saturday, august 26, 2006
Real frogs and turtles for a day
I went to the Academy of Sciences today because I like natural history museums. This one is much more kid-friendly than the Santa Barbara one, making it somewhat less Britta-friendly, but I liked it anyway. There were lots of interesting little creatures on display.
My favorite animals are the ones I remember from playing Amazon Trail II. I somehow learned a lot from that game, both while “exploring the rainforest” and “fishing” — I’m sure I could still identify pixelly macaws, termites, coral snakes, howler monkeys, taro root, etc. I learned the silhouettes of dozens of small and giant fishes as I caught them for my food. And now, I like this frog not only because it looks awesome, but because it was part of a mini-game inside an old CD-ROM I played until it got too scratched to work.
I like turtles because they’re easy to make out of clay. But looking at real ones makes me realize that my little handmade ones are very stylized, and quite lame compared to these guys. This long-necked one was amazingly cute, as was the pancake turtle next door. My picture doesn’t capture its sweet wrinkles and joints and hands, or how it darts around with this head inches away from its body, poking in and out of leaves and gravel.
comments (2)
WTF!!! When I was a kid I always enjoyed the field trips to the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Anyway, all of The Learning Company games I ever played came on floppy disks (both 3½" and 5"¼ in the same box) and ran from DOS with executable names like ssa.exe and ssr.exe and ssg.exe.
– Douglas Thrift on 8/27/2006 01:52:21
FF2 taught me how to read
– kyle on 8/30/2006 00:56:54
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