Big Thinkers (video game series)

Big Thinkers!
Genres	Adventure, Edutainment
Developers	Humongous Entertainment
Publishers	Humongous Entertainment
Platforms	Windows, Macintosh, Steam
First release	Big Thinkers! Kindergarten 1997
Latest release	Big Thinkers! 1st Grade 1997

Big Thinkers! was a short line educational game from Humongous Entertainment, which revolved around Ben Brightly and his sister Becky Brightly (voiced by Mike Shapiro and Karen Kay Cody respectively), two characters with the ability to shape-shift into any object they desire. The series contains two games: Big Thinkers! Kindergarten and Big Thinkers! 1st Grade. Both titles feature the same goal of collecting stars.

There were plans to release a third game in the series, which would have been titled Big Thinkers! 2nd Grade. It was initially developed in parallel with the other two games, but was abandoned when working on three games at once proved to be too ambitious.

Gameplay

The player interacts with Ben and Becky as objects, while exploring the house and playing sixteen mini-games to earn stars of one of five colors: red, blue, yellow, green, and purple. Each color represents a different category of education, such as yellow representing art. Upon collecting a large amount of each color, the player then has a chance to attempt a longer mini-game to obtain a larger dull orange-colored star wearing a square academic cap (as well as sunglasses in First Grade). Many mini games are available in both games, but in each game they are different. The house lay-out is the same except in Big Thinkers 1st Grade the woods is replaced with a garage.

External links

• Humongous Entertainment press news with regard to Big Thinkers
• Big Thinkers! Kindergarten at MobyGames