Arthur's Teacher Trouble (game)

The front cover of Arthur's Teacher Trouble

Arthur's Teacher Trouble is a Living Books animated storybook computer game. It was first released in 1993, and based upon the 1986 book. It was re-released a quantity of times to become compatible with the later operating systems. The latest version was labeled "Windows XP Compatible".

Plot

See Arthur's Teacher Trouble

Differences from the book

• Many details were removed in order to simplify animation process.
• On the first page, there were two classroom doors with the second one being shown 1/4. Also, the perspective a few inches higher where peoples' feet could never be seen.
• The word "FIRE ALARM" on the red school bell was removed in order to simplify animation process.
• The things on the bulletin board in the hallway are different, in contrast to the book.
• On the second page, Prunella was looking in her locker before closing it and telling everyone she had Mr. Ratburn when she was in third grade; although in the book, she did not go through her locker.
• In Arthur's imagination of being put to death row, he had on red and white horizontal stripes instead of black and white stripes.
• In Arthur's imagination of Mr. Ratburn as a vampire, Arthur's eyes twirl, his sweater was teal instead of yellow, and the background was blue instead of gray.
• The names on the SPELLING AWARD trophy were removed.
• When Arthur came home from school, Jane was mixing the cookie dough; although in the book, she was shown to open up the oven to take out the cookies.
• While Arthur is doing working on his project of Africa using cookie dough, he is wearing blue pajamas like in the cartoon that aired later; but in the book, he was wearing yellow and red striped pajamas.
• In Arthur's room, a green stuffed dragon was added to his work desk.
• Also, in Arthur's room, a record player is in the shelf that replaces a box of books, a tall cylinder can, and a toy car.
• D.W. can be seen giving Arthur words to study while he's in his tree house, and she tells him that their mom found more words for him to study; but the text never said in the book about D.W. giving Arthur more words to study.
• On Page 11, when the player clicks on the Next Page arrow, Mr. Ratburn says "Pencils down, please. Pass your papers to the front," which he never said in the book.
• Sue Ellen has blonde hair instead of orange that the book illustrated her.
• The basket of fruits that were from Muffy that said "FOR: MR. RATBURN, FROM: MUFFY CROSSWIRE" was shortened to "FROM: MUFFY".
• The unnamed rabbit girl has brown hair instead of gray.
• While Arthur is in the spellathon, he was wearing a red sweater instead of a yellow one, and a blue bowtie instead of a red one.
• In the scene where Mr. Ratburn corrects his students' spelling tests, Fern was standing next to Francine; although in the book, Fern was behind the rabbit girl.

See Also

• Arthur's Birthday (computer game)