PrinceWatercress plays Barney's Hide and Seek Game - Part 1 of 2

I still can't believe this was made into a game, but you have to love how much they've packed in here as far as voice samples are concerned.

The game is very, very simple and rudimentary. You play as Barney the Dinosaur, and you have to look for all your friends and all the objects. There are five of each, and even if you make it to the end without everything, you don't get penalized for it. This is a children's game, after all.

You have buttons for jumping, playing and interacting with objects. Sure, you can find friends and toys with them, but you can also interact with objects using Barney's imagination power, such as causing a bird's egg to hatch or feeding a bunny a carrot.

This game also has a lot of digitized speech for a Genesis/Mega Drive game. According to Wikipedia, there are over 100 words and 200 phrases recorded by Bob West, who also voiced Barney on the television show. This is almost unheard of from 1993, when the game came out, as most voice acting from that time were starting to be used in adventure games on DOS such as King's Quest V...but this was rather ambitious for the Genesis/Mega Drive, which had been around in Japan since 1988 and came out in America the following year.

If you find a present, open it. These presents will contain the five objects. As for the kids, they're half-visible behind certain things, making this the easiest game of Hide and Seek in the world. They will all also be in random locations. It all depends on which direction you go all the way in first.

In every world, there is a big present. You don't have to find it, but if you do, you'll get a pretty nice surprise, like fireworks or seahorses.

You cannot kill yourself, regardless of how hard you try to do so. If you try to fall off the edge of a cliff, Barney refuses to let you do that unless there's a platform nearby, like a cloud or a log.

Also, this game is sentient. If you leave it running, the game actually takes you to one of your objectives by automatically taking control of Barney. I kid you not.

The first two levels are the forest and Music Town. The forest has a lot of plants and animals that you can interact with, and you can even hug a bear at the end. There's even a log ride to the left of the start. Music Town contains a lot of musical instruments, so you get to hear the YM2814 sound chip at very simple work.