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American Girls Premiere: Text-To-Speech Mayhem
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- čas přidán 20. 04. 2017
- The American Girl brand is one of those widely beloved things, I hear. I may not have grown up with the franchise, but that doesn't stop me from trying out the PC game from 1997 and all its absurd voices!
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"sometimes I have a sudden urge to fart on this chair"
Don't we all?
Lazy Game Reviews nooo yes
The cheesy music pretty much sold it for me XD
*Fart noises*
was lmao xD
I absolutely loved this game when I was a kid. I made a very weird and complex play with my sister that we still quote today. We recorded our voices for dialogue and even held a boombox up to the microphone to get part of a Beck song in there.
That is awesome.
We were so proud of ourselves for figuring that one out. It was "Sexx Laws" from Midnite Vultures (we were in elementary school-- our parents didn't really have any CDs off limit in their collection). I still giggle sometimes at a scene we had where two "actors" playing corpses argue about who's supposed to be playing the dead person in the scene, and then two men come in carrying a third body saying "Corpse Delivery". It's the weirdest inside joke.
that is awesome. my sister and I played this too and made some weird stuff
I remember my sister and I had a serious play with Felicity... but included a running gag where, if a character ev er walked past a certain spot in Felicity's house, they had to stop and do the "Fall down" animation because they had a bad floorboard. XD
@@Terestrasz This is totally a thing kids would do. Make some ludicrous running joke and laugh endlessly about it. I remember playing Polly Pockets with a friend, and I had some lunatic in a pink Volkswagen Beetle occasionally drive through and wreck everything.
Also, when playing 'house' with friends, potty-training the children (which were stuffed animals I had, rather than actual dolls) always involved explosions. Because nothing's funnier than juvenile bathroom humor.
I feel sorry for all the parents who had to sit through bad text to speech period dramas and tell their kids how good it was.
My sister tried to make a character in Opening Night say "Booooooooriiiiiiing!" but she typed "BBBBBBBOOOOOOORRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGG". So the result was it saying every single letter which I thought was hilarious. Unfortunately my parents took the game away from us because of that ( as well as the play my sister made where the characters were talking about how horrible of a person I was. Bitch.)
With this game, we didn't do it - though my sister did type "BBBBBBBBBBBOOOOOOORRRRRRIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNGGGGGGG" once just to give me a warning that this game does it as well.
UberKrassMann Yeah. Doesn't seem fair.
Omg did we live in the same house?! I would drag my mother into my room, sit her on my bed and have her watch all the wack a doodle stories I would make.
The parents of old had something called patience. Hard to come by theses days.
Terestrasz I too am puzzled by their reaction. Seems unreasonable.
fresh oats
*THUD*
Brother, may I procure your F R E S H O A T S.
FRESH OATS. FRESH OATS.
someone remind me the game thats from, it was some shitty dos game with a horse saying "fresh oats" or something
Ninja Nanny, p sure
I want those sprites in doom. It would easily become the funniest mod ever made.
Bill Clod
This. A thousand times, this.
Even then the Tim Allen Doom takes the cake on the funniest mod ever.
FedorovAvtomat can I have the link?
+FedorovAvtomat *EEEEHHHUUUU??*
OH HO HO HO HO HOH!
"Is this a new Sims pack or am I going crazy?"
It has more stuff than a stuff pack, and possibly more than an expansion, so I'm going to have to say this is the Sims 5.
Clint is my favorite American Girl.
💖
She sells for $115, complete with a woodgrain sweater as her meet outfit and a 486 PC as an accessory. And a Goodwill playset as the big-ticket item, going for around $399.
*URGE FOR FRESH OATS INTENSIFIES*
XanthinZarda Urge to thud oatsifies.
*[URGE TO TRY METH INTENSIFIES]*
Here's a fun tip, IIRC. If you ctrl+shift-click and move an object or person around the set, it will record that as a custom animation. You can do this to make random household furniture like chairs come alive and dominate their human masters!
Kinky~ 😏
I would like to see an entire video just of you making scenes in a program like this
Sweet Christ man. Make us a full, 15 minute immature play.
I would so watch the crap outta that
This needs to happen.
I second this!
yes yes please
a year and a half late to the party - I would easily watch an LGR 'American Girl" play. No doubt about it.
My sister and I used to play this game for hours when we were kids. The voice recording (our incomprehensible screams) and the TTS engine trying to read garbage (!!!!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!!!;;;!!!) was (and probably still is) hilarious.
Krak my sister and I loved this game and did so many stupid things with it! We laughed for hours. Good times...
My sister and I used to play this all the time as a kid, also! So much fun! I
My sister and I also used to play this game. I might've been too young to fully understand it, but I still had tons of fun messing around with the character models and different set pieces.
Thanks! DeadlyComics drew it for me.
