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Arthur's Birthday
Arthur's Birthday cover
Developers
Living Books
Publishers
Retail Brøderbund
Retail Random House
Digital Wanderful Interactive Storybooks
Digital Jordan Freeman Group
Engines
Mohawk Engine[1]
Release dates
Windows 3.x 1994
Mac OS (Classic) 1994
Windows 1997
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Relaxed
Perspectives Cinematic camera
Controls Point and select
Genres Interactive book
Art styles Cartoon
Themes North America, Contemporary
Series Arthur (Living Books)
Arthur's Birthday on MobyGames
Arthur (Living Books)
Subseries of Arthur by Marc Brown
Subseries of Living Books
Arthur's Birthday 1994
Arthur's Teacher Trouble 1994
Arthur's Reading Race 1997
Arthur's Computer Adventure 1998
D.W. the Picky Eater 1998

Arthur's Birthday is a singleplayer cinematic camera interactive book game in the Arthur (Living Books) series.

Key points

The original 1994 release can be played on ScummVM.[1]

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows 3.x
Windows
Mac OS
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows
Demos are available from ScummVM.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2471140/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2471140/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Video

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Brazilian Portuguese
Retail only.

Other information

API

ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using ScummVM.
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows 3.x
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 3.0
Processor (CPU) Intel i386
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 640x480 resolution, 256 colors
Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Mac OS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 6.0.7
Processor (CPU) Motorola 68020
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 256 colors


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Arthur's Birthday - ScummVM :: Wiki - last accessed on 2019-10-01