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Binding: Video Game
Brand: Viva Media
EAN: 0691468897020
ESRB Age Rating: Early Childhood
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Viva Media
Manufacturer: Viva Media
Publisher: Viva Media
Release Date: May 05, 2002
Sales Rank: 18395
Studio: Viva Media
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Good Grief! Linus' security blanket is missing and it is up to you and the Peanuts Gang to track it down! Team up with Charlie Brown or Lucy as Snoopy guides you through this unique educational discovery game. Enter the world of Peanuts and drop into computer camp, go to the supermarket, check out the library, or catch the magic show of the 'Great Houndini'
Amazon.com Review:
This deliberately paced program takes place in Charlie Brown's world,where kids dress the same day after day and the only character with attitude isa beagle. Players who persist through this CD-ROM's slow start will be rewardedwith games and scenarios that emulate what it's like to live in the middle of a'Peanuts' cartoon. This is a good thing for kids who like the strip and thehandful of 'Peanuts' TV specials in existence. But kids who prefer the morefrenetic pace of modern cartoons might find Where's the Blanket, CharlieBrown? a bit too placid.
The mental workout this program provides is excellent. More than any other gamemanufacturer, Tivola has mastered the art of setting up a problem, then quietlyletting the player figure out how to solve it. Linus's blanket is lost, andplayers can either assume the identity of Charlie Brown or Lucy and find it.Once the problem is presented, players must navigate around Charlie Brown'shouse and use their powers of observation to get the game moving. This segmentcan make players feel like they're trapped in 'Peanuts' purgatory, as they arrowCharlie Brown from room to room, desperately searching for a means out of thehouse and into the rest of the game. The on-disc Help file spells out exactlywhere players must look and what they must collect to move on--resist thetemptation to look at the Help file. You will miss the challenge and charm ofthis game if you lose patience and cheat.
As the story line leads from Charlie Brown's house to a library to Schroeder'spiano room to a supermarket with many other stops in between, games areunlocked. The nine games are short, smart endeavors. Some of the standoutsinclude a game in which Schroeder plays a short melody on his piano, and kidsmust click on sequences of actual notes that match the melody. Another greatgame requires kids to put poor, scrambled Peppermint Patty back together aftershe is magically rearranged by the Great Houndini. This descrambling has someadded twists that push it far beyond typical match-the-parts games. Each of thenine games has two levels of difficulty, and once they are unlocked, they can beinstantly accessed for repeat play.
On the way to these games are numerous other minigames, opportunities forproblem solving, and goodies you can feed Snoopy to keep his Snoopy meter onfull. Players can play this game in German as well as English. Where's theBlanket, Charlie Brown? probably won't hold up to a lot of repeat play byolder kids, but the gentle way this program forces players to use their entirebrains to find that darn blanket is remarkable. (Ages 4 to 102 according to themanufacturer; we say 4 to 8, although hard-core 'Peanuts' fans of any age willalso enjoy it.) --Anne Erickson
Amazon.com Product Description:
Good grief! Linus's security blanket has come up missing, andit's up to players and the Peanuts gang to track it down. Team up withCharlie Brown or Lucy as Snoopy guides kids through the game. Along theway, there are nine hidden games to play at a computer camp or in theschool library, or you can catch the magic show of the Great Houndini,who looks an awful lot like Snoopy. The Snoopy meter offers players anadded challenge, and kids can print out scenes for coloring fun awayfrom the computer.
Designed to delight children of all ages, this unique play storypresents lessons with humor and heart. Kids build social andorientation skills, explore math and music, develop theirproblem-solving and critical-thinking abilities, and more. Educationalconcepts introduced directly into the story line keep the learning fun,while the artwork remains true to Charles M. Schulz, 'Peanuts' creator.
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Very slow
Buy the Freddi Fish or Pajama Sam games if you are looking for good kids games where you must solve a puzzle and have fun interaction with some whacky characters and interesting situations.This game is very, very slow, not intuitive and has nothing like the look and feel of Freddi Fish or Pajama Sam.
Rating: - Worst software I have
I picked this up in the store for my 4 and 6 year old.There is nothing intuitive about this software.You have to read the help file in order to advance to each step.A 4 and 6 year old definitely cannot read the help directions by themselves, so I ended up having to help with this tedious game.My 6 year old got bored.The 4 year old kept wanting to play, but I had to do most of the work until he got to a puzzle or activity.These he could do.
Rating:  - Where's the help file, Charlie Brown?
I bought this discount-rack item for my kindergarten-age nephew shortly before the holidays.I read a series of negative reviews on Amazon.com and frankly didn't expect a whole lot from the game.
Superficially, there are problems.The animation looks like it was drawn by Charles M. Schulz, but the rest of the game convinced me that it was designed by people who'd never read the comic strip or seen the TV specials before.After all, the first words spoken during the introductory sequence ... Read More
Rating:  - Maybe if you have hours to waste...
This game takes around an hour and a half to complete.It is VERY slow, boring, and any child under 7 will be bored to pieces after the first scenario of trying to get out of Charlie Brown's house.The narration is too long, you can't speed it up, and once you think you've solved the game and it's over, it continues on and on again.
The only way I can recommend this is for young kids 3-5, who just want to see the Peanuts characters interact on screen and the opportunity to click on things ... Read More
Rating: - Slow, Frustrating, and Negative for young kids
I bought this game when my son was 4, because he had mastered most of the preschool games but wasn't ready for games that required reading, math, or quick fingers. I thought it would be a good problem-solving mystery game featuring some of his favorite Peanuts characters. After several attempts to help him get Charlie Brown out of the house, I finally got frustrated myself and put the game away so he wouldn't keep pestering me to figure it out (I was stumped, and didn't realize there was a "help" file). He ... Read More
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