Alphabet Park Adventure

Alphabet Park Adventure
Alternative Name	Abenteuer im ABC Park (Germany) ABC Land Aventure (French) English Parade (China, Translation) Alphabet Park Exploration (Korea, Translation) 알파벳 공원 대탐험 (Korea)
Release Date	August 4th, 2004 September 1st, 2004 (Germany) ~2005 (China, Korea) 2007 (Character Re-design)
Region	America French Germany China Korea
Game ID	52-92000(US) 62-092000-101(US) (Redesign) 80-92005 (French)
Age Range	3-5 (America, Portugal) 4-7 (Spain, France, Germany, Italy) 3-6 (Netherlands)
Cartridge Variants	Standard (Purple, Grey) Special Edition (Clear Purple) Revision (Design Changes)
Developer	VTech
Publisher	VTech

Alphabet Park Adventure is a platformer game released from 2004 to ~2007, and was published by VTech. and under license from Zamperla Amusments Inc

Gameplay

Learning Adventure

The game is the usual platformer where you have to walk through and save all the power rings that powers the park itself. While going through these stages, you will have to solve a problem relating to learning the Alphabet.

In the revision of the game with the character redesigns, they add new mini-games to the stages.

Learning Adventure Mini-Games

Name	Description

Learning Zone

The Learning Zone is comprised of 4 different mini-games.

Add descriptions on the games, how to play them, ect.

• Letter Order
• Letter Cases
• Spelling
• Colors and Shapes

Sing Along

Someone with access to the game should add a list of songs, and the gameplay of this mode. The menu for this mode shows a "Dance Moves" feature.

BTW for the transcript portion of the table, insert a link to a sub-article to this that will be for that Song's transcript. The summary should be a short description on what the song is about.

This is the new feature that was added in the revision that changed the characters' designs.

Song Name	Summary	Transcript
Alphabet Song	The ABCS	Link
Mary Had a Little Lamb		Link
Row, Row, Row Your Boat		Link
Old MacDonald Had a Farm		Link
London Bridge		Link

Learning Content

The Chinese version has this game as an English card, and has 5 content, while the others have 7.

• Letters
• Alphabet Order
• Objects
• Shapes
• Phonics
• Vocabulary
• Colors

Stages

Learning Adventure

[Maybe add some info on the stages, the kind of puzzles, and enemies within the stages.]

1. Toy Park [Stage Layout]
2. Monsterville [Stage Layout]
3. Jungle Ride
4. Bug World [Stage Layout]
5. Secret Garden
6. Fun Fair

Characters

Image	Name	Type	Abilities	Stages	Notes
	Boy	Playable		All	Has two designs
	Girl	Playable		All	Has two designs
	Grandpa	Friendly	Tells you the stats at the end of a stage	None (only on the Stats, and titlescreen)	Has two designs
	Male Narrator	Friendly	Says instructions, and selected option	None (Is for the hud)	Used on the menus of the original release
	Female Narrator	Friendly	Says instructions, and selected option	None (Is for the hud)	Used on the menus of the revision
	Hippo	Enemy	Stand	Toy Park	Is in Blue, and Purple. Could also voice the host in Monsterville's Quiz room.
	Robot	Enemy	Walk towards you Falls from the sky	Toy Park
	Jack in the Box	Enemy	Springs out of it's box	Monsterville	I think there in both Purple, and Blue boxes.
	Evil Toxic	Enemy	Float, split up	Monsterville, maybe Fun Fair
	Duck	Ridable	Allows the player to navigate on water.	Jungle Ride	Is larger than the enemy
	Chick	Enemy	Swim in a direction	Jungle Ride
	Croc	Enemy	Swim in a direction, chases player through logs.	Jungle Ride
	Lady Bug	Enemy	Flies around vines	Bug World	Is in red, and purple
	Butterfly	Friendly	Nothing	Jungle Ride, Bug World, Secret Garden	It acts as a background object,appears as an end stage effect in Bug World, and maybe Jungle Ride.
	Bees	Enemy	Fly in place, and in a pattern	Secret Garden
	Pogo Stick Clown	Enemy	Will jump on platforms in an odd pattern	Fun Fair
	Unicycle Clown	Enemy	Moves back and forth on a rope	Fun Fair
	Bubble Elephant	Enemy	Hovers in place while spitting colored bubbles	Fun Fair

Trivia

• This was one of the pack in title for the V.Smile
• This is one of the most well known games on the V.Smile
• The original version uses pre-rendered images for things like the Titlescreen, cutscenes, and possibly the characters.
• French version of this game's box uses an image of the pre-release console which is barely visible on the box itself
  • The pre-release cartridge label is also in use in the image of the V.Smile shown on the box, though only in official images of the packaging from VTech's site.
  • Was this use of the pre-release console also on other physical boxes of the game?
• The game had it's characters re-designed to be the newly introduced characters from V.Tech. This has happened to other games.
  • These characters may have had it's earliest appearance be on the V.Smile game "Learnin' Wheels" (or maybe "Whiz Kid Wheels").
  • Those characters also had appetences in other games such as Smart Keyboard.
• The Chinese version may have taught English to the Chinese market judging by the game being known as English Parade over there.
• This game has rare artwork depicting the boy looking at the distance to a structure with some letters falling from the sky in the same way as the Learning Zone mini-game "Letter Order".
  • This image also shows a dog/cat character standing next to the kid who outside of this image is never seen, or mentioned at all.
  • The cartridge in the console shows what seems to be a rendition of the park's layout on the stage select screen.

Regional Differences

• The titlescreen has a slight change between the Chinese version, and worldwide release (Original versions)
• Some regions of the game such as German has a line put through the center of the 7, which this doesn't have in the American, or UK releases.

Gallery

The rare render which shows this unknown dog/cat character, along with a pre-release cartridge design.

Another version of the image above, but not cropped, and in a lower res.

Another Pre-Release cartridge design from the American commercial

A pre-release screenshot of the game's Toy Park stage.

Pre-release image of the quiz room section on Monsterville, and possibly another cartridge label (the smaller V.Smile under the TV)

The button on the Chinese site

Sprite of the park's entrance as seen on the stage select screen.

The front cover of the game in China

The original version's cartridge

The back of the original version's cartridge

The German version of the game with the Special Edition clear case.

The revision to the game

The Chinese cartridge

The front of the Chinese's console box showing gameplay from this game in English.

V.Smile Game Console 2004 Commercial -Highest Quality-

The commercial for the V.Smile, showing pre-release footage for the game.

References

1. A forum post a user has posted on a Chinese forum asking about the V.Smile over in China
2. A review of the game which features the new mini-games
3. A link to the V.Smile commercial which features many pre-release labels for games, and a few differences in the game, like use of a unused game from a stage, or mini-game, and changes within Toy Park.
4. An article talking about the V.Smile console which has the rare render of the game's artwork on the TV.
5. The game on sockscap64.com