Thanks for the shout @harkeofficial ! Delighted to see this "relic" being used to remind us that, there was a whole digital gaming universe that felt so cool that it was easy to become totally enthralled with it. Loved the video, and the background shelf screen saver! Special request for either toasters or pipes for the next background please? 🤓
The simulated vintage video fills me with so much nostalgia. It is remarkable. Most modern "old" video doesn't replicate the jank, but this takes me back.
I was born in '89 and I remember using Storybook Weaver Deluxe in the computer lab in grade school. Thankfully some of my stories survive as printed images I've got in a box somewhere. I remember once I wrote a story about a turkey visiting Turkey, but since my teacher apparently didn't know that was a nation she thought it should be "Turkeyville".
Omg, I remember playing Storybook Weaver Deluxe as a kid! I recognised that opening music immediately. I love revisiting early edutainment games. Thank you for making this video, I love your editing style!
I never played storybook weaver but this was exactly my kinda thing as a kid. I played so many demos of creative games like orly's draw-a-story and 3D movie maker. I couldn't convince my parents to buy the full games so I played the hell out of the demos over and over again haha
I also I played this other educational game called mighty maths number heroes. It's kind of amazing how this was the peak of pc gaming in the 90s and we loved it because there wasn't anything much better really, so even just a demo was good enough to keep us entertained for hours. I do miss that simplicity sometimes.
I have 3D Movie Maker, but I have NEVER played it. I'm really looking forward to trying that one out for the first time!
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If you wanna see a totally cursed version of this kind of game, check out Story Machine by Spinnaker Software. I think the TI-99/4A version looks the best. You type in words from a limited dictionary and the game creates and animates what you type. My two favorite things were 1) this weirdo creatures in it called a bumpus, and 2) if you typed something like "THE DOG EATS THE BOY" the game would refuse to do it, saying "NO! THAT WOULD HURT!"
I was obsessed with this as a kid. Born in 1990 and we had this on our computers in certain classes. I would get lost living out my fantasies! Thank you for bringing me back ☺
I was so happy to see a kid from the newest generation could still enjoy these old games that we grew up on. I was born in 1992, and grew up during the peak of kids cd-rom games. I have so many happy memories of playing games like this one. I think that offering these old games as a novelty to kids would be a great way to introduce them to the history of consumer computers, while being fun to play and still great for inspiring creativity and learning.
Exactly my thoughts! It’s really fun to hear their thoughts, and games like this absolutely hold up! Sometimes, simplicity is key with kids, and it allows them to use their imagination. Our resident Gen A in the video has written several stories now… plus they seem to find the “vibes” of the “old computers” to be quite “sus” (and that’s fun, apparently). Their words, not mine 😂
“I do in fact like to torture myself” same. Should be my reply when people ask why I have shelves of old mostly working computers. That theme music takes me right back to the library of my elementary school in 1998, playing “Auteur Studio Deluxe” as the French version was called.
I just wanna say that I'm really enjoying the Amazing Emporium so much! The editing is chef's kiss ❤ My favourite educational computer game is The Magical School Bus Explores The Solar System. That game was fantastic (and probably the main reason I got into astronomy and retro computers in the first place).
Thank you so much! I have The Magic School Bus Explores the Rain Forest, but to be honest I’ve never played that or the solar system one! It’ll be fun into the future to play some games that I’ve never tried before…
I use to play this all the time in grade 3/4 during computer class before the computers were updated and it got removed. Thanks for the trip down memory lane and great job with those retro style FMVs!
While I truly hope you get the recognition you clearly deserve for these videos, I can't help but feel privileged to be witness to this "small" (at least in terms of youtube) thing. Your videos feel like they mix the best parts of the old (think 90s/early 2000s) internet and new internet into one beautifully rendered whole. It's nostalgic but honest, imperfect and proud of it, and so perfectly captures the "this is my little corner of the web" feeling of early home pages, but in a completely new form. Please keep doing what you're doing!
