File:Sesame Street Numbers (PC) (1997)

Description
This is an educational CD-ROM which lays the foundation for pre-reading skills for children ages two to six. With Elmo as their guide, children explore the neighborhood and visit with many Sesame Street characters. Eight activities will acquaint children with numbers, counting, spatial relationships, and other pre-math essentials. There is also a special interactive phone used to call favorite Muppets, as well as interactive storybooks, televisions, and radios. The games include the Present Game, the Paper Clip Game, the Near and Far Game, and "I've Got Your Number." As players explore Sesame Street, they will encounter characters and games. The Present Game is a number identification and counting activity hosted by Elmo. He will ask for a certain number of objects. Objects are then placed inside a big box and he counts them. If he's given the number he asked for, a fireworks display will appear. If not, players may try again. In the Paper Clip game Ernie has hidden all of Bert's paper clips and needs help in finding them. Ernie will give children clues as they search his apartment. This game teaches identification of shapes by their physical characteristics. The Near and Far Game takes place in Big Bird's Nest and reinforces listening and deductive reasoning skills as well as the concepts of near and far. Big Bird hides his birdseed and players must hunt for it all around his nest. As children search and click on objects in his nest, he will tell them whether they are "near" or '"far" from the birdseed. In "I've Got Your Number" elementary addition and subtraction skills are emphasized. Bats are hiding behind one of the numbers in Count Von Count's Castle. The Count will offer clues for the correct number.

"The Present Game": The user must find the right number of gifts and give them to Elmo. "The Paper Clip Game": The user must help Bert find his paper clip collection which Ernie has hidden in their apartment. "Big Bird's Nest": Big Bird provides clues to help the user find the birdseed he has hidden in his nest. "I've Got Your Number": The Count helps the user find his bats, who are hiding behind one of the numbers in his castle. "Storybooks & Telephones": Listen to stories in books and answer the phone to talk to characters from Sesame Street. "Radios & Televisions": Each character location contains a radio and television set, which plays songs and video clips from the show.

Credits: At Creative Wonders VP, Product Development: Gibson Biddle Executive Producer: Paul Oeschger Line Producer: Gabriel B. Manriquez Associate Producer: Erik B. Zwerling Product Manager: Matthew Park Assistant Product Manager: Bernard Camarao Production Manager (v1.1): Paul Mathus Programmer (v1.1): Scott Walling QA/ Testing Manager: Ran Lovig Lead Tester: Andrew Viloria Testers: Scott "The Cleaner" Schork, Lewis Lock, Sean McGrath, YaYa Pate, Thomas Rainey, Marianne Williams

Documentation & Interactive Help Editor (v1.1): Patrick Schork Documentation (v2.0): Corinne Mah Creative Services Manager: Greg Graalfs Software Engineering Manager: Hugo Paz Special Thanks To: Louis Roitblat, Dominique Marnoni, Sarah Tilton, Gunar Penikis, Benjamin Deguzman

At Children's Television Workshop Head Writer: Mark Saltzman Written by: Sandy Damashek, Mitchell Kriegman Starring the Sesame Street Muppet Characters: Kevin Clash as Elmo Jim Henson as Kermit the Frog & Ernie

Marty Robinson as Mr. Snuffalupagus & Telly Frank Oz as Bert Jerry Nelson as Count Von Count Caroll Spinney as Big Bird & Oscar the Grouch Sound Designers: Peter Durwood, Miles Ludwig, Valerie Vigoda CTW Programmer: Eric Honsch Producer: Sonia Rosario Artists: Michael Arnold, Lyle Booth, Ped Lester, Eustacia Marsales, Michelle Meeker, Kurt Nielsen, Jennifer Oxley, Katherine Schultz, Jackie Ross, Russ Zam Original CDI Graphics and Animation: Joe Mason Additional Art: John Rainey, Barbara Peck

Interactive Design: Rob Madell, Seth Myers, Glenda Revelle Creative Development: Sandy Damashek, Rob Madell, Seth Myers, Glenda Revelle, Sonia Rosario, Mark Saltzman Creative Consultants: Russell Ginns, Sarah Cronin Animation Synchronization: Valerie Vigoda, Michael Artin, Kevin Clash Research Director: Erik Strommen Research Prototype Productions: Michael Artin Researchers: Cara Copperman, Sue Cook, Lisa Medoff, Setti Razavi Production Liason: Mike Nibley Production Assistant: Amy Keyishian CDI Software Engineers Capital Video: Greg Brooks, Katie Moriarty Audio Engineer Synch Sound: Pam Bartolo Macintosh Version by Software MacKiev Lead Programmers: Michael Panchenko, Ivan Aksak and Andrey Alexandrov Quality Assurance: Ildar Gumerov and Zinaida Alekseeva

Sesame Street PC Games - Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMHDmUmHNPJjRt3rAULGgZu_At-0XxpGS SesameStreetNumbersPC1997

Note: None of the TV clips are shown to ensure that my video is not taken down.