The Nerd in “Unfinished Business”

The Nerd

Does LJN Video Art have ANY good aspects? Well, I guess you can change the color of the pen. You can change the color of the background. You can erase... [begins to erase] one pixel at a time! This is the worst thing ever. Etch-a-Sketch is better than this, and that doesn't even need electricity or forks to screw in your TV. You can give it the benefit of it being 1987 and one of the first of its kind. Later, there were games like Art Alive! on the Sega Genesis which was pretty cool, and Wacky Worlds Creativity Studio, which came with a mouse. But the one I have the most fond memories of, is Mario Paint on Super NES. [the footage of Mario Paint on SNES is shown] You can draw either free style or with a coloring book, with plenty of different pens, brushes, colors and patterns to work with. But it wasn't just about what you can do, but more about the overall presentation of it. For example, they give you so many creative ways to erase the drawing. [The picture is erased in different ways, like a video tape being rewound] It's unnecessary, but it's cool. Even the Save feature, which takes an insane amount of time just to save one shitty drawing, is still cool, because you get that catchy beat to make the time fly by. [he bobs his head to the beat] The sound effects are so enjoyable. I mean, it's awesome just the way when you click on the different color sets, it goes higher in pitch. [The noise it makes when you click on the different color sets goes higher in pitch every time he clicks it] : You can do simple animation, make music... ["Mario Paint"-made music plays] ...even play a Fly Swatter game, and with the Super NES mouse, this was a fun experience. You can even mess around with the title screen. [The Nerd messes with the title screen, clicking on letters and even making it explode] Looking back, it's not a very useful program. You can't do a whole lot with it compared to computer programs today, but what made it great, was the presentation. It made doing the most simple tasks a lot of fun. LJN Video Art is not fun at all. It's a disaster. No human being should ever have the misfortune of playing this. And yes, the Styrofoam was more interesting. It doesn't even qualify as a video game console, but it... comes with cartridges, so I guess... technically, it is a video game console! Well then it's the worst video game console of all time! LJN has really outdone themselves this time! The only thing worse would be to play it on the Roll & Rocker! Yeah, imagine that!