Interactive E.T. – Tiger Toys

This character is built in similar fashion, with sensors placed all over his body such as the head, hands, his chest, plus he also has a glowing finger and heart and as you play with him he’ll move his neck, eyes and mouth, talking to you with more than 400 words and 800 phrases.

The idea with him is to teach him about his new surroundings on earth and progress through the four programmed stages of his development. The manual tells you how to do this and examples follow :

• E.T.’s Secrets: Certain combinations of actions will cause E.T. to either put him into a deep sleep, have a laughing attack, or give him a burping and hiccuping frenzy.

• The environment: E.T. will react to light, darkness, loud noises such as clapping and being relaxed by being turned upside-down.

• “Phone home”: Although E.T. likes living on Earth, his does miss his original abode. Squeezing his right hand twice, patting his head, then covering his light sensor will cause him to say “Phone home”, but make sure you put his number on your ‘Friends & Family’ list if you don’t want a £6m phone bill.

• Games: E.T. has a couple of these up his sleeve. Follow is a version of Simon Says (and like Interactive Yoda‘s “Yoda Says”), he will instruct you to press parts of his body in a certain, increasing, order. Hide and Seek will allow a friend to place him in another part of the house and, once set up correctly, you will have just a few minutes to find him before he starts calling out to you.

• Story: You and E.T. can make up stories together, taking it in turns to say your piece.

• Jokes: E.T. will tell you jokes and riddles, but will first tell you all but the punchline. You can then guess this before pressing his hand to continue and see if you’d guessed it correctly.

Finally, Interactive E.T. can also converse with another E.T., Furby, Furby Babies and Gizmo, but I don’t know whether it’ll be an intelligible conversation or a chat with John Prescott.

Overall, Interactive E.T. will certainly provide plenty of entertainment for its target age group so if you couldn’t get your child a PS2 for Xmas, this is certainly worth a look.

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