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Texas Instruments Teddy Touch & Tell

Date of introduction:  1993 Display technology:  n.a.
New price:   Display size:  
Size:  13.5" x 12.0" x 3.7"    
Weight:  2 pounds 5 ounces Serial No:  
Batteries:  4*AA cells Date of manufacture:  year 1993
AC-Adapter:   Origin of manufacture:  USA
Precision:   Integrated circuits:  TSP50C11/CSM11163 Modules: 
Memories:      
Program steps:   Courtesy of:  Joerg Woerner

The cute Teddy Touch & Tell continues the ideas of the previous Touch & Tell and the wonderful Touch & Discover. The idea of the product is simple: Switch the game on and wait for the instruction. The only thing you need is your fingertip.

This educational toys addresses children aged 2-5 years and introduces the Alphabet, Numbers, Colours, Animals, Music and a lot of other intersting things with a friendly voice.

TeddyTouchnTell_Cart.jpg (53822 Byte)The Teddy Touch & Tell uses exchangable speech ROM's in an expansion port. This gives you access to other game-pictures than the provided Bluish Purple ones. Three different color-coded Teddy Touch & Tell Cartridge's are known : Green, Blue, and Reddish Purple. 
(Info provided by Hallvard Tangeraas, Norway - Thanks!)

Color-Code Cartridge, Description
Bluish Purple
4 activity cards
Teddy Touch & Tell unit
Colors/Shapes
Play a tune/Clothes
Alphabet/numbers
Sizes/Animals
Green
5 activity cards
Teddy's word friends
Alphabet A to E/Alphabet F to J
Alphabet K to P/Alphabet Q to T
Alphabet U to Z/Rhyme time
Word spell I/Word spell II
What comes next I/What comes next II
Blue
5 activity cards
Teddy's animal friends
Silly sentences I/Silly sentences II
Forest animals/Ocean animals
Jungle animals/Polar animals
Domestic animals/Farm animals
Animal song/Make an animal
Reddish Purple
5 activity cards
Teddy's number friends
Numbers 1 to 4/Numbers 5 to 8
Numbers 9 to 12/Numbers 13 to 16
Numbers 17 to 20/How many
Subtraction I/Subtraction II
Addition I/Addition II

From the technology this game is similar to the various Touch & Talkies.

In Germany this toy was sold as "Teddy, der sprechende Bär" (Teddy - The Speaking Bear) and in France as "Le Petit Ours Magique" (The Small Magic Bear) with adopted voices.

If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.

© Joerg Woerner, December 15, 2001. No reprints without written permission.