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Blue's Birthday Adventure

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Blue's Birthday Adventure
Blue's Birthday Adventure cover
Developers
Humongous Entertainment
Engines
SCUMM
Release dates
Windows September 1, 1998
Mac OS (Classic) September 1, 1998
Taxonomy
Series Blue's Clues
Blue's Birthday Adventure on MobyGames
Blue's Birthday Adventure on Wikipedia
Subseries of Nickelodeon
Blue's Birthday Adventure 1998
Blue's 123 Time Activities 1999
Blue's ABC Time Activities 1999
Blue's Treasure Hunt 1999
Blue's Reading Time Activities 2000
Blue's Art Time Activities 2000
Blue's Clues Preschool 2002
Blue's Clues Kindergarten 2002
Blue Takes You to School 2003
Blue's Room: Blue Talks! 2004

Key points

Compatible with ScummVM.
Some minor compatibility errors are present on modern Windows, but it remains overall playable.
Press Shift+F6 to increase resolution to 1280x1024.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
2-disc CD-ROM.
Windows
Mac OS
This game is not available digitally.
A demo is available from ScummVM.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game cloud syncing

ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Select resolutions only. 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, and 1280x1024 are available.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Basic texture filtering options are available with ScummVM.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Played entirely with mouse.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Use ScummVM.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Smacker Used to blend FMV content into game.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 90 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 40 MB
Video card (GPU) SVGA capable
Other 4x CD-ROM
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 7.5.1
Processor (CPU) PowerPC 80 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 40 MB
Other 4x CD-ROM


Notes

  1. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References