Party Time with Winnie the Pooh
Developer(s)	Doki Denki Studio
Publisher(s)	Electronic Arts (North America) SCEE (Europe)
Series	Winnie the Pooh
Platform(s)	PlayStation, Microsoft Windows
Release	2001 (North America) November 23, 2001 (Europe)
Genre(s)	Party
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Party Time with Winnie the Pooh (known as Pooh's Party Game: In Search of the Treasure in North America) is a Party video game released for the PlayStation and Microsoft Windows in 2001. It was developed by Doki Denki Studio (the same developer behind Tigger's Honey Hunt) and published by Electronic Arts in the United States and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe in Europe.

It was released as a PlayStation Classic for the PS3 and PSP via the PlayStation Store on 13 September 2009.^[1]

Gameplay

The gameplay is similar to Nintendo's Mario Party franchise. The "Adventure" mode features Pooh and his friends going around a large board similar to that of a board game and after each turn, one of the mini-games is played. The plot in the single player mode includes elements taken from Winnie the Pooh's Most Grand Adventure.^[2]

The minigames include the Bomberman-inspired Tigger's Thunder and Frightening, Rabbit's Roller Racers, Piglet's Pumpkin Hunt, Owl's Fruit 'n' Hoot and Pooh's Pinball Party.

Plot

The game begins with Pooh just starting to leave Rabbit's house after having eaten all of the latter's honey. At that time, Tigger suddenly pounces on Pooh, causing the latter to accidentally toss a honey pot in the air and land on the former's head. After Rabbit and Pooh pull the honey pot off with the help of Piglet and Roo, they discover a piece of paper stuck to the back of Tigger's head. At the same time, Owl arrives and reads the paper, revealing that it is a treasure map. Gopher then appears, inadvertently getting the map stuck to him, and is chased by a swarm of bees after their hive splatters to the ground. Realizing that Gopher is leaving with the map, Pooh and his friends go after him.

The gang eventually catch up to Gopher and successfully pull the map off of his back. Now that the map has been retrieved, the friends look in it to try and find the treasure, but they get attacked by a flying heffalump. After a long chase, the gang takes refuge in a cave and the heffalump disappears afterwards. With the heffalump gone, the friends continue to a cavern resembling a skull, where the treasure chest is supposed to be. As they enter the cavern, Gopher warns them that it is starting to collapse and that they will have to hurry if they want to get to the treasure chest.

After making it through the crumbling parts of the cave, the gang reach the area where the chest is, which is revealed to contain several pots of honey, much to Pooh's delight and everyone else's dismay. Later, Pooh wakes up in Rabbit's house and realizes that the entire adventure was only a dream. While leaving, Pooh tells Rabbit about his exciting dream as the game ends.

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