Mr. Eight-Three-One | Kid Pix Studio (Windows) Gameplay @MrEightThreeOne | Uploaded 4 years ago | Updated 13 hours ago
(Note: Before we start, I want to apologize for the annoying audio clipping present for a good majority of the video; I went a little too high on the capture volume and didn't realize until I recorded a substantial amount of the video. Sorry)
A FAMOUS TRIO OF SWISS HORNBLOWERS...wait, what?
You may or may not remember that I did a video of the original Macintosh version of Kid Pix, but here's a variant that you might be more familiar with if you were born in 1993 or later. This is Kid Pix Studio, an extended version of the original game. In short terms, it's basically the original with five new creative activities thrown in. None of them are especially better than the painting one which is the star of the show, but it's still neat that they chose to do a true successor like this.
There wasn't anything in particular that inspired me to make this video; I guess since I had a rare successful attempt at getting my old 486 to actually boot, I figured I'd do one of the few games that works best on this particular machine. This game bases the timing of quite a few of the animations on the processor clock speed so even though this computer has a really weak video card, it still was the only one that could run this game without having the animations move lightning quick.
I go through each of the activities included on the disc, starting with the flagship activity and working my way counter-clockwise on the main menu. Activity comments, one by one...
Painting: Basically what you expect, but now with a few new features that weren't present in the original such as adding backgrounds. Unfortunately I didn't have a microphone attached to this computer so I couldn't do the voice cameo like I did last time.
Wacky TV: Okay, what in the world is with some of the videos they supply? "Wacky" might not even be enough to describe them. This is a pretty standard AVI player that lets you toy with the videos, most amusingly playing them in reverse and in double-speed.
Moopies: Probably the other most enjoyable part of this pack, this gives you brushes that animate after you draw. Funnily enough, I think this computer would have absolutely been brought to its knees from this activity had it not been for the fact that it appears to do all the animation using palette cycling. That's a pretty genius way to save on resources.
Stampimator: ...eh. It exists I suppose. It's fun to play with for a little bit but wears its novelty off pretty fast.
Digital Puppets: Again, since I can't record my voice on this computer, I couldn't show too much of this off, so I tried to compensate by showing every puppet and every action you can perform with them. Can't really think of a whole lot of creative potential with this tool to be honest.
Slide Show: A place where you can show off all the amazing things you've drawn. Well, that's a bit difficult to do considering I haven't drawn a whole lot on here. However, since this computer does still have the default desktop backgrounds, and since some of them are full-res bitmaps, I at least had things I could stick in. Oh, and don't forget two pictures of Trans Ams. What, you don't have Trans Am pictures saved on your computer?
(Okay, funny story about that actually -- the reason those are on this computer is because my dad actually used to own one. He is by and large a huge car person, a gene which I didn't inherit. That said, when we moved houses in the late 90s, we downgraded from a 3-car to a 2-car garage; with my mom also already owning a car plus my dad owning a more practical family car, one of his two had to go, and so he had to sell off the Trans Am; he did so online, back before the majority of the world was off dialup, and as such that was a pretty big deal. He had no scanner or a digital camera, so the best he could do was pull some random pictures off the Internet and say that his car looked like the picture. The pictures still remain on the computer's hard drive to this day!)
Hope you enjoy the video! It definitely feels quite nice to give my childhood computer a little more time in the spotlight!
Computer Specs:
486DX4 100MHz
850MB Hard Disk Drive
16MB RAM
Trident TVGA8900B 1MB Video
Sound Blaster 32
Windows 95
(Note: Before we start, I want to apologize for the annoying audio clipping present for a good majority of the video; I went a little too high on the capture volume and didn't realize until I recorded a substantial amount of the video. Sorry)
A FAMOUS TRIO OF SWISS HORNBLOWERS...wait, what?
You may or may not remember that I did a video of the original Macintosh version of Kid Pix, but here's a variant that you might be more familiar with if you were born in 1993 or later. This is Kid Pix Studio, an extended version of the original game. In short terms, it's basically the original with five new creative activities thrown in. None of them are especially better than the painting one which is the star of the show, but it's still neat that they chose to do a true successor like this.
There wasn't anything in particular that inspired me to make this video; I guess since I had a rare successful attempt at getting my old 486 to actually boot, I figured I'd do one of the few games that works best on this particular machine. This game bases the timing of quite a few of the animations on the processor clock speed so even though this computer has a really weak video card, it still was the only one that could run this game without having the animations move lightning quick.
I go through each of the activities included on the disc, starting with the flagship activity and working my way counter-clockwise on the main menu. Activity comments, one by one...
Painting: Basically what you expect, but now with a few new features that weren't present in the original such as adding backgrounds. Unfortunately I didn't have a microphone attached to this computer so I couldn't do the voice cameo like I did last time.
Wacky TV: Okay, what in the world is with some of the videos they supply? "Wacky" might not even be enough to describe them. This is a pretty standard AVI player that lets you toy with the videos, most amusingly playing them in reverse and in double-speed.
Moopies: Probably the other most enjoyable part of this pack, this gives you brushes that animate after you draw. Funnily enough, I think this computer would have absolutely been brought to its knees from this activity had it not been for the fact that it appears to do all the animation using palette cycling. That's a pretty genius way to save on resources.
Stampimator: ...eh. It exists I suppose. It's fun to play with for a little bit but wears its novelty off pretty fast.
Digital Puppets: Again, since I can't record my voice on this computer, I couldn't show too much of this off, so I tried to compensate by showing every puppet and every action you can perform with them. Can't really think of a whole lot of creative potential with this tool to be honest.
Slide Show: A place where you can show off all the amazing things you've drawn. Well, that's a bit difficult to do considering I haven't drawn a whole lot on here. However, since this computer does still have the default desktop backgrounds, and since some of them are full-res bitmaps, I at least had things I could stick in. Oh, and don't forget two pictures of Trans Ams. What, you don't have Trans Am pictures saved on your computer?
(Okay, funny story about that actually -- the reason those are on this computer is because my dad actually used to own one. He is by and large a huge car person, a gene which I didn't inherit. That said, when we moved houses in the late 90s, we downgraded from a 3-car to a 2-car garage; with my mom also already owning a car plus my dad owning a more practical family car, one of his two had to go, and so he had to sell off the Trans Am; he did so online, back before the majority of the world was off dialup, and as such that was a pretty big deal. He had no scanner or a digital camera, so the best he could do was pull some random pictures off the Internet and say that his car looked like the picture. The pictures still remain on the computer's hard drive to this day!)
Hope you enjoy the video! It definitely feels quite nice to give my childhood computer a little more time in the spotlight!
Computer Specs:
486DX4 100MHz
850MB Hard Disk Drive
16MB RAM
Trident TVGA8900B 1MB Video
Sound Blaster 32
Windows 95
![[Commentated] Casual Playthrough: Putt-Putt Travels Through Time on the 486](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/G-dV_V05xX0/hqdefault.jpg "[Commentated] Casual Playthrough: Putt-Putt Travels Through Time on the 486
A very laid-back commentated walkthrough of Putt-Putt Travels Through Time on the first computer I ever used. May upload the same video uncommentated in the near future as well. Mostly just me rambling, and a lot of radio silence, its kinda boring, but eh, its a thing. Hope you enjoy. Sorry about the lousy mic quality; will try and look for a better one soon.")