I still remember some of the ridiculous lines my brother and I made the characters say.
You have selected Microsoft Sam as the computer's default voice.
My ROFLcopter goes soi soi soi
Hello I am Mastur Cheef lololololololololololololol. hahahahahahaha.
I r guy, whos gun t33ch u leson.
SOISOISOISOISOISOISOISOISOISOI
*Foreground window.*
As someone who was OBSESSED with American Girl back in the day (seriously, for a while we had our own private shopper at their Chicago store, it was insane), I can shed a bit of light as to why this program is about plays. See, in an effort to make the dolls and books more of a franchise, spin-off titles were published. These ranged from cookbooks to paper dolls to a collection of short plays. These plays were all just the first book in each respective girl's series- Kirsten's play was "Meet Kirsten," just condensed. The preview scenes you can view from each girl are actually just segments from each play. This is also why the Samantha play was included- to give users a chance to see what the plays were about (and then go buy the rest).
n00dl3g@l
What in the heck is a private shopper?
Basically if we wanted something that wasn't in stock, we'd get first pick because she would grab it for us. We got it because we spent so much freaking money on them- like we didn't just have the dolls, we had the dolls that looked like us and multiple playsets and all the books... God, we were spoiled.
@@n00dl3gal This must be a 1% thing. Thank god I grew up normal.
@@cygil1 it wasn't even a normal thing, we only got them for Christmas and birthdays. But... ok, yeah, def something my parents spent way too much on in retrospect.
@@cygil1 Nah, at least not anymore. You can hire private shoppers these days and its somewhat affordable.
The FRESH OATS gag at the end got me good.
Maybe it's a sign that I'm immature, but I laughed at every "play" you showed.
My sister and I had this and Opening Night. Let's just say a lot of our plays in Opening NIght were... immature and bizarre. (and in the case of one, downright mean spirited. :( my sister made a play where the characters talked about what a bad person I was and depicted me doing things like peeing in her coke or eating her cake.)
This one we actually took *SOMEWHAT* seriously.
You can drop the 'maybe'
This game was my childhood. I spent so many hours making stupid plays that made no sense. I still have the game and on rare occasions watch the plays I made forever ago and laugh hysterically at the bizarre sense of humor I had as a kid.
If possible, upload it to CZcams so people can laugh as well! :D
MysterySolvingLady i know what u mean.. I do remember my friend and I saying stupid things like u are a doo doo head lolol
good gal always **fart silently**
...and the synthesized male voice has a strange vaporwave vibe on it.
A E S T H E T I C S
This program is a meme waiting to happen.
JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN
I was wondering how long that was going to take...
agreed.
I had to laugh at some of the plays that exist on CZcams making Mrs. Ford evil.
My sister and I used to do it too, though not perverted evil, just giving the kids deadly (and stupid) homework assignments.
"class, today's homework is to fall down in the streets."
Sarah: "We'll get killed!"
Addy: "Can't we eat a stick of butter again?"
Harriet: *angry expression* "Addy, no. Not the butter!"
@@Jaybiooh aeiou
I really liked the American girl brand as a kid but I didn't know about this game. So talking about the game itself is fascinating to me but the little bit of corporate history behind it that you provide is really what sets you apart and makes this video so interesting.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I absolutely agree.
Samara Burton I never knew American girls was a thing, My sister had some dolls called Australian Girls made by the same company.
They're produced and developed by different companies though, from what I know.
Same here. I loved the American Girl series as a kid.
(Samantha is the best)
7:54 Oh god, I caught that ninja nanny reference...
Not sure if that's something to be proud or ashamed of ;)
Fresh oats.
*_SNORT_*
**ominous music playing**
Dead.
Oh, the fun you and Pushing Up Roses could have with this software. Maybe the two of you could do a collaboration on it.
"Maybe you should try meth" 🤣🤣🤣🤣😅😅😂😂😂😂
Maybe I should
I'm 98% sure there was an 'Eldritch' expansion pack for this which added some cosmic horror themed backdrops, better suited to some of the voices. I could be wrong though.
F’tagen!
Fun fact: My grandpa was the lead art director for The Learning Company way back when. So that was pretty awesome growing up.
YES!!! My sister had this when we were growing up. My friend and I used to mess with it constantly. If you made it say "la la la la la" at the end it would say "Louisiana". It also crashed CONSTANTLY. Oh memories.
The very intense tutorial girl had me dying LOL
I remember having this kit for years and then finally sending in the subscription to the newsletter. Unfortunately, by that point they had stopped printing it (it's was like 2003 at that point?) They sent an apology and some American girls clothes, which was super cool of them.
I had this game! I played it all the time... well until my parents found the 40 minute long murder mystery their 9 year old produced to be a little too disturbing.
Truly an amazingly customizable game.
