The Busy World of Richard Scarry series
Richard Scarry's Busytown
This is an enhanced remake of the 1993 game of the same name, featuring improved graphics, animation and voice acting that is now based on the 1994 to 1997 animated TV series "The Busy World of Richard…
Richard Scarry's Busytown is a point-and-click developed by Boston Animation, released 31 December 1999 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Richard Scarry's Busytown is
Richard Scarry's Busytown is a point-and-click game developed by Boston Animation and released in 1999. It was published by Simon & Schuster. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
This is an enhanced remake of the 1993 game of the same name, featuring improved graphics, animation and voice acting that is now based on the 1994 to 1997 animated TV series "The Busy World of Richard Scarry". All the activities except for Bananas Gorilla and The Junior Seesaw are faithfully recreated for this Windows and Macintosh release.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are educational and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Busy World of Richard Scarry series
Richard Scarry's Busytown is the second of 2 entries we hold in the The Busy World of Richard Scarry series. It arrived 3 years after Richard Scarry's Best Reading Program Ever. It is the most recent released entry in the series.
See all 2 The Busy World of Richard Scarry games in release order →
What it launched against
Richard Scarry's Busytown launched on 31 December 1999, within three weeks of Shenmue, Planescape: Torment, The Typing of the Dead and Little Fighter 2.
Released around the same time: Shenmue, Planescape: Torment, The Typing of the Dead, Little Fighter 2.
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