Living Books: The Berenstain Bears in the Dark
"The Berenstain Bears in the Dark" is an interactive educational game based on the book of the same name. It follows Brother Bear reading a scary story to Sister Bear, leading her to fear the dark. Papa Bear…
Living Books: The Berenstain Bears in the Dark is a point-and-click developed by Living Books, released 26 August 1996 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Living Books: The Berenstain Bears in the Dark is
Living Books: The Berenstain Bears in the Dark is a point-and-click game developed by Living Books and released in 1996. It was published by Brøderbund Software. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The story opens in the library, where Sister Bear impatiently waits for Brother Bear to check out a book when she is at the check out desk. He finds a book titled The Case of the Crying Cave, and Sister remarks that it sounds scary, and by contrast, borrows a much more cutesy book. Once they get home, both start to read their books, but Sister looks at her storybook about three little kittens who are fighting about which is the cutest and she gets a little bored with hers, and begins reading with Brother. Brother begins to dramatize the book, and makes a howling noise that freaks out Sister. When they go to bed that night, Sister begins to picture dark things as spooky, and has trouble…
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.
Where it sits in the The Berenstain Bears series
Living Books: The Berenstain Bears in the Dark is the sixth of 8 entries we hold in the The Berenstain Bears series. It arrived 8 months after The Berenstain Bears: A School Day. The next entry was Extreme Sports with the Berenstain Bears in 2000.
What it launched against
Living Books: The Berenstain Bears in the Dark launched on 26 August 1996, within three weeks of Crash Bandicoot, The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, Die Hard Trilogy and Death Rally.
Released around the same time: Crash Bandicoot, The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, Die Hard Trilogy, Death Rally.
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