With this, I wasn’t expecting any differences from Elmo’s Letter Adventure and, while the game is mostly the same, I was quite surprised by the actual differences.

For starters, the environments are much more 3D, with some having ramps you can jump off (with Elmo sometimes performing an animation of a stunt). It doesn’t change how the game works, but it does make it feel slightly more involving.

The aim of the game is still to collect lots of what you’re told (just numbers instead of letters), however, this time there are groups of items, and you’ll need to collect groups of the right number as well – so there’s actually some counting involved. This increases the difficulty to a level where it’s understandable that someone of the target age would be able to play a game like this.

The bonus stages also include sums, with addition and subtraction. You have to throw the right number of balls into the mouth of a large clown head, which is a lot more advanced than finding the first letter of a word (with the characters saying what letter you’re looking for).

Of course, it’s still incredibly basic, even for an edutainment title, with no settings to adjust the difficulty of the tasks (just how many you have to collect). It’s still immensely short, and there’s still no reason as to why these games were split up instead of being a single package.

Poor

The dreaded concept of edutainment reared its pre-teen head this month, with the confirmation that a series of Sesame Street titled will be heading N64-wards later this year, thanks to NewKidCo.

N64 Magazine #25

Remake or remaster?

Nothing needed for this.

Official ways to get the game.

There’s no official way to get Elmo’s Number Journey.