Bring back the "Big Bug Show" game

The Issue

I used to LOVE playing the Big Bug Show game when I was a child. For those unaware, Big Bug Show was a web game on the CBeebies website which aimed to teach foreign languages to younger children, such as Spanish, French, Chinese and even stuff like Welsh and Somali via a game about an insect circus, and it eventually became a cartoon series named "The Lingo Show" about a year after. In the game, you would do a few things before the show: Color a picture, count dancing insects, choose a costume for the show, decorate the stage and even have dinner. Sadly, this masterpiece of a game was removed from the face of the CBeebies website and I haven't been able to play it since. Though the Wayback Machine pretty much has this archived, it won't load and is stuck at 0, so it essentially won't let me play. (view here: https://web.archive.org/web/20120330050724/http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/lingo-show/games/lingo-show-bigbugshow/)

In fact, I want this game back so I can play it once again.

By signing this petition, you are encouraging CBeebies to return the nolstagic language learning game that many people loved as kids and giving people a chance to experience it once again, probably even enabling teachers to use it to teach languages to schoolchildren and also giving people who haven't played it before the chance to give it a look.

Let's all get together and bring back the Big Bug Show webgame.

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The Issue

I used to LOVE playing the Big Bug Show game when I was a child. For those unaware, Big Bug Show was a web game on the CBeebies website which aimed to teach foreign languages to younger children, such as Spanish, French, Chinese and even stuff like Welsh and Somali via a game about an insect circus, and it eventually became a cartoon series named "The Lingo Show" about a year after. In the game, you would do a few things before the show: Color a picture, count dancing insects, choose a costume for the show, decorate the stage and even have dinner. Sadly, this masterpiece of a game was removed from the face of the CBeebies website and I haven't been able to play it since. Though the Wayback Machine pretty much has this archived, it won't load and is stuck at 0, so it essentially won't let me play. (view here: https://web.archive.org/web/20120330050724/http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/lingo-show/games/lingo-show-bigbugshow/)

In fact, I want this game back so I can play it once again.

By signing this petition, you are encouraging CBeebies to return the nolstagic language learning game that many people loved as kids and giving people a chance to experience it once again, probably even enabling teachers to use it to teach languages to schoolchildren and also giving people who haven't played it before the chance to give it a look.

Let's all get together and bring back the Big Bug Show webgame.

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Petition created on 7 September 2024