Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Madeline's neighbor, who takes care of animals, is about to lose her home, but staging a puppet show could bring in the money needed so he can pay the rent to keep living there with his animals. Madeline and various kids journey through Paris in the neighborhood of her boarding school with different learning activities presented as mini-games and collecting items such as curtains, a cape, a chain, bread, gumballs, a balloon and puppets for the show along the way.
Madeline and the Magnificent Puppet Show is an educational game for children aged five and up. It is based on the 1939 Madeline book by Ludwig Bemelmans, which also spawned a media franchise and a US TV series. The game was released to coincide with the premiere of the animated TV series The New Adventures of Madeline.
After entering a name the player chooses to play the game with French or Spanish words. Madeline can freely explore the different environments and clicking hotspots triggers short animations in the background. She meets various characters she can talk to. Madeline learns new words in French or Spanish by spelling them and then plays a matching game in the classroom to practice them. With an artist in the street she can freely paint backdrops for the show. At the print shop Madeline creates invitations for the show and decorates them. A large part of the game plays out as a simple adventure game with minor puzzles too. It ends with the show being performed.
Skills that are developed are creativity (painting, design and sticker activities), problem solving (critical thinking, logic and memory), spelling, typing, and vocabulary (300 new words in French, English and Spanish). The game also lists cooperation, kindness & compassion as skills that are built.
-- Game info --
Published by Creative Wonders LLC
Developed by Vortex Media Arts
Released 1995
Also For Macintosh
Genre Adventure, Educational
Perspective 3rd-person (Other)
Visual Fixed / flip-screen
Gameplay Puzzle elements
Interface Point and select
Educational Foreign language, Graphics / art, Math / logic, Reading / writing, Typing
Setting
-- Preceding information from Mobygames --
-- Video creator notes --
I ran this game on Windows 95 because the game came out around the timeframe that people would be using that operating system. It however runs with less MIDI glitches on Windows 98 for me. Also, please don't quit the game 😬. Your progress will be lost, even if you opt to load an old game.
Game guide on Steam: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=853515808
Mentioned in 3D Atlas '98 Demo:
Kids join Madeline on a learning journey through Paris to help put on a puppet show and build skills in: Problem solving, Typing, Creativity, Spelling, Vocabulary - more than 300 new words, Cooperation, Kindness & Compassion.
-- Timestamps --
0:00 Video intro
0:10 Game intro (warning: loud)
1:16 Menu screen
2:08 Game story
4:16 Outside Madeline's house
7:02 Inside Madeline's house
7:30 Learn words in French/Matching game
17:39 Music room
21:20 Upstairs Madeline's house
26:37 Kitchen Madeline's house
32:32 Mr Jevenier House
35:57 The Bridge
36:57 Painting Backdrop
44:50 The Park
48:17 The Town & Print Shop
57:20 Wandering around
57:59 Pepreto's House
1:01:46 Wandering around, quitting game
1:03:05 Print Shop 2
1:04:49 The Park 2
1:08:30 Attic Madeline's house
1:11:14 Making the puppets
1:13:01 Puppet / circus show
1:19:42 Game outro
1:20:08 Game credits
-- Game Credits --
Madeline was published by Creative Wonders
Executive Producer Michael Pole
Producer Deborah Cook
Original Design Laurie Rose Bauman, Annie Fox
Madeline was developed by Vortex Media Arts
Windows Programmer Morgan Roarty
Macintosh Programmer Michael K. McCarty
Director Fritz Bronner
Animation Director Gabi Payn
Art Director Stephan Martinière
Creative Director Chris Takami
Senior Producer Rick Giolito
Producer Steve Nguyen
Tools Development Tom Chamberlain
Voice Talent
Narrated by Christopher Plummer
Madeline Tracey Lee Smyth
Featuring Anthony J. Bond Jr., Garry Chalk, Ian James Corlett, Vanessa King, Louise Vallance
Creative Wonders and Staff
Assistant Producers Jeffrey Love, Kathy Patel
Product Marketing Jennifer Rush
Technical Director Lee Powell
Specialty Dialogue Reed Shelly
Voice Directors Maddy Bascom, Deborah Matlovsky
Quality Assurance Manager Tim LeTourneau
Quality Assurance Testers Dan Dunn, Christopher Garcia, Kedar Roy
Educational Consultants Ellen Bialo (of IESD), Jay Sivin-Kachala (of IESD), Gina Funaro
Music and SFX Jack Levy
Additional Music Wayne Kozak
Recording Studios Koko/8th Ave. Sound - Vancouver - Canada, The Audio Department - New York
-- Settings and application information --
Used emulator: PCem v17
CPU: Pentium 66
OS: Windows 95
#1990s #Nostalgia #Windows95
Website: nostalgiarealm.com
Madeline's neighbor, who takes care of animals, is about to lose her home, but staging a puppet show could bring in the money needed so he can pay the rent to keep living there with his animals. Madeline and various kids journey through Paris in the neighborhood of her boarding school with different learning activities presented as mini-games and collecting items such as curtains, a cape, a chain, bread, gumballs, a balloon and puppets for the show along the way.
