Richard Scarry's Best Neighborhood Disc Ever!

aka: El barrio más divertido de Richard Scarry, La Ville Surprise de Richard Scarry 1, Richard Scarry's Allerbeste Buurt Disc!, Richard Scarry's Best Neighborhood Ever, Richard Scarry's wunderbarste Geschichten aus Schaffenau

Moby ID: 43776

Released

1991 on CD-i

Credits

50 people

Releases by Date (by platform)

1991 (CD-i)
1994 (DOS)

Publishers

Developers

Philips Sidewalk Studio

Moby Score: n/a
Critics: 68% (2)
Players: (1)
Collected By: 3 players

Genre: Adventure
Educational
Perspective: Side view
Top-down
Educational: Pre-school / toddler
Misc: Licensed

Description official description

Richard Scarry's Best Neighborhood Disc Ever! is an edutainment title for children based on a book by Richard Scarry. In the game players explore Busytown, a fictional place where there's always a lot going on. The whole town comes to life in cartoon animations. Players choose places and characters to visit. At these places players can practice and learn important pre-reading skills and listen to stories. Taught skills include memory, color recognition, vocabulary, pattern recognition and counting.

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Credits (CD-i version)

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Producer	Rebecca Newman
Creative Director	Gary Drucker
Vice Presidents of Product Development	Bernie Barron Sarina Simon
Animation Director	Alex Stevens
Writer	Betty Birney
Adapted for CD-i by	Gary Drucker
Project Consultant	Ole Risom
Software Design and Engineering	Drew Topel
Post Production Supervisor	Gordon S. Brooks
Editor	Brian Truitt
Narrated by	Joe Lala
Character Voices	Marc Graue Robin Francis Levy Rick Polizzi
Huckle's Voice	Nina Simon
Children's Voices	Eli Drucker Morgan Simon
'Library' Song Written by	Betty Birney Gary Drucker
Sung by	Robin Francis Levy
Arranged and Performed by	John Sanders
Piano Rags Written by	Scott Joplin
Audio Producer	Lisa Brenneis
Audio Post Production	Howard Soroka
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MobyGames ID: 43776

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Game added by vedder.

DOS added by Scaryfun.

Additional contributors: Smiling Spectre, marley0001, theclue.

Game added December 19, 2009. Last modified January 1, 2024.