Jump Start Typing

Im giving it 1 star because it does not work. it will start up but when I push play it shuts down.

First of all, let me start by saying that we are members of the jumpstart website which offers great education games. The graphics are amazing on this website. This game however, was written a while ago and the graphics are very old school. My eight year old will practice her typing but only if prompted because she just isnt into it as much as she is on the website. Too bad the website doesnt offer typing! This game encourages proper hand placement and basic keyboarding skills but the games are a bit repetitive and the reward levels dont offer much incentives.

My seven-year-old son says Jump Start Typing isnt as much fun as Pokemonon his Nintendo DS, but, really, what is? With a bit of encourgement he does practice typing for 10 - 20 minutes a day. Im seeing progress, although it is still early.

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My kids were very excited at first but then became very uniterested and frustrated with it. I wouldnt recommend, my children are 6 & 8 yrs. old.

It only plays in small screen mode.

Great.

Love the older PC games. This is such a fun way to learn how to type.

My daughter is just starting using this. I tried using it on an XP computer and it was coming up with some things upside down. I looked online and found a patch that appears to have fixed that. I installed the fix on our Windows 8 computer but havent tried to run it again to see if itll work. Will post update if it does. Heres a link to FAQs to help with troubleshooting. [...]

Great product if it worked on xp and Vista computers like it claims but nothing xp or newer can really play it with any kind of quality its just too old in format