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Pingu: A Barrel of Fun! is an educational game, published by BBC Multimedia.
Description[]
Pingu: A Barrel of Fun! is a compilation of educational games for younger children based on the clay-animated children's TV series Pingu. The game includes five puzzles involving letters, numbers, colours, sounds and shapes and five games for players to test their skills.
The games include Music Time (record your own tunes and sing along to a select few), Ice Flow (where you need to help Pingu cross ice flows to deliver Robby the seal's birthday presents), Snow Maze (help Pingu find his way around a maze, collecting items in the process), Fish Tennis (play against the computer or with a friend) and Building Blocks (a jigsaw puzzle-type game where you need to move the shapes to their correct places). It also includes five PC screensavers.
Trivia[]
- In one minigame, the narrator tells the player that Pingu loves drawing, but is not very good at spelling. [1] Though this is obviously not true as evidenced in Pingu's Ice Cave.
- This is the first Pingu game where you can play as multiple characters though it is only in 2 player mode.
- This is the first Pingu game to be released on the PC CD-ROM.
- A 32-bit re-release of the game was released in 2002 as part of the BBC's Favourites line up of games by GSP.
- The original BBC version of the game is 16-bit and cannot be installed or run on modern-day systems without MS-DOS compatibility extensions.