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Revision as of 15:04, 22 October 2017
Pingu and Friends is an educational game, developed by Workhouse and published by BBC Multimedia, which was released exclusively in the United Kingdom in 1999. It was narrated by Felicity Kendal.
Description
Play and learn with Pingu and his friends in this fun and simple to use CD-ROM. There are ten great activities for your child to enjoy which will also enhance their language, literacy, maths and navigational skills.
The emphasis is on games outside Pingu's igloo - Save Pinga who is lost in a snow cave, have a go at bowling in Snowbowl Alley or help Pingu in his Snowball battle with Robby, Pingo and Pink. Test your concentration, memory and recognition skills with Pingu Pairs, can you match up Pingu and his friends as they pop up and down in the snow holes?
Inside Pingu's igloo there are 4 games, each focusing on a different educational subject. Enhance language & literacy skills in Tell Me a Story. Simple science in the Flying Pancakes game. Early geography in Parcel Fun. Maths with Count the Cakes.
Help Pingu bring his canvas to life creating pictures with a variety of templates, stamps and creative tools or print out and complete the dot-to-dot puzzles, or you may want to help the South Pole pals with a spot of Ice Dancing. Whatever you choose there is plenty of mischief and fun to be had with Pingu and his friends
Gameplay
Pingu's Snowy Home
- Welcome to Pingu's Snowy Home.
- There are lots of great games for you to play out and even more puzzles to try out when you visit Pingu inside his igloo.
- You can go inside by clicking on the igloo door or the inside button at the bottom of your screen.
- Move your mitten around, it will wave at you when it finds something fun to do.
- Click with your mouse, and off you go.
- Click on the art editor and you can paint with Pingu.
Puzzles (Indoors)
Flying Pancakes!
Help:
- Papa is cooking pancakes for Pingu and Pinga's breakfast!
- Help Pingu have lots of pancakes by putting a few snowballs in the bucket.
Count the Cakes
Help:
- Count the cakes with Mama, Pingu, Pinga and Robby.
Parcel Fun!
Help:
- In this game, Pingu has to collect parcels that have bounced off the snowmobile for Papa.
Tell me a Story
Stories
Help
Easy version:
- The pictures of the story are jumbled up and you can help Pingu by putting them back in the right order.
Medium version:
- You can change the skill to make this game a bit harder.
On the medium level, some objects and words have fallen out of the stories and it's your job to put them back together again.
Hard version:
- This one's the hardest!
You need to put the objects back onto the images and sort out some letters that are missing in the story.
Games (Outside)
Snowbowl Alley
Help:
1 Player:
- Pingu's ready to practice on some bowling!
2 Players:
- Pingu's practiced and now he's ready to challenge his friend, Robby, to play a game of bowling.
Pingu Pairs
Help
- Find one of Pingu's friends popping out of a snow hole and find another who is the same.
Snowball Fun!
Help:
- Help Pingu throw snowballs at his friends.
- If you accidentally throw a snowball at either Papa, Pinga or the washing, your snowball will be frozen for the count of ten.
Save Pinga!
Help:
- Poor Pinga is stuck on an ice shelf.
- Help Pingu collect balloons, so that he can float up in the air to save Pinga!
Credits
Narrated by: Felicity Kendal
Development Manager: Louise Merlin
Commissioning Editor: Sally Fraser
Technical Manager: John Wilson
Testing Manager: Dominique Colonna-Cesari
Head Of Creative Design: Shamsul Rosunally
Reversioning Manager: Lena Strand
Rights & Acquisitions Executive: Vicky Shepherd
Rights & Acquisitions Manager: Sian Teasdale
Marketing Executive: Eve Chaloner
Head of Sales & Marketing: Gordon Anderson
Strategic Marketing Manager: Debbie Bacon
Business Development Director: Patrick Hannon
Technical Development Director: Gerry Clark
Product Development: Sarah Hennings
Director of Multimedia: Dave Lee
With thanks to: Ann Smith Educational Sonsultant
Executive Producer: Steve Grocott
Producer: Niki Crowder
Art Director: Duncan Wilson
Senior Programmer: Ian Faithfull
Programmer: John Coumbe
Designer: Andy Pott, Graeme Swinton, Stefan Follows and Andrew Baker.
Production Manager: Katie Barber
Script Writer: Richard Davidson
Production Secretary: Sarah Christer
Design Assistant: Kay Rodney, Rob Sweeney, Lucy Cullingford and Andrew Baker.
With thanks to Silvio Mazzola and Jacqueline Burger for their support throughout the development of the disc.
"DIRECTOR" COPYRIGHT ©1994,1997 Macromedia, Inc."
Trivia
- This is the only time when Robby can turn into a ball.