Blue's 123 Time Activities

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The colorful mutated household appliances decide to have a fair in the backyard, creatively titled The Big Backyard Fair, with games that are all oddly associated with math. Blue, everyone's favorite reality-warping dog, enlists the player's help to earn money named after herself (that egotist!) in the various games to get a prize while Steve stands in front of a sign.

Like its sister game, it's designed to teach young children basic skills: in this case, math and counting.

Unused Text#

Unsurprisingly, this game (like almost every other Humongous game) has inaccessible subtitles. They can be turned on using ScummVM or by adding

TextOn=1

to hegames.ini. However, they seem to be disabled on the cutscenes with Steve.

Debug Options#

Adding SputmDebug=95710 to the hegames.ini configuration file enables a few keyboard shortcuts allowing control over various aspects of the game.

• Ctrl + E - Brings up a series of dialog boxes that prompt for an internal variable number, give its current value, and optionally allow it to be changed.
• Ctrl + F - Enables "fast mode", causing everything except sound playback to run as fast as the hardware will allow.
• Ctrl + G - Prompts for a room number to warp to.
• Ctrl + O - Prompts for the number of an object to place in the inventory, but no inventory has been implemented in this game so that renders it useless.

Difficulty Adjuster#

Going to room 13 using debug mode (or the command room 13 into ScummVM's debugger) brings up this crude-looking screen designed to change the difficulty. The "O"s indicate the current difficulty level for that game, while clicking an "X" will adjust the difficulty. Blank spaces and "N/A"s cannot be clicked.

References#