Thank you so much. I have been waiting for 20 years to hear the song at 09:49 sing by "...The Little Squeak and the Three Chirps!" It has been stuck in my head for two decades!
"I'm a beaver and I rap, and I baseball cap" those words have stayed with me for more than 20 years now. Still remember the day my dad bought this game for me.
This is also the first Living Books game to use stock sounds from the Hollywood Edge's Cartoon Trax Sound Effects Library and Sound Ideas's Hanna-Barbera Sound Effects Library. Both sound libraries would continue to be used heavily in subsequent Living Books titles, and many other kids' PC game developers were fond of using those sound effects as well (Humongous Entertainment was particularly fond of using the Cartoon Trax and Hanna-Barbera libraries, too.)
3:34 Tortoise:"Don't you just love mornings" Hare:"NO, there too slow" 5:42 Tortoise:"Hey Hare" Hare:"Huh" Tortoise:"Did you forget to Recycle that newspaper" Hare:"Ah Alright" Me:"Give the newspaper to Oscar the Grouch"
Hey Riley, what do you think of this dialog... 6:40 Hare: "At your speed, it'll be lunch before you finish breakfast!" Tortoise: "It will not" You: "Finish your french toast and orange juice"
@@jeanneflaherty4491 Simon: That Hare is moving so fast, he's not paying attention to where he's going! (The roof gives way, causing Simon to fall through.)
I really like the fact that the turtle wears a blue T-shirt with a collar on it, especially since it helps keep him in shape. The hare, on the other hand, only wears a red vest with no sleeves and no collar, so I guess that's why he got tired from all that running around. I felt so sorry for the heartbroken rodent that the sneaky amphibian beat him to it, though I felt happy for the winner esp. since I like turtles so much.
Or not. Wanderful put this on the iOS just recently. I even linked it in the description. They also plan on Mac, PC, and Android ports too. There is still hope in the world :D
I remember this game! :D So many memories! I'm not sure if it's a Living Books game or not, but does anyone else also remember playing a similar CD-ROM game that came out around the same time, where you were in a house with various animal characters, and could play a variety of board games with them? Anyone know what it was called?
OMG...what a nostalgia trip, this was one of my favorite Living books in 90's. My favorite page is the 2nd page at 7:35, always digged that music...still do!
@ 8:52, the 🐸's face puffs up, burps and says, "Excuse me." It made me 🤣 when I was younger and it still does today in my life as adult. 👍🏻 if you humorously agree.
@greenchristopher92 I'm recording Dr. Seuss's ABC right now, about halfway through. I've had finals all week, so I didn't get much recording time. I think Mr. Blisters is also working on one, and that unnamed guy is working on Arthur's Teacher Trouble (epic paper airplanes FTW!).
This was the first Living Books game that was not based on an existing book, IIRC. Sure, the story of the Tortoise and the Hare must be centuries old, and has been adapted numerous times, but here they created new versions of the characters that make it unique to the game. I believe the only truly-original stories in the series were "Ruff's Bone" and "Harry and the Haunted House."
god that takes me back ages! i used to love these books, i also had one with arthur. i listened to them all day :) i also had some other games which i cant remember their names, there were whole series for first through sixth grade. if anyone had them too i would appreciate them telling me :P
Joey "The Hare" Earwax's younger brother Earl Stephen Ray Daniel Earwax later appeared in another Living Books PC game Harry and the Haunted House where he is the one of the two main tritagonists alongside Stanley Andrew "Stinky" Jones. Also, TJ "The Tortoise" Turtle's younger sister Samantha Andrea "Sammy" Turtle had previously appeared in another Living Books PC game Just Grandma and Me where she made a cameo appearance.
StFidjnr Tortoise:"Hey Hare" Hare:"Huh" Tortoise:"Did you forget to Recycle that newspaper" Hare:"Ah Alright" Campbell Morton:"Give the newspaper to Oscar the Grouch"
I only had the demo for this, which, of course, I loved. It's a darn shame, too, it's a good one! I love how the crow is named Simon. That's so random XD
For some reason, when you click on "Read To Me", the Tortoise says "OK" instead of "Here's the story in English/Spanish" despite the fact this story can be told in English AND Spanish. The same things happens to Little Monster At School.
I played this game and Just Grandma and Me when I was a kid. I adored Living Books. I wish I could have played them all. The windows always did something cute. I remember the windows were one of my favorite things to click on.
Funnily, so did I when I first started this channel. Most of the other guys I ran this with wondered why I'd be the one to start it when I'm the only one who didn't have any games. Also the reason the demos were the first thing I uploaded.
i still have the green eggs and ham game, i used to play all the demos including this one, the arthur one, the one where the kid hit his base ball into the spooky garden ect ect, i really want to play it again but my pc won't let me, i think its because i running windows 7 or something, does anyone know of a patch or emulator that may help solve my problem, id be most grateful :)
Thing is, this needs a take two. You didn't click on the iguana's tail (he does a heavy metal solo with the Beaver as percussion backup) or the bark of the tree in which the squirrel did an almost-perfect playing of the birds' song on her sax (before falling backwards).
That one is the tortoise that looked like the muppet (the green one) voices actually low one is actually goofy or that one is the hare that looks like roger rabbit is voicing similating Norbert or SpongeBob!
haha, now I remember, thanks for pointing it out to me. When I saw that the walkthru was on YT, I just immediatly favorited it on my page XD, just didn't see the whole video because it makes me feel old :(
Haha, yep, as kids we always saw the demos, but wanted to see the rest of the game. We'd beg our parents forever, and they'd finally go out and buy and think they'd have a rest... until their kid shows up begging them to buy ANOTHER game they played the demo of on the game they just bought. Funnily enough, there's actually a sampler with 16 demos. That's more than the amount of pages most of the games had!
