lucinda
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Post by lucinda on Nov 9, 2013 21:48:50 GMT 1
This is my favourite horse game, unfortunately it only runs on OLD Windows PC machines, and so I have lost it through upgrading to a good computer. In the game you care for and ride a show jumper horse, and get taught about horse care by stable hand Sarah. The best bit is the key pad controlled X-country and Showjumping games. There is a practice level, which you need, as (if you are really bad at computer games like me) you can get used to the steering - going fater and slower, left right, and jumping. There are various levels of competition and you can play a multi player game. The competitions have realistic looking show jumps, or X-country jumps, as well as catchy music and commentry. I completed some of the show jumping, though it is quite tough with penalties for refusals, knock-downs and time. In X-country it is very easy to get disquaalified by going slightly off the track, and for this reason I never finished the course despite numerous attempts. The commentry is quite funny 'and they are just coming down all over the place!', 'She'll be terribly dissapointed!', 'such a big powerful horse!' and of course 'and, yes she's been disqualified!'. I'd love to know if anyone else who enjoyed this game knows of anything similar, which will run on a Mac. We did try a Pippa Funnel game, but it had a rather convaluted story, and not enough equine action!
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Post by trixiepony on Nov 9, 2013 23:55:36 GMT 1
I have a Mac I know off 3 horsey games I can play on it 1 is more a kids learning about horses game think it's my horse and me. 2 planet horse I love this game and the contrails arn't that hard or I woodnt be abul to play it. And 3 oh dear will have to go look on Mac see what caled but I haven't got in to this one as much love the graficks thow. The iPhones have lots off horse games if eny one on here had a iPhone.
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Post by trixiepony on Nov 10, 2013 2:58:23 GMT 1
The last one is secret of the Magic Crystals I'm not that into it but it may be somone else's cup off tea.
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Post by Claire on Nov 10, 2013 12:53:56 GMT 1
I've got the Mary King one somewhere but have never played it. Is it only playable up to windows XP? If you are a little computer savvy you can install windows XP as a virtual second operating system on your PC which would enable you to play it and any other games, applications etc which dont work with windows 7 onwards. I have done this on mine as I had a lot of old Word Publisher files which would not open on Windows 7. I might have a go at the Mary King game now as it sounds good.
A while back I got 3 horsy games which originally came from the Stabenfeldt 'Pony Club' they were pretty good but I'd have to check up on the names and if they were suitable for windows 7.
EDIT - duh just realised you said you had a Mac now lucinda so scratch what I said - but someone else may want to try the virtual operating thing if they would like to use older games and such so I'll not delete the post.
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lucinda
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Post by lucinda on Nov 10, 2013 20:33:45 GMT 1
I'll have a look at some of those games mentioned. I seem to remember that mary king was only playable up to XP ( I haven't bee able to play it for a bout 3 years and even then I was using ancient soft ware!) , but I might be wrong. I know it got harder and harder to get our machines to have the right software. I think there is also a newer Mary King game, but again is only for PCs.
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Post by trixiepony on Nov 12, 2013 23:56:05 GMT 1
Havn't herd off the Pippa Funnel game is that a Mac or windows game?
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lucinda
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Post by lucinda on Nov 20, 2013 20:44:08 GMT 1
It is for Windows. It is made by Ubisoft and is called 'Pippa Funnell Take the Reins.' Bits were quite good, but a lot of it was adventure/story based, and you have to solve lots of things before moving onwards with the game, and quite a lot of the tasks were impossible. My partner (who is a programmer and can write games) even got really stuck with it. It was based in a sort of residential riding school as a far as I remember. It seems to be widely available on Amazon. I think my copy went to a charity shops years ago!
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Post by Claire on Nov 20, 2013 23:12:52 GMT 1
I must say I am pretty hopeless with these games too. I think once you get over the age of about 16 you lose some sort of instinct for them!
Been having a clear out and just found a game called Ellen Whitaker The Horse Mystery, again its for windows and only up to XP. Says it has 'puzzles to solve' as well as looking after horses so I'd probably be mo good at it! has anyone played this one?
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lucinda
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Post by lucinda on Nov 25, 2013 20:50:56 GMT 1
Not heard of that one, I agree they seem to be aimed at under 16s, and unlike books don't keep their appeal!
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Post by trixiepony on Nov 25, 2013 23:29:40 GMT 1
Sounds like you wood like my favorite Planet Horse here'd a link www.bigfishgames.com/download-games/9562/mac/planet-horse/index.htmlYou can get it state trew the App Store on your computer as well. There is no story line. You just get your horse and ride and groom your horse you can show jump do cross country and trail ride where thay give you a quest to do like picking up the litter not Dificalt as you just ride over it and it gets picked up.
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Post by haffyfan on Nov 26, 2013 20:34:03 GMT 1
I remember the mary king game..i erm nicked it off my little sister years ago now. I was rubbish at it mind! I'll stick to playing howrse for now. I was really bad at steering it round the Xc/getting over jumps and constantly left the arena in dressage (hmmm that rings true to real life!)
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