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Familijny CD-Romek PlayStation 2 ports

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From 1999-2001, Polish company Longsoft Multimedia released multiple educational computer games aimed at children under their Familijny CD-Romek series, consisting of animated versions of children's stories with a few accompaining minigames.

For whatever reason, the overlords of shovelware Phoenix Games decided it was a good idea to release ports of six of these games for the PS2, complete with English dubbing... though given their track record in publishing this type of samey low-quality games, it wasn't exactly unexpected.

Releases#

This series consists of the following "games", which run on the same underlying engine:

  • Cinderella (January 12; port of Kopciuszek)
  • Snow White and the 7 Clever Boys (January 26; port of Królewna Śnieżka i Siedmiu Wspaniałych)
  • Pinocchio (February 9; port of Pinokio)
  • Hansel and Gretel (March 16; port of Jaś i Małgosia)
  • Peter Pan (May 4; port of Piotruś Pan II)
  • Legend of Camelot (August 10; port of Historia Camelotu)

Build Dates#

The executable files contain build dates for the PS2 Static Library...

Cinderella

0x103F60
PlayStation2 Static Library, Release (dev-internal) Build.
Compiled 17:08:18 Oct 13 2006

Snow White &
The 7 Clever Boys

Pinocchio

0x107E60
PlayStation2 Static Library, L_RELEASE_NAME (dev-internal) Build.
GCC Compiled 10:54:54 Jan 5 2007

Hansel & Gretel

0x1099E8
PlayStation2 Static Library, L_RELEASE_NAME (dev-internal) Build.
GCC Compiled 16:41:23 Jan 25 2007

Peter Pan

0xCD518
PlayStation2 Static Library, L_RELEASE_NAME (dev-internal) Build.
GCC Compiled 10:36:37 Mar 6 2007

Legend of Camelot

0xD4618
PlayStation2 Static Library, L_RELEASE_NAME (dev-internal) Build.
GCC Compiled 10:19:47 Jun 13 2007

...and the "games" themselves:

(Structure)

Game Build   : 0.1, [build date]
Engine Build : %s
Platform     : %s
Processor    : %d x %dMhz %s
Features     : %s
Memory       : Physical = %dM, Page File = %dM, Virtual = %dM
Computer     : %s
User         : %s

Cinderella

0x110678
11:15:21 Oct 25 2006

Snow White &
The 7 Clever Boys

Pinocchio

0x10E1C8
15:16:41 Jan 5 2007

Hansel & Gretel

0x110168
15:36:05 Jan 29 2007

Peter Pan

0xD2568
7:49:00 Mar 8 2007

Legend of Camelot

0xD99F8
10:36:18 Jun 20 2007

References#

  1. Phoenix Games - Plano de Lançamento (archived January 11, 2007)↩︎
  2. Phoenix Games - Release Schedule (archived January 22, 2007)↩︎
  3. Phoenix Games - Release Schedule (archived March 5, 2007)↩︎
  4. Phoenix Games - Release Schedule (archived May 6, 2007)↩︎
  5. Phoenix Games - Plano de Lançamento (archived May 15, 2007)↩︎

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