From the commercial, we thought that was going to be a fun game that was based on the song that my 2.5yr old daughter loved so much. I have to say that not even she enjoys playing it! All the game involves is pushing the bus from player to player, while playing a "memory type" matching game. Get Memory instead, serves the same purpose but a lot more fun and no ANNOYING music! The only reedeming quality of this game for us was that my 9 month old enjoyed zooming the bus around on the carpet.As for the batteries issue, we are still on the first set of batteries 4 months later, but I think we have only played it about 4 times total.