While the activities that Sesame Street TV asks your child to perform could have right or wrong answers, there's never any penalty for messing up. It's just that-aside from the things I've mentioned at the beginning of this article, which were crude at best-the audience never really had a way to interact back. This doesn't break the Sesame Street mold too much, as anyone my age probably remembers that the Sesame Street characters would frequently stop to interact with the audience. When Elmo asks your child to point something out on the screen, the Kinect can actually tell what your child is pointing at. When Big Bird asks your child to say a word, the Kinect can actually hear your child say the word in question. However, instead of a console with some brightly colored buttons, children get to participate using the Kinect's motion control and voice recognition technology. Once again, children are placed in front of their TV to watch an episode of Sesame Street, and once again, the episodes pause whenever the characters try to interact with the viewer. Soho Productions and Microsoft Studios' new Kinect Sesame Street TV is essentially the same thing for a new generation. My favorite was Furry Old Grover in Please Don't Push the Red Button, where the entire purpose was to press any button except the red one, or Grover would have a meltdown at the end of the book. They actually had a lot of simple little toys like this back then, even producing interactive books and audio cassettes. This way, I was actually able to interact with my favorite Sesame Street characters and even decide how an episode of Sesame Street would end. Then, after I had made my decision, it fast-forwarded the tape to the portion that corresponded with the choice I made. It would pause the tape and wait for me to press a button. That was when this ingenious little toy would do its job. Essentially, an episode of Sesame Street would play as normal until one of the characters asked me, the curious toddler, a question.
It was a simple little thing with four colored buttons that allowed me to interact with special Sesame Street tapes.
When I was a young child, I had an educational Sesame Street toy that hooked up to my VHS player.
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