Thank you so much, your comment means a lot! I’m having a lot of fun, and while I do wish sometimes that I would have started this journey 15+ years ago when I originally wanted to, I am glad to have the perspective from the time I’ve waited as well. Thank you again!
The absolute nostalgia overload I had just from hearing the menu music 😭 I remember playing storybook weaver deluxe with my older siblings on the family desktop, and the only mic we had was from a box of fruit loops (it was shaped like the fruit loops toucan with a palm tree) That crappy little mic turned me into a full on voice actor for my siblings stories 😩 I remember my sister straight up just recreated phantom of the opera one time, it was glorious 😂
Instant Subscribe. It didn't feel good when I did this with Magic Theatre, the old movie maker software for Windows 95, and no one I showed cared lol. I kind of want to get Read, Write, Type to work on an old Mac too. This content was great. I want more of it please.
I just found your channel, and this is awesome, i loved the retro late 90's/early 2000's video clips of yourself, definitely brings back some memories of playing old cd rom games, love it!
HOLY FRIGGEN CRAP! This was my childhood at my primary school's computer lab. The amount of fun we had with this. English also isn't my 1st language and at the age we played this, most of us were only starting to learn English so we had to fumble our way through this software a bit and we didn't understand the more advanced features, but it was so fun creating wacky scenes with this. A lot of the scenes involved car crashes/explosions and post apocalyptic cities since I loved monstertrucks and saw The Terminator so that was kind of the direction my creative energy flowed at the time.
i mean the keyboard and mouse are peripherals, but that connector is called PS/2. Even computers still today sometimes come with a single PS/2 port especially in industrial settings. Wait until she finds out about AT connector. This video was fun though... Thanks, I enjoyed it a lot!
You’re absolutely right-calling them peripherals is technically true, but I should’ve been more specific about PS/2 for those vintage hardware fans out there. And yeah, I haven’t forgotten about the classic AT connector. Maybe one day I’ll dive into that rabbit hole for fun! Glad you enjoyed the video-appreciate the watch and the info!
Edutainment games are a magic that has been lost to this world. When you mentioned MAC, it made me think of Oregon trail, which i go to make a proper video on last year, so i'm glad it's not just me that get flashbacks to that Also i really like the presentation of you videos, lots of personality.
We used this same piece of software in school in 2014/15. We had a project we needed to complete, which included learning the software by following a step-by-step guide, and doing some sort of Little Red Riding Hood story of some kind.
Love these so much, the attention to detail is incredible. The retro graphics, the computer sounds, everything about it is so good, I especially loved when your arm was glitching out at 7:34 😂 can't wait to have a whole series of these!
oh my god, i remember this! We've got tons of educational CDs like this one when my dad was in the US. When he came home, we've got to play some of these on our old Windows computer and were also discovering the world wide web. some fascinating moments of our childhood.
I absolutely love this. Belly laughed all the way through. Such nostalgia. (Also the "WAIT YOU COULD DO THAT ALL ALONG???" IS SO REAL. I've had countless games/etc from when I was a kid that I was like "no, you can't do that--wait WHAT DID YOU DO?!" so. I get it.)
Never owned this as a kid but would've loved it, I was a sucker for any creative program as a kid, especially storytelling and filmmaking. I can't remember how much time I spent goofing off in 3D Movie Maker, that was my jam
bro, 90's cd childrens game where INSANE i cant remember half the names of what i played back then, but each one is just a pure distillation of surreal creativity. they were like that famous book where you have to find stuff but every time its different and fresh and on a interactive computer
I think my 5th grade classroom Mac had this game Storybook Weaver installed on it which I played a few times. I'm remember writing a story but limiting myself to the assets that were in the game. Though I wouldn't have been able to put my own images in it if I knew that you can put your own images into the game.
Love the personal old FMV jank touch you add! I had "Magic Theater" from Knowledge Adventure as a kid instead of Storybook Weaver, but obviously Storybook Weaver is the superior story telling thing and I feel a little ripped off.
