Not sure, a lot of nostalgic things seem to have some sort of nightmare fuel for some reason, haha
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Living Books were a series of CDs you would either play in the computer lab or buy in book fairs or wherever you could get your hands on shareware. They were essentially interactive picture books that would read to you and you could click on stuff in the pictures and see what would happen. They were pretty ingenious because any kid could have fun with them. Even if you already knew how to read, it was fun playing inside the story or making your own fun sentences from the words up top.
They had all sorts of books from the Berenstain Bears to Dr. Seuss, but Stellaluna was my favorite. They tried to keep with the realistic style of the books, which was a massive undertaking. By far the best looking CD out of all of them. It also taught me real things about bats, like how they are not blind and how a lot of them eat fruit. It was a real misconception-buster for me.
A fun activity game. I remember there was a game similar to Hangman where you had to match the notes of a well-known song in the right order and if you didn't win, a gorilla would kidnap a cat from a tree and put them in a sewer. It's about as scary as it sounds. Most of the game was fairly pleasant, though.
Holy shit I thought I'd never see this again, we used to play this at Grandma's house all the time
To be fair, it's a construction game
I don't get it. Why are they at a Halloween party? Who burned the place down? Why is that guy wearing suspenders? No no no, this doesn't make sense at all. I'm off to read some high-brow Marmaduke, some actual humor I can understand.
Mmm 64 slices of American cheese
see if you can find jay sherman in the title
This one actually made me laugh pretty hard
Nice, Ron
Don't know how drastic the game was changed in the pixel remaster (sounds like for the better), but all of the fun ideas fell flat when you played it on the Famicom. As good as the Star Wars story was, the dialogue system had waay too many key words to choose from when you talk to NPCs, so even hunting for the word you want, let alone guessing, was a nightmare. There were also tons and tons of rooms in dungeons that led to nowhere, and the progression system could easily be exploited by both the player and the CPU. Maybe the pixel remaster irons these flaws out, but it was not a fun experience at all the first time I played.
I had the VHS copy of this and the little kitten softly "meow"ing for help as he was about to be eaten by the rats was very disturbing. Especially when he was trapped in his own home and his mom and aunt couldn't find them.
EDIT: Here it is in full! God what a throwback. As messed up as this story is, I loved it as a kid and would watch it all the time.