Sesame Street: Cookie's Counting Carnival

Sesame Street: Cookie's Counting Carnival
Developer(s)	Black Lantern Studios
Publisher(s)	Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Platform(s)	Wii Nintendo DS PC
Release date(s)	^NA October 19, 2010 ^AUS November 10, 2010
Genre(s)	Adventure, educational
Mode(s)	Single-player

Sesame Street: Cookie's Counting Carnival is a Sesame Street video game released on October 19, 2010 from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for the Wii, the Nintendo DS, and Windows.

The Wii version comes packaged with a Cookie Monster "gameplay helper", a soft plush cover for the Wiimote that hides unnecessary buttons from the preschool player's busy fingers. The DS version comes with a special stylus.

Description

A press release describes the game:

In Sesame Street: Cookie's Counting Carnival, kids join Cookie Monster and Big Bird at a fun-filled carnival through gameplay steeped in math skills that include number identification, counting, shapes and pattern recognition. Kids journey through the game in the many areas of the carnival such as The Midway, Petting Zoo, Food Court and the Arcade.^[1]

Minigames

There are 14 minigames in the Wii, Nintendo DS and PC versions, and 12 games in all the versions.

Game list

Arcade

• "Big Bird's Bell" - counting
• "Ring Patterns" - pattern identification
• "Falling Cans" - counting
• "Pond Scoop" - number identification

Petting Zoo

• "Bunny Patterns" - pattern identification
• "Bad Donkey" - shape identification
• "Treats" (Wii/PC versions) - counting

Food Court

• "Me Hungry" (Wii/PC versions) - addition
• "Fruit Shack" - counting
• "Monster Seek" (Nintendo DS version) - spatial reasoning
• "Pretzel Party" - shape identification
• "So Many Balloons" - relational concepts

Midway

• "With the Band" (Nintendo DS version) - counting
• "Chill 'n' Catch" - counting
• "Ferris Wheel" - shape and color identification
• "Fill That Car" - addition

References

1. "Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Announces Sesame Street: Elmo’s A-to-Zoo Adventure and Sesame Street: Cookie’s Counting Carnival", press release. June 7, 2010.