The ClueFinders: The Incredible Toy Store Adventure!

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The ClueFinders:
The Incredible Toy Store Adventure!
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Developer The Learning Company
Publisher The Learning Company
Platforms Windows, Macintosh
ReleaseAugust 24, 2001 [1]
Genre Educational/adventure/science fiction/mystery
Mode Single-player

The ClueFinders: The Incredible Toy Store Adventure is a computer game in The Learning Company's ClueFinders series of educational software.

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Gameplay

The ClueFinders: The Incredible Toy Store Adventure! follows two miniaturized team members trapped on a toy store's sixth floor, with players alternating between groups to locate clues and complete eight embedded learning games—most with multiple difficulty levels—covering math, language arts, logic, science, and social studies as part of the story's progression. [2]

Plot

The ClueFinders are heading on a San Francisco cable car to the recently built toy store, Ultimate Toys. Owen goes to retrieve his wallet, along with Joni, and LapTrap, while Leslie, Santiago and AliTrap head into the store, only to be shot by a shrinking ray and captured into a sack. Once they escape from the sack, they realize they've been taken to the sixth floor. Using Owen's red video phone, they contact Leslie and Santiago and inform them of their plight, prompting Leslie and Santiago to try to rescue them. To do this Owen, Joni and LapTrap need to make their way into the toy store and construct a machine to reverse the shrinking effects while nabbing the perpetrator responsible for the shrinking of things in the toy store. [2] [3]

Reception

All Game Guide said "Though not quite perfect, it's an exceptional title in the series and well worth the investment". [4]

References

  1. ↑ "TLC Extends its Award-Winning Series of Kids' Software with ClueFinders: The Incredible Toy Store Adventure!". The Learning Company . August 24, 2001. Archived from the original on June 9, 2002. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  2. 1 2 Gudmundsen, Jinny (2001-10-04). "In Spy World, 'ClueFinders' Trumps Competition". Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on November 7, 2020. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
  3. ↑ Gudmundsen, Jinny (2001-09-19). "Sequels help children solve mysteries and build gadgets". The Cincinnati Enquirer . p. 73. Archived from the original on December 22, 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-22– via Newspapers.com.
  4. 1 2 Lisa Karen Savignano. "The ClueFinders: The Incredible Toy Store Adventure! - Review - allgame". All Game Guide . Archived from the original on December 12, 2014. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
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