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Mixed Up Fairy Tales

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This point-and-click adventure for younger players tasks you with restoring order by helping Cinderella, Snow White, and other characters.

Mixed Up Fairy Tales is a Sierra On-Line educational game released for DOS in 1991; no earlier platform version exists.


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Platform
MS-DOS
Released
1991
Perspective
3rd-person (Other)
Size
3.76 MB
Version
autorun.bat
Rating
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About Mixed Up Fairy Tales

Mixed Up Fairy Tales is a DOS adventure game where the player corrects narrative disruptions caused by Bookend, who has scrambled stories belonging to Bookwyrm. This involves assisting characters like Cinderella and Snow White.

Gameplay centers on locating and delivering specific items to advance the plots, such as obtaining magical beans for Jack. The interface is simplified for a younger audience, using only two primary commands, "Do" and "See", instead of the more complex icon bars found in other Sierra titles. The visual presentation uses VGA graphics.

Mixed Up Fairy Tales Screenshots

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Title Screen (MCGA/VGA)
Character gender / ethnicity selection (MCGA/VGA)
Intro: Bookwyrm emerges into a library to pull you into a fairy-tale book.
Intro: Bookwyrm needs your help. (MCGA/VGA)
Bookwyrm's front yard and your first map location. (MCGA/VGA)
Story menu - you will have to match characters to their tales through this screen. (MCGA/VGA)
Could it be... Cinderella? (MCGA/VGA)
In case you didn't realise you'd just begun a mission, the marquee helpfully indicates. (MCGA/VGA)
Jack is looking for something... (MCGA/VGA)
Didn't even cost you a cow! (MCGA/VGA)