Häst & Ponny: Varsågod och rid!

i've got this game and it works on my computer! I wanna do it!! :D - SartorialDragon

Summary
Visit and groom the horses at Greenfield Stables, learn about horses, and enter tournaments.

Game Design
The stable is full of horse sounds, the stall doors open with a creak, creating a nice stable athmosphere. Navigation in the stables is controlled by point&click / drag&drop. You move through the aisle of stalls by clicking directional cursors. The 12 horses are 2D in the stable view, each their own model. The only idle movement they show is blinking und moving their ears from time to time, but they are mostly static and do not react to the player.

Gameplay
On a personal note: as a child, i spend a massive amount of fantasy living in this stable. I knew all the horses and their pedigree / info by heart. I still remember more about this game, its sounds, and how it felt to me as a kid than i thought i would!

First of all, you sign up for a riding lesson by speaking to the riding instructor, Anne, at the counter. Then, you can go see the horses and pick one for the lesson.

Horse Care
You can enter a horse's stall by clicking when the cursor changes. After a creaky-door-opening-cutscene, you get access to 4 grooming tools you can drag onto the horse - a curry comb, soft brush, mane comb, and hoof pick. There is no progress or finish point, you just go on until you let go of the tool you were dragging. Picking hooves shows a hoof lifting animation and a dirty hoof image that clears out as you drag the hoof pick.

Riding Lessons
After you have signed up for a riding lesson, you drag the bridle and saddle on the horse you chose. The “exit box“ cursor will then change and you can enter the riding school after knocking at the door. Riding lessons are theory-only, you get a fairly long lesson on different topics:

Tournament Lesson
- information about dressage, jumping, or cross country tournaments, advanced dressage, ... - Versammlung - Wendungen - side gaits - different jumping obstacles - jumping basics - Bodenarbeit - dress code for tournaments - pony measurements - tournament levels - types and basic rules of jumping tournaments - types and basic rules of dressage tournaments - Vielseitigkeit (dressage + jumping + cross country - Turnier-Ablauf - documents for tournaments

At the end of the lesson, you have to take a quiz with 20 questions about the contents of this lesson as well as the previous ones. You pass the test and get to participate in a higher lesson or tournaments, even if you get everything wrong on the test. After the lesson, you are returned to your horse's stall and can not leave before you have taken off saddle and bridle and picked its hooves.

System Requirements & Compatibility
WIN 98/ME/2000 Pentium 90 processor 12MB RAM (16MB recommended) graphics card 256 colors, 640x480 resolution 16 Bit SoundBlaster compatible sound card

I got this game to run on Windows 10 via VirtualBox XP without any trouble.