Pajama Sam is off on a nutritiously edible adventure Product Information Meet Sam, an ordinary kid, who with his red cape turns into Pajama Sam, "Superhero," and is ready to face his fears and overcome challenges. Pajama Sam 3: You Are What You Eat From Your Head To Your Fee challenges and inspires kids to observe details and solve problems in creative and flexible ways. Kids play with fun characters as they discover and explore captivating worlds where they direct the journey at their own pace. Pajama Sam chases down some snickering cookies, only to find himself in the midst of a food squabble! The fats and the sweets are taking over MopTop Island and an emergency peace conference has been called, but four of the delegates are missing! Now, it's your turn to spring into action to help Pajama Sam find the missing delegates, put a stop to the sticky quarrels, bring peace to MopTop Island, and still make it home in time for dinner. Educational Feature Listening and decision-making skills. Inductive and deductive reasoning. Sequencing and memory skills. KeyFeatures Include Interact Listen closely when you talk with each character. There might be a clue in their reply that could help you solve a problem! Explore and Learn Investigate every location. There is something new to learn with every click. Windows Requirements Windows 95, 98, Me, XP Pentium 90MHz or higher 16MB of RAM 4X CD-ROM Drive Macintosh Requirements Macintosh OS 7.5.3 to 9.x 80MHz PowerPC 16MB of RAM 4X CD-ROM Drive
Humongous Entertainment's Pajama Sam chases down some snickering cookies, only to find himself in the midst of a food squabble! The fats and the sweets are forcing the healthy foods off of MopTop Island. An emergency peace conference has been called, to calm the MopTop Island population, but 4 of the delegates are missing! Now, it's your turn to spring into action to help Pajama Sam to find the missing delegates, put a stop to the sticky quarrels, and fix a few problems along the way. Our caped-hero is able to bring unity to the island and still make it home in time for dinner!

While wolfing down cookies in order to collect box tops for an action figure, Pajama Sam inadvertently finds himself plunked on Mop Top Island- the center of a terrible healthy food versus junk food conflict. Pajama Sam makes the mistake of telling some inhabitants (Candies, Cookies and other Sweets) that he'd better not eat anymore because his appetite for supper will be ruined. The sweet foods throw him into jail with a broccoli peacemaking activist, Florette, whose efforts to get to a diplomatic peacemaking meeting were thwarted. Sam frees Florette and is given the important mission of rescuing four more lost peacemakers.
In true Pajama Sam form, this latest adventure is challenging but extremely engaging. Our testers struggled to figure out, for instance, how much sand to add to the bottom of a hot air balloon that was stuck on a mountain top- the clues given were much too difficult. In another scene, it took kids nearly an hour of searching to find the plunger necessary to convince plumbers to loan Sam a wrench- and they never did discover that a pumpkin is a gourd, another tidbit necessary to complete the game.
Is it too hard? Maybe. Because there is no help system, our three-, four- and five-year-old testers could never have completed the adventure without the help of older siblings and parents. In fact, if you consider what's required in terms of logic and memory, the program is really most appropriate for kids aged six to ten.
Even with this significant flaw, however, when we asked our test families whether or not they'd buy the program, they unanimously answered "yes." This is due to the fact that the graphics, story line and character development are all exceptional, giving the game unusual depth and playability.
Teaches: logic, memory, health and nutrition, science
Age Range: 3-8 Copyright © 2000 Children's Software Revue --