Popular games published by company EMME Interactive SA
Following Timmy's Sea Adventure, this is the second release in the Timmy's series of interactive stories, written by David Grossman. Timmy finds that he can make the pictures on his bedroom wall come to life. This leads to many games and activities that improve reading and thinking skills : labyrinth, matching games, jigsaw puzzles and even play music with Timmy's xylophone. In the options, you can set the levels of play (3), change the language and turn on/off the background music.
La Boite à Bidule is an adventure game featuring a wide range of mini-games, based on reflexion, observation, dexterity and celerity. The entire story takes place in some kind of magical box created by Uncle Albert, containing living and talking toys. It's a game produced by Éric Viennot and developed by Lexis Numérique. Released in 2002, it's the first entry in a spin-off series derived from Uncle Albert's Adventures, aimed at a young demography of around 5 to 8 years old.
As Hamlet, your task is to kill the murderer but to prevent the deaths of innocents. That provides an interesting take on original play giving the ability to change the course of events and save some important characters. That includes actually killing rats instead of Polonius and saving Ophelia from madness and ultimate death.
Beauty or The Beast allows the player to adventure through a variation of the classic "Beauty and the Beast" tale through the eyes of either the Beauty or the Beast. From the perspective of Belle (the Beauty), her father has been imprisoned in the Beast's castle and she must find her way through the castle in order to rescue him. The Beast is investigating interlopers in his domain. The gameplay has the player navigating the character through a point and click adventure. Navigate against pre-rendered backgrounds and pick up items to use later. Consult the automatically drawn map for directions. Many of the rooms in the game also contain some type of minigame necessary to advance the overall game. Minigames include reassembling suits of knight armor from a mess of pieces; quickly lighting a sequence of torches; guiding a group of frogs off a fountain via circling lily pads; and protecting a moth from a gang of hungry spiders. There are two owl brothers -- Horace and Boris Finefeather -- who offer advice and assistance throughout Belle's and the Beast's quest respectively.
Educational CD-ROM game for Windows 3.1/95 and Macintosh.
Greatest Moments of Our Time is a reference title produced in 1996 and includes an interesting mix of subjects. The main menu has some admin icons plus eight categories, one of which is a trivia game. The quiz has three levels of difficulty. It lasts for three rounds and has five timed, multiple choice questions per round, all the questions are based on the articles in the reference material on the disc.