My art responsibilities varied from doing hundreds of images for one project to just a few dozen as some smaller aspect of another. Super Scattergories for Windows questions, problems & issues. Parroty had a pretty successful hit with “ PYST“, their parody of the afore mentioned “MYST” game, so they started producing other “humor” CD-ROMs.
#Super scattergories computer game movie#
The best description might be that they were a parody of both a CD-ROM game and some other subject… like if some company wanted to make an interactive CD-ROM based on some TV show, movie or some such, this might be what they came up with, only with a MAD Magazine flavor. I use the term “games” loosely as these really weren’t games.
#Super scattergories computer game full#
Create and destroy full lines on the screen in any of the primary three directions by dragging and dropping the blocks to. These were done in the late 90’s, before I started with MAD. Block Rolling Sky - Super hexagon puzzle scattergories endless board game. Spot It/Dobble - Paw Patrol - A Board Game by Zygomatic - 2 to 5 Players - Board Games for Family - 10 Minutes of Gameplay - Games for Family Game Night - for Kids and Adults Ages 4+ - English/French 16.64 16. CD-ROM games were very popular, and I found myself doing some art for a few odd ones for a company called Parroty Interactive and one for Hasbro. Some of them were quite clever and funny, like SpyFox and Pajama Sam from Humongous Entertainment. And I can login for 3 or 5 minutes when I need a break throughout.
It requires strategy, critical thinking and seems to help keep me sharp. Quite fun and the fiends are cute and funny. It’s a classic match 3 type game, bugs against slugs. However there was a subset of games, mostly aimed at children, that used cartooning as their basis. Something about the game just drew me in. If someone had said to me that I’d be “illustrating” a series of CD-ROM games I would have scoffed… after all even in the 90’s games like Myst and The 7th Guest were the standard for graphics… lavish and realistic images (at least what passed for that back then) were the rage, not goofy cartoon stuff. I’ve said many times you never know where your work might end up being used, and sometimes the most unlikely of projects will come your way when you freelance. Get some friends together on Zoom, mix some drinks, and bring the party games right to your living room. You can play on Xbox, Apple TV, your laptop, or phone. Now the mobile phones we use are 100x as powerful as the desktop computers that ran these things back in the 90’s. Jackbox Games has a wide selection of party games that you can play with friends remotely, which is perfect for quarantine. February 20th, 2020 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
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