Sesame Street First Steps [Old Version]

3.2 3.2 out of 5 stars | 18 ratings

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Last update: 01-11-2025


About this item

Developed by trusted experts in childhood education, Sesame Street® First Steps is an exciting new way for parents to interact with their children while encouraging learning. Along with Elmo, Ernie, Burt, Big Bird and many more of Sesame Street s most loveable characters, parents and children can sing songs, play games and learn the fundamentals of language through a variety of charming and e

Top reviews from the United States

  • A. Glass
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great First Software Program For Little Ones
    Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2009
    I just happened to notice this software on Amazon one day and thought since my niece already seems to be entrhalled by the computer, I would buy it for her to use with me at my house. My niece is only 20 months old, but she knows how to work the mouse. I also show her videos and such of various characters and she does know Sesame Street as well. I believe there are 4 different activities that can be done, but so far my niece and I have only done one of them, which was coloring a picture with the mouse. Ohhh boy did she just love doing this. She got so excited watching the colors fill in while she was moving the mouse! Of course her filling in is swooshing back and forth and up and down, but the program actually automatically fills in the rest of the picture after the child fills in about 1/2 or more. To children this young, though, it does not matter. She got a kick out of seeing it and then guessing what it was. Also, she did not want me to stop to check out the other activities yet, so we've not gotten that far for me to review them.
    Overall, it's a very simple program and great one for a very young child to start learning the mouse. My niece LOVES it and loves identifying all the Sesame Street characters.
  • T. S. Kirkland
    1.0 out of 5 stars Although this item states it is for PC and Mac ...
    Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2016
    Although this item states it is for PC and Mac, it does NOT work on any Mac with a current OS (Lion and on). It requires PowerPC/Rosetta, which has not been suported on any Mac OS for over 3 years. Very disappointing!
  • MickeyT
    2.0 out of 5 stars Great idea, badly implemented
    Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2008
    It's a great concept and was a promising start... When my little girl started playing it she was delighted with the Elmo 'peek a boo' game, but after a couple of turns, it flicks over to Big Bird and then Zowie. That was really annoying when she just wanted to play with Elmo. And I could see her getting frustrated with having to wait for the sound files to run. After every peek a boo there is a comment that runs too long. In general this game is really clunky!! Too many sound files holding up the game. My kid presses the keyboard keys 10 or 15 times before the game reacts, and it reacts with jumpy staggered playing because of all the key strokes. I have to try and keep her hands away from the keyboard while the game continually loads and chokes. I haven't had the game for a week and I think she is already bored with it. I have it installed on both Windows and a Mac machine and it it just chokes and splutters... on the Windows machine, if she presses the Windows logo key it opens the start menu and the game doesn't run. Also when that happens,if I'm not quick enough to keep her hands away she opens some other program or window!! She is only 1 1/2 but some of the games require she hit the numbers keys! The letters don't work.. nice try, but a very disappointing result.
  • M. Pray
    3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2015
    Not a huge fan, but it's okay.
  • Tech-Mama
    4.0 out of 5 stars excellent teaching tool
    Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2012
    My two-year-old really enjoys this game, however he gets bored with it rather quickly. Each activity is pretty basic, with little variety, however my son is positively thrilled that he can navigate the entire Program on his own. It is absolutely fantastic for learning the use of the computer mouse. (i bought a Chester 1-button mouse for his use, as he tended to click all the buttons at the same time and right-clicking brings up a different menu. The one-burton is available thru amazon.com) My major issue is that if my son figures out the key combination to change windows or just hits the start key he minimizes the game and then has free reign of the whole computer.

    The content has everything from coloring.to dancing and the activities are very cute. However they are also quite basic with little variety to the individual games. I.e. The mouse activities are all the sry very similar and the keyboard activities, while having slightly more variety, are also all very similar.
  • Kevin L Campbell
    5.0 out of 5 stars ... new version that works with Windows 7/Vista and works fine on my Windows 10 machine so I'm happy and ...
    Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2015
    The product arrived and to my surprise is not the "Old Version" that only works with Windows XP but is the new version that works with Windows 7/Vista and works fine on my Windows 10 machine so I'm happy and have no complaints. Thanks.
  • Beau Yarbrough
    1.0 out of 5 stars Seemingly made by people who hate children and parents
    Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2009
    There are lots of good computer programs for young children out there. Those programs have clearly been tested with actual children and parents and even educators have been consulted on what works and what doesn't.

    Sesame Street: First Steps is not one of those programs.

    This is a slapped-together program done by a team that clearly has no parents on it, was quality checked by no one and pushed out onto a public that, unfortunately, trusts anything with the name Sesame Street on it.

    THIS IS A TERRIBLE PROGRAM.

    First, children are able to use only the mouse or the keyboard while a given section is running, not both. Why not both? Just because. Now, try and get a toddler to understand this -- I certainly don't.

    Secondly, because apparently the programmers believe all children need constant orders being barked at them by pixelated Muppet drill sergeants, the on-screen characters tell children what to do at any time there's not keyboard input.

    "Remember how to play Silly Songs? Press the keyboard," Zoe orders. Without pausing for breath, she immediately repeats this until a child presses a button. "Remember how to play Silly Songs? Press the keyboard. Remember how to play Silly Songs? Press the keyboard. Remember how to play Silly Songs? Press the keyboard. Remember how to play Silly Songs? Press the keyboard."

    The moment the child stops pressing the keyboard, she starts back up again. This continues until the parent quits the program in disgust. All the other "games" work in an identical fashion.

    And Zoe? The songs aren't silly and pressing the key during, say, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" just puts up one of three identical graphics in the sky, none of which are silly or even amusing to small children.

    Now, if you want a program that will let your kid play on the computer and get hand/eye coordination going (especially with the mouse, which is an abstract concept for kids at first), get some genuinely silly things going on, do it at a child's pace (and allowing for things happening away from the keyboard without some cartoon harridan going ballistic) and even lock down the computer with a screensaver to protect parents' programs and data, the Giggles Fun Time for Babies programs do all that. There's still more chatter from the on-screen cartoon dog than I'd prefer, but it's not a constant refrain when other things might be going on in the house (and bearing in mind a young child's attention span).

    Do NOT get this program. I cannot imagine what prompted other people to give this good reviews, but this is honestly the worst "toy" I've come across in my child's lifetime.

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