History VideoGame / GrannysGarden

A 1983 EdutainmentGame by 4Mation for the UsefulNotes/BBCMicro, ''Granny's Garden'' was most commonly played in British primary schools up until the early 1990s. The BBC Micro is gone from the classroom, but 4Mation is still around, and so developed updated versions of the game for Windows and Platform/MacOS X to use. (There was also an updated version for the Platform/AcornArchimedes, the successor to the UsefulNotes/BBCMicro.)

A 1983 EdutainmentGame by 4Mation for the UsefulNotes/BBCMicro, ''Granny's Garden'' was most commonly played in British primary schools up until the early 1990s. The BBC Micro is gone from the classroom, but 4Mation is still around, and so developed updated versions of the game for Windows and UsefulNotes/MacOS X to use. (There was also an updated version for the Usefulnotes/AcornArchimedes, the successor to the UsefulNotes/BBCMicro.)

* FridgeLogic: {{Invoked}} -- the manual suggests "possible explanations for some of the mysteries of the
program" as further discussion topics:

* UnwinnableByDesign: On the other hand, sometimes you'll decline to pick it up and you can't win without it.

* FetchQuest

* GottaCatchThemAll

* NeverSayDie: When the evil witch catches you, she sends you back home. Mind you, this applies only to the player character you can kill a snake by throwing an apple at it.

* NeverSayDie: When the evil witch catches you, she sends you back home. Mind you, this applies only to the player character — the [=LPer=] above experiences a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment after somehow killing a snake by throwing an apple at it.

* [[GameOverMan Game Over Woman]]: The Witch.

* [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma Wanton Cruelty to the Common Apostrophe]]: You'd think a [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] educational title would be more careful to avoid things like "It's mouth is open wide."

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: "I am the Talking Toadstool!"

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[[caption-width-right:250:I will send you home at once! [[AndYourLittleDogToo And your little dog too!]]]]

* InferredHolocaust: When you send the bee to help you get past the dog, it happily announces that it'll sting the dog on the bottom. A six-year-old schoolchild doesn't consider the implications of this, but when you know a bit more about biology you'll know you're sending the poor bee out on a [[SuicideAttack suicide mission]].

* RainbowSpeak: "I am the King and Queen's [[color:blue:Blue]] Raven. I have [[color:purple:Magic]] Powers."

* PasswordSave: All of them are geographical themed (mountain, river, etc.)

* PasswordSave

Yes you can!\\

Yes you do!

-->Can you see a cave?
-->>No
-->Yes you can!
-->Do you want to go inside?
-->>No
-->Yes you do!

* LetsPlay: [[http://www.viddler.com/explore/Malorie/videos/3/ Here.]]

* KarmaHoudini: Despite being the main antagonst, the witch never receives any kind of punishment for her actions

* KarmaHoudini : Despite being the main antagonst, the witch never receives any kind of punishment for her actions

A 1983 EdutainmentGame by 4Mation for the UsefulNotes/BBCMicro, ''Granny's Garden'' was most commonly played in British primary schools up until the early 1990s. The BBC Micro is gone from the classroom, but 4Mation is still around, and so developed updated versions of the game for Windows and UsefulNotes/MacOS X to use.

A 1983 EdutainmentGame by 4Mation for the UsefulNotes/BBCMicro, ''Granny's Garden'' was most commonly played in British primary schools up until the early 1990s. The BBC Micro is gone from the classroom, but 4Mation is still around, and so developed updated versions of the game for Windows and {{Mac OS X}} to use.

* [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma Wanton Cruelty to the Common Apostrophe]]: You'd think a {{BBC}} educational title would be more careful to avoid things like "It's mouth is open wide."

A 1983 EdutainmentGame by 4Mation for the BBCMicro, ''Granny's Garden'' was most commonly played in British primary schools up until the early 1990s. The BBC Micro is gone from the classroom, but 4Mation is still around, and so developed updated versions of the game for Windows and {{Mac OS X}} to use.

A 1983 EdutainmentGame by 4Mation for the BBCMicro, ''Granny's Garden'' was most commonly played in British primary schools up until the early 1990s. The BBC Micro is gone from the classroom, but 4Mation is still around, and so developed updated versions of the game for Windows and Mac OS X to use.

The story is very simple. You are visiting your grandmother whose garden contains a magic tree, which upon finding transports you to the Kingdom of the Mountains, where the king and queen of the kingdom have been locked away by an evil witch who kidnapped all of their children. It is up to the player, with the assistance of a magical raven, to rescue all six children back to their family.

* ButThouMust: What is probably the game's main claim to notability is the following gloriously egregious use of this Trope almost immediately after starting the game...and it is the first of many.

* GameOverMan: The Witch.

* [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma Wanton Cruelty To The Common Apostrophe]]: You'd think a BBC educational title would be more careful to avoid things like "It's mouth is open wide."