I just gotta say thank you so much for mentioning your setup. I have so many obscure computer games that I can play on my old computer but I want to be able to help preserve them and record the gameplay on OBS but have struggled figuring out the best way how. Looking into WYSE now and also excited to see more videos like this! The editing alone is top tier and it's so entertaining and cozy.
You're welcome! This was the best set-up I could find, but I'm sure it'll change over time as I learn some more. I'll share anything new I learn as well! Happy adventuring!
You can use any tools that are available, it doesn't have to be OBS. For example, you can use VLC to do screen capture despite it not being th most refined tool.
For fun with future projects you should get something like a Sony MVC-FD73 the camera that used floppies for storage, probably make putting pictures on your old stuff really easy. I think those cameras are super cheap now, probably like $20. In highschool my TA had one and I was fascinated by it lol
One of my gradeschool teachers had one for exactly this purpose (the project I remember was photoshopping ourselves onto different planets that we had researched using AskJeeves) and I was similarly fascinated
Always read the manual, huh! This is an incredible video. I dread to imagine how long the editing took. I especially love that you sought out a modern child and got their impressions.
The editing is quite tedious, but I do find it fun (most of the time haha)- it’s almost like putting together a puzzle. Thank you so much for watching!
I never heard of this game and I’m probably the same age range as you. Our school pretty much only had games that taught you typing, english, or math and no creativity was allowed. But my parents got me Batman The Animated Series Cartoon Maker and R.A. Montgomery’s Comic Creator, so I would spend hours making Batman cartoons and generic comic books. And then play with my action figures because that was easier. R.A. Montgomery was, of course, the first publisher and I guess co-creator of the Choose Your Own Adventure books. It’s interesting that he got involved in software in the 90s.
I’m a bit too young for storybook weaver but my school had us playing kid pix, which was fun but not educational at all lmao. I’m surprised they never had anything like this for us, it seems like the perfect mix of educational and fun
This reminds me of some BS I had on PC growing up called “Klik ‘n Play” and “Spider-Man Cartoon Maker.” The former was basically some BS “asset library” that allowed you to kinda “create” your own games by swapping assets in-and-out and adding your own “game logic” to the objects/assets (basically, it ended up being TOO MUCH for my dumb 6-year-old ADHD-riddled brain to FIGURE OUT so I just played the 30 or so “premade games” that came on there that were basically meant as a DEMONSTRATION of what you could make with the assets). However, as someone who used to LOVE DRAWING for hours (both on paper and in MS Paint), “Spider-Man Cartoon Maker” actually ended up being kinda legit. I used to just make my own INSANE “90s animated Spider-Man TV episodes” with their own crazy plot-lines using the preinstalled “backdrops” and character/style-lines and FX.
All the late FMV games are just nightmare fuel in general. I'm not kidding, I've had at least four I can remember but it never hits me during the dream but its this mess of interactions that loop and emotionless talking where it doesn't quite sync up with emotional responses. Dang it, it's so hard to try and explain... great video was what I actually meant to say 👍
While discussing the wonderful world of edutainment one night, my wife introduced me to "The American Girls Premiere." For the uninitiated: it's like Storybook Weaver, but if it had stage directions and digitized clips of human actors doing various things from various time periods. I found it bizarre and compelling. Highly recommended.
As a 90's kid, wish I knew this existed back then. I did lots of mini-stories as well but only used Powerpoint, playing around with the default clipart and animations. IMO, this is an untapped market and I hope there are modern versions of classic stuff like this for today's kids. My 3 year old is still enjoying Pajama Sam even though it was released almost 3 decades ago.
My kids love playing with this! They do have a version of the game available to play on a web-based emulator as well, which is awesome. It’s the older version of the game, but it still has most of the features!
Thank you for the almost nostalgic feeling video(?) I’d hate to compare you, but you remind me of BrutalMoose with the content covered and delivery….but you know how to use an old computer 😅. Hope to see you get the recognition for the hard work and will definitely be back!
