Ohhhh, I loved my Talking Whiz Kid as a child! Hours of fun! I recall that it said "pier" instead of "pear" and we'd get such a kick outta that! It also said "satchel", and my sister and I had NO idea what that was. (I do now, thanks) We still have it and it actually still works!!! Fun, fun!!!

I still have my whiz kid too! I'm hoping to find more catridges. my sisters children love to play with it, and T Still play hangman on it sometimes.

Would like to find cartridges for the 1980 whiz kid does anyone know where you can get them

I remember that the first set of cards did not have a story with it. For the animal cartridge, the story was about Melinda and Jeff's trip to the zoo. The outer space cartridge story I believe was something about a journey to the moon. The food cartridge had a story about baking cookies. I cannot remember what the story was for the theater cartridge. The words you spelled for the cards were words that were highlighted in the stories.

I loved this when I was young! I'm sure the little "do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do-do-do-do, INSERT CARD" song it played when it 'booted' will forever be engraved in my memory. Used to play with the music mode and hangman ALL THE TIME. Was a great toy!

OMG!!! I used to have this toy! Hours of endless fun. My mom would have to pry me off of this thing! I still have the cards, but the actual Whiz Kid somehow disappeared.... hmmmm

hahaha ... insert card insert card ... i still have my in my moms attic ... but no cartridges.... i would love to find some

"insert card insert card.. try again try again insert card." I thought the blue one was more fun even though the screen was hard to see. Talking Whiz kid is absolute classic! As a kid i got my hand stuck in this folding verson somehow... (apparently i'm uncoordinated.) I think i also got mad at it a few times and tossed it across the room. I remember as a challenge i would try to finish all the cards in one day(my pre-videogame era). Pretty difficult when you have 6 packs of cards. It still works to this day! now I'm going to have to dig it out to play with it again!

I just found mine after being packed away for 15yrs. We put batteries in it and it actually turned on. The problem is it is not reading the cards. Even after you slide one in it still says "Insert Card." I wonder if anyone out there could help fix it. I would love for my son to be able to play with it.