Let's Play School (View-Master)

Let's Play School is a 1988 Sesame Street interactive home video released for the View-Master Interactive Vision video game system. The system came with a simple controller which included a joystick and three colorful buttons. As the video plays, the characters address the player directly, and ask the player to make a choice by pressing one of the buttons. The video has a number of different soundtracks recorded, and the player's choices toggle back and forth between the soundtracks, giving the impression that the player has changed the course of the story. 
Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Big Bird greets the player and informs them that today, they'll be playing pretend school. Gina has set up a classroom in Big Bird's nest area, where Big Bird, Telly and Elmo are the students. First, Gina plans on telling them a story, with the help of a special friend. The player picks specific elements they want to hear in the story and Gina introduces their special guest...
 	SCENE 1 cont'd	...Buster the Horse, who recites the finalized story.
 	Cartoon 	A little boy asks his big brother questions about what happens at school.Artist: John Korty
 	Song 	"School Song"Wiggling the joystick in the schoolroom shows special, school elements.
 	SCENE 2 	Elmo wants to learn about letters and numbers. Gina instructs the player to choose a specific letter from their special grid. She then plays a film that will include their letter...
 	Film 	Fireworks Alphabet
 	Muppets 	A shark sings about his "Perfectly Pearl-White Teeth."Wiggling the joystick brushes the shark's teeth.
 	SCENE 3 	Telly points out that in real school, they can draw on the blackboard. Gina instructs the player on how to use their joystick to draw on their own blackboard.
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster comes to the bakery looking for something delicious that rhymes with BUY. He tries the I (from the MIKE'S BAKERY sign) and the baker's TIE, both of which aren't that delicious. Finally, Guy Smiley comes in and loudly announces that he would like to BUY a PIE. Cookie then knows what he can get in the bakery that rhymes with BUY and is delicious: it's GUY! A chase ensues, and Cookie asks the baker to send him the bill.The player can press the green button when they hear the rhymes.
 	SCENE 4 	Gina reminds the player to remember the letter they chose before and tells them to press the green button when they see it in the next segment.
 	Cartoon 	Madrigal AlphabetAnimation by Jeff Hale
 	Muppets 	"Doin' the Pigeon" (intro verses cut)Pressing the red and green buttons brings some animated pigeons on-screen.
 	SCENE 5 	Gina continues her lesson, when they're disrupted by the sounds of Oscar and the Grouchketeers, who have formed their own school (The Ebenezer Scrooge Elementary School). Oscar tells the player that they will be planning their school day. First, the player picks a story to hear - either "Speedy the Happy Garden Slug" or "Louie the Lucky Lobster."
 	SCENE 5 cont'd	The Grouchketeers boo the story and move onto lunch. The player's options are either the Grouch Tomato or Potato Surprise. The surprise turns out to be that the food (which turns out to be alive) is inedible.
 	SCENE 5 cont'd	The last part of school is show and tell. Oscar gives the player the option of hearing about Ralphie's pet dog, Junkyard or Malika's shark, Sullivan. Oscar then declares recess. Gina and the gang, who've been listening the whole time, are appalled by Oscar's school and want to return to their own lesson plan. Gina points them toward the following...
 	Muppets 	Grover sings to Prairie Dawn about "Sharing."The player can press their buttons to bring up graphics of the food items.
 	SCENE 6 	Telly recalls his friend, who attends real school, has a role called "blackboard monitor" and queries what that means. Gina explains it's someone who erased the blackboard at the end of the day and has the player erase their virtual blackboard. Everyone looks forward to playing school again tomorrow and waves the player goodbye.
==Credits==
* Directed by Ted May
* Executive Producer: Jon Stone
* Producer: Sonia Rosario
* Interactive Development: Glenda Revelle
* Segments Directed by Jon Stone
* Written by Jon Stone
* Segments Written by Jeff Moss
** Starring Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets:
*** with Caroll Spinney as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch
*** Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Martin P. Robinson
*** Kevin Clash, Pam Arciero, Cheryl Blalock, Ed Christie, Brian Muehl, Kathryn Mullen, Caroly Wilcox, and Jim Henson
** Alison Bartlett as Gina (uncredited)
* Songs by Gary Belkin, Bruce Hart, Jeff Moss, Joe Raposo, Jon Stone, Dan Wilcox
==Also in this series==
* Let's Learn to Play Together
* Magic on Sesame Street
* Oscar's Letter Party
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Category:Sesame Street Video Games
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