Muppets Inside is an exceedingly clever combination of games that is really great for gamers of all ages, but especially appropriate for children. There is a little bit of arcade style action, some trivia for an educational aspect, and a healthy dose of good old adventure gaming, as well. Muppets Inside was designed by Patrick Cook and was both published and developed by Starware. It was released to the Windows platform in the middle nineties and is only for single player play.
The beginning of Muppets Inside is a play on the old Intel slogan: Intel Inside. Computers used to boast at having an Intel processor, what with it being generally faster and better than other available in the nineties. Muppets Inside is a play on that advertising slogan, and the plot of the game features a group of everyone’s favorite Muppet characters becoming trapped inside of a computer. The great Dr. Bunsen Honeydew sends Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear into the computer to rescue the others. They will continue the Intel spoof by traveling around a the Bitmap on a Databus while searching for their friends.
There are loads of minigames, comprising the variety of Muppets Inside, that
will break up the monotony of a regular adventure game. The Swedish Chef will battle giant vegetables in the Kitchens of Doom, and there will be a sort of match game as the user helps Dr. Bunsen Honeydew sort out the memories within his laboratory assistant (Beaker’) jumbled up brain. The player will even position Gonzo’s cannon so he can hit a target correctly in Death-Defying Acts of Culture. There is a version of Name That Tune, which is very fun, and a Hollywood Squares style of trivia hosted by Fozzie Bear. Wocka on the Wild Side is another Fozzie Bear story that is a version of Missile Command, the classic space game. Here, however, the gamer will have to destroy incoming tomatoes that are being constantly lobbed at Fozzie for his less-than-funny jokes on stage.
In the mean time, the main game will have you seeking bits of a broken CD-Rom by visiting various areas of your computer and solving puzzles. There will be the standard inventory collections and fetch quests to complete, but it will all take place within the confines of your PC.
This is a great representation of Jim Henson’s classic Muppet Show and will certainly entertain gamers of all ages for hours with this good, clean family oriented fun.
