The Magic City (Lost Edutainment Game from 1997) - FOUND
Aug 30, 2024 19:17:29 GMT
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Post by solidgent on Aug 30, 2024 19:17:29 GMT
I've uploaded my footage of the game here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_BlmmbSg7xUm7KS9VVXqv32hrS4djSC-&si=hbv5B4j1LrhAY3LK
ISO of the game can be found here: archive.org/details/magic-city
Highly recommended you run it in a virtual machine (mine runs XP). Make sure you enable "run in 256 color mode" on the game's exe.
Also I'm not sure how to uninstall the game once it's installed as for some reason it doesn't appear in Add/Remove Programs. Little disclaimer.
Also I'm not sure how to uninstall the game once it's installed as for some reason it doesn't appear in Add/Remove Programs. Little disclaimer.
The soundtrack has been requested too, which is here: archive.org/details/APPART/
(the URL auto-named itself APPART thanks to the first track)
Did anyone else ever have this game?
The Magic City is an edutainment game made by Attica in 1997 and is a charming and (for me) nostalgic edutainment game for kids aged 5-10. It's also memorable to me for a particularly eerie minigame that stands out among the rest (see below). I have never been able to find any evidence of this game's existence online, leading me to believe I hold a potentially lost game. I played it as a kid and still own the disc, which I have managed to now get running in a virtual machine.
Your guide was a character wearing an elf-like hat called Victor, and you had a bunch of minigames to select from a scrolling panoramic illustrated city. Victor would usually accompany you on these minigames and either play them with you or explain the rules. Games included colouring in circus pictures, completing a pipe network to make a fountain work, distributing different sized fish between two fish bowls to make the water levels match, etc.But one minigame that always stuck in my mind and used to unsettle me as a kid was set in a dark attic at night where you were playing a game against Victor, matching the coloured edges of triangular pieces on a board. For some bizarre reason Victor's voice was completely different in this minigame and this minigame only -- he suddenly had this creepy high-pitched voice and an American accent (instead of his usual English accent), which he'd speak in during his turns. It didn't sound remotely like his normal voice and was in noticeably lower sound quality, as he just sat and stared at you the whole time. And the music was suitably eerie and didn't match the rest of the game's happy-go-lucky soundtrack. It's all just so weird and out-of-place. This minigame can be viewed in Part 3 of the playlist.
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