the way, this program is a combination of Playtime for Baby and Playtime for Toddler packaged together. I was a little confused about how these products were related originally.