Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader: Game Time
- Test your knowledge with 5000 challenging questions Can you reach the Million Dollar question before exhausting your Peek Cheat or Save
- Test your aptitude in over 28 categories including World History Drama Space Science Geography Vocabulary and more
- Enjoy game show excitement just like the show from the classmate peer pressure to Jeff Foxworthys wisecracks
- Play fun interactive mini games in the Recess Round on your Nintendo DS challenge yourself in a Spelling Bee Chalk Reveal and many more
You have seen the show, now it is time to prove what YOU know! Drop your pencil and gather the family because it is Game Time! Can you answer all of the questions to prove that you Are Smarter Than A 5th Grader!
List Price: $ 29.99
Price: $ 5.00
-UPDATE 9/26/09- COMMON PROBLEMS: CAN’T SAVE? Check your BATTERY folder with all your game saves. Make sure after you’re done saving in the game that sav files appear in the BATTERY folder. I have a No$GBA folder with everything in one folder and have a shortcut to No$GBA.exe. Also make sure your No$GBA.INP file is not manipulated. If anything is not working properly after that, just download No$GBA and start again. Any questions regarding this following issue will be deleted and unanswered: The data could not be read. Please turn off the power, then remove and reinsert the DS game card. The answer is in the comments hundreds of times and is in a big red box on the video that says SCROLL OVER THIS. The solution for the problem: (Go to Options, Emulation Setup, NDS Cartridge Back up Media and change it to FRAM 32KBytes to get all games to work on No$GBA Remember to go to options, save options and then press OK. This saves the setting you’ve made.) I forgot to mention but No$GBA also plays regular GBA games, you can find those roms in emuparadise too. Here are links to everything though. Feel welcome to leave comments if you have any questions. Download No$GBA here… nocash.emubase.de *Google search no$gba 1.6a if you want the latest version. I will not be providing it.* Download your roms here… www.emuparadise.org Download WinRAR here… www.download.com You could also try 7Zip if you’re having issues with winrar… www.7-zip.org
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Nintendo DS
Image by Wade Rockett
No Wii, but lots and lots of DS, with a couple of new games, Nintendo reps to answer questions, and a couple of young women dressed as game characters.
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Review by jmc_mwc for Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader: Game Time
I really like the overall concept of this game but after doing it for a while, I would like a way to cut out the first part that introduces the people each time and takes so much time in between games.
Review by Gregory Greenman for Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader: Game Time
My wife bought this game a few days ago. The two of us have played it several times and, while we think it is a fun game, it does have a number of problems.
The game has four play options available: Home Room, Battle of Wits, Schoolroom Showdown and Three and Out. We have played the first two but haven’t tried the last two yet. Home Room is virtually the same as the TV show, so that’s the focus of this review.
Although the TV show has only one contestant at a time, in the Video Game up to four players can compete in Home Room. There is no interaction between players; they just answer questions in turns. Each player has his own board of subjects to choose from.
Other ways this game differs from the TV show are that all the questions (except the million dollar question) are either multiple choice or true or false and there is a subject called “Wild Card”. Wild card means the subject could be anything. For the million dollar question, a virtual keyboard pops up so that you can type in an answer. Apparently spelling doesn’t have to be perfect because I was told my answer was correct even when I put an extra “e” in a word. Also, when you choose a classmate, the game tells you what their two best subjects are.
Other than what I’ve pointed out above, the game plays just about the same as the TV show. Jeff Foxworthy makes the same sort of comments as he does on the real show. I can only guess that the other reviewers who complained that he is condescending haven’t seen the TV show. I found his comments witty and completely within the spirit of the game.
Now, on to the negative points:
We bought this game on New Year’s Eve. It is now January 6 and not only have we seen several questions twice, we’ve actually seen a couple of them for a third time. The box says there are over 5,000 questions, so I’m not sure why they are being recycled already.
The graphics are mediocre. The characters move in awkward manners. Jeff Foxworthy’s lips start moving about a second before any sound starts even his speech. The contestants comments are downright corny. Also, there are frequent video glitches where the bottom 40% or so of the screen just turns to static for a moment.
While Jeff Foxworthy’s comments are humorous, there are only a few then they just repeat over and over.
As I said, the game tells you each kid’s best two subjects, but you cannot see the board when you select them. So, you can’t choose a classmate based on what subjects you have left, unless you’ve got them memorized. Even that doesn’t work when you choose your first classmate because the game doesn’t always show you the board at all, until after you’ve chosen him.
The classmates get questions wrong quite often. On the TV show, the kids seem bright and you are usually safe relying on them. The kids in the game must be the rejects. At first I thought that the reason the classmates were often giving wrong answers was because we were not always using them for their best subjects. So, my wife and I started to make sure we only relied on them for their best subjects. Nevertheless, they still failed us at least half the time.
Probably the most important thing about the game is, is it fun or not? And, as I’ve said, yes, I think it is. While there are more negative points about this game than I would like, especially the fact that these kids are dunces, in my opinion the fun outweighs that. This is a game worth owning, especially if you can get it at a good price.
Review by Daniel Martin for Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader: Game Time
I bought this game for my father as he very much enjoys quiz shows and has really enjoys watching “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader” and listening to any variations of that game he may find of the radio. Plus, seeing as he has recenlty been converted to a Wii person, I thought getting this game was a no brainer.
Cons: The animation/graphics are just not very good. The dialouge is never in sync
with the characters mouth movements. The animation in general is very choppy
and just not very pleasant to watch. Every so often a portion of the screen
will flash white or just turn into pixilated squares, it’s just for a few
seconds but is still annoying.
You don’t get very many options in creating your character…very few. I had
difficulty making any of the characters look anything like my family
memebers (not a big deal, but just something I thought I would mention)
The questions do tend to repeat, even if just after a few games. We got our
first repeat question just 5 or 6 games in.
On the Million Dollar question you have to enter the answer exactly as they
have it in the system or you get it wrong. My mother asnwered a question
about what river Huck Finn traveled down and she answered “Mississippi River”
and she got it wrong because they were just looking for “Mississippi.”
Sometimes you guess correctly and you get it wrong anyway. There was a
question that my dad was pretty sure of but decided to peek and take a look
at his kids answer, which had the same answer he had though of and locked
in that answer. They said he and the kid were wrong and when they showed
the correct answer it was the same answer he and the kid gave.
However, even with all that is wrong with it, if you like trivia questions, well, it does have that, but I’ve seen several other games do it better than this one.
NOTE: My dad absolutely hates the kids on this game. He hates their remarks while you take time to give your answer. He actually yells at the tv, which is funny for a while, and then it gets scary. He says it’s disrespectful the way they talk to you on the game.
Review by B. ENG for Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader: Game Time
I’ve watched the gameshow on tv occasionally, and I like trivia games. The format of this game follows the TV version, some aspects which (for an adult) are a little annoying, but overall I like the game. But I’ll keep looking for a good dedicated trivia game.
Review by Tammy J. Banks for Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader: Game Time
My husband and my son love this game they play it all the time. They are the reason I bought it. I can’t play it due to the fact that the game is too fast. I do watch them play it as well as my brother. I will be making future purchases of Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader. There are at least 2 more titles to this game that I would like to purchase.
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