Jim Henson's Bear in the Big Blue House

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Jim Henson's Bear in the Big Blue House
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Developer(s) Ubi Studios UK
Publisher(s) Ubi Soft
Platform(s) Game Boy Color, PlayStation
ReleaseGame Boy Color
  • NA: 21 March 2002
PlayStation
  • NA: 9 December 2002
Genre(s) Action, Educational
Mode(s) Single-player

Jim Henson's Bear in the Big Blue House is a 2002 video game developed by published by Ubi Soft for the Game Boy Color and PlayStation, based on The Jim Henson Company and Disney Channel children's television show of the same name. A title for the Game Boy Advance was planned by Ubisoft, but never released. [1]

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Gameplay

A screenshot of the Game Boy Color version of Jim Henson's Bear in the Big Blue House. Jim Henson's Bear in the Big Blue House CBG Screenshot.png
A screenshot of the Game Boy Color version of Jim Henson's Bear in the Big Blue House.

In Bear in the Big Blue House, the player plays as Ojo and explores the House to collect presents and puzzle pieces to complete a Birthday Picture. The game features two modes: Adventure, in which the player explores the House to find individual characters to complete seven minigames and obtain pieces, and Activity, in which players can complete minigames on their own. Each minigame has two difficulty modes, and span simple games involving mazes, catching, and simple memory tests. [2]

Reception

Bear in the Big Blue House received lukewarm reviews. Writing for Game Boy Xtreme, John Hagerty praised the game for its "nice graphics and variety of challenges on offer", although noting as a children's game "none of the sub-games are particularly difficult" and it "won't appeal to anyone old enough to read this review". [2] Total Advance concurred the game would provide "a good few hours of educational fun" to its "definite target audience" of young children, sardonically noting the game was not for anyone "old enough to go to the toilet without help". [4]

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References

  1. "Grin and Bear It..." Game Boy Xtreme (8): 8. February 2002.
  2. 1 2 3 Hagerty, John (May 2002). "Bear in the Big Blue House". Game Boy Xtreme (11): 46.
  3. "Jim Henson's Bear in the Big Blue House". Allgame. Archived from the original on 2014-11-14.
  4. 1 2 "Bear in the Big Blue House". Total Advance (27): 65. March 2002.