Living Books: The Cat in the Hat
The Cat in the Hat is an educational game based on the Dr. Seuss book of the same name. It has the same plot of the original book. The Cat sees that Sally and her brother are bored on a rainy day. Eventually…
Living Books: The Cat in the Hat is a point-and-click developed by Living Books, released 15 August 1997 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Living Books: The Cat in the Hat is
Living Books: The Cat in the Hat is a point-and-click game developed by Living Books and released in 1997. It was published by Brøderbund Software. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Cat in the Hat is an educational game based on the Dr. Seuss book of the same name. It has the same plot of the original book. The Cat sees that Sally and her brother are bored on a rainy day. Eventually, they start having fun, but The Cat realizes he has made a big mess. The Cat uses a big vacuum to clean the whole mess up, and it ends happily ever after. The game lets you click on many things in the background, and has small mini-games during the story. The game also lets you go back to any page you want again.
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 Dr. Seuss series
Living Books: The Cat in the Hat is the fourth of 23 entries we hold in the Dr. Seuss series. It arrived 11 months after Living Books: Green Eggs and Ham. The next entry was Dr. Seuss Toddler in 1999.
What it launched against
Living Books: The Cat in the Hat launched on 15 August 1997, within three weeks of GoldenEye 007, Claw and EF2000 v2.0.
Released around the same time: GoldenEye 007, Claw, EF2000 v2.0.
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