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INTRODUCTION GETTING STARTED STEP 1: Choose Your Play Mode Move the joystick left or right to choose the play mode you want. Press the ENTER button to confirm your selection. 1. Learning Adventure In this play mode, you can help Barney and his friends on their amazing journey. Start playing from the beginning by entering Adventure Play or practice your skills in each of the adventure games individually by entering the Quick Play area.
GETTING STARTED * Adventure Play Start the Adventure from the beginning by choosing New Game or start the Adventure from the last place you played before exiting by choosing Continue. New Game – Start the Adventure from the beginning. Continue – Start the Adventure from the last place you played before exiting the game. *Quick Play In the Quick Play menu, choose any of the adventure games youʼd like to play. Move the joystick to select the game you want and press ENTER to play.
3. Options Note: Two-player mode is only available when played on the V.Smile Learning System. TM TV STEP 2: Start Your Game FEATURES In the Options menu, you can choose your game settings. You can turn the music On or Off, choose 1 or 2 players to play the game, select a difficulty level (Easy or Hard) and set the number of chances during game play (normal or unlimited). Use the joystick to choose the settings you want, then press the ENTER button to confirm and exit.
Learning Zone Button The LEARNING ZONE button is a shortcut that takes you to the LEARNING ZONE game selection screen. When you press the LEARNING ZONE button the game will pause. A window will pop up to check that you really want to quit. Move the joystick left to to leave the game or right to to cancel the exit screen and keep playing. Press the ENTER button to choose.
Learning Adventure – Games Adventure 1 – the Book Chase Game Play A bird has carried away the Land of Make Believe book that Barney is reading, and pages are falling out one by one! Help Barney to follow the bird and collect the fallen pages in numerical order. Curriculum: Number Recognition, Number Order Easy Level: The page Numbers will be 1-10. ACTIVITIES Hard Level: The page Numbers will be 1-30.
( ) Enter button Move the cursor up Confirm/count Adventure 2 – Sky Travel Game Play In order to travel to The Land of Make Believe, Barney, BJ and Baby Bop decide to travel in a fun hot air balloon. While in the sky, they discover many objects and letters floating by balloons. Use the joystick to move the hot air balloon to collect the correct object or letter (depending on the difficulty level). Be careful of the yellow birds! Theyʼll bump into your balloon.
Adventure 3 – Forest Adventure Game Play Barney and his friends finally land on the beautiful island – The Land of Make Believe. Barney leads the group through the forest where they meet many different animals. Use the joystick to move Barney left and right, and press ENTER to jump. Barney will collect food for the animals along the way. If you meet an animal on your way, use the joystick to select a food to give to the animal and press ENTER to feed it.
( ) Enter button Barney moves up Confirm ACTIVITIES Adventure 4 – Castle Search 9 Game Play Barney and his friends finally arrive at the big castle where the Princess lives! The castle is very big, so Barney will need some help in finding her. There are 3 different challenges in the castle. Guidance Guard: Listen to the helpful guard and cross the grid on the floor. Use the joystick to move Barney in any of 4 directions by following the guardʼs instructions.
Mini Game: Follow the Stairs Finally, Barney reaches the stairs leading to the Princess! Help Barney get up the stairs and meet the Princess. There are steps in 4 different colors. Press the correct color button on the joystick that matches the color of the next step, and keep matching the colors until Barney reaches the top. Curriculum: Color Matching Easy Level: The color button will light-up as a hint. Hard Level: No hints are given.
Basic operation ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) Enter button Color button Move BJ/Baby Bop to the left Move BJ/Baby Bop to the right Move BJ/Baby Bop downward Move BJ/Baby Bop upward Select the shells/Put the shells into sand castle N/A ACTIVITIES Zone 2 – Dance Time Game Play Letʼs dance in the castle! Barney teaches BJ to dance for the princess in the castle. Now itʼs your turn to try! There are 4-color carpets on the floor. Barney will dance on a carpet from one color to another.
pictures or names) given on the screen. Then use the joystick to move BJ/ Baby Bop around and find the correct animal. As you move the joystick, the yellow cursor arrow will move from one animal to the next. When the cursor is placed over the correct animal, press ENTER to take a picture. There are 5 pictures in each question for each player. Curriculum: Animal Identification Easy Level: Tips given are animal pictures. Hard Level: Tips given are animal names.
CARE & MAINTENANCE CARE&MAINTENANCE/WARNING/TROUBLE SHOOTING TM 13 1. Keep your V.Smile clean by wiping it with a slightly damp cloth. Never use solvents or abrasives. 2. Keep the unit out of direct sunlight and away from direct source of heat. 3. Remove the batteries when not using it for an extended period of time. 4. Avoid dropping it. NEVER try to dismantle it. 5. Always keep the V.Smile TM away from water.
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