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Madeline and the Magnificent Puppet Show: A Learning Journey

Madeline and the Magnificent Puppet Show: A Learning Journey is an educational computer game for children aged 5 and up that follows Madeline as she puts on a puppet show in Paris to help her neighbor save his…

15 November 1995

Madeline and the Magnificent Puppet Show: A Learning Journey is a point-and-click developed by Vortex Media Arts, released 15 November 1995 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Madeline and the Magnificent Puppet Show: A Learning Journey is

Madeline and the Magnificent Puppet Show: A Learning Journey is a point-and-click game developed by Vortex Media Arts and released in 1995. It was published by Creative Wonders. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

After entering a name the player chooses to play the game with French or Spanish words. Madeline can freely explore the different environments and clicking hotspots triggers short animations in the background. She meets various characters she can talk to. Madeline learns new words in French or Spanish by spelling them and then plays a matching game in the classroom to practice them. With an artist in the street she can freely paint backdrops for the show. At the print shop Madeline creates invitations for the show and decorates them. A large part of the game plays out as a simple adventure game with minor puzzles too. It ends with the show being performed.
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How it plays

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

What it launched against

Madeline and the Magnificent Puppet Show: A Learning Journey launched on 15 November 1995, within three weeks of Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and Rayman.

Released around the same time: Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Rayman.

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When did Madeline and the Magnificent Puppet Show: A Learning Journey come out?
Madeline and the Magnificent Puppet Show: A Learning Journey was released on 15 November 1995 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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