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The Leapster Learning Game System (previously known as the Leapster Multimedia Learning System) is an educational handheld game console aimed at 4- to 10–11-year-olds (preschool to fourth grade or fifth grade), made by LeapFrog Enterprises. Its games teach the alphabet, phonics, basic math (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), and art and animal facts to players. Along with a directional pad, the system features a touchscreen with a stylus pen that enables young users to interact directly with the screen. The Leapster was released in October 2003 and discontinued in 2014.
Why It Flopped and Leaped to Its End
- The design of the console is just a poorly made Game Boy Advance. The original version in particular has some of the ugliest console designs.
- It's games such as Sonic X and Math Baseball are pretty boring.
- The audio and visual quality are abysmal, it could give the Game.com a run for its’ money.
- Speaking of the visual quality, when these games are played on a Leapster TV, the visual quality is worse.
- The Leapster cartridges of Letter Factory and Talking Words Factory don't even qualify as games; they are rather just like those FMV games from the 90s with barely any interactivity.
- It has bad battery life. While it could last 6 to 11 hours, charging it lasts up to 3-4 days depending on usage, which is a very long time.
- Many of the games aren't that challenging.
- Because of how easy the games are, they are also very short.
- The sound effect that plays when you get an answer wrong is very abysmal.
- Some of the games only result in the console turning itself off once the game's over.
- It doesn't use rechargeable batteries, unless you use a battery pack. The Leapster 2, however, has one.
The Only Redeeming Quality
- To be fair, it did have some good games such as Letterpillar, SpongeBob SquarePants: Through the Wormhole, Get Puzzled and Kindergarten.
Games Licensed
- 1st Grade
- 2nd Grade: Musical Menace
- Adibou: À la Recherche de Robilloc
- Animal Genius
- The Backyardigans
- The Batman: Multiply, Divide and Conquer
- The Batman: Strength in Numbers
- Bratz World: The Jet Set
- Cars
- Cars 2
- Cars Supercharged
- Clifford the Big Red Dog: Reading
- Cosmic Math
- Crayola: Art Adventure
- Creature Create
- Digging for Dinosaurs
- The Disney•PIXAR Collection
- Disney Fairies
- Disney Princess: Enchanted Learning
- Disney Princess: Worlds of Enchantment
- Dora the Explorer: Camping Adventure
- Dora the Explorer: Piñata Party
- Dora the Explorer: Wildlife Rescue
- Finding Nemo
- Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
- Get Puzzled!
- Go, Diego, Go!: Animal Rescuer
- I Spy: Challenger!
- I Spy: Treasure Hunt
- The Incredibles
- Kindergarten
- Learning with Leap (cartridge-only game, built in on some Leapsters)
- Letter Factory
- Letters on the Loose
- Letterpillar
- Madagascar
- Math Baseball
- Math Missions
- Mr. Pencil's Learn to Draw and Write
- My Amusement Park
- NASCAR
- Ni Hao, Kai-Lan: Beach Day
- Noddy: Rainbow Adventures (UK only)
- Number Raiders
- Numbers on the Run: Counting on Zero
- Outwit!
- The Penguins of Madagascar: Race for 1st Place!
- Pet Pals
- Phonics: Lesson One
- The Princess and the Frog
- Ratatouille
- Reading with Phonics: Mole's Huge Nose
- Rock the World: A Reading Adventure
- Schoolhouse Rock!: America Rock
- Schoolhouse Rock!: Grammar Rock
- Scooby-Doo!: Math Times Two
- Scooby-Doo!: Spooky Snacks
- Sonic X
- Spider-Man: The Case of the Sinister Speller
- SpongeBob SquarePants: Saves the Day
- SpongeBob SquarePants: Through the Wormhole
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Jedi Math
- Star Wars: Jedi Reading
- Tangled
- The Talking Words Factory
- Thomas & Friends: Calling All Engines!
- Top-Secret Personal Beeswax: Share a Journal with Junie B.
- Toy Story 3
- Up
- WALL-E
- Wolverine and the X-Men
- Word Chasers
Trivia
- The Ficreation Discord Server by GabrielGarciaDiscord is trying to start meme spread for the console. It also has its own meme server for Leapster memes.
- Its games run on Flash, meaning it's theoretically possible to emulate the games on a computer.
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