I feel like I should make an inspired video of the story weaver deluxe by using a VMware to install the old windows software but probably soon. I loved that video! ❤
My school computer lab had its own desktop publishing software for making kids books for the Apple //gs. It didn't do animations or anything, but you could do different fonts and they had a variety of stock clipart. Then you can print it out on the dot matrix printer. Unfortunately, none of the stock art had anything to do with things I was writing about.
I humbly request a tutorial on how you turned yourself into CD quality 1990's imagery, along with grainy voice over. This would be so useful for those of us desiring to achieve those fancy special effects in our videos. Many thanks, fair maiden. By the way, what the heck happened to the cat?
Thanks for the shout @harkeofficial !
Delighted to see this "relic" being used to remind us that, there was a whole digital gaming universe that felt so cool that it was easy to become totally enthralled with it.
Loved the video, and the background shelf screen saver! Special request for either toasters or pipes for the next background please? 🤓
thank YOU!! I’ll have throw flying toasters on a floppy disk and get it on there 😁
This type of content fills a void in me I didn't know I had, you deserve so much more recognition!
Thank you so much for watching!
The simulated vintage video fills me with so much nostalgia. It is remarkable. Most modern "old" video doesn't replicate the jank, but this takes me back.
I was born in '89 and I remember using Storybook Weaver Deluxe in the computer lab in grade school. Thankfully some of my stories survive as printed images I've got in a box somewhere. I remember once I wrote a story about a turkey visiting Turkey, but since my teacher apparently didn't know that was a nation she thought it should be "Turkeyville".
Omg, I remember playing Storybook Weaver Deluxe as a kid! I recognised that opening music immediately. I love revisiting early edutainment games. Thank you for making this video, I love your editing style!
I never played storybook weaver but this was exactly my kinda thing as a kid. I played so many demos of creative games like orly's draw-a-story and 3D movie maker. I couldn't convince my parents to buy the full games so I played the hell out of the demos over and over again haha
I also I played this other educational game called mighty maths number heroes. It's kind of amazing how this was the peak of pc gaming in the 90s and we loved it because there wasn't anything much better really, so even just a demo was good enough to keep us entertained for hours. I do miss that simplicity sometimes.
I have 3D Movie Maker, but I have NEVER played it. I'm really looking forward to trying that one out for the first time!
If you wanna see a totally cursed version of this kind of game, check out Story Machine by Spinnaker Software. I think the TI-99/4A version looks the best. You type in words from a limited dictionary and the game creates and animates what you type. My two favorite things were 1) this weirdo creatures in it called a bumpus, and 2) if you typed something like "THE DOG EATS THE BOY" the game would refuse to do it, saying "NO! THAT WOULD HURT!"
Ooo that sounds fun! I am going to go look that up!!
Love this!! I can’t believe you were able to import your own pics and you’re only finding out now!! 😂
I guess 5 - 10 year old me never bothered to view the ReadMe file... >:(
We really need all the youtubers to do a multi hour long collab on these games since its raw surrealism
stories live rent free in my head XD
I’m thinking of doing a live stream this week here on UA-cam, and we can all build a story together 😅 I can only imagine the chaos.
My Dad borrowed Storybook Weaver Deluxe from our local library in the early '00s, and my sister and I had a lot of fun with it.
This world needs a 2-hour Storybook Weaver stream now :D
I think you’re right 🤔😂
I was obsessed with this as a kid. Born in 1990 and we had this on our computers in certain classes. I would get lost living out my fantasies! Thank you for bringing me back ☺
Between F4mi, Foone, and this Amazing Emporium, my needs for retro computer and games are certainly met.
The sounds alone are punching me in the face with nostalgia. I clocked so many hours at the school library playing this thing.
I was so happy to see a kid from the newest generation could still enjoy these old games that we grew up on. I was born in 1992, and grew up during the peak of kids cd-rom games. I have so many happy memories of playing games like this one. I think that offering these old games as a novelty to kids would be a great way to introduce them to the history of consumer computers, while being fun to play and still great for inspiring creativity and learning.
