Blinky Bill's Play & Learn: Preschool (1999, PC) - Longplay 🎒

This game for preschoolers, featuring Blinky Bill the Australian koala 🐨 has activities to learn recognition, conceptualizing volume, identifying objects and sorting, weather conditions and social consequences, sorting and categorizing and many more!

This game is the first of three activity edutainment software CDs titled "Play & Learn with Blinky Bill". This one is for preschool users, and features over 200 fun-filled and unique lessons. There's 18 core activities, 14 of which operate on 2 levels. It focuses on developing your child's social and environmental awareness. Two specially designed scoring modes: A 'Reward System' encourages the child to attempt all activities. Blinky Bill is an anthropomorphic koala and children's fictional character created by Australian author and illustrator Dorothy Wall. (LaunchBox Games Database/Wikipedia)

Category: Early Childhood
Perspective:
Year released: 1999
Author: Forest Interactive
Publisher: Yoram Gross EMTV

The disc image is a Mac/PC hybrid.

See also: Play & Learn with Blinky Bill: Kindy

Compatibility
Architecture: PPC x86 (Windows)
SSW 7.5.3
16 MB RAM


At 49 minutes 07 seconds I noticed an error in the video details on the right, which I promptly fixed.

Used emulator: PCem v16
CPU: Pentium MMX 233
OS: Windows 98 Second Edition
Screen resolution: 640x480
Colours: 16 bit
Output scaling: 3x
Scaling: Integer scaling / Nearest

All activities:
From the key map at 37 minutes 52 seconds
1. Free Play activities and Navigation
Large tree trunk door
Access to first seven scoring activities
Large Treehouse
Access to second seven scoring activities
Free Play 1 - Displacement
Conceptualising volume, buoyancy awareness
Free Play 2 - Cooking
Identifying food, sorting & categorising objects, following a sequence/instructions, social skills
Free Play 3 - Weather
Basic weather conditions and social consequences
Free Play 4 - Picture Jumble
Animal recognition, conceptualising illogical combinations, having fun!
Player rewards
A reward based incentive for the player to progress through all activities at all levels.
Player progress
Chart that displays player's progress in games shown as a score and percentage of attempts. Also details learning outcomes.

2. First seven scoring activities
Creature hunt:
Visual discrimination, mouse skills
Sequencing:
Discrimination by size, number and cycles of change, sequencing event, comprehension skills
Positioning: Spatial awareness, positional naming
Feelings: Emotional discrimination, social skills, empathy
Matching: Visual discrimination of shapes, following a pattern, environmental comprehension skills.
Classification: Sorting & categorising things, social comprehension skills.
Money: Conceptualising how money works, basic counting, social skills

3. Next seven scoring activities
Tidy the Room:
Visual discrimination of objects, categorisation, social skills, responsibility
Growing plants:
Environmental awareness, nurturing skills, following directions
Families:
Social awareness, matching skills, memory skills
Animal homes:
Learning about animals, memory skills, mouse skills
Occupations: Social skills, non gender stereotyping, occupational awareness
Shapes: 2D shape recognition developing awareness of shape & position
Counting: Counting to 10 number sequence, mouse skills, social skills, numeral recognition.

Chapters / Timestamps:
0:00 Video intro
0:19 Game intro
1:37 Picture sequence
4:11 Creature hunt
15:13 Self-service shop
19:10 What's what?
22:03 Who's who?
24:11 Positioning game
25:51 Feelings game
29:28 Cooking game
35:34 Bath game
36:52 Progress chart
37:10 Help page
40:56 Who goes where?
44:02 Who does what?
50:06 Tidy the Room
52:06 Counting game
56:42 Shapes game
59:39 Growing plants
1:05:03 Mystery matching
1:09:12 Picture Jumble
1:11:10 Rewards page
1:12:22 Weather conditions
1:18:50 Game credits
1:19:31 Outro

Early Learning-Preschool, Learning for preschoolers


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