| The Adventures of Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny | |
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| Developer(s) | Mindscape |
| Publisher(s) | Mindscape |
| Platform(s) | Macintosh, Windows |
| Release | 1996 |
The Adventures of Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny is a 1996 interactive children's storybook video game developed and published by Mindscape for Windows and Macintosh [1] in association with Beatrix Potter publisher Frederick Warne & Co.
The game encourage play through interactive hotspots. [2]
CNET said "A coloring book and crayons are included in the box with the CD-ROM, but the format is small, and the drawings are too detailed for young children" [3]
Coming Soon Magazine deemed it one of the best interactive storybooks ever made. [4] PC Mag felt it offered a "wonderful introduction" to the Peter Rabbit universe. [5] The Advocate-Messenger praised the " magnificent watercolor quality animation". [6] Standard Speaker noted that everything is "faithfully transferred" from the source material. [7]
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