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Where's Waldo?

Your goal is to find Waldo in various pictures in order to progress through the game. The pictures are still images the size of the screen in the Easy and Practice levels. In the Medium and Hard levels, the…

1 September 1991

Where's Waldo? is a puzzle developed by Bethesda Softworks, released 1 September 1991 on Nintendo Entertainment System.

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What Where's Waldo? is

Where's Waldo? is a puzzle game developed by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1991. It was published by THQ. It is available on Nintendo Entertainment System only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Your goal is to find Waldo in various pictures in order to progress through the game. The pictures are still images the size of the screen in the Easy and Practice levels. In the Medium and Hard levels, the player has to scroll to the side to see the rest of the area. The directional buttons control a magnifying glass and once the player finds Waldo, they get to go to the next level and a new picture.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Where's Waldo? series

Where's Waldo? is the first of 13 entries we hold in the Where's Waldo? series. The next entry was The Great Waldo Search in 1992.

See all 13 Where's Waldo? games in release order →

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When did Where's Waldo? come out?
Where's Waldo? was released on 1 September 1991 for Nintendo Entertainment System.

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