Better than Letter Adventure because it has Cookie Monster, and Elmo does sick tricks with his jetski in the Land of Chocolate.
In all seriousness, this Elmo game and its twin are fairly amusing as a meme speedrun race for adults, but they emulate really badly (like, frequently crashing and freezing) and for some strange reason the N64 emulation community has not collectively worked very hard to change that. So unless you have an everdrive or the cartridges, it's probably not worth trying to make it work out for 20 minutes of gameplay.
As an actual game for children, this duology was perhaps more useful in teaching toddlers how to hold an N64 controller and navigate virtual 3D space than actually teaching them anything about reading or numbers. If you can recognize how a letter/number is written once, you can probably do it 20 times. p and q or b and d might be the only challenges. I dunno, I don't have kids yet though. When I do I can share this with them and see what they think, and possibly be the first person to actually subject children to this perfectly harmless but also unimpressive edutainment game in like 25 years. I'll get back to you someday.
In all seriousness, this Elmo game and its twin are fairly amusing as a meme speedrun race for adults, but they emulate really badly (like, frequently crashing and freezing) and for some strange reason the N64 emulation community has not collectively worked very hard to change that. So unless you have an everdrive or the cartridges, it's probably not worth trying to make it work out for 20 minutes of gameplay.
As an actual game for children, this duology was perhaps more useful in teaching toddlers how to hold an N64 controller and navigate virtual 3D space than actually teaching them anything about reading or numbers. If you can recognize how a letter/number is written once, you can probably do it 20 times. p and q or b and d might be the only challenges. I dunno, I don't have kids yet though. When I do I can share this with them and see what they think, and possibly be the first person to actually subject children to this perfectly harmless but also unimpressive edutainment game in like 25 years. I'll get back to you someday.