Exactly my thoughts! It’s really fun to hear their thoughts, and games like this absolutely hold up! Sometimes, simplicity is key with kids, and it allows them to use their imagination. Our resident Gen A in the video has written several stories now… plus they seem to find the “vibes” of the “old computers” to be quite “sus” (and that’s fun, apparently). Their words, not mine 😂
“I do in fact like to torture myself” same. Should be my reply when people ask why I have shelves of old mostly working computers.
That theme music takes me right back to the library of my elementary school in 1998, playing “Auteur Studio Deluxe” as the French version was called.
getting some brutalmoose vibes from this, good video :3
YESSS brutalmoose mentioned..
The craziest bit is that 'The Oregon Trail' began as a text-only game running on a minicomputer and played via teletype back in the early 1970s!
Your UA-cam channel is seriously underrated. I love the goofy 256 color renders of you in the cutaways. Very clever, and you know your stuff!!
I just wanna say that I'm really enjoying the Amazing Emporium so much! The editing is chef's kiss ❤
My favourite educational computer game is The Magical School Bus Explores The Solar System. That game was fantastic (and probably the main reason I got into astronomy and retro computers in the first place).
Thank you so much! I have The Magic School Bus Explores the Rain Forest, but to be honest I’ve never played that or the solar system one! It’ll be fun into the future to play some games that I’ve never tried before…
I use to play this all the time in grade 3/4 during computer class before the computers were updated and it got removed. Thanks for the trip down memory lane and great job with those retro style FMVs!
While I truly hope you get the recognition you clearly deserve for these videos, I can't help but feel privileged to be witness to this "small" (at least in terms of youtube) thing. Your videos feel like they mix the best parts of the old (think 90s/early 2000s) internet and new internet into one beautifully rendered whole. It's nostalgic but honest, imperfect and proud of it, and so perfectly captures the "this is my little corner of the web" feeling of early home pages, but in a completely new form. Please keep doing what you're doing!
Thank you so much, your comment means a lot! I’m having a lot of fun, and while I do wish sometimes that I would have started this journey 15+ years ago when I originally wanted to, I am glad to have the perspective from the time I’ve waited as well. Thank you again!
The absolute nostalgia overload I had just from hearing the menu music 😭 I remember playing storybook weaver deluxe with my older siblings on the family desktop, and the only mic we had was from a box of fruit loops (it was shaped like the fruit loops toucan with a palm tree)
That crappy little mic turned me into a full on voice actor for my siblings stories 😩 I remember my sister straight up just recreated phantom of the opera one time, it was glorious 😂
Your audio and editing is off the charts! I can't believe you have fewer than 100k views on here.
Also your voice is really nice to listen to.
I LITERALLY still have a printed out story I wrote when I was a kid on this program. Born in 89. Nostalgia for this is insane.
At 1:05 I said, out loud, 'Yeah, I get it.' in the driest, most put-upon voice. If that isn't the epitome of viewer engagement I don't know what is.
Instant Subscribe. It didn't feel good when I did this with Magic Theatre, the old movie maker software for Windows 95, and no one I showed cared lol. I kind of want to get Read, Write, Type to work on an old Mac too. This content was great. I want more of it please.
We had this in primary school in the 90s!! This was one of the more popular ones in 'Computer class'.
I just found your channel, and this is awesome, i loved the retro late 90's/early 2000's video clips of yourself, definitely brings back some memories of playing old cd rom games, love it!
HOLY FRIGGEN CRAP! This was my childhood at my primary school's computer lab. The amount of fun we had with this. English also isn't my 1st language and at the age we played this, most of us were only starting to learn English so we had to fumble our way through this software a bit and we didn't understand the more advanced features, but it was so fun creating wacky scenes with this. A lot of the scenes involved car crashes/explosions and post apocalyptic cities since I loved monstertrucks and saw The Terminator so that was kind of the direction my creative energy flowed at the time.
