''Blue's Birthday Adventure'' is an educational video game for children from the ages of 3–6 years of age. The game is based on the pre-school television program ''
Blue's Clues
''Blue's Clues'' is an American interactive educational television, educational children's television series created by Traci Paige Johnson, Todd Kessler, and Angela Santomero, Angela C. Santomero. It premiered on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. block ...
'', specifically the episode "Blue's Birthday". It was developed and published by
Humongous Entertainment
Humongous, Inc. (formerly Humongous Entertainment, Inc.) was an American video game developer based in Bothell, Washington. Founded in 1992, the company developed multiple edutainment franchises, most prominently ''Putt-Putt (series), Putt-Putt' ...
. The game is about how
Steve
Steve is a masculine given name, usually a short form ( hypocorism) of Steven or Stephen.
Notable people
A–D
* Steve Abbott (disambiguation), several people
* Steve Abel (born 1970), New Zealand politician
* Steve Adams (disambiguation) ...
tries to find three clues to figure out what Blue wants to have for her birthday.
Gameplay
''Blue's Birthday Adventure'' is packaged on two CD-ROMs, and each CD-ROM contains two scenarios in the form of questions. These are all themed around Steve, Blue's owner, preparing for Blue the dog's birthday party. Before play commences the player must first enter their name, date of birth and their favorite color.
Players control Steve during play, who breaks
the fourth wall by directly speaking to players. The game shares many similarities with the television series. These include Steve being a live-action character appearing in a two-dimensional house designed to look like a paper cut out and Blue communicating by leaving blue paw prints in pertinent locations.
Once the scenario is selected the player must help Steve complete it by solving three problems, guiding him through the house in order to locate clues. Each problem is solved by finding clues which are marked by blue paw prints within the game. In order to locate clues players must interact with characters in the game and provide them with the items they require. Each clue found results in a task for the player. Once all the clues have been located and the tasks presented have been completed, the player helps Steve perform a song, such as the ''Blue's Clues'' theme tune.
The game is split into three difficulty levels; these affect the task which the player must complete when they discover a clue. For instance, at the lowest difficulty level a clue may be solved by picking the correct drawing shown on the screen, on the higher difficulty level the same task may require player to piece segments of the picture together in order to produce a complete picture.
Reception
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PC Magazine
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Overview
''PC Mag ...
'' rated the game as 6th place of the Top-Selling Retail Software.
The game was also nominated for "
PC Children's Entertainment Title of the Year" and "PC Educational Title of the Year (0-8 years)" for the
AIAS'
2nd Annual Interactive Achievement Awards
The ''2nd Annual Interactive Achievement Awards'' was the 2nd edition of the Interactive Achievement Awards, an annual awards event that honored the best games in the video game industry within the last nine months of 1998 and the first three mon ...
.
References
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1998 video games
Blue's Clues (video game series)
Children's educational video games
Classic Mac OS games
Humongous Entertainment games
North America-exclusive video games
SCUMM games
ScummVM-supported games
Single-player video games
Video games about birthdays
Video games based on animated television series
Video games developed in the United States
Video games featuring female protagonists
Windows games