Free Download Purble Place for Windows XP and Play Purble Place
What is Purble Place
Purble Place is a bundle of three mini educational and fun games included with every Windows Vista edition.
These three games included in Purble Place are Comfy Cakes, Purble Pairs, and
Purble Shop. These sub-games taking place in Purble Place will help
children to improve their mind and rememberings, learn colors, shapes, and patterns and solve simple problems in
logical ways and methods like eliminations while they are entertaining and having fun with lovely Purble Place
game characters.
   
For Windows Vista owners the Vista Games as well as Purble Place is ready to
play on the other hand if you are working with Windows XP, you have to download
Purble Place.
Actually Purble Place is as the name implies the place where the lovely Purbles
live and play games :) I liked the term Purble. Purbles are sweet little game
characters especially created for pre-school children. The Purble Place looks
like a small green town.
Purble Place Vista Game on Windows Vista
First of all, you can reach to Windows Vista Games by following the menu option
selecting on the Start Menu of Windows Vista: All Programs - Games
If Vista Games are not installed and are not present on your Vista computer, you
can install all Vista games available with every Vista edition by turning on the
Games Windows feature from the Programs and Features management control menu.
Just go to Start, then Control Panel, then open the Programs and Features screen
on the left. Drill down the list for the Games option. Click on the (+) sign to
turn windows features on or off. You can install all the games default
distributed and available with every Vista edtion by selecting all games. Or you
can only select the check mark beside the Purble Place to install or activate
only this game on your Vista computee Purble Place to install or activate
only this game on your Vista computer.
It is noteable that Purble Place is designed and created for Microsoft Windows
Vista editions. And the above activation or installation method is valid only
for Windows Vista. But since the game Purble Place is very loved by children and
desired to be available and downloadable for the Windows XP computers, people
have developed the emulations of the new Vista games and the Vista systems to
work on Windows XP.
Purble Place Download Links for Windows XP
There are two download links where you can free download Purble Place and play
Purble Place as well as
the other new Vista games.
For the Purble Place free download link go to the following online resources
and file share and download sites: 
http://rapidshare.com/files/36774632/Vista_Games_XP_Part_1.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/36793674/Vista_Games_XP_Part_2.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/36887592/Vista_Games_XP_Part_3.zip
I have gathered these installation files and the Vista.Emulation.DLL file from
the following blog owners. It is interesting that both are sharing the same post
:) and the download links. Thanks both of them since Purble Place is a new nice
and lovely game which children are getting crazy to play.
http://jonnyw1989.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/windows-vista-games-for-xp-update/
http://rakshits.wordpress.com/2007/06/23/windows-vista-games-for-xp-update/
How to install, configure and run Purble Place and Vista Games on Windows XP
So, first of all you should download the emulated game installation packs from
the shared download links.
Unzipping or unpacking the files using a WinZip or WinRar program. After you
have unziped the files, run the Purble Place.exe file. This will make an
installation for Purble Place game at folder "C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Games\Purble Place" on your WinXP computer. This will create
Vista Games program menu on the Start menu. But before running the Purble Place
on Windows XP computer there is still one more task to be completed. This task
or the last step before playing the Purble Place is copying the emulator dll
named Vista.Emulation.dll into the system32 system folder which resides at
C:\WINDOWS\system32 or
C:\WINNT\system32
Now you are ready to play Purple Place or the other Vista Games, Minesweeper,
Freecell, Hearts, Inkball, Shanghi, Solitaire, and the Spider Solitaire on your
computer and have fun these new games.
How to Play Purble Place
When you start and run the Purble Place, a startup splash screen will welcome
children players. The three games can be reached from this splash screen. You
can start the Purble Pairs by clicking on the school bus which will be activated
when you move your mouse over. Comfy Cakes game for children which is the most
played game among all three can be started by clicking on the bakery in the
middle of the screen. As similar to other two child games, Purble Shop vista
game can be played by clicking on the store on the right of the splash screen of
the Purble Place. You can play any of these three games from this visual menu
screen or use the menu on the top of the game screen.
Although we generally think that these games or the Purble Place is fun and educational for children,
you can alter and increase the the difficultly levels from beginner to difficult
levels and make any of these Purble Place games challenging for adults also.
Especially, the Purble Shop with increased difficulty levels, requires a high
logic processing for solving the Purble Shop puzzles.
Purble Pairs
One of the Purble Place games included in Windows Vista is the
Purble Pairs. Purble Pairs is actually another software version of the classic
memory game where players are trying to find matching pairs. You just select a
tile and click an other to find the missing matching tile. If you make a pair,
they are removed from the screen. The aim of the Purble Pairs is to remove all
the tiles from the screen by pairing all the tiles or the cards. This is a very
basic game with its concept and applications. But I found it very useful for a
child's educational improvements. Because you have to build a strategy to
remember the cards you have opened earlier, and at least try not to re-open a
card before its pair is opend on the board. I know it is easy for you but
believe me not for a 5 years old child.
Comfy Cakes
 Comfy Cakes is another children game included in Purble Place Vista game pack. I can say easily
that Comfy Cakes is the favourite game for elementary-school aged children among the three Purble
games. Your child plays the role of a bakery Purble whose purpose in the game is to
complete the given orders correctly on a cake production line. The orders for cakes are displayed on the
screen. The bakery children are supposed to select the maching cake pan, batter
and cake icing, etc. to make the ordered cake. If you fail, an angry Chief
Purble will show up on the screen.
Purble Shop
Purble Shop is my favorite game among the Purble Place games. Although the Purble Shop just like
the other Purble Place games looks like a child game you can turn it to a
challenging mind game for yourself also. Just like the other Purble Place games
you can configure the difficulty level for the Purble Shop also. Actually the
concept of the game Purble Shop is not new. I remember I played it when I was a
child. Then it was as finding the 5 stick with right colors and the right
available places.
When this concept is applied to Purble Shop the purpose seems to be guessing the the
right colors of features (hair, nose, mouth, accessories, etc.) of a Purble character.
And when you are finished the Purble game character who is hiding behind a
curtain will surprise you.
When you make guesses about the characteristics of the Purble behind the
curtain, you get clues about your guesses. For example, you find 2 of the
features right with their colors right also. And one more cue, you find only 1
color but on a wrong feature. You have to eliminate among colors and features of
the Purble and try to find out the correct ones.
So you try to find all the features with right colors to finish the round and
figure out how the hidden Purble behind the curtain looks like using the clues
gathering after each guess you do.
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