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Living Books: Ruff's Bone

Ruff's Bone is the sixth Living Books game (or fifth if you were to go by the PC release dates) released in 1994. Written by Eli Noyes and co-produced by Colossal Pictures, it is exclusively Living Books'…

13 May 1994

Living Books: Ruff's Bone is a point-and-click developed by Living Books, released 13 May 1994 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Living Books: Ruff's Bone is

Living Books: Ruff's Bone is a point-and-click game developed by Living Books and released in 1994. It was published by Brøderbund Software. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

When Ruff is ready to fetch his Sunday morning bone, his master accidentally throws it over the fence into their neighbor, Slim's yard. Ruff goes to search for it, but when he finally notices it, it falls into a tree, which leads him underground and into a cave. The cave is full of bones and he isn't sure which one is his. When he finally does, it's too late and a caveman tosses it out of the cave, which leads Ruff into the clouds in the sky digging for it. It falls into a jungle, and then into a sunken ship in the ocean. Ruff then sees a ladder that goes into space, and finally lands on a bone planet. He at last finds his bone, and an alien takes him back home in a UFO space-ship. Once he…
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are educational and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Living Books: Ruff's Bone launched on 13 May 1994, within three weeks of Sensible World of Soccer and Magic Carpet.

Released around the same time: Sensible World of Soccer, Magic Carpet.

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When did Living Books: Ruff's Bone come out?
Living Books: Ruff's Bone was released on 13 May 1994 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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