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
Blue's Birthday Adventure at Wikipedia
Blue's Clues
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 Clues: Blue's Art Time Activities 2000
Blue's Clues Preschool 2002
Blue's Clues Kindergarten 2003

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[edit]

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.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System Location
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location[edit]

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

Video settings[edit]

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 settings[edit]

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
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Audio settings[edit]

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware[edit]

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

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95 98
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 Administrator elevation, activity in %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%, and %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore\ (more details).

References