Thursday, 29 May 2025

Sesame Street: Big Bird's Hide & Speak (NES review)

Developer: Riedel Software Productions
Publisher: Hi Tech Expressions
Released: 1990

Sesame Street: Big Bird's Hide & Speak is an educational game that's exclusive to Nintendo's 8-bit home console.

+ Graphics are terrific with many beloved characters well represented, and there's a nice rendition of the series' theme tune.

+ Has a substantial amount of voice clips with astonishing quality that could easily rival samples on 16-bit machines.

+ Includes some entertaining (and often humorous) animations that act as rewards for successfully beating a mini-game.

- Gameplay is painfully shallow with repetitive mini-games that wear out their welcome after one or two attempts.

- Using letters to make as many words as possible before sunset is great, but the game keeps interrupting to narrate!

- Forces you to control a plodding bird instead of a cursor to select items, and it can only move in one direction.

- Could have used more locales to add scenic variety, as everything takes place on the same confined street set.


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