Richard Scarry's Busytown

Box front of Richard Scarry's Busytown

Details

Released
1993
Developer
Novotrade International, Inc.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Interactive
Genre
Adventure, Education / Pre-school / Toddler
Players
Up to 1; single player
Type
Commercial
Platform
MS-DOS
Pack
eXoDOS
Manual
Not included

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Screenshots

Title screen of Richard Scarry's Busytown
Title screen
Gameplay of Richard Scarry's Busytown
Gameplay

About this game

The game consists of an interactive story book that was written by Richard Scarry. Most of the game is spent exploring Busytown looking for things to interact with using the mouse.

Young gamers will do everything from building a house using construction tools to delivering something to repair a ship. Games are relatively short and can be finished in about an hour. Familiar faces from Richard Scarry's works of literature include Huckle Cat and Lowly Worm. Another game allows players to control the wind in order to cause controlled havoc at the Busytown park and beach. Other games located throughout Busytown include helping finish Mr. Fix-it's latest invention, helping a patient at Dr. Diane's hospital, delivering goods throughout Busytown, helping Smokey the Firefighter prepare a fire engine for extinguishing a house fire, work at a gas station, fill orders at an automated deli, learn basic addition/subtraction on a see-saw, and help Bananas Gorilla get his box of bananas out of a park full of tourists. All games offer basic vocabulary practice as simple puzzles help improve basic problem solving and English language skills.

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