Blinky Bill and the Magician (1998) - Longplay ๐จ๐งโโ๏ธ
28A visiting magician comes to the town, and Blinky and his friends accidentally let his animals escape. Blinky decides to step in as the act. How will the show go? And what is the secret that the magician is hiding?
-- Game plot --
Blinky and his friends meet the magician El Diablo and become his assistants after letting the animals out. El Diablo is actually Danny Dingo keeping Greenpatch out of the way whilst Meatball steals the town's food. As Blinky and the others disrupt the show, they blow the dingoes scheme.
-- Based on --
Blinky and the Magician TV Episode
TV-Y | 25min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | Episode aired 11 January 1993
-- Game description --
Information from mobygames (https://www.mobygames.com/game/blinky-bill-and-the-magician)
Blinky Bill and the Magician is single player educational title for ages 3 - 8.
Blinky Bill a cartoon character who originated in Australia who's been around since the 1930's. He's featured in comics, an animated movie, a couple of TV series' as well as computer games. This title is based on a televised program from the series 'The Adventures Of Blinky Bill'.
It is an educational title and as such features a bright colourful main menu in the form of a stage with lots of pieces of magicians equipment on it. Clicking on some items triggers a piece of animation while others trigger a mini game. The hotspots on the main stage are
The Magic Book: This takes the player to the story book page. The comic book like story can either be read by the player or it can be read to them. The pictures in the story have hotspots within then that trigger short animations.
The Scarf Box: This launches a mini game of colour recognition.
The Paint Box: This gives the player the option to create their own pictures on-screen.
The Globe: The player searches for thumbnail pictures of things that happen in nature, from rainbows to cyclones, and when selected they are presented with the full sized image and hear a short description.
There's also a ball labelled WWW which is a link to the Blinky Bill Clubhouse, a web site that, at the time of writing (2013), is no longer running.
The Crystal Ball: This takes the player to a screen with an assortment of simple games involving recognizing numbers, colours, animals and words, and simple arithmetic
The Blue Box: Triggers a maze game where the object is to help Blinky find his swag bag.
-- Blinky Bill And The Magician Credits --
Produced by:
Yoram Gross Village Roadshow
Original Story by:
Carol Witt, David Witt
Storybook Script:
John Palmer, Geoff Watson, Guy Gross
Based on an episode from the television series โThe Aventures of Blinky Billโ:
Dorothy Wall
Developed and Created by:
Forest Interactive
Distribution and Marketing:
Roadshow Interactive
โMade with Macromediaโ is a trademark of Macromedia Inc.:
DIRECTOR ยฉ 1994 Macromedia Inc.
Production Manager:
Geoff Watson
Lead Programmer:
Foster Langbein (credited as Dr Foster Langbein)
Lead Animator:
Michael Dunn
Programming:
Karen Horne
Graphic Design:
Karen Horne
Composer:
Guy Gross
Technical Supervisor:
Simon Leadley
Voice Actors:
Keith Scott, Robyn Moore
Memory Games Devised by:
Melanie Alexander (Dip. Ed)
Memory Games Script:
Melanie Alexander, Geoff Watson
Wombo's Slide Show:
Geoff Watson (BA Dip. Ed.)
Cleanup ans Inbetween Artists:
Lilian Chen, Amanda Thompson
-- Game information --
Published by: The Learning Company, Inc.
Developed by: Forest Interactive Pty Ltd.
Released: 1998
Platforms: Windows, Windows 3.x
Genre: Educational
Math / logic, Pre-school / toddler, Reading / writing
Release dates, publisher and developer information for this game listed by platform:
Windows
Published by: The Learning Company, Inc.
Developed by: Forest Interactive Pty Ltd.
Distributed by: Softkey London
Country: United Kingdom ๐ฌ๐ง
Release Date: 1998
EAN-13: 5 390102 427184
Windows 3.x
Published by: The Learning Company, Inc.
Developed by: Forest Interactive Pty Ltd.
Distributed by: Softkey London
Country: United Kingdom ๐ฌ๐ง
Release Date: 1999
EAN-13: 5 390102 427184
Release dates and company information contributed by piltdown_man (181963)
Product codes contributed by piltdown_man (181963)
-- Settings and application information --
Used emulator: PCem v16
CPU: Pentium MMX 233
OS: Windows 98 Second Edition
Screen resolution: 640x480
Colours: 256 colours
Output scaling: 3x
Scaling: Integer scaling / Nearest
-- Chapters / Timestamps --
0:00 Video intro
0:15 Game intro
1:33 Slideshow game
7:40 Magical Painting Page
15:51 The Magician Story - Read
24:00 The Magician Story - Play
56:54 Magical Maze game
58:33 Printing Page
1:00:37 Mystical memory games
1:13:40 Game credits (Song muted)
1:15:34 Video outro
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