Mixed-Up Mother Goose

Mixed-Up Mother Goose
1987 version cover art
Developer(s)Sierra On-Line
Coktel Vision
Publisher(s)Sierra On-Line
Designer(s)Roberta Williams
Programmer(s)David Slayback
Artist(s)Gerald Moore
Composer(s)Amenda Lombardo
EngineAGI (1987)
SCI (1990/91/95)
Platform(s)MS-DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Atari ST, Windows, Mac, FM Towns
ReleaseNovember 1987[1]
Genre(s)Educational, Adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Roberta Williams' Mixed-Up Mother Goose is an educational adventure game released by Sierra On-Line in 1987. It was the first multimedia game released on CD-ROM in 1991.[2] A second game in the series, Mixed-Up Fairy Tales, was released in 1991.

The storyline of the game is very simple, as is common in games for children. One night, while preparing for bed, a child (which is the player's avatar) is sent into the dreamlike world of Mother Goose, who desperately needs help. All the nursery rhymes in the land have gotten mixed up, with none of the inhabitants possessing the items necessary for their rhyme to exist. And so, the child will find themselves helping Humpty Dumpty find a ladder to scramble onto a wall, bringing the little lamb back to Mary and seeking out a pail for Jack and Jill, among others.

  1. ^ "Sierra Newsletter, The - Volume 1 Number 2 (1987)". 1987. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
  2. ^ "NG Alphas: King's Quest: Mask of Eternity". Next Generation. No. 30. Imagine Media. June 1997. p. 72.