Pixter Music Studio (Pixter)

© 2002 Fisher-Price, Inc.
$12, Pixter or Pixter Plus, Smart Toy
Teaches: listening, musical creativity, scoring music

CTR Review

This ROM cartridge for the Pixter (required) contains four limited activities. Musical Memory is a simple concentration game where you touch instruments in the order of the sounds they make. Instrument Mix-Up lets you put stickers on a grid to make simple compositions. Build-a-Band lets you put different stickers into a scene, such as the tropics, to hear a musical style. Sound Sprites, our favorite, lets you paste musical patterns on the screen. Work can be saved. The sounds could be better quality (considering this is a music activity), and the boppy background music can get distracting. That said, this is a good way to expand the Pixter.