What is Clifford the Big Red Dog: Thinking Adventures?

Don’t let Clifford Thinking Adventures’ simplistic graphics deter you from buying this game for kids ages four to six. They won’t mind: The gameplay is smooth, and the teaching is appropriately subtle.

In this typical scavenger-hunt-style game, kids run errands before the big party starts for Clifford’s birthday. They can decorate a cake, play matching games while cleaning up the backyard and a toppled store display, and follow directions to clear up a traffic jam.

The developer’s attention to detail overrode our irritation with a few sound glitches and CD crashes. The CD continually saves the game so you don’t lose your progress, and the AI actually works — the responses change depending on what’s already happened. There’s no annoying wait for screens to load, and the game changes enough on subsequent adventures to make it fun to play more than once.

In short, we get the feeling that someone made an enormous effort to create this CD, befitting the beloved enormous red dog.

Shepherd, Carrie. (February 2001). Kidz Stuff. MacAddict. (pg. 65).

Download Clifford the Big Red Dog: Thinking Adventures for Mac

Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.5

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver