The Great Fraggle Travel Race


This Shockwave game is a port from a Playskool system called Talk N' Play: an early example of interactive media. A special tape playing machine was sold as a toy, and different adventures were sold seperately. Each adventure consisted of a tape and a book. The machine was capable of isolating one of four channels on the adventure tape. Channels were isolated by the pressing of color-coded buttons, allowing for scenarios to have multiple outcomes.

I have emulated the Talk N' Play machine in Shockwave to run the Fraggle Rock adventure. All pictures from the adventure book have been scanned and included. With it's multiple channels, the game has over 40 minutes of straming audio and contains the voices of talented performers: Jerry Nelson, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Kathy Mullen, Karen Prell, and Richard Hunt. The game also contains two new songs. Unfortunately these weren't written by Balsam and Lee, and I feel that they don't live up to expectations.

For this game the characters were often de-evolved to suit pre-schoolers, so I take no responsibility for any lasting mental problems that arise from playing this game. But take my word for it... this is better than purple dinos.

Oh, and one other thing, don't complain to me about the screwed up Spiral Cavern. I didn't write the story!

The Great Fraggle Travel Race requires Macromedia Shockwave to run. If you see the green Solemn Mark of the Fraggle here (like the symbol at the top of the home page), you have shockwave installed. If you see a white box when the page is finished loading, you must install Shockwave.

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I tested the game on a 28.8 modem and the most fickle internet service on planet Earth and I normally don't have any breakup in the straming audio. I don't know how well a 14.4 will work with it. Internet traffic also has a large effect on how well the game runs. You may have to put your browser in full screen mode to avoid having to scroll up and down.

Approximate Download Times for Initial Game File
14.4K Modem22 Minutes
28.8K Modem11 Minutes
ISDN 64K4 Minutes
T1 or higherIf you didn't bother to read this sentence, you'd have downloaded the game already!




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