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Barney's Hide & Seek Game

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In this game, the objective is to move Barney around four themed levels and locate five children and five presents that are hiding throughout the level. Should the player find all the children and presents in different levels, they would be rewarded with a "special surprise". During the surprise, the
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The game received mixed reviews based on its very simplistic gameplay. Brett Alan Weiss of AllGame gave it a rating of 4/5, stating that the game was "perfectly suited" for its target audience. On the other hand Vince Thornburg of Sega-16 stated that the game "did its purpose of being a simple game
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community due to its unique self-playing feature. The game will beat itself even if given no input by the player, but random elements cause playthroughs to take different amounts of time despite the lack of player interaction. This prompted the creation of a speedrunning category called "Any% No
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When nowhere near an object to interact with, Barney can blow kisses in the air complete with flying heart symbols. Locating a child results in giving him or her a hug. Barney can fly on balloons, float on clouds, and jump on nearby platforms. The inability for Barney to die is indicated by his
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Favorite things are always mentioned by name by Barney when the player helps him discover them. Most of the lines for the game were recorded with the nouns and verbs being fractured, resulting in one-second pauses between non-crucial words and words crucial to gameplay.
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Controller", in which players do not touch the controller, and instead wait for the game to play itself to completion. Inconsistencies in the hardware seem to make it so the world record of 9 minutes and 9 seconds (as of January 2020) can only be achieved via a
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purple balloon pop and confetti and streamers fall from above onto excited children, as well as Barney and Baby Bop. Players are unable to lose in the game, even if they did not retrieve all the objects and find all the missing children in the level.
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refusal to fall off floating platforms; instead there is a safety lecture handed out by Barney so kids can learn to be careful like him. Cloud jumping is only possible when the
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was created from a revision of this article dated 30 April 2019
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markets. It was based on the children's television series
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Barney finds one of the kids in a "hide and seek" game.
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is a video game that was released on June 1, 1993, by
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Developer(s)
Realtime Associates
Publisher(s)
Sega
Tec Toy
Designer(s)
Programmer(s)
Artist(s)
Composer(s)
Platform(s)
Sega Genesis
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SA
Genre(s)
Two-dimensional
platformer
Single-player
Sega of America
Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
North
South American
Barney & Friends
Bob West

traffic light
speedrunning
physical console
emulator
"Release date information"

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