Hoyle Kids Games screenshots

The game starts with a short animation that plays in a letterbox inside a window

Before the player can get to the main menu they must either create a new identity or select one that was set up previously.

Although the window can be maximised all this does is fill the screen surrounding the game area with a big black border.

This is the game's main menu. The games are selected by positioning the mouse cursor over the appropriate hot spot, which makes it 'light up', and then clicking on it

This is the start of a game of checkers. Plenty of options here including the choice of avatar

A game of Checkers in progress using the lily pad board

This is the screen that's displayed while the game loads something new, in this case it was as the player abandoned a game of checkers and returned to the main menu

The mirror in the main menu screen brings up the FaceMaker option were the player can create a face for themselves that can be used in the game screens, or select a ready-made one

The FaceMaker screen. It is quite comprehensive, here it's being used to position right and left eyebrows which are of different sizes and styles

Selecting the goldfish bowl from the main menu brings up a Tic-Tac-Toe game with three difficulty settings

The end of a Tic-Tac-Toe game. The fish blows bubbles which form the O's

Selecting the Thee Pigs Poster starts the game of Speedy Racer

The Speedy Racer game has the player typing in letters as they drop down the screen. Early levels are single letters but later levels drop short words.

The Speedy Racer game end of level score

The Television hotspot on the main screen brings up PlacerRacer. This is it's configuration screen.

Placer Racer allows the player to use either the mouse or the keyboard as a controller

PlacerRacer is a version of Bust-a-Move

At any time the player can switch identities via the small red icon in the lower right of the main window

The Xylophone in the main menu starts the Music game

The Music game is a form of Simon Says where the player must follow and repeat a sequence correctly.

The compilation contains a Chinese Checkers game. This is the configuration screen, the computer plays all other players.

The end of a Chinese Checkers game where one of the computer players won

One of the board games is Snakes & Ladders. It can be played with up to four players

A game of Snakes & Ladders in progress

One of the games on the shelves is War. This is a card matching game. It can be quite long unless a limit is set

A game of War in progress. The higher card wins the stack. If there's a match then it's war. Three extra cards are played face down and the players face off again.

Another card game from the shelf is Crazy Eights. This has many names, sometimes known as Switch. This is the game configuration screen.

This is the game screen for Crazy Eights

Every game has a set of rules. These are accessed via the genie's lamp which brings up a set of icons along the bottom of the screen. These are the rules for Crazy Eights.

Another card game accessed from the shelves in the main menu is Go Fish. This is a game in progress with the computer playing three of the hands of cards.

The compilation also features a Memory Match game

When the player wins a game a space ship flies on screen to congratulate them

Battling Ships starts with the player placiing their fleet on the grid

Battling Ships has some nice animations with rockets flying into the play area and burning ships

A game of Old Maid in progress

The Hangman configuration screen

This game used the Western setting and it didn't work out.

The Hangman game in the Snow environment. Here if the player makes a mistake bits fall off as the snowman melts

Bump 'Em is a variation on Ludo. It uses tickets instead of dice

It's possible to flag some computer opponents as favourites. These will then play against you more often

The Trophy Wall shows the game statistics on games played & won, or lost as in this case

Hoyle Kids Games

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