Animated Storybook: Hercules is a PC video game released in 1997 as part of the Disney's Animated Storybook series.
Description[]
Hercules Animated Storybook is based on the Disney Studios movie version of Hercules. The story tells of Hercules being born to Zeus and Hera. Due to the animosity of Hades, Hercules is stolen from his immortal parents and made mortal, though still extremely strong. He is then raised on earth by a mortal couple.
Troubled by his great strength, Hercules prays to Zeus for advice and finds out that he is god-born. But, he cannot come back to Olympus until he becomes a hero. A true Hero. So, he is sent to the Satyr Philoctetes, who agrees to train him (after a little convincing from Zeus).
Features[]
- Read along with popular characters from the hit Disney movie.
- Play matching games and create your own mythological monsters.
- Play checkers against Hades or with a friend.
- Teaches reading, vocabulary and strategic thinking skills.
- Unlike any other animated storybook, every part of the story rhymes, just like the vocabulary terms.
Voice Talents[]
- Danny DeVito - Philoctetes
- Tate Donovan - Hercules
- Susan Egan - Megara
- Matt Frewer - Panic
- Bobcat Goldthwait - Pain
- Joshua Keaton - Young Hercules
- Roz Ryan - Thalia
- Paul Shaffer - Hermes
- Rip Torn - Zeus
- Lillias White - Calliope
- James Woods - Hades
Additional Voices[]
- Dee Bradley Baker
- Mary Kay Bergman - Aphrodite
- Corey Burton - Amphitryon, End-of-the-World Man, Ice Titan, Leo the Lion, Megaphone Man, No More Graffiti Man
- Jessi Carti - Paper Boy
- Jim Cummings - Demetrius, Nessus, Tall Theban
- Kendall Cunningham
- Bill Farmer
- Michael Gough - Cygnus the Swan
- Jennifer Hale - Vega the Harp
- Kellen Hathaway
- Nick Jameson - Hercuburger Man, Orion the Hunter
- Kevin Schon
- Frank Welker
- April Winchell - Heavyset Woman
Trivia[]
- Unlike the Movie, three of the Titans (Excluding Lythos the Rock Titan) are defeated differently. Poseidon uses water to cool Pyros into a petrified state. Apollo uses fire to melt Hydros to steam, and Zeus uses lightning to zap Stratos into nothing.
