Sesame Street Pals Around Town (1987) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Sesame Street Pals Around Town

Pals Around Town is a computer game published by Hi Tech Expressions in 1987 and programmed by Children's Television Workshop. It was released for the Atari and the IBM PCjr in cartridge form. The basis for…

31 December 1987

What Sesame Street Pals Around Town is

Sesame Street Pals Around Town is an adventure game developed by CTW Software Group and released in 1987. It was published by Hi-Tech Expressions. It is available on Atari 2600, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pals Around Town is a computer game published by Hi Tech Expressions in 1987 and programmed by Children's Television Workshop. It was released for the Atari and the IBM PCjr in cartridge form. The basis for the game was strictly educational. The player could pick a character (Sesame Street characters available included Bert and Ernie, among others) and could interact with various objects in a variety of settings. Two such settings were a school classroom and an outdoor playground. Some items that could be interacted with included a fishbowl and a globe.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Sesame Street series

Sesame Street Pals Around Town is the ninth of 36 entries we hold in the Sesame Street series. It arrived 2 years after Grover's Animal Adventures. The next entry was Sesame Street: 1-2-3 in 1989.

See all 36 Sesame Street games in release order →