The game saves automatically on exit so by selecting their name each player can pick up and continue their adventure any time. The opening screen allows for several children to enter their name and solve the mystery separately. There are three difficulty levels, Spooky, Spookier and Spooktacular so that the puzzles and games are simpler at the Spooky end and a few notches higher in difficulty for Spooktacular. As it turns out a mummy has taken up residence in the pyramid and it's not sleeping peacefully in a sarcophagus, it's walking around saying 'Boo'! Who could be behind this plan to chase people away, and why? Scooby Doo: Jinx at the Sphinx is a point and click adventure for ages 5 - 10. Velma has arranged to meet her cousin but where is she ? there's a mystery to solve. Switch to Scooby, Velma, Fred, Daphne and Shaggy arriving at the pyramid.
As she approaches a huge, black, ghostly figure looms at her back.
Then, after being startled by some mean looking bats, she finds 'it', a circular motif. To be sure, it's a vibrant, and colourful, pure Saturday morning TV fair as Thelma, Velma's Egyptologist cousin makes her way through the darkened passages of a pyramid, her lantern lighting up the paintings on the walls. Scooby Doo: Jinx at the Sphinx is the 3rd Scooby Doo outing for the PC, in fact, and though it's entertaining, it could have gone a few steps further. With its clues and conundrums and detecting mixed in with fun filled frights, there's plenty of scope. Review by Rosemary Young (June, 2006) It's not surprising that Scooby Doo migrated from the TV screen and jumped right onto the computer screen as a children's adventure game, because the TV series had some good potential for adventuring.
Developer/Publisher: The Learning Company
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