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* This was the entire plot of ''Tuneland'' with Howie Mandel.

* ''VideoGame/StayTooned'' also has this, but isn't very well done in some spots. [[spoiler: it's mainly there because you're looking for keys and the remote.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{StayTooned}}'' also has this, but isn't very well done in some spots. [[spoiler: it's mainly there because you're looking for keys and the remote.]]

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Ozzie}} Ozzie's World and Ozzie's Travels]]'' by Digital Impact were examples of this trope. In the former, the mini-games and experiments were accessible via holding down the shift key and clicking on items again whenever the little purple chest icon opened up.

* Many Dorling Kindersley games take the trope name literally, by animations being followed by a pop-up screen with educational information on the topic.

* Although ''VideoGame/MyLittlePonyFriendshipGardens'' is primarily a RaisingSim, it also contains elements of this.

* In the mid-90s to early 2000s, Infogrames and Big Tune New Media made and released a series of such games featuring Mercer Mayer's Literature/LittleCritter, and a couple with Mayer's lesser-known franchise Little Monster. The first titles were adapted straight from the books "Just Me and My Dad" and "Just Me and My Mom," along with "The Smelly Mystery" (featuring Little Monster [[PrivateDetective Private Eye]]), an original Little Critter story "Just Me and My Grandpa") and two non-storybook click-and-point games: "Little Critter and the Great Race" and "Little Monster Private Eye and the Mummy Mystery."

* The ''VideoGame/DisneysAnimatedStorybook'' series from Creator/{{Disney Interactive|Studios}} were this--they took story versions of various Disney properties and combined them with these various animations, plus a few simple mini-games. A few had larger "secondary" games, such as a ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' game that also included a coloring book/storybook maker.

* The obscure SNES game ''Motoko-chan's Wonder Kitchen'': It's a game that uses the SNES mouse and was released only in Japan, but not sold—it was a free AdvertisementGame published by condiment maker Ajinomoto that focuses on its mayonnaise. Most remarkable about this game is that it was developed by Pax Softnica, a ''Nintendo second-party'' better known for its games based on ''Anime/{{Hamtaro}}''. As a result, it has far more polish than you would expect from an Advergame.

* The ''VideoGame/Explorapedia'' games allowed you to visit various settings in either nature or America, where you could click on certain elements for a fun animation before getting the in-game equivalent of a web page appear that talks about what you just clicked on. In the Options menu you could disable the pop-up, turning the game into one of these.

* Before he worked on [[VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper Parappa]], Rodney Greenblat made one of these, called ''VideoGame/{{Dazzeloids}}''.

* The games based on ''TheMagicSchoolBus'' series, especially the human body and solar system.

* The "Animated Storybooks" series from Disney Interactive were this--they took story versions of various Disney properties and combined them with these various animations, plus a few simple mini-games. A few had larger "secondary" games, such as a ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' game that also included a coloring book/storybook maker.

* ''VideoGame/{{StayTooned}}'' also has this, but isn't very well done in some spots. [[spoiler: it's mainly there because you're looking for keys and the remote.]]

* The ''VideoGame/LivingBooks'' series, based off of children's books, like ''Literature/{{Arthur}}'', ''Literature/LittleCritter'' or ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears''. Also the TropeMaker, as these debuted in late 1992 and the only other company that made such games that year (Creator/HumongousEntertainment) has gone on record saying this series was where they got the inspiration to follow suit.

* This was the entire plot of ''Toonland'' with Howie Mandel.

** ''Holy Grail'' also had a bit of this too.

* The ''VideoGame/LivingBooks'' series, based off of children's books, like ''Literature/{{Arthur}}'', ''Literature/LittleCritter'' or ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears''. Possibly the UrExample, as these debuted in late 1992 and the only other company that made such games that year (Creator/HumongousEntertainment) has gone on record saying this series was where they got the inspiration to follow suit.

* The ''VideoGame/LivingBooks'' series, based off of children's books, like ''Literature/{{Arthur}}'', ''Literature/LittleCritter'' or ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears''.

* Pick a HumongousEntertainment game. Any game. Except maybe the ''VideoGame/BackyardSports'' games. They referred to these as "click points".

* ''VideoGame/{{StayTooned}}'' also has this, but isn't very well done in some spots. [[spoiler: it's mainly there because you're looking for keys and the remote.]]
* In the VideoGame/Pajamas am games, you can click on random stuff for silly animations. For ecample, I'm ''No Need to Hide When it's Dark Outside'', clicking the appliances in Darkness' kitchen will cause them to start singing and dancing.
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* The ''LivingBooks'' series, based off of children's books, like ''Literature/{{Arthur}}'', ''Literature/LittleCritter'' or ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears''.

* Pick a HumongousEntertainment game. Any game. Except maybe the ''BackyardSports'' games. They referred to these as "click points".
** The ''PuttPutt'' series
** The ''FreddiFish'' series
** The ''SpyFox'' series

** The ''JuniorFieldTrips'' series
** The ''BigThinkers'' series

** The ''PajamaSam'' series

* The "Animated Storybooks" series from Disney Interactive were this--they took story versions of various Disney properties and combined them with these various animations, plus a few simple mini-games. A few had larger "secondary" games, such as a ''Disney/LittleMermaid'' game that also included a coloring book/storybook maker.

* The indie game ''VideoGame/{{Windosill}}''.