As an 80s baby who grew up with a compaq presario, that jet engine sound when you boot a game up is so satisfying.
And here I thought I was the only one that loved the sound of floppy drives during the POST on an old PC.
i mean the keyboard and mouse are peripherals, but that connector is called PS/2. Even computers still today sometimes come with a single PS/2 port especially in industrial settings.
Wait until she finds out about AT connector.
This video was fun though... Thanks, I enjoyed it a lot!
You’re absolutely right-calling them peripherals is technically true, but I should’ve been more specific about PS/2 for those vintage hardware fans out there. And yeah, I haven’t forgotten about the classic AT connector. Maybe one day I’ll dive into that rabbit hole for fun! Glad you enjoyed the video-appreciate the watch and the info!
Well, UA-cam finally suggested me something worthwhile that isn't trying to rot my brain.
Edutainment games are a magic that has been lost to this world. When you mentioned MAC, it made me think of Oregon trail, which i go to make a proper video on last year, so i'm glad it's not just me that get flashbacks to that
Also i really like the presentation of you videos, lots of personality.
This and Kid Pix probably ate up 75% of my computer time in the 90s
Kid Pix was my first “photoshop” 😄
such a great video! love the editing style and i completely forgot/remember this game!!!! thank you for the reminder
Amazing. Type to learn and Kid Pix was my childhood on rainy recess days in elementary!
Kid Pix was the BEST
@@harkeofficial Make a mistake? Hit the undo button and hear "OH NO!!"
We used this same piece of software in school in 2014/15. We had a project we needed to complete, which included learning the software by following a step-by-step guide, and doing some sort of Little Red Riding Hood story of some kind.
This was EXCELLENT! Thank you for this! Ooooh new channel discover, and it's great!
Absolutely fantastic! I'm totally digging your style, I can't wait for more!
I used to play with this in the computer lab at school! I've been trying to remember what game it was for such a long time. Such a cool flashback!
Love these so much, the attention to detail is incredible. The retro graphics, the computer sounds, everything about it is so good, I especially loved when your arm was glitching out at 7:34 😂 can't wait to have a whole series of these!
thank you so much!!
oh my god, i remember this! We've got tons of educational CDs like this one when my dad was in the US. When he came home, we've got to play some of these on our old Windows computer and were also discovering the world wide web. some fascinating moments of our childhood.
I absolutely love this. Belly laughed all the way through. Such nostalgia.
(Also the "WAIT YOU COULD DO THAT ALL ALONG???" IS SO REAL. I've had countless games/etc from when I was a kid that I was like "no, you can't do that--wait WHAT DID YOU DO?!" so. I get it.)
Never owned this as a kid but would've loved it, I was a sucker for any creative program as a kid, especially storytelling and filmmaking. I can't remember how much time I spent goofing off in 3D Movie Maker, that was my jam
bro, 90's cd childrens game where INSANE i cant remember half the names of what i played back then, but each one is just a pure distillation of surreal creativity. they were like that famous book where you have to find stuff but every time its different and fresh and on a interactive computer
oh hell yeah, this is one of those hidden gem channels that's gonna pop off
Sooooo so glad you popped up in my recommendations! Delightful video, keep up the amazing work!
Thanks so much!!
Cool concept, great editing. Delightful. Subbed!
What a perfect episode to start on!
Your channel will take off eventually. The algorithm will catch it. Great and unique content.
I think my 5th grade classroom Mac had this game Storybook Weaver installed on it which I played a few times. I'm remember writing a story but limiting myself to the assets that were in the game. Though I wouldn't have been able to put my own images in it if I knew that you can put your own images into the game.
Subscribed within 20 seconds based on your editing skills, humor, niche subject matter, and vibe. Had to be a record fast sub from me!
you're such an underrated creator
I love 90s computer nostalgia, cool channel!
Omg this video should have not been recommended. I'm in love. You have an amazing personality so nerdy and cute.
Love the personal old FMV jank touch you add!
