Tales from Paradise Park

Tales from Paradise Park
Type	Educational
Released	1996 (1st and 2nd version)
Sequel	The Great Treasure Hunt
Danish	Leg og Lær med Magnus & Myggen
Finnish	Leiki ja opi Manu ja Matti kanssa
Swedish	Lek och Lär med Magnus & Myggan
Norwegian	Lek og Lær med Magnus & Myggen
German	Max & Mario: Die Suche nach dem Zauberstab
Russian	следствие ведут шкипер и скито
Spanish	Topi y Teo en el Parque Paraíso
Czech	Skipper & Skeeto: Vítejte v parku zábavy a poučení
French	Le Jardin Magique: Les aventures de Max & Moustique
Dutch	Skipper & Skeeto in Pretpark

Tales from Paradise Park (also known as Play & Learn: Tales from Paradise Park) is the first game in the series. There exist two distinct versions of this game, but they both have the same end goal: The witch have stolen the fairy's wand, so Skipper and Skeeto need to help all the animals of Paradise Park such that they can help getting it back.

Plot Summary

Under cover of a crackling storm the wicked witch swoops in through the window and snatches the good fairy's magic wand. The good fairy groans in despair because without her wand she is grounded. She rushes to her wishing well and immediately asks Skipper and Skeeto to get it back. She tells them, that the wicked witch has hidden it somewhere in Paradise Park and that if Skipper and Skeeto seek out all the animals that live in the park and help them to find their lost items, then they in turn will help to prise the wand from the clutches of the wicked witch. So begins this sweet little play and learn adventure with Skipper the mole and Skeeto the mosquito.

Gameplay

Essentially the game play involves one big treasure hunt. Hunt down the park residents, find out what they have lost, and then hunt down the relevant items to keep them happy. And it's a hunt that's all good fun in this brightly coloured land consisting of 48 locations and a host of creatures to interact with. Rubin the Rabbit has lost his trousers, Bizzie Bee needs a pail for her honey, Murray the Monkey wants some music, and there's sure to be something useful in the tree house if the five missing rungs of the ladder can be found. In order to earn more magic points and get some handy help, the player can take a book from the shelf and play a game. There are around 11 different games, not all of the same merit, but mostly very good. As well as a memory game there are games that teach telling the time on an old fashioned analogue clock, number and letter recognition, spelling and arithmetic.

Characters


Name	Role	Localtion	Versions	Purpose
Skipper	Main character	Everywhere	Both	Has to get the fairy's wand back
Skeeto	Main character	Everywhere	Both	Has to get the fairy's wand back
Witch	Enemy (main)	Bottom of tree	Both	Has captured the fairy and stolne her wand
Fairy		Bottom of wishing well	Both	Has been captured by the fairy
Ruben Rabbit	Resident	Ruben Rabbit	Both	Has lost his pants and is now hiding in a barrel
Lizzie Bee (Bizzie Bee?)	Resident	Lizzie's tree	Both	Is making honey and has lost a bucket
Arnold (Murray the Monkey?)	Resident	Outer wall	Both	Version 1: Owns the radio Skipper and Skeeto borrows. He plays a song for them, but has to leave as the circus director is calling for him. Version 2: Has lost his radio.
Molly Mouse	Resident	Molly Mouse	Both
Vlad the bat (Boris Bat?)	Resident	Vlad the bat's cave	Both
Susan Blackbird (Becky Blackbird?)	Resident	Susan Blackbird's nest	Both
Harold	Resident	Path 8	Both
Snailmail	Resident	Path 7	Both
Squirrel (Sidney?)	Resident	Squirrel's home	Both
Melvin Duck (Darold Duck?)	Resident	Melvin Duck	Both
Fungy Frog	Resident	Fungy Frog	Both
Beetles	Redidents	Beetle house	Both
Ant Queen	Resident	Ant Palace	Both
Father Pixie	Resident	Pixie Hill	Both
Mother Pixie	Resident	Pixie Hill	Both
Fish	Resident	The white bridge	Both
Owen Owl	Resident	Owen Owl's home	Both
Fox	Enemy	Shrubbery 1	Both
Snake	Enemy	Path 4	Both
Konrad (Kurt the Cat / Conrad Cat?)	Enemy	Path 11	Both
Ricky Tricky	Enemy	Path 1	Both
Fly commander	Enemy	Fly commander	Second
Dog	Enemy	Top of tree	Both

Locations

Versions

This game uses different versions of Macromedias Shockwave Player, in earlier versions the executable has the wrong name and launches with an error. The version is the version of the Shockwave Player and not the version of the game itself.


Version	Language(s)	Publisher	Exe date	Characteristics
4.0b1^[1]	Danish	Ivanoff Interactive	02-03-1996	CD-case. Includes songs (can be played with CD-player). A bit different game play compared to the other versions.
5.0.1r26	Danish, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian	Ivanoff Interactive	07-10-1996	CD-case. CD-name: MAGNUS15S
5.0.1r26	German	bhv Verlag GmbH	21-07-1999	CD-case. Executable needs to be renamed in Start32
5.0.1r26	English, Russian	GSP	21-10-1999
8.5.1.102	Danish, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian	Ivanoff Interactive	19-08-2002
10.1.0.11	Danish	Ivanoff Interactive, Pan vision	08-10-2008	Part of "Gyldne Klassikere"