Madeline and the Magnificent Puppet Show is an educational game for children aged five and up. It is based on the 1939 Madeline book by Ludwig Bemelmans, which also spawned a media franchise and a US TV series. The game was released to coincide with the premiere of the animated TV series The New Adventures of Madeline.
After entering a name the player chooses to play the game with French or Spanish words. Madeline can freely explore the different environments and clicking hotspots triggers short animations in the background. She meets various characters she can talk to. Madeline learns new words in French or Spanish by spelling them and then plays a matching game in the classroom to practice them. With an artist in the street she can freely paint backdrops for the show. At the print shop Madeline creates invitations for the show and decorates them. A large part of the game plays out as a simple adventure game with minor puzzles too. It ends with the show being performed.
Skills that are developed are creativity (painting, design and sticker activities), problem solving (critical thinking, logic and memory), spelling, typing, and vocabulary (300 new words in French, English and Spanish). The game also lists cooperation, kindness & compassion as skills that are built.
-- Game info --
Published by Creative Wonders LLC
Developed by Vortex Media Arts
Released 1995
Also For Macintosh
Genre Adventure, Educational
Perspective 3rd-person (Other)
Visual Fixed / flip-screen
Gameplay Puzzle elements
Interface Point and select
Educational Foreign language, Graphics / art, Math / logic, Reading / writing, Typing
Setting
-- Preceding information from Mobygames --
-- Video creator notes --
I ran this game on Windows 95 because the game came out around the timeframe that people would be using that operating system. It however runs with less MIDI glitches on Windows 98 for me. Also, please don't quit the game 😬. Your progress will be lost, even if you opt to load an old game.
Game guide on Steam: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=853515808
Mentioned in 3D Atlas '98 Demo:
Kids join Madeline on a learning journey through Paris to help put on a puppet show and build skills in: Problem solving, Typing, Creativity, Spelling, Vocabulary - more than 300 new words, Cooperation, Kindness & Compassion.
-- Timestamps --
0:00 Video intro
0:10 Game intro (warning: loud)
1:16 Menu screen
2:08 Game story
4:16 Outside Madeline's house
7:02 Inside Madeline's house
7:30 Learn words in French/Matching game
17:39 Music room
21:20 Upstairs Madeline's house
26:37 Kitchen Madeline's house
32:32 Mr Jevenier House
35:57 The Bridge
36:57 Painting Backdrop
44:50 The Park
48:17 The Town & Print Shop
57:20 Wandering around
57:59 Pepreto's House
1:01:46 Wandering around, quitting game
1:03:05 Print Shop 2
1:04:49 The Park 2
1:08:30 Attic Madeline's house
1:11:14 Making the puppets
1:13:01 Puppet / circus show
1:19:42 Game outro
1:20:08 Game credits
-- Game Credits --
Madeline was published by Creative Wonders
Executive Producer Michael Pole
Producer Deborah Cook
Original Design Laurie Rose Bauman, Annie Fox
Madeline was developed by Vortex Media Arts
Windows Programmer Morgan Roarty
Macintosh Programmer Michael K. McCarty
Director Fritz Bronner
Animation Director Gabi Payn
Art Director Stephan Martinière
Creative Director Chris Takami
Senior Producer Rick Giolito
Producer Steve Nguyen
Tools Development Tom Chamberlain
Voice Talent
Narrated by Christopher Plummer
Madeline Tracey Lee Smyth
Featuring Anthony J. Bond Jr., Garry Chalk, Ian James Corlett, Vanessa King, Louise Vallance
Creative Wonders and Staff
Assistant Producers Jeffrey Love, Kathy Patel
Product Marketing Jennifer Rush
Technical Director Lee Powell
Specialty Dialogue Reed Shelly
Voice Directors Maddy Bascom, Deborah Matlovsky
Quality Assurance Manager Tim LeTourneau
Quality Assurance Testers Dan Dunn, Christopher Garcia, Kedar Roy
Educational Consultants Ellen Bialo (of IESD), Jay Sivin-Kachala (of IESD), Gina Funaro
Music and SFX Jack Levy
Additional Music Wayne Kozak
Recording Studios Koko/8th Ave. Sound - Vancouver - Canada, The Audio Department - New York
-- Settings and application information --
Used emulator: PCem v17
CPU: Pentium 66
OS: Windows 95
#1990s #Nostalgia #Windows95
Website: nostalgiarealm.com
