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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Yes, that's where some of Phoenix Games' output comes from.]]
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4	''Familijny CD-Romek'' was a Polish series of [[Main/EdutainmentGame educational games]] aimed at children produced and published since September 1999 by Creator/{{Longsoft Multimedia}} based in Wrocław and distributed on CD-ROM for Platform/MicrosoftWindows.
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6	The games consist of specially-produced animated and slightly modernised adaptations on popular children's literary works (especially the ones well-known in Poland)[[note]]Similiar to what VideoGame/LivingBooks or VideoGame/DisneysAnimatedStorybook did before but without any interactive elements[[/note]], which are characterised by traditionally animated characters being put on [[TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects CGI backgrounds]] and minigames, puzzles and activities related to the stories.
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8	If you happen to be familiar in any way with Longsoft's adaptations (and you are from outside of Central and Eastern Europe), then you must have heard of the Platform/PlayStation2 ports released by Creator/PhoenixGames in association with Aqua Pacific (yes, that's not their own original product), which are mainly characterised by their poor quality English dubs.
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10	The series consists of:[[note]]Titles exported by Phoenix Games are marked in bold[[/note]]
11	* ''Brzydkie kaczątko'' (''The Ugly Duckling'')
12	* ''Czerwony kapturek'' (''The Little Red Riding Hood'')
13	* ''Dziewczynka z zapałkami'' (''The Little Match Girl'')
14	* '''''Jaś i Małgosia''''' (''Hansel and Gretel'')
15	* '''''Kopciuszek''''' (''Cinderella'')
16	* '''''Królewna Śnieżka i Siedmiu Wspaniałych''''' (''Snow White and the Magnificient Seven'', the English version's title was renamed to ''Snow White and the Seven Clever Boys'' probably to avoid [[ScrewedByTheLawyers a lawsuit from MGM]].)
17	* ''Królowa Śniegu'' (''The Snow Queen'')
18	* ''Księżniczka na ziarnku grochu'' (''The Princess and the Pea'')
19	* ''Nowe szaty cesarza'' (''The Emperor's New Clothes'')
20	* ''Opowieść wigilijna'' (''A Christmas Carol'')
21	* '''''Pinokio''''' (''Pinocchio'')
22	* '''''Piotruś Pan''''' (''Peter Pan'')
23	* ''Złota kaczka'' (''The Golden Duck'', a Polish folk tale)
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25	!!These games provide examples of:
26	* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: Most of these games feature 2D animated characters over [=CGI=] backgrounds and objects.
27	* AdaptationSpeciesChange: ''Snow White'' replaces the seven dwarfs with human boys.
28	%%* AfterTheEnd: Believe it or not, Longsoft's adaptation of ''The Little Match Girl'' is this [[https://merlin.pl/familijny-cd-romek-7-dziewczynka-z-zapalkami-longsoft-multimedia/1525006/ according to its description]].
29	* AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation: Longsoft's adaptation of ''A Christmas Carol'' is this with Scrooge and Cratchit as a wolf and a rabbit respectively.
30	* ArtShift: Some of games in the series deviate from the 2D characters/3D backgorunds combo for other art styles:
31	** Longsoft's ''The Little Matchmaker'' adaptation is made [[AllCGICartoon completely in CGI]].
32	** ''The Little Red Riding Hood'' is a Main/PuppetShow instead.
33	* TheArtifact: Remember that cartoony arrow which had to be moved with a controller on the [=PS=]2 ports? In the original [=PC=] version it was a cursor that was controlled with your mouse.
34	* BlackfaceStyleCaricature: Sonny from ''Snow White'', with his bright-red GagLips, looks like he walked straight out of a 1930's cartoon.
35	** To make matters worse, his name in the original Polish version was ''Blacky''.
36	* CompressedAdaptation: The animated shorts clock in at around 7 minutes each, so large sections of the story have to be left out. ''Pinocchio'' deserves an award for having a song that's less than a minute long covering ''everything'' (and we mean ''everything'': as soon as the song ends, it's back to the FramingDevice) after the first encounter with the Blue Fairy.
37	* GreenAesop: ''Peter Pan'' features the following line, in response to being told that Never Land looks very green:
38	--> '''Peter Pan:''' Yes. The Never Land residents care about nature. They love animals and don't destroy the gifts given to them by the earth.
39	* InformedAttribute: In ''Snow White and the Seven Clever Boys'', the narrator gives the boys sans Joseph Jr. various attributes, but we see little to none of them in action.
40	* SettingUpdate: ''Cinderella'' is set in modern times, with Cinderella driving a car to meet the prince at a nightclub. However, the narrator still calls these things a carriage and castle (which seems to be intentional, since he also mentions skyscrapers at the end).
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