LeapFrog Educational Toys and Games
LeapFrog® ClickStart Educational Software:Go Diego Go!

Product Description

Venture into the wilderness with Diego to save baby animals in the rainforest, desert and Antarctica. Learn about letters and numbers while discovering fun facts about all the animals you rescue. For use with ClickStart My First Computer, sold separately.

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• Brand: LeapFrog
• Model: 22673
• Released on: 2008-08-04
• Dimensions: 8.75" h x 5.50" w x .88" l, .20 pounds

From the Manufacturer
Venture into the wilderness with Diego to save baby animals in the rain forest, desert and Antarctica! Learn about letters and numbers while discovering fun facts about all the animals you rescue! Appropriate for ages 3 years to 6 years.

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Customer Reviews

Best One I've Found
Diego is one of 4 ClickStart games we own for my son (age 5) and it by far the best. The games progress well, offer understandable feedback and are lots of fun. I also think it is the best visually that I have seen with the Diego character doing lots of entertaining things.

I would warn that this game requires a MUCH higher level of hand coordination than others, it is very video game like - so I would not recommend for those under 5.

Also, it may be worth noting that I liked this game even though I find the show kind of annoying.

Difficult for 3 year old
I bought this for my son who just turned three. He has other Clickstart games (Cars, Thomas, Bob the Builder) which he seems to enjoy more than Diego. Diego includes six games. However, three of them are virtually the same (screen navigation games) with just different scenery. The navigation games are difficult for my son to master as they involve simultaneous use of the arrow keys and space bar key as Diego searches for various items (arrow keys move Diego; space bar makes him jump). My son stays away from the navigation trio of games as they seem to be beyond his skillset at this point. The three other games can be mastered by a three year old in my opinion. My son likes the penguin dive (which involves the computer giving child instruction on a number to choose, child typing that number, then penguin diving into water). He does not play shape bridge (which involves bridge with "holes" in the form of shapes; child must select shapes to fill holes). He does not play vine climb (which involves computer instructing child to find number as Diego climbs vines). If your child likes Diego, he may like this game better than my son (as my son has never seen the Diego cartoon). It may be a game that can grow with the child - i.e. three games for younger children, then the three screen navigation games for older kids. However, I think by the time kids can navigate the screen, they won't be interested in Clickstart. My recommendation would be to stay away from this game unless you've exhausted all the others.

Most games too hard for 3 year old
Note: All of the information below refers to "level 1" games.

My daughters (2.5 years old and 3.5 years old) love Go, Diego, Go! so it was an easy decision to buy this game. I don't know if my kids are weird, but their mouse skills are much better than their ability to navigate quickly with the keyboard. As many have pointed out, there are six games. Three of them require using the arrow keys to make Diego go in different directions, and he is also required to jump (space bar) and move (arrow key) at the same time. Thus far, this is beyond my girls. They still choose to play this game, but I need to be there the entire time, helping, and even still, they get bored and/or frustrated, and we've never gotten to the end of the game.

There's a "vine climb" game that also requires using the arrow keys to move Diego from one vine to another as he must get the leaf with a specific letter on it. Ideally, he would move away from the leaves with the wrong letter on them, too. The leaves move very quickly. Even when *I* play the game, I have to work fast to get the right letters. Way beyond them.

One game, the bridge game, involves using the mouse. This is the game that my daughters can play by themselves, and all I have to do is cheer them on. There's no time limit or independently moving parts. [thumb up]

The last game involves penguins with numbers on them, and you have to push the number on the keyboard to make a particular penguin jump into the water. Although my girls aren't that great at this game yet, I can see that they can get it soon. Unlike the "vine climb" where the leaves move quickly, in the penguin dive, the penguins just sit there for however long it takes the child to find the number on the keyboard.

I'm not sorry that we bought the game. They do like getting to make Diego do things (even if those things don't result in completing the tasks/games). If you're buying it for a 3 year old, you might want to let go of the idea that they'll play the games "the right way" and just let them fool around with it.

I don't see the Cars game listed here at amazon.com, but I bought that one in a store, and my girls can play all of those games. If your kids like Lightening McQueen, perhaps get that game as one a 3 year old can play (if they're good with the mouse!)