![]() The appeal here, of course, is that you can then print your fine art as a sticker. Not only is there the Windows 3.1 Paintbrush icon, which opens a free-form paint, but you can use a supply of stickers of outfits and animals, which you can customize is the dedicated outfit and animal buttons. The real heart of the game is the paint program. ![]() It’s a bit more “real” than Mario Paint, with a variety of instruments and backing rhythms. There is no actual floppy disk drive, however. You can save your creations to the cartridge the floppy disc on the main screen manages your save data. Other options are a bit more fun, like the keyboard, which lets you make music. I don’t quite understand why you would want a word processor controlled with a mouse, but it’s there. The Xerox Alto (that’s what it is, right? I mean, look at that portrait monitor) in the top left corner opens the word processor. The menu presents the list of applications. It’s more of a selection of applications, presented around a loose computer theme, with a common sticker functionality. It’s even less of a game than Dream Change. PC Collection, or as the title screen calls it, Loopy’s PC Collection, is not a game. So how does PC Collection the game play? PC Collection the game ![]() A mouse-driven interface might have been a lot more natural, and could’ve made it faster to choose outfits. For example, remember Dream Change? That game had to rely on large amounts of menus to choose between different outfits. It’s not uncomfortable in my hand, though, and given the target audience, being small’s not a bad thing.Īctually, a mouse is kind of an ideal interface for the Loopy. Being from the distant past of the 1990’s, it’s a ball mouse, and it’s a little bit smaller than the SteelSeries gaming mouse I have at my desktop. That’s right– PC Collection includes not only a cartridge, but also a mouse, along with a sweet mousepad in the same pale lavender as the rest of the Loopy. If any of that spirit existed in Japan, where the PC had even more of an office reputation than it did in America, then I imagine it’s to be found here in PC Collection. I would go in, make different pages in my agenda, give tabs different colors, and pretend I was a very busy businessperson doing very important business. When I was a child– and I’m talking quite young, around the time of kindergarten– I was fascinated by Lotus Organizer, which was a piece of office organization software for Windows. But while we all know little girls love stickers, what else do they love? And if you didn’t say “game console add-ons”, well, you can kiss that dream job at Casio good-bye, because that’s what we’ve got from them today. Remember the Casio Loopy? It’s a game console whose target audience is very much not me, which was designed to allow preteen girls to make stickers.
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