I had "Magic Theater" from Knowledge Adventure as a kid instead of Storybook Weaver, but obviously Storybook Weaver is the superior story telling thing and I feel a little ripped off.
I just gotta say thank you so much for mentioning your setup. I have so many obscure computer games that I can play on my old computer but I want to be able to help preserve them and record the gameplay on OBS but have struggled figuring out the best way how. Looking into WYSE now and also excited to see more videos like this! The editing alone is top tier and it's so entertaining and cozy.
You're welcome! This was the best set-up I could find, but I'm sure it'll change over time as I learn some more. I'll share anything new I learn as well! Happy adventuring!
You can use any tools that are available, it doesn't have to be OBS.
For example, you can use VLC to do screen capture despite it not being th most refined tool.
This is one of the most fresh and effortlessly funny videos I’ve seen here on UA-cam in a long time. Immediate subscribe. Awesome editing!
This comment made my day! 🥹 I’m trying to genuinely have fun with this, and it makes me so happy you enjoyed it!
Holy shit, ive been trying to remember what this game was called for a few years. Thank you!!! Used to play this all the time at elementary school
YAY!! Elementary school is where I first played it, and I wish I could see some of the old stories I wrote back then :)
Good work, I appreciate how well done you did retro version of your the princess version
Thank you!
For fun with future projects you should get something like a Sony MVC-FD73 the camera that used floppies for storage, probably make putting pictures on your old stuff really easy. I think those cameras are super cheap now, probably like $20. In highschool my TA had one and I was fascinated by it lol
One of my gradeschool teachers had one for exactly this purpose (the project I remember was photoshopping ourselves onto different planets that we had researched using AskJeeves) and I was similarly fascinated
3:49 is the computer equivalent of when you touch a cat and they make that confused squeak as their consiousness boots
Always read the manual, huh! This is an incredible video. I dread to imagine how long the editing took. I especially love that you sought out a modern child and got their impressions.
The editing is quite tedious, but I do find it fun (most of the time haha)- it’s almost like putting together a puzzle. Thank you so much for watching!
I never heard of this game and I’m probably the same age range as you. Our school pretty much only had games that taught you typing, english, or math and no creativity was allowed. But my parents got me Batman The Animated Series Cartoon Maker and R.A. Montgomery’s Comic Creator, so I would spend hours making Batman cartoons and generic comic books. And then play with my action figures because that was easier.
R.A. Montgomery was, of course, the first publisher and I guess co-creator of the Choose Your Own Adventure books. It’s interesting that he got involved in software in the 90s.
I would totally see the full play-through that you did, I'm amazed by the game
Not sure how, but the UA-cam algorithm just served up your channel on my feed. And I’m stoked it’s finally getting something right. Fantastic stuff.
Why thank you! 😄
I’m a bit too young for storybook weaver but my school had us playing kid pix, which was fun but not educational at all lmao. I’m surprised they never had anything like this for us, it seems like the perfect mix of educational and fun
Kidpix was so much fun 😆
We had Kid Pix too!
Oh wow, this brings back a lot of memories. I spent so long on software like this as a kid, especially 3D Movie Maker. Good times.
I have 3D Movie Maker, but I never actually used it as a kid… I’m very excited to try that one out!
My personal version of this was not a typing program but was called "Magic Theater" and came with a microphone to record your own audio.
Anytime I hear the phrase “ but you don’t have to take MY word for it…”. I sing the. Da da dah!
Me too!! I hope they don’t sue me for saying it 😅
When reading the materials ends up fulfilling a childhood dream :D
Great video, glad the YT algo pushed you my way!
Yay! Thank you so much for watching!
🟥🟨 _Windows 98, XP... _*_AND_*_ DOS_
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0:14 IS THAT A BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER REFERENCE? instant subscribe, hell yeah
It’s one of my all-time favorite movies 😄
Loved this lmao
your editing is great
This reminds me of some BS I had on PC growing up called “Klik ‘n Play” and “Spider-Man Cartoon Maker.”
