Blue's Clues (video game series) facts for kids

Blue's Clues is educational adventure video game series based on the television show of the same name developed and published by Humongous Entertainment.

The first game, Blue's 123 Time Activities, was released in 1999. The game works on Windows 95 and above, and on System 7.5.3 (with PowerPC) to Mac OS X Tiger.

List of games

• Blue's 123 Time Activities (1999)
• Blue's ABC Time Activities (1999)
• Blue's Art Time Activities (2000)
• Blue's Reading Time Activities
• Blue's Birthday Adventure
• Blue's Treasure Hunt
• Blue's Clues #105: Sorting Clothes
• Blue's Clues #106: Instrument Sound Matching!
• Blue's Clues #110: Matching Snowflakes
• Blue's Clues #116: Fairy Tale Matching
• Blue's Clues #203: Lights On, Lights Off!
• Blue's Clues #208: Counting with Cash Register
• Blue's Clues #213: Lost and Found
• Blue's Clues #215: Felt Friend Tic-Tac-Toe
• Blue's Clues #216: Kaleidoscope Pictures!
• Blue's Clues #218: Teeter-Totter
• Blue's Clues #219: Blowing Matching Bubbles!
• Blue's Clues #220: Racing Cars!
• Blue's Clues #304: What's that sound?
• Blue's Clues #307: Hide-and-Seek!
• Blue's Clues #312: Concentration
• Blue's Clues #319: Blue's Pajama Party
• Blue's Clues #322: Holiday Quilt
• Blue's Big Musical (for PlayStation)
• Periwinkle's Disappearo
• Blue's Alphabet Book (2001, Game Boy Color)
• Blue's Clues: Joe's 3D Scavenger Hunt
• Blue's Clues Preschool
• Blue's Clues Kindergarten
• Blue Takes You to School
• Blue's Clues: Blue's Collection (for V.Smile)

Gameplay

Blue's Reading Time Activities "teaches the basics of art" and allows players to create their own. Players are invited to participate in the Really Big Art Show, while helping Blue and other characters create artworks. The game offered "curriculum-structured learning". The game was for children aged 3 to 10.

Commercial performance

Together, Blue's Birthday Adventure and Blue's ABC Time Activities sold-through over 150,000 units in their first month of release, and were the second and third best selling educational titles. The two titles became the No. 1 and No. 4 selling educational CD-ROM titles of 1998, respectively. ABC was the fourth best-selling video game title in the week before January 3, 1999, after Barbie Photo Designer, Tomb Raider III, and Fallout 2, and became the no. 3 best-selling title out of all PC games in the third quarter and nine months, ending December 31, 1998. PC Data, which generated the sales data, commented "The popularity of the Blue Clue's CD-ROMs is evident from the incredible sales numbers it consistently generates".