Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Humongous Entertainment
EAN: 0742725199835
ESRB Age Rating: Early Childhood
Format: CD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Item Dimensions: Array
Label: Humongous Entertainment
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Manufacturer: Humongous Entertainment
Model: 04-19983
MPN: LIPUTJOCIJ
Platform: Macintosh
Publisher: Humongous Entertainment
Studio: Humongous Entertainment

• PC Gamer (1-year)
• Pimpjuice Premium Energy Drink, Extra Strength Formula, 8-Ounce Cans (Pack of 24)

Step Right Up! Discover the Circus with Putt-Putt! Mr. B.J. Sweeney needs you and Putt-Putt to help his five main acts get ready for the show. They will encounter challenges and have fun at the same time.
Putt-Putt and Pep are on their way to the circus, and they're looking forward to three rings of fun. Unfortunately, a hungry goat eats their ticket, so the car and his canine pal must earn their way to a ringside seat. Fortunately, the circus owner has some serious problems, and he enlists Putt-Putt to solve them. The reward--if he succeeds in getting the circus up and running--is a free lifetime ticket to the big top.

Putt-Putt Joins the Circus is a role-playing adventure for children between 3 and 8 years of age. The various circus performers are all refusing to do their shows, and Putt-Putt must change their minds, either by finding a lost item or winning a simple arcade-style challenge. The puzzles and arcade games are easy and straightforward, and users will find extensive animated sequences sprinkled throughout the story. Along the way, they can help out a number of talking vehicles and friendly circus animals. One word of warning: older players may find the animations too lengthy, and the simplicity of the challenges means they will finish the game quickly.

Putt-Putt is an appealing character and he shines in this game, which features large, colorful graphics, great sound, good humor, and a nice mix of storytelling and problem solving. Putt-Putt Joins the Circus also comes with a parent/teacher guide, which suggests methods of reinforcing the lessons of teamwork and kindness that are the game's themes, a nice supplement to the gaming experience. --Alyx Dellamonica
Send your kids to the Big Top with Putt-Putt Joins the Circus, featuring a crazy cast of circus characters for kids to interact with, entertaining puzzles, and mini-arcade-style games. Putt-Putt Joins the Circus also contains a number of beautifully hand-drawn backgrounds, hundreds of entertaining computer animations that are activated with the click of a mouse, and a few musical suprises.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Runs on Linux!
Comment: Appears to run great on Linux Wine (Google it). Runs full screen - not all games will do so (like Jumpstart Toddlers which runs fine, but won't switch to fullscreen). My three year old loves it, though 3 may be a little young for this game. 5 stars, given that you can get very cheap. Also, it will run on very old computers. (Even if they are running Linux)

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Customer Rating:
Summary: For my 16 grandchildren
Comment: Brilliant game- kept the grandchildren occupied for hours - and they're still playing the game (and so are their parents)

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Customer Rating:
Summary: StoryMaker's Putt-Putt Circus Review
Comment: It annoys me how it never changes. Hey, Humongous Entertainment! Just because the Time Travels game gets bad reveiws for its complexidy dosen't mean your new game should never change! Anyways, I also do not like how you put Philipe and his flea circus gang on Pep. I made up Action Peps, lots of Peplike dogs (Regular Pep, the original, is one of them) and Mean Action Putt-Putts (but Regular Putt-Putt is good). And the bear you take them off of has to be pretty small because when you press the arrow button on the Magnifind glass, after a few seconds it makes a honking noise and you can't scroll any more. I also don't like Putt-Putt's new adult voice. But the first time you play it still captures the fun problem solving idea, so it gets an extra 2 stars. In Freddi Fish 4 you can give people a taste of your spices but you can't share the peanuts in this and if I went to a "Only 1 bag of peanuts per person!" circus I'd be mad!
KEYBOARD TIPS: In most Humongous Entertainment games, S&L keys will save or load progress. If not working, click menu button. ESC key will skip through cutscenes and period key will skip current character's line. F1 opens help file, I think.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Putt-Putt is great
Comment: I got putt putt with a computer that i had bought as one of the disks included. My son was 2 at the time and loved playing this game with me looking for missing clues and helping to put them together. now at 3 yrs of age he plays all by himself with it and knows exactly where to go each time he starts over.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: excellent software for young game players
Comment: If your child has played beginning software like JumpStart and is ready to move on to more advanced gameplay, Humongous Entertainment's Putt-Putt series (and Freddi Fish and Pajama Sam, as well) are an excellent choice. These titles take the cognitive tasks up a notch as children must accumulate specific items, navigate a number of locations, and use their problem-solving skills to help their friends and achieve larger goals. Along the way, kind and gentle Putt-Putt and his dog Pep will meet a number of nice characters, visit a variety of interesting locations and play games as they complete the larger tasks.

In Putt-Putt Joins the Circus, the overarching goal is to earn a ticket to the show by performing a variety of tasks and helping the various acts prepare. You must get a nose for the clown, help the organ arrange her pipes, get a power drink to the strong-van, find a new tent for the fleas, etc. There are quite a few locations and objects, so it would be a good idea for you to help your child for a while. Eventually they will probably want to play on their own. The characters are lovable and there is a lot of humor here. We run it on a Mac and have had no problems at all -- very stable and easy to install.

This is one of the best titles in a great series.

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