WHY ISN'T THERE A MODERNIZED VERSION OF THIS!!!! Seriously though, I'd like to see something like this using today's hardware and software.
There ought to be someone who's up to making an Unreal Engine 4/Source remake of this, Gmod style.
The Movies was this minus goofy TTS, but plus full mid-2000s 3D, with postpro and stuff and plenty of canned animation, which probably still makes it the easiest to use game of this kind...
Seems easy enough to do with something like Unity or Unreal.
The problem is Windows users only get a single TTS voice, which is Cortana.
And I believe apple has stripped down do just Siri.
This is in contrast to MacOS9, which had dozens.
@nebufabu CallMeKevin's videos of him playing this are the best examples of how much potential hilarity it has. lol
ｉ ａｍ ｆｒｏｍ ｐｉｔｔｓｂｕｒｇｈ
Smedis2 same
Come any closer and I will throw a pinball at you. And then walk away slowly.
Throne Zwei *dramatic music*
Nao Kurogami Maybe you should try meth
"What the dick?"
Clint, this is probably the funniest video review you've done - maybe tied with that horrifying Ninja Nanny game ("fresssshhh ooooaats").
And just like that, I heard "fresssshhh ooooaats" at the end of this video while typing this comment.
Can someone please recreate the bee movie in this?
Bee Movie except every time they say 'bee' the text to speech voice lowers by one octave.
Don't *BEE* hasty.
*roses?*
*vanessaaaa*
*yay*
Katie Logue The game actually works on Windows 10 if you know what you're doing, i.e. manually copying files and setting registry entries, but I've also uploaded a fixed repack of the game if anyone is interested. ;)
Personally I'd rather do The Room.
I remember playing around with Spiderman Cartoon Maker way too much when I was a kid. This thing seems a whole lot more fleshed out, and I'd have loved this thing at age 8 or so, whether I knew what the American Girls brand was or not. Also, the stage plays exhibited here are all masterpieces.
Yes, I had the same one, but since the left/right mechanics were based on your mouse movement, climbing walls would always flip the character model back and forth rapidly. Bought it at CompUSA, but didn't end up using it for long.
I remember getting that Spiderman maker with our Packard Bell back in the day. I messed around with it for a bit, but quickly grew bored of it and went on to play Journey Man Project instead.
"What the dick?"
That came out of nowhere and it made me burst into laughter. I love it.
I saw this in my subscriptions and went "OH MY GOSH YES" out loud, to myself, alone in the room. I had the first edition of this program AND Opening Night, so the similarities weren't lost on me. When this came out, I was just about too old to play with my American Girl stuff, but I could still appreciate the hilarity of the text-to-speech "feature."
Will you do a video about Opening Night, as well? I freaking loved that.
My sister once made a play dedicated to insulting me on Opening Night. When I went to show it to mom and dad she changed most of the dialogue to "BBBBBBBOOOOOOOORRRRRRRIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNGGGGGG". :|
Josefina was my American Girl growing up. I couldn't afford the doll, but I had all of her books.
I love that you always give us a background on the game and game company, so we know a bit about how it was received when it came out. Mad props, as always!
Glad you're enjoying!
Now I want a series of videos with short plays created using this game.
I had this as a kid and would always write crazy stuff with my family like, “Where’s the bathroom? I have to go poo-poo.” The text to speech made everything even funnier. If I wanted a character to yell and typed out, “Aaaahh!” the text to voice would pronounce every letter individually instead of one sound. I liked using Samantha’s world for writing mysteries in particular. On a completely different note, I would love to see the movie The Room acted out on American Girl Premiere.
BelovedDagger
Yes to the last part.
AaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAah! Text to speech has its weird quirks!
As someone who was the target audience and absolutely LIVED for American Girl anything, I can confirm that Premiere was used to make fart jokes 98% of the time. I also distinctly remember the Mac version having access to all the Mac system voices. More than once there was a robot storyline or someone drowning in my plays.
My cousin had this! It was a cool game, well for people who liked doll house. It was fascinating for me too when I was a boy, it's like having my own stage! Then the sims came out, and we left this game somewhere.
Nice found man! Keep bringing up those sweet memories
Clint this was your most hilarious video ever!! I really hope there are more games out there that can provide us similar videos.
Thanks! I've got some things in mind, stay tuned ;)
Lazy Game Reviews I am subscribed to a lot of the channels, but I only have instant notifications for LGR, 8bit guy and tech moan. My five year old daughter loves your videos, even though she can't speak and understand English (we live in Greece) and she calls you the Thrifting guy. Keep up the good work!
i know this video is six years old at this point, but as an adult collector and former child that grew up with american girl dolls, i really appreciate that you didn't make fun of dolls or the concept of the brand (at least in what it originally was)! pleasant company produced a LOT of play scripts, theater kits, and dress like your doll outfits. i think a lot of the focus on plays comes from the way most kids play with their dolls, which is acting out stories and scenarios, just like a play! i used to come up with bizarre scenarios all the time to act out with my dolls, so your stories made in the program isn't out of left field lmao
A lot of the props in this game are actual American girl furniture (such as the side chair at 6:22, that was included in the Felicity set). For a kid really into American girls, it was so cool to be able to make a play with stuff that you own in real life.
