The cover art for the first game in the series; Lets Make Friends.

PC Play & Learn: Learning Fun with Dan and Whizzo (commonly abbreviated to PC Play & Learn) was a series of British Point-and-click adventure educational software game produced by International Masters Publishers in association with act-two, and released throughout the early to mid-2000s, delivered as part of a subscription. In these games, you would play with four dinosaurs, Dan, his older sister, Pink's friend Delilah, and Dan's pet, Whizzo. The series would come in separate CD-ROM discs in the subscription, along with a booklet and a mini binder.[1] The series was relatively obscure until popular YouTube user tamago2474 featured it in a video for April Fool's Day in 2018, creating a renewed interest in the series for a short period of time.

Gameplay

In the games, you would play with the dinosaur characters in the Play Zone (later the Tree House), learning basic skills like numbers and counting, music, letters and the alphabet, and more. Along the way you would collect dinosaur egg pieces, and collecting four would grant access to a special Dinosaurs for that disc (e.g. Sportysaurus in "Let's Make Friends"). Each disc would have a different theme, like "Under the Sea".

Characters

Main

  • Dan – A green dinosaur, also one of the main characters of the series. He was three until "Birthday Surprise!" when he was four.
  • Pink – A pink dinosaur, and Dan's big sister. She can be a bit bossy and annoying.
  • Delilah – An orange dinosaur, and Dan and Pink's friend. She is much taller than them.
  • Whizzo – A pinkish-red pterodactyl-like bird, he is Dan's pet. He spends most of the time flying around. He doesn’t speak, English, but he squawks.

Friends

  • Dippy
  • Sissy
  • Henry
  • Troy
  • Maisie
  • Alice
  • Tiny Dino – Delilah’s pet, who is very good at jumping. and even won 1st place for it in a pet show. mentioned in perfect pets.
  • Monty – A bus driver. His only known physical appearance is in the story featured in the "Wheels Go Round" book.
  • Baby D – A giant pale green dinosaur, only his feet are visible. He spends most of the time running around. His name was first mentioned in "Under the Sea".

List of titles

  1. Let's Make Friends
  2. Under the Sea
  3. Perfect Pets
  4. Wheels Go Round
  5. Green and Growing
  6. Birthday Surprise
  7. Wild Animals
  8. Outer Space
  9. Going Shopping
  10. At the Beach
  11. Jobs People Do
  12. In the Park
  13. Little Beasts and Bugs
  14. Fun and Games
  15. Bedtime
  16. On the Farm
  17. Up, Up and Away!
  18. Happy Birthday, Pink!
  19. Hot and Sunny
  20. Our Five Senses
  21. Fairground Fun
  22. B-R-R-R! It's Freezing
  23. Let's Pretend
  24. Rain and Shine
  25. Painting Pictures
  26. Birds of a Feather
  27. School Days
  28. A New Baby
  29. Dinosaurs
  30. Museum Adventure
  31. Kings and Queens
  32. Long, Long Ago
  33. Calendars
  34. Sun and Moon

References

  1. ↑ Macromedia (2000), PC Play and Learn #1 (Demo), retrieved 2021-11-15
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