Alphabet Park Adventure is a platformer game released from 2004 to ~2007, and was published by VTech. and under license from Zamperla Amusments Inc
Contents
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.
Name | Description |
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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.]
- Toy Park [Stage Layout]
- Monsterville [Stage Layout]
- Jungle Ride
- Bug World [Stage Layout]
- Secret Garden
- 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
References
- A forum post a user has posted on a Chinese forum asking about the V.Smile over in China
- A review of the game which features the new mini-games
- 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.
- An article talking about the V.Smile console which has the rare render of the game's artwork on the TV.
- The game on sockscap64.com