Blue's Birthday Adventure
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| Developers | |
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| Humongous Entertainment | |
| Engines | |
| SCUMM | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | September 1, 1998 |
| Mac OS (Classic) | September 1, 1998 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Series | Blue's Clues |
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| ⤏ Go to series page | |
| 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 | |
2-disc CD-ROM. | |
- 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 |
| Executable | PPC | 16-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 | 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
- ↑ 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%\VirtualStoreon Windows Vista and later (more details).