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Re: Old kid's graphics game - create a monster (?)
On Jan 15, 10:22 am, Tempest <temp...@atariprotos.com> wrote:
> On Jan 15, 2:06 am, zainana...@hotmail.com wrote:> Hey all. Had tried this a long while back, thought someone now might
> > be able to help.
>
> > I've been trying to track down a game from my early youth that ran on
> > an Apple II which we played at my elementary school. More than a game,
> > it was really a print shop type program where you could build a
> > creature and put it before a number of backdrops- you could pick its
> > legs, arms, head, etc. from a wide collection, including space aliens,
> > and put it on many different backdrops, including the surface of the
> > moon and others,
> > and then print it out. I haven't had any success in finding it on any
> > lists, especially since I have no idea what it was called or who made
> > it. This would have been around 1988.
>
> I have Monsters and Make Believe but I haven't fired it up in several
> decades. If that is the game and it's not in Asimov I can dump it and
> upload it. I need to do that for Toy Shop anyway.
>
> Tempest
>
>
>
> > I've checked out the following already without success: Creator
> > Creator by DesignWare, Print Shop, Newsroom, Cartooners, MECC Creator,
> > Print Design, Graphics Magician, Printographer, Rainbow Printer,
> > Fantavision, and Kid's
> > Corner.
>
> > It may have been a program called Monsters and Make Believe Art Album,
> > but I haven't successfully tracked down a copy of it or the manual to
> > verify.
>
> > Any ideas?
>
> > Thanks so much and I really appreciate your help!!
Tempest, that would be HUGE!!! Please, please let me know when it's
up- it could save me months of scouring flea markets, etc. :)
Just to be sure- it's the Monsters and Make Believe Art Album, right?
Because they also released "Monsters and
Make-Believe" and "Monsters and Make-Believe Plus", which are
educational programs that are only text-based.