NES Games I (Nick) Beat #60: Sesame Street 123

Part of this game is stupid, boring, and lies to your face. It’s called Sesame Street 123 but in Ernie’s Magic Shape’s, a game as boring as sin where all you do is match pick shapes to make a construct to match the other one on screen, there is no math. The graphics are decent for NES and the music is ok too. The controls are awkward as you can only go one direction as far as it goes before it loops around with any button. On the other side we have Astro Grover which is about counting but each individual game actual does a decent job of teaching adding, counting, subtracting. For shit of this caliber, it’s boring but it does its job well enough. Also, there’s not enough representation of Squids in this game to the amount of kids that would be playing this. We decided to score it higher because of the Grover part and the lack of wanting to kill ourselves like in certain Elmo N64 titles… so we’re giving it a 3/10. Trash, but for trash it’s not too bad at teaching kids, at least in the Grover part.

 — with John Black and Nick Christison.