This heritage treatment is aparent in Pre-school Adventures with Mickey, and Get Ready for School with Mickey (PC/Mac, CD Rom, Disney Interactive, Pounds 19.99 each), the former for children aged two to four, and the latter for four-to six-year-olds. Both aim to promote learning through play, adjusting automatically to the player's performance by increasing or decreasing the difficulty of the activities.
Pre-school's games rely on number, letter and shape recognition and help learning about size, colours and sequencing. Few two-year-olds could manage these exercises, and, at the upper levels, the brightest four-year-old would be struggling. But there are also open-ended activities: for example, a car dashboard where you can operate the wipers, turn the radio up, and so on.
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