While on Apple.com today, I stumbled across the Kids and Learning games page. There, while perusing through the links for educational and entertainment software I found Disney ToonTown. Disney ToonTown is an online multiplayer game specifically created for kids. In this 3-D world, kids ("Toons") collaborate with one another to save the world from robot Cogs (robots who want to take over ToonTown). The only weakness of a cog is to play cartoon gags on them while navigating through ToonTown.
In ToonTown, kids can create their own Toon character, travel around different neighborhoods and meet other players, furnish their homes, customize their racing karts, train a pet Doodle, and join teams to defeat the Cogs and save ToonTown. Like many other games, ToonTown is child-safe and offers password protective services for individual log-in information.
Besides ToonTown's appeal to many. I have noticed that because the program is not "free" there are less kids registered than there are for other programs available online. The software is $4.95 for the first month and $9.95 after that. Over time that amount accumulates and it seems that for this program to be worth it, a child would need to access and play the game multiple times a day. (similarly to college students who probably access Facebook more than five times a day) ToonTown also offers deals if you sign up for the program for six months or a one year period, but why would you pay for something when you could most likely find the same thing or something better somewhere else?
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