Blue's Birthday Adventure
$14.95		(Win95/98/Me/XP/Mac) (Retail Box) (BLUEBDAYDR)
$9.95		(Win95/98/Me/XP) (Jewel Case) (BLUEBDAYPJ) Jewel Case is PC Only

Publisher: Humongous Entertainment

Children - Ages: 3 to 6

Happy Birthday to Blue!

Steve, Tickety, Slippery and all of Blue's friends need help preparing for Blue's birthday party. There's so much to do. Create a personalized card for Blue, select a special present, play lots of multi-level learning games, explore in and around Blue's house and yard...and of course, find and solve NEW Blue's Clues: help Steve figure out what party favor Blue wants to give her guests, what she wants to eat, and more. With so much to explore, create, play and solve, every day can be a birthday celebration with this original adventure.

2-disc set features:

• 4 NEW Blue's Clues games
• 9 multi-level learning activities and 4 creativity games
• An interactive Handy Dandy Notebook
• Adjustable levels of difficulty
• Birthdayland, an enchanting new world to explore
• NEW characters and places to discover
• 4 Blue Skidoo locations
• Hundreds of ever-changing clickable surprises
• Easy-to-use, in-depth Help File on each disc

Blue and her friends help you learn essential early learning skills, including:

• Critical thinking and logical problem solving
• Deductive reasoning
• Spatial perception and relationships
• Sorting, classifying and matching
• Colors, shapes and patterns
• Sound discrimination
• Counting

3 levels of difficulty that can be adjusted in 3 different ways:

• Pre-set one difficulty level for ALL learning activities
• Pre-set separate difficulty levels for EACH learning activity
• Allow game to AUTOMATICALLY adjust difficulty level as you play

Requirements:

Windows - 100% Pentium compatible, P90 or higher, Windows 95/98/Me/XP, 16MB RAM, 80MB HD available, 640x480, 256 color, sound card, 4x CD-ROM.

Macintosh - PowerPC, 80MHz, System 7.1 or higher, 16MB RAM (8.3MB free), 80MB HD available, 640x480, 256 color, 4x CD-ROM.

Reviews:

Quandary Reviews by Rosemary Young (November, 1998)

"It’s Blue’s birthday, of course, and Steve from the TV Series is co-hosting the party. In the opening screen of this package, for three to six year olds, he invites the player into the house where the games begin. What does Blue want to do for her birthday? Well, she loves to play games so, instead of indicating outright what she wants, she leaves clues under her paw prints for you to gather up and guess."

"The clues themselves — big blue paw prints — are hidden somewhere. Sometimes they are easy to spot, but at other times another character might have a little errand for the player to run before they are revealed. For instance, fetch the correct coloured balloon for a paw print reward or, maybe, a coat hanger or a watering can will do the trick. The problems are simple and easy to follow and there are many items to click on for a bit of extra laughter."

"This one’s an engaging adventure for younger children and the idea of chasing after paw prints is novel and captivating. It has a very simple point and click interface with excellent graphics and in-game hints and advice for parents. Undoubtedly, it will thrill young Blue’s Clues fans who are already familiar with the TV Series. For new friends of Blue, however, Mum and Dad might need to lend a helping hand to get the ball rolling, but Blue won't take long to win young hearts."

Copyright © 1993-2000 CDAccess.com, Inc.
Questions: info@cdaccess.com