Scoop: Kaplan Teams Up With Aspyr Media to Create an SAT Test Prep Game For the Nintendo DS

re: Scoop: Kaplan Teams Up With Aspyr Media to Create an SAT Test Prep Game For the Nintendo DS

Etchasketchist — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:41:31 GMT

I don't know why there aren't more educational games on the market. The fun of almost every game involves learning and skill mastery. I've been bummed that XBLA has next to nothing when it comes to educational games. I'm not going to spend 60 bucks on a retail educational game, but I would totally throw down $10 bucks for a PuzzleQuest-y game that taught me Spanish or something. OregonTrailHD Remix? Carmen Sandiego Online? Something. For a lot of us old-school gamers, the Apple IIe games we played in elementary school were just as awesome and just as big a deal as the Mario and the Zelda. If i'm going to be goofing off with a casual game, might as well learn a thing or two while I do it. If MS were smart, they'd encourage that corner of the market in order to get parents to think twice before getting the Wii. Cheapo SpongeBob SquarePants platformers and lame Disney movie tie-in games are not gonna do it.

re: Scoop: Kaplan Teams Up With Aspyr Media to Create an SAT Test Prep Game For the Nintendo DS

SuperEffective — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:36:56 GMT

So, this is going to hit the ever-larger demo of people who don't want to take the 2,000$ Kaplan class, don't want to buy the 25-30$ retail book, but *do* want to do their learning on the DS.

Shyster-y!

re: Scoop: Kaplan Teams Up With Aspyr Media to Create an SAT Test Prep Game For the Nintendo DS

SamF — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:52:26 GMT

Oh wow. I drop 600 for there prep class, finish it. THEN this gets announced?