The Great Waldo Search
The pictures are slightly animated images of Waldo scenes, the player has to scroll along the long picture to survey the scape while searching for Waldo and other objects. The directional buttons control a…
The Great Waldo Search is a puzzle developed by Radiance Software, released 1 December 1992 on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
What The Great Waldo Search is
The Great Waldo Search is a puzzle game developed by Radiance Software and released in 1992. It was published by T-HQ Software. It is available on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The pictures are slightly animated images of Waldo scenes, the player has to scroll along the long picture to survey the scape while searching for Waldo and other objects. The directional buttons control a magnifying glass and is used in order to "find" objects. Waldo's dog Woof is also in each level and by finding him the player gets to play a small bonus game to collect points while controlling Woof on a flying carpet.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Where's Waldo? series
The Great Waldo Search is the second of 13 entries we hold in the Where's Waldo? series. It arrived a year after Where's Waldo?. The next entry was The Great Waldo Search in 1992.
What it launched against
The Great Waldo Search launched on 1 December 1992, within three weeks of Streets of Rage 2, Street Fighter II' Turbo: Hyper Fighting, Flashback: The Quest for Identity and Moto Roader MC.
Released around the same time: Streets of Rage 2, Street Fighter II' Turbo: Hyper Fighting, Flashback: The Quest for Identity, Moto Roader MC.
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