Post by svarthattkatt on Apr 30, 2019 12:53:12 GMT
Monster World is a Swedish creation known as Weird n Wild Creatures in America, based around collecting informative leaflets about monstrous creatures. I owned a game based on it but I don't know where it is now so I can't give you more information on it besides what's in my memories and my own research.
From what I remember it was a simple point and click game starring their mascot dinosaur Rex, it wasn't some MMO thing. I remember the CD had two reptilian yellow eyes on the cover. Possibly you had to log into their website to use the game. If that is true it would make it lost media since the website is now defunct.
Researching it I found this site where Swedish posters mention it:
www.flashback.org/t1218559
I have translated the relevant comments here, the rest of the posters just speak about the leaflets:
MANFREDGOOSE: You are thinking of Monster World, which included both factual and fictional animals. I have an old CD with some sort of computer program that you got when you subscribed there.
Helge-fossmo: Right, so Monster World was the name. Ah sure, I remember you could receive a CD sometimes.
baldersballe1: I even found a CD-ROM that only contained a link to their website (that is long dead).
I was a really big Monster World fan but I don't remember several CD's, so I believe Helge-fossmo's wording is incorrect when he implies there were several. I assume there is one.
I would love it if someone manages to find this. Monster World was my childhood. It's weird they would spend money to mass produce CD's if the game was stored on their website, maybe the game was stored on the CD and just needed the website as a password? Meaning if a hacker had the CD he could crack the game to work again? Just a guess, sorry I'm computer illiterate. Maybe some Swede could contact the publisher and see if they still have the resources the website was built on? Maybe the game was a flash file?
Here is a link to the official Monster World website on the internet archive:
web.archive.org/web/*/www.mymonsterworld.com
Evidence this is a Swedish series is that fanpages for Weird n Wild Creatures lists publication as starting in 2003, but the Monster World site existed in 1999 with the only word on it being Vidare, meaning Onwards. Along with International Masters Publishers having their head office located in Malmö.
From what I remember it was a simple point and click game starring their mascot dinosaur Rex, it wasn't some MMO thing. I remember the CD had two reptilian yellow eyes on the cover. Possibly you had to log into their website to use the game. If that is true it would make it lost media since the website is now defunct.
Researching it I found this site where Swedish posters mention it:
www.flashback.org/t1218559
I have translated the relevant comments here, the rest of the posters just speak about the leaflets:
MANFREDGOOSE: You are thinking of Monster World, which included both factual and fictional animals. I have an old CD with some sort of computer program that you got when you subscribed there.
Helge-fossmo: Right, so Monster World was the name. Ah sure, I remember you could receive a CD sometimes.
baldersballe1: I even found a CD-ROM that only contained a link to their website (that is long dead).
I was a really big Monster World fan but I don't remember several CD's, so I believe Helge-fossmo's wording is incorrect when he implies there were several. I assume there is one.
I would love it if someone manages to find this. Monster World was my childhood. It's weird they would spend money to mass produce CD's if the game was stored on their website, maybe the game was stored on the CD and just needed the website as a password? Meaning if a hacker had the CD he could crack the game to work again? Just a guess, sorry I'm computer illiterate. Maybe some Swede could contact the publisher and see if they still have the resources the website was built on? Maybe the game was a flash file?
Here is a link to the official Monster World website on the internet archive:
web.archive.org/web/*/www.mymonsterworld.com
Evidence this is a Swedish series is that fanpages for Weird n Wild Creatures lists publication as starting in 2003, but the Monster World site existed in 1999 with the only word on it being Vidare, meaning Onwards. Along with International Masters Publishers having their head office located in Malmö.
