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| | | Description: | | Introducing Didj, the all-new gaming system featuring totally thrilling gaming and truly customized learning. It's the first-ever gaming handheld that lets you customize both learning and gaming. Just connect it to your computer to play action-packed games and sharpen your skills as you study what you need for school. Earn points as you play; then trade them for cool downloads to make each game your own. Expand your learning experience with a software library full of your favorite characters and themes. Software sold separately. Requires 4 "AA" batteries, not included. | | | Features: | |
• First-ever gaming handheld that connects to the computer so kids can customize both gaming and learning
• Totally customized gaming: Kids customize their characters, backgrounds, animation, music and more
• Truly customized learning: sync the games to skills your child is studying in school
• Library of games featuring favorite characters from SpongeBob SquarePants, Star Wars and Indiana Jones
• Included and additional games teach skills in a range of subjects, such as language arts, spelling, math and math facts
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 2.5 inches | | Product Width:
| 10.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 13.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.35 pounds | | Package Length:
| 13.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 10.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.85 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 121 reviews |
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Don't waste your money!!!!Aug 10, 2010
I bought a new Didji for my son for Christmas this last year. The "new" product that I can no longer buy games in the store for. I have loved what Leap Frog has been trying to do with educational toys and gaming systems and have bought almost all their products over the last 14 years. I am however very disappointed in how quickly they have started changing their systems that will not support the other games. The Didj is now their old gaming system and they have now came out with the Explorer which looks identical to the Didj. The Didj will not play Explorer games so if you buy this product please know that they are not developing any more games for it. What you see is what you get. The procut might be a good product but in my eyes it is a total waist of money if I cannot buy new games for it. Kids get tired of their games. They master them and then they are done. I cannot buy anything new for ours and now it is just sitting and collecting dust. Buy a DS! It may not have the educational games like the Didj or Explorer but it will atleast have new games and a huge selection to choose from! We have a first generation DS. They have since came out with the DS lite and DS i. All of which play the same games, they even play the old game boy games! Save your money and stop buying Leap Frogs products since they are just taking advantage of America's consumerism and creating new prodcuts and not continuing to create games for their other system that were only out for less than 2 years!
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Discontinued!Jul 05, 2010
If you're looking/considering this system, you may wan tto know that it has just become obsolete. Look instead at the LeapFrog Leapster Explorer Learning Game System (Green) or LeapFrog Leapster 2 Learning Game System - Green.
Leapfrog has just discontinued the Didj, and just came out with a brand new system, the Leapster Explorer. The Didj was not a success for Leapfrog. From customers reviews (both on Amazon, but also on the Leapfrog site itself) it appears it was flawed by bugs, and needed constant patches to fix the problems. Some customers also did not find the Didj games very educational. In comparison, Leapster 2 games get much higher rating for being fun and educational.
In contrast to the Didj, the Leapster2 was and still is a success for Leapfrog. It gets overall good ratings from customers. And kids and parents like the games for being fun and educational. The Leapster2 is NOT discontinued, and Leapfrog informs it will continue to support it and to develop games for it. I'm thinking, perhaps Leapfrog will discontinue the Leapster2 in the future too, that is if the Explorer becomes a huge success. But for now Leapfrog will continue with the Leapster2. So it's still a good and proven system to get. You can read my review on the Leapster2.
The Leapster Explorer is the brand new system (released on 1-july 2010). According to Leapfrog the Explorer is not a successor to the Didj nor the Leapster2, but an entirely new system with much better specs and functionality. It's too early to tell, but I expect the Explorer to become a success too, because I take it Leapfrog has learned from experience to make a much better system now. You can read my review on the Explorer.
We have the L-Max, Leapster2, and now also the Explorer. We don't have the Didj, but I have read a lot about the Didj when researching the other systems. I felt compelled to write a review when I saw pretty recent reviews on the Didj posted on Amazon.
I hope this information is helpful to someone. Thanks for reading.
Amazon review by Aquarius.
frustratedJun 30, 2010
this leap frog toy has been bitter sweet. The kids love to play it when it works. the problem is the batteries do not last!!!! And the toy continually needs to be connected to the leap frog site to be "tuned up". the "tune up" request can happen after a week of play or even one minute after a tune up. The didj requires a lot of parental help to keep it functioning. i would not buy this didj system agian even if it were [...] bucks it is too high maintenance and very frustrating.
 It's a good starting pointJun 14, 2010
Found this product on kids.woot very inexpensively. Our kids did not have any handhelds, so I figured that something inexpensive would be a good way to try it out. It does sometimes interrupt saying that it needs to be connected to a computer. But if you take the time to sync up before you are going on a trip, it works out fine. REALLY like being able to program in spelling words. DD always asks me to put her spelling list on it for her each week. Would like to be able to include words "not in their library" for the oddball stuff on her list, but I understand the programming challenges in that.
They have been dropped numerous times without ill effect. Do not try to use a dime to open the battery compartment. You will just get frustrated. I use a small screwdriver instead and they pop right off.
Overall, it is fine, especially for the price. I kind of like the limited games, because it also limits how much the kids want to play to a nice amount and keeps the expense down too. They love the Jetpack Heroes that comes with the game. They also like Racing Tiki Tropics. Hold off on Star Wars and Nancy Drew until they are solid readers.
Barely any game choices! Boring games!Jun 10, 2010
This game was a huge disappointment. We bought my 7 year old several game cartridges for the Didj and most of them bored (or frustrated) her so she just doesn't play them. I tried to find new games that would maybe be different but it seems like Leapster might be discontinuing these products (just my opinion) because NO NEW GAMES have come out at all and most stores do not seem to be re-stocking them. They'll have only 1 or 2 available, often on clearance.
I feel really duped on this toy. Though we did not have the technical issues that many reported (maybe because we have techie backgrounds?), the game itself is not much good for its original purpose - learning and occupying our daughter on long trips and whatnot. I think a DS is the next one of these we'll buy.
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