An educational game from Fisher Price this time, and one of a few titles which never got shipped by Roger Pedersen. We aren’t sure yet if he had any development time on the C64 version, or the Apple. Most of the time Roger talked of how easy it would be to convert from MSDos to 64 and Apple.
Thanks to contributor Arcachnar, we learn from a magazine snippet for the PC edition that the game would have you flying a cartoon plane that had to catch stars, balloons, snowflakes and kites – whilst transporting Fisher-Price “Little People” by air. There would be three skill levels to accommodate inexperienced and advanced players. It seems the PC edition may well have been released!
We hope to get in touch with Roger Pedersen and find out more about what happened to these games. The email address we had for him has sadly expired, and it may be a bit tricky now to get in touch with him. Does anything exist of this game now? Or is it another educational game to join the graveyard with Razzmatazz?
Thanks again to Arcachnar, we learn that the game was offered in a “Bargain Basement” advert for the C64 – so did the game manage to sneak out in limited numbers? In an interview with Roger Pedersen, he reveals that the C64 version apparently never shipped – so was that indeed the case?
More soon we hope…
Contributions: Arcachnar
Weird. Has anyone seen this?
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/fisher-price-dos-games-ibm-pc-xt-1929660150
Really wish it was still on Ebay to verify this. If you know what I mean.
That’s great to see. I suspect the PC version did see release, but just in limited numbers. Hopefully that can be recovered too.
Also this:
https://ibb.co/LX7cGNH8
Another interesting thing is that it DID was mentioned in the bargain bin for the Commodore 64 for $9.88:
https://ibb.co/RT3pdzvr
However, at this very moment I cannot seem to find any other information about it….yet.
Interestingly enough the IBM DOS release has more information about what the game is about;
https://ibb.co/3y7hPVDt
It has to be the same game, right?
Thanks very much for the contributions Arcachnar! This is great, and I’ve updated the page with the new information and credit to you. A bit of a conflict with the company selling the game via the bargain basement listing and Roger’s recollections, but then a lot of mail order companies offered games they never had in stock. Hopefully something will come to light!