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My Little Pony Friendship Gardens (PC)

Stock image of the later release

Release date: 1998

Published by: Hasbro Interactive Ltd. ^[1]

Developed by: Artech Studios, Inc.

Genre: Raising simulation

CD-ROM game
Works with Windows 95/98, XP (newer PCs require an emulator to run it without issues as it tends to crash)

If you ever wanted your own personal pony, but never had the money or stable space to maintain it, My Little Pony: Friendship Gardens CD-ROM offers the chance to create, groom and play with one. The virtual pastures of Ponyland consist of two main locations: the farm and the village.

At the farm, you learn how to take care of your pony, using a hairbrush, medicine bottle, food grown in your garden, and a juice box. You'll need to keep the pony nursery tidy and exercise your pony in the paddock by placing obstacles and enticing your it to jump and explore the land. Once in the village, you can visit other ponies at Ivy's Beauty Salon, Light Heart's Game Cottage, Sundance's Dance Studio, and Morning Glory's Schoolhouse.

The beauty salon offers a chance to dress up your pony, take pictures, and style hair, while the dance studio lets you play a dancing memory game (sequencing). In the game cottage, activities include tic-tac-hoof (tic-tac-toe played with Xs and horseshoes), switch puzzles (rearranging pieces of a puzzle to make a whole picture), coloring pages, a baking game, cake decorating and five pony books with information about the residents of Friendship Gardens. The schoolhouse contains a memory game and an art board (complete with selectable backgrounds and stamps).