The former was basically some BS “asset library” that allowed you to kinda “create” your own games by swapping assets in-and-out and adding your own “game logic” to the objects/assets (basically, it ended up being TOO MUCH for my dumb 6-year-old ADHD-riddled brain to FIGURE OUT so I just played the 30 or so “premade games” that came on there that were basically meant as a DEMONSTRATION of what you could make with the assets).
However, as someone who used to LOVE DRAWING for hours (both on paper and in MS Paint), “Spider-Man Cartoon Maker” actually ended up being kinda legit. I used to just make my own INSANE “90s animated Spider-Man TV episodes” with their own crazy plot-lines using the preinstalled “backdrops” and character/style-lines and FX.
OMG, we had this in the computer lab of my elementary school. Such a blast from the past.
Had this! I was a writer starting at 7…..it helped me write!
just found your channel! I am here for this kind of content! :)
thank you for your service
This brought back memories I had no idea still existed. I used to sit and play around with it but I think I never actually accomplished anything!
oh man. story book weaver. been so long since video evoked one of my old memories
Great content! Keep it up!
Thank you!
I like this video, I was in elementary school when I played a bunch of MS-DOS games.
All the late FMV games are just nightmare fuel in general. I'm not kidding, I've had at least four I can remember but it never hits me during the dream but its this mess of interactions that loop and emotionless talking where it doesn't quite sync up with emotional responses. Dang it, it's so hard to try and explain... great video was what I actually meant to say 👍
Holy shit what is this channel and why does it not have more subs
Love these retro techscapades!
holy shit, I invested HOURS into this and completely forgot about it. thank you!
While discussing the wonderful world of edutainment one night, my wife introduced me to "The American Girls Premiere." For the uninitiated: it's like Storybook Weaver, but if it had stage directions and digitized clips of human actors doing various things from various time periods. I found it bizarre and compelling. Highly recommended.
I only got to play that once or twice as a kid; I borrowed it from our local library! I need to add it to my collection 😄
As a 90's kid, wish I knew this existed back then. I did lots of mini-stories as well but only used Powerpoint, playing around with the default clipart and animations. IMO, this is an untapped market and I hope there are modern versions of classic stuff like this for today's kids. My 3 year old is still enjoying Pajama Sam even though it was released almost 3 decades ago.
My kids love playing with this! They do have a version of the game available to play on a web-based emulator as well, which is awesome. It’s the older version of the game, but it still has most of the features!
@@harkeofficial Thanks. Found the web version! Will let my kid try it once he's a bit better with computers.
I never played this game, but I would have LOVED it at that age.
I'm old enough to remember playing this on Mac System 7 with At Ease... back in 1994 and 1995. 😬😳
Earlier you were at 6.22K subs. Now that I managed to sit down so I could watch the video, you are at 6.3K, so there goes my MS-DOS joke!
Thank you for the almost nostalgic feeling video(?) I’d hate to compare you, but you remind me of BrutalMoose with the content covered and delivery….but you know how to use an old computer 😅. Hope to see you get the recognition for the hard work and will definitely be back!
Thank you so much!!
i love fun weird-ass educational software like this 🙏
Really entertaining video! Glad the algorithm suggested you. (The MECC intro child laughs are terrifying.)
thank you so much!!
I feel like I should make an inspired video of the story weaver deluxe by using a VMware to install the old windows software but probably soon. I loved that video! ❤
Thank you so much!!
My school computer lab had its own desktop publishing software for making kids books for the Apple //gs. It didn't do animations or anything, but you could do different fonts and they had a variety of stock clipart. Then you can print it out on the dot matrix printer.
Unfortunately, none of the stock art had anything to do with things I was writing about.
I humbly request a tutorial on how you turned yourself into CD quality 1990's imagery, along with grainy voice over. This would be so useful for those of us desiring to achieve those fancy special effects in our videos. Many thanks, fair maiden.
By the way, what the heck happened to the cat?
Thanks so much for the comment! That will be coming up very soon!