Berenstain Bears’ Camping Adventure est un jeu vidéo de plate-forme sorti en 1993 sur GameGear et Mega Drive. Le jeu a été développé par Realtime Associates et édité par Sega.
Le jeu s’inspire de la série pour enfant La Famille Berenstain.
History
Stanley Berenstain and Janice Grant met in 1941, on their first day of drawing class at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, where they formed an immediate bond.[3][4][5] After being separated during World War II, during which Stan served in the Army as a medical illustrator and Janice worked as a drafter for the United States Army Corps of Engineers and an aircraft riveter, they were reunited and married in 1946.[3] While initially working as art teachers, the Berenstains pursued a joint career in cartooning and gradually found success working together on illustrations, humorous sketches and cover art for publications including The Saturday Review of Literature, Collier’s, McCall’s, Good Housekeeping, and The Saturday Evening Post.[3][4][6] In 1951, they published Berenstains’ Baby Book,[7] a humorous how-to aimed at adults and based on their experiences raising their infant son Leo in downtown Philadelphia.[5] Nearly two dozen other books followed; described by Stan as “cartoon essays“, the titles included Marital Blitz, How To Teach Your Children About Sex Without Making A Complete Fool of Yourself,[8] and Have A Baby, My Wife Just Had A Cigar![9][5]
In the early 1960s, the Berenstains sought to enter the field of writing for young children.[3] For their first children’s book, they chose to cast bears as the main characters, primarily because “bears are furry and appealing.”[3][5] Stan also observed that female bears are “terrifyingly good mothers” while the males are “lousy fathers”.[5] (The Berenstains did not consider the similarity to their last name in making the choice)[5][10] In their 2002 memoir, they said that they knew from the start that their book would “have three characters: a bluff, overenthusiastic Papa Bear who wore bib overalls and a plaid shirt and …a wise Mama Bear who wore a blue dress with white polka dots … and a bright, lively little cub.”[6]
The Berenstains’ first bear story, titled Freddy Bear’s Spanking, arrived on the desk of Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, who had found phenomenal success in 1957 with The Cat in the Hat and was now editor of a Random House series called “Beginner Books“.[10] Geisel took on the manuscript, but spent the next two years ruthlessly challenging the Berenstains to make improvements to the writing and structure and to connect with their characters on a deeper level.[1][10][11] He asked questions such as “What kind of pipe tobacco does Papa Bear smoke?” and urged them to analyze the relationship between Papa Bear and Small Bear, to which Stan responded, mystified, “Well, he’s the father, and he’s the son”; however, Jan attributed the inspiration for the characters’ dynamic to the 1931 film The Champ.[3][5]
