Letters (computer game)

Letters is an interactive Sesame Street computer game that was originally produced by the Children's Television Workshop with Philips Interactive Media in 1991.
First released for the Philips CD-i as one of two games in the "A Visit to Sesame Street" series, the game was subsequently re-released for CD-ROM by Creative Wonders (1995-1997), The Learning Company (1998), and Encore Software (2002). The game was also included in the Sesame Street Learning Series: Toddlers Deluxe set.
The main menu of the game is a scrolling two-dimensional computer animation of Sesame Street hosted by Oscar the Grouch. Locations include Big Bird's nest, Snuffy's cave (which is depicted here as located behind Big Bird's nest), and Ernie and Bert's apartment.
The CD-ROM releases of the game feature many changes to the look and gameplay. The design of Snuffy's cave and the street are changed: the cave is relocated to the opposite side of 123 Sesame Street and elements of the Around the Corner expansion are added (including the playground, The Furry Arms Hotel and Finders Keepers). Telly Monster is added as the primary host, with Oscar serving a secondary role and having much of his dialogue re-recorded.
As with the companion release, Numbers, this game features posthumous voice-over work by Jim Henson as Ernie and Kermit the Frog. A to Henson is seen at the end credits.
==CD-ROM Releases==
Sesame Street Letters 1995 cover.jpg|1995 release
SesameStreetLettersCreativeWonders.jpg|1997 release
Letters1998reissue.jpg|1998 reissue
Cdrom.letters.jpg|2002 reissue
601 Barrio Sesamo P.jpg|Spanish cover
File:Spelenmetlettersoud.JPG|Dutch releaseTLC Domus, 1998
File:20009.gif|Dutch releaseMindscape, 2004
File:Letters CD ROM Russian.jpg|Russian releaseAkella, 2008
==Contents==
*"The Trash Game": The user must match items in the spilled trash with their first letters and place them in Oscar's trash bag.
*"Shape-O-Matic": The user can turn objects in Ernie and Bert's apartment into shapes.
*"What's My Rhyme?": Big Bird says an incomplete rhyme and asks the user to find the missing word, an object in his nest area, to finish it.
*"Snuffy Says": Snuffy says a word and the user must find an object in his cave that starts with the same sound.
*"Storybooks & Telephones": Listen to stories in books and answer the phone to talk to characters from Sesame Street.
*"Radios & Televisions": Each character location contains a radio and television set, which plays songs and video clips from the show. Many of these clips are not commercially available elsewhere.
==Songs==
Each room in the game is equipped with a radio on which three stations are tunable: WHAT, KTOY and KKID featuring Jerry Nelson as the deejay. Each station plays commercials announced by Martin P. Robinson and News Flashes by Kermit the Frog (Jim Henson). Songs included are:
* "ABC's of the Swamp"
* "Would You Like to Buy an O?"
* "X Marks the Spot!"
* "Sing Your Synonyms"
* "The Zizzy Zoomers"
* "The Word is No"
* "The Question Song"
* "Still, We Like Each Other"
* "J Friends"
* "Rhyme Out"
* "M-M-M Monster Meal"
* "Hey Diddle Diddle"
* "C is for Cookie"
* "Mad"
* "Be My D"
* Elmo talks about the letter E
* "Two G Sounds"
* "Letter B"
* "Thinking of U"
* "Rappin' Alphabet"
* "Four Seasons"
* "Cookie's Rhyming Song"
* "Write It Down"
==Cartoons==
File:2485x.jpg|Madrigal Alphabet
File:LettersCDROM-big.jpg|Big
File:LettersCDROM-next-to.jpg|Next To
File:Hubley.Penguintap.jpg|Penguin Tap Dance
File:Jakethesnake.jpg|Body Parts
File:SpringBouncesUnder.jpg|Leap Spring
File:3161k.jpg|Wet and Dry
File:LEPH!.jpeg|Help
File:Signman.OINK.jpg|Oink
File:Letter E.jpg|E
File:300007.jpg|F
File:Gorillajobcartoon.jpg|G
File:H-tunnel.jpg|H
File:Toon.Inkbird.jpg|I
File:1839zg.jpg|J
File:Kangarook.jpg|K
File:MeandMyM.jpg|M
File:3141l.jpg|N
File:Qballoon.jpg|Q
File:Toon.R.Robber.jpg|R
File:2269c.jpg|T
File:1710r.jpg|V
File:YakYes.jpg|Y
File:Alien.Z.jpg|Z
File:Beginningmiddleend.jpg|Beginning, Middle, End
File:ToonABClunchbox.jpg|Lunchbox Alphabet 
File:Barkinthedark.jpg|Bark in the Dark
File:ABC.Fierlinger.jpg|The Alphabet Song
File:CH...IN.jpg|CH Words 
File:3993r.jpg|Calcutta Joe
File:Monster.frontback.jpg|Back and Front Frankenstein
File:MeTarzanYouParrot.jpg|Me Tarzan ... you parrot!
==Voices==
*Jim Henson as Ernie and Kermit the Frog
*Frank Oz as Bert
*Caroll Spinney as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch
*Martin P. Robinson as Telly and Mr. Snuffleupagus
*Kevin Clash as Elmo
Additional appearances by (archive material):
:Robert Arbogast, Pam Arciero, Don Arioli, Ivy Austin, Mary Berry, Chris Cerf, Rick Cimino, Herb Duncan, Jeffrey Hale, Hugh Heller, Anthony Hendra, Jane Henson, Richard Hunt, Paul Jacobs, Walter Kraemer, James Macgeorge, Barbara Massey, Len Maxwell, Jeff Moss, Gene Moss, Jerry Nelson, Corinne Orr, John Paratore
==Credits==
*Executive Producers: Michael Artin, Seth Meyers
*Head Writer: Mark Saltzman
*Writers: Sandy Damashek, Mitchell Kriegman
*Interactive Design: Rob Madell, Seth Meyers, Glenda Revelle
*Creative Development: Sandy Damashek, Rob Madell, Seth Meyers, Glenda Revelle, Sonia Rosario, Mark Saltzman
*Animation Synchronization: Valerie Vigoda, Michael Artin, Kevin Clash
*Songs by David Axelrod, Bruce Cayard, Christopher Cerf, Sara Compton, Anna Dibble, Sarah Durkee, Jeffrey Hale, Carol Hall, Al Jarnow, Jerry Juhl, David Korr, Walt Kraemer, Sonia Manzano, Jeff Moss, Sam Pottle, Joe Raposo, Nancy Sans, Luis Santeiro, Donald Siegal, Earnest Troost 
*Television animations by: Don Arioli, Buzzco Assoc., Fred Calvert, Bruce Cayard, Sally Cruikshank, DMI, Korty Films, Thomas Gabbay, Fred Garbers, Clark Gist, Imagination Films, Al Jarnow, Ken Kimmelman, Locomo, Pantomime Pics, Ken Snyder, Hubley Studios, Tanner Studio, Wantu
==See also==
*Numbers
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Category:Sesame Street Video Games
Category:Encore Software
Category:Alphabet
Category:Sesame Street CD-ROM