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This Windows-only program offers three activities and three games, introduced by buff-armed, jovial Tonka Joe. The activities all involve building cool things that can be saved and printed. There's a wood shop for constructing forts and castles, a metal shop for designing all manner of vehicles, and a tech lab for rockets, robots, time machines, and the like. The ever-versatile power tool comes into play here: pointing the Teflon tip at the screen and squeezing the trigger selects an activity, twisting the collar on the tool selects one of 24 different power-tool tips to use on a project, then pointing and triggering again gets the job done. We really liked arc welding, which made the screen flash so realistically we considered donning sunglasses. The three games have three levels, and are good exercises in logic, spatial applications, and finding the right tool for the job. A pit-stop game requires kids to quickly fix racecars that roll in needing repairs. A Tetris-like construction game has players affixing panels to a house as they fly in from all screen directions. And in The Safe Game kids use their tool to solve puzzles, using visual cues to "crack" a series of locks and win the treasure contained in the safe. Decent games, one and all, that will please tool lovers, and provide the tool-impaired with a gentle introduction to the differences between Phillips-head and flat-head screwdrivers.
A final word: the plastic power tool is quite light, but the games are engrossing enough that it's possible to hold it to the screen for long, fatiguing periods of time. Now we know why Tonka Joe has such beefy arms. Perhaps Tonka Power Tools should be marketed to adults as a triceps toner. (Ages 5 and older) --Anne Erickson
| PLATFORM: | Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows Me |
| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | Atari |
| ESRB RATING: | Everyone |
| FEATURES: | CD-ROM |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 742725225985 |
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Customer Reviews of Tonka Power Tools Playset
Great Game Once You Get It To Work!! I bought this software for my son's birthday. I couldn't get the drill to work like many who have commented here. I visited the Hasbro website that gave me the link to the new owners of the software (Infogrames). I was able to e:mail my difficulties to a technician through their Customer Support Window. The technician e:mailed me several suggestions on how to configure my machine to try to get the drill to work. Once I made the change the drill worked IMMEDIATELY. I had to pry my son off the computer last night, he was having so much fun. If you have troubles running it on your machine, I recommend visiting the Infogrames support ...
Great Toy But here is Warning
This is a great toy. My grandson loves it BUT BEWARE you will need a legacy game port. An USB game port adapter WILL NOT WORK!
Doesn't work.
This thing sells for ten bucks at Compoosa, so I picked it up for my boys. Too bad it didn't do a thing. I happen to know I wasn't doing something monkeybrained...I'm a veteran Software Engineer with 22 years of experience beginning on the Apple2 (rivaling even The Great Remy). I tried the toy out with 4 different video cards on 3 different computers. Nothing. Hasbro is incapable of helping (they just sell it, they didn't make it). Even as a non-working PC accessory, though, it might be worth 3 bucks. Cut off the cord and put it in the kids' regular toy box. Otherwise, it's useless.