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Peazjelly
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posted 04-01-2025 02:57 AM
Smurf Play & Learn - ColecoVision
Smurf Play & Learn
Published by: Coleco
Age Rating : Everyone
Target Date : 1982
Status : Unreleased
Platform: ColecoVision
Smurf Play & Learn
"Smurf Play & Learn" is an educational game intended for the ColecoVision console featuring the Smurfs. Catalog #2444.
The game is designed to focus on basic learning tasks like addition and subtraction, aimed at younger players. However, it never progressed beyond the planning stages and remains an unreleased title in the ColecoVision library.
The catalog description reads:
This educational cartridge with Smurf™ characters bring basic learning concepts to the screen and encourages children to solve the problems and situations. Their zany antics make learning fun!
Development and Cancelation
Coleco advertised "Smurf Play & Learn" in promotional literature during the early 1980s, riding the wave of the Smurf franchise's popularity. Preliminary artwork was created, suggesting some initial effort. However, the game was never fully developed or released.
Gameplay Concept
Though no official version exists, the concept for "Smurf Play & Learn" apparently involves players solving educational challenges to guide Smurfs back to their village, away from Gargamel's Castle. It is meant to blend the familiar Smurf universe with learning activities, distinguishing it from the action-oriented "Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle" or the creative "Smurf Paint & Play Workshop", both of which were released.
Availability
Since "Smurf Play & Learn" was never made, it could never be bought or played. No cartridges, prototypes, or ROMs are known to exist.
Legacy
The non-release of "Smurf Play & Learn" highlights the challenges of the early video game industry, where ambitious ideas often fell victim to shifting market conditions or corporate vicissitudes.
A similarly titled game did eventually make it out the door, however: The Smurfs Learn and Play for the Nintendo Switch. "Learn and Play" is an fun educational game just like "Play & Learn" was meant to be. Although 41 years is a long time to wait, Nintendo's "Learn and Play" was worth it!
Trivia
This game features the same Coleco catalog number (#2444) as another unreleased ColecoVision Smurf game, Papa Smurf's Treasure Hunt.
Coleco refers to their Kid Vid series of games as Play 'N Learn cartridges.
See Smurf Play & Learn gallery section here.
 Smurf Video Games Guide
The Smurfs Video Games List
 Play a Smurf Game Now!
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Posts: 434 | From: SC | Registered: Feb 2010
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Vic George The ND Guy
Super Smurf
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posted 04-01-2025 04:00 AM
The Smurfs: Play & Learn game for ColecoVision (the original idea) was loosely based on that of Mattel's similar games for the Intellivision based on the 1970s version of The Electric Company.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
Posts: 4088 | From: Westfield, MA | Registered: Mar 2003
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