![]() Overall, PC Collection with the Loopy Mouse is, while perhaps not the Lotus Organizer clone of my dreams, I’d say a better introduction to the Loopy than either Wanwan Aijou Monogatari or Dream Change. Putting them together is easy enough, though at first I didn’t notice that they’re actually designed to overlap somewhat I guess this reduces the visible seam if you put things together properly. (The option also exists to print four small copies on a single sticker sheet) This option is available for all printing, including your own designs. Instead, it just prints onto four separate stickers, and relies on you to put them together. Of course, the Loopy’s printer is limited in the size of how large it can print, and this doesn’t use any special paper or expansion options. Since it rewarded me with the option to print my completed puzzle, I decided to take advantage of one of PC Collection’s takes on the sticker printing: a big sticker. ![]() What passes for “games” here are quite simple, like an imiation of a crane game, or a puzzle app where you can use the mouse to drag and drop puzzle pieces to put the picture back together. 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. The system was a big flop in Japan (due to the niche demographic), and was released in a limited amount of copies which makes it hard to find.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. Music/Sounds: A 6 note electric piano tune.Īvailability: Seen when a Casio Loopy system has been turned on. ![]() Technique: The logo flying from opposite sides of the screen and the flash. Logo: On a blue background, the white outlines of the word "CASIO" in its corporate font fly in from both the left and right sides of the screen to the center, causing a bright flash which makes the rest of the logo white. Targeted at young females, the Loopy included a built-in thermal color printer that could be used to create stickers from game screenshots, with almost every game released for the system using the printing technology. The Casio Loopy is a 32-bit home video game console primarily sold in Japan. ![]()
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