File:Sesame Street Elmo's Preschool (1996)

Description
Elmo's Preschool is a Sesame Street CD-ROM game for home computers developed by Creative Wonders and Children's Television Workshop in 1996 and rereleased by Creative Wonders in 1998. Elmo guides the user to a place where the user can makes a choice out of the five unique playrooms he or she want to go into.

Contents: Automatic Leveling (the difficulty level of the game will adjust up or down to keep the game challenging for the child using it) Smart Help (Sesame Street characters will guide children through activities step-by-step) Smart Host (Elmo is always on the screen to give help when needed; simply click on Elmo or wait a few seconds and he will offer assistance) Object Identification (if the cursor is left over a given object on the screen for a few seconds, Elmo will identify it) The Music Room (Find a Sound, Finish a Sound Pattern) Letters Room (Find a Letter, Make an Animal Name) Face Treehouse (Make a Face, How Would You Feel?) Shapes and Colors Tent (Find A Shape) Numbers Clubhouse (Find A Number, The Counting Game) All can be visited in any order and revisited at any time.

Credits: AT CREATIVE WONDERS

Producer: Gibson Biddle Associate Producer: Paul Oeschger Assistant Producer: Gabriel Benjamin Manriquez Testing Manager: Tim LeTourneau Lead Testers: Lesley Davidson, Steve Krug Testers: Chris McCall, Paul Mathus, Jeff Homan Product Manager: Rob Solomon Documentation & On-line Help Editor: Valerie Hanscom Documentation Layout: Emily Favors Creative Services Manager: Greg Graalfs Package Design: Arlene Horwitz Director of Technology: Lee Powell Quality Assurance: Rachel Gatz Director of Operations: Laila Anderson Operations: Rosalind Delligatti Administrative Support: Jana Wilson, Kelly Langi, Maryann Duringer

Educational Consultants: Irene A. Paredes Barnett, ECE Education Consultant; Judylin Duba, Teacher and Instructor at WMI; Sheila Pfeiffer, Multimedia Instructor

PARENTS & KIDS GUIDE

Developer: Asylum Entertainment (Brett G. Durett, Mitch Pergola, Chris

Perry, Anthony L. Farmer, Phil Barrows, Charles London

Artwork: Barbara Patton, Paul Mathus, Peter Adam Lester

Thanks To: John Spencer, Louis Roitblat, Jessica Komoroske, Mark Farley, Denise Benetar, Robin Kraft, Kathy Linstrum, Mike Bianco, Scott Fields, Sohphia Shin, Larry Peiros, Michael Yasko, Randy Delucchi, Lisa Kerrigan, Christine Cernosia, Josh Noble, Mimi Page, Kirk Kirschenbauer, Erik Zwerling, Patrick Schork, Chris Garcia, Simon Fleming-Wood, Bettina Reinhardt, Kedar Roy, John Hwee, and Holly Smevog

Additional Thanks To: all the parents, kids, product testers, and educators who contributed to over 500 hours of product testing, including all the kids and teachers at Kindercare, Foster City, CA; KidsConnection, Foster City, CA; Highland Montessori, San Mateo, CA; Acorn School, New York City, NY; and Wichita Collegiate School, Wichita, KS

AT CHILDRENS TELEVISION WORKSHOP

Producer: Miles Ludwig

Assistant to the Producer: Rault Kehlor

VP Interactive Production: Glenda Revelle

Creative Director: Spencer Grey

Production Director: Karen Kane

Project Manager: Wendy Paige Bronfin

Art Director: Russel Zambito

Initial Art Direction: Eustacia Marsales

Lead Artistic Designer: Peter Adam Lester

Character Animator: Jen Oxley

Animators: Mike Arnold, Drew King, Jonathan Gladding, Katherine Schultz

Sound Director: Miles Ludwig

Music/Sound Effects: Peter Durwood, Valerie Vigoda

Additional Lipsynch: Kimberly Howitt

Music Room Arrangements: Nancy Rosenberg

Technical Director: Mel Bellar

Language Design and Programming: Cosmo Scrivanich

System Programmer: Todd Marshall

Programmer: Jeff Harrington

Additional Programming: Jonathan Mooser, Eric Honsch

Production Coordinators: Paul Cummings, Philippe Steinmann

Production Assistants: Jack McCall, Jason Milligan, Abby Denson, Robert Ruiz

Research Director: Erik Strommen, Ph. D.

Researchers: Lisa Medoff, Setareh Razavi, June Sison

Marketing Managers: Gina Covington, Ellen Gold

Special Thanks To: Rob Madell-VP Interactive Technologies, Michael Artin-Initial Concept Development, Teresa Turano-Financial Director, Sarah Chumsky-Additional Dialogue

Additional Thanks: Rick Wetzel, Lyle Booth, Cara Copperman, Rene Rachelle, All at Nola Recording Studios, Inc.

Starring the Sesame Street Muppet Character Kevin Clash as Elmo

Special Thanks to Jim Henson, whose imagination and vision continue to inspire us all!

Creative Wonders is proud to support Sesame Street Games. Sesame Street Games is a comprehensive program sponsored by Children's Television Workshop to convey messages to young children and their parents about learning through play and fostering self-esteem.

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