The Adventures of Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny

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The Adventures of Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny
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Developer(s) Mindscape
Publisher(s) Mindscape
Platform(s) Macintosh, Windows
Release1996

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]

Coming Soon Magazine deemed it one of the best interactive storybooks ever made. [3] PC Mag felt it offered a "wonderful introduction" to the Peter Rabbit universe. [4] The Advocate-Messenger praised the " magnificent watercolor quality animation". [5] Standard Speaker noted that everything is "faithfully transferred" from the source material. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "The Adventures of Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny (1996)".
  2. ↑ Bearne, Eve; Watson, Victor (2002-01-04). Where Texts and Children Meet. Routledge. ISBN   9781134624430.
  3. ↑ "The Adventures of Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny - PC Review - Coming Soon Magazine!". www.csoon.com. Retrieved 2019-09-03.
  4. ↑ Inc, Ziff Davis (1996-05-14). PC Mag. Ziff Davis, Inc.{{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  5. ↑ "The Advocate-Messenger from Danville, Kentucky on February 4, 1996 · Page 26". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-09-03.
  6. ↑ "Standard-Speaker from Hazleton, Pennsylvania on February 18, 1996 · Page 47". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-09-03.
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