Barney's Hide & Seek Game
Barney's Hide & Seek Game — frequently asked questions
- What platforms is Barney's Hide & Seek Game on?
- Barney's Hide & Seek Game was released on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
- When did Barney's Hide & Seek Game release?
- Barney's Hide & Seek Game was first released on December 31, 1993.
About Barney's Hide & Seek Game
Barney is a friendly dinosaur who likes playing with children. One day Barney and his little friends decide to play hide-and-seek game. Barney's task is to find the children and the presents they have hidden. Barney travels across four different levels. On each one there are five children and five presents to find. You can only jump in the game when there are higher platforms to access. Despite being a platformer, this is not an action game, since Barney can't die and there is no quick reaction required to complete the game. The game is designed for little children and has a very low difficulty level.
Summary via IGDB.
Game details
- Developer
- Realtime Associates
- Publisher
- Tec Toy
- Themes
- Educational
- Series
- Barney
Details via IGDB.
Reception
Every version compared
Prices, contemporary reception and the studio credited for each release
| Platform | Year | Loose | Complete | Sealed | Period reviews | Fake risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sega Genesis | 1993 | $5 | $10 | $28 | 4/10 | Low |
Also released on: Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. We haven’t priced or authenticated that version yet.
Collector value & authenticity
Sega Genesis · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-10-29
How often it sells
- Loose: about once a month
- Complete: about 2 times a month
- Sealed: about once a year
Prices marked “few sales” rest on about one recorded sale a year, so treat them as a rough guide: the next copy could sell well above or below. Expect to wait for one to come up.
Sales frequency from PriceCharting's completed-sale records, as of 2026-10-29.
Price over time
- Loose
- Complete
A loose copy sold for about $0.72 in Apr 2008, $6.00 five years ago, and $5.00 as of Oct 2026.
Show as table
| Month | Loose | Complete |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 2009 | $0.95 | — |
| Jan 2010 | $0.87 | — |
| Jan 2011 | $0.75 | — |
| Jan 2012 | $1.03 | — |
| Jan 2013 | $1.12 | — |
| Jan 2014 | $1.95 | $5.00 |
| Jan 2015 | $4.45 | $9.99 |
| Jan 2016 | $3.79 | $5.99 |
| Jan 2017 | $3.99 | $6.92 |
| Jan 2018 | $4.25 | $7.02 |
| Jan 2019 | $3.79 | $7.83 |
| Jan 2020 | $4.42 | $8.25 |
| Jan 2021 | $4.96 | $11.55 |
| Jan 2022 | $5.22 | $9.61 |
| Jan 2023 | $8.54 | $9.61 |
| Jan 2024 | $6.27 | $12.95 |
| Jan 2025 | $5.00 | $10.50 |
| Jan 2026 | $4.87 | $11.09 |
| Oct 2026 | $5.00 | $9.98 |
Monthly price estimates from PriceCharting's completed-sale records, sampled quarterly, through Oct 2026.
Release record
| Territory | Date | Product number | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|
| North America | 1993 | 1534 | 010086015348 |
- Region
- NA
- Released
- 1993
- Authenticity
- Low
A preschool edutainment cart that will charm a toddler more than a collector, and one of the cheapest US carts.
Barney's Hide & Seek Game is a licensed children's game based on the TV series Barney & Friends. Realtime Associates developed it and Sega published it in 1993, in North America only. It teaches counting, matching and problem solving, and has a self-play feature that guides the player to the objective on its own.
In a GamePro 16-bit Hall of Fame vote for the scariest 16-bit games, one reader voted for it.
What the press said at the time
| Sega-16 | 4/10 |
Undated scores are from the review table in the game's Wikipedia article, limited to reviews of the Genesis version.
Before you buy
Among US carts it is one of the cheapest, so there is no reason to pay more than the going rate. It came out in North America only, so a US copy is the one to buy.
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