I'm screaming and dying from nostalgia right now! My sister and I were OBSESSED with American Girl everything and had even put on one of the plays with an actual audience.
I had this game as a little girl and I loved the crap out of it! I even still have the baseball hat somewhere, though it's much too small for my gargantuan adult head. We also had a Simpson's game that was similar to this. No text-to-speech, but it had voice clips from the show from nearly every character you could ever want. Does anybody know what that game was called?
That would be the Simpsons Cartoon Studio.
Thank you! I could not for the life of me remember what that was called!
Oh hell, I remember that software! It was amusing for a short while, but it had nothing on what 3D Movie Maker could do at the time.
Ha, when he said he didn't have the hat, I was thinking to myself, "It's probably made for children, and wouldn't fit his head anyway."
My siblings and I made some horrendous and unforgettable productions with this beautiful program as kids. We still quote them to this day. Our own friggin' creations, mind you. This game is iconic in my heart.
I was a child stage actress obsessed with American Girls. This (and Titanic Out of Time) were the only video game I was allowed to play and boy did I play I play these to death. They were genuinely so fun.
Someone should make a web series using this program, that would be the shit
LOL oh wow I never thought you would review something like this. XD I loved American Girl growing up, I didn't have this game but had the Dress Designer one. American Girl made activity book/kits to go along with their dolls (cooking/crafting/etc) and one of them was a series of plays and theater related things with scripts and things, so I am assuming this game was born from those materials as well. A computer game about making a play with these girls isn't too much of a stretch because most of the girls in their stories do participate in a play or some sort of production. The text to speech thing is a little... wow. I would be interested in seeing how you like the American Girls Dress Designer game though! Don't worry, there's actual dialogue in it, no creepy text to speech. XD
Bornahorse I had the Dress Designer too!
6:58 - Amazing scriptwriting. 10/10
at nearly 40 fart jokes still make me laugh
I was in the middle of drinking tea, when I heard the "What the dick / I am from Pittsburg" line. The tea came through my nose when I started laughing uncontrollably.
When watching an LGR video, drinking is never a good idea. XD
someone please recreate the "allstar" music video in this!
I was absolutely obsessed with this game and the American Girl franchise. I can assure you I got immeasurable enjoyment from this game. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane!
Your videos never fail to put me in a great mood! I even binge your videos whenever I've had a hard day at work...so thank you, LGR, for making my life a lot less hectic and a lot more lax and enjoyable :)
I almost forgot about ninja nanny thanks for reminding me
The text-to-speech sounds very much like WOPR from Wargames. "Would you like to play a game?"
oh god i completely forgot this existed. i sent the newspaper subscription card into american girl years later when i found it again (like 2008?) just to see what would happen. they sent back a letter saying they didn't run it anymore (of course), told me about their website, and included a drawstring bag with the american girls logo on it. pretty cool!
Coming from the Ninja Nanny Video....Fresh Oats is the best thing I have ever heard.
As an O.G 90's DOS and Windows gamer LGR hits every point on the nostalgia nodes. Congratulations man.
My sister got this as present years ago. She got bored with it fast but I used it to make dumb comedy movies. It was a pain to get anything to work.
This seems like an early predecessor of The Movies. I have to say I kinda admire its (at least as it seems from this video) wide variety of assets to use to create scenes and quite a number of options for each scene. I could imagine spending a lot of time with this back in the days (even with that American Girls license I would probably despise as a child).
I probably spent more time on this program growing up than on any other game.
One thing you can do is move your actors into the floor, so I would make absurd plays about disembodied heads that ran around yelling "circle circle circle" (which the text to speech always said like kurkle).
Hello from 2022. Looking at the American Girls Club stuff you pulled out of that tin made my soul fall through the floor. I cannot remember any "plays" I ever made with this game, but I am certain they were far more mature.
4:58 I wasnt very interested until this. Bravo! Bravo!
One of those voices reminds me of the Flamingo from that surreal show in Max Payne.
"THE FLESH OF FALLEN ANGELS."
I had this as a little girl and it was my favorite. I wasn’t wealthy enough to have the dolls but loved being able to create worlds. This was my Sims before Sims.
🤣🤣🤣
I was OBSESSED with this game as a kid!!!! Thank you so much for giving me this nostalgia gift. I'll never forget crowding around the speaker with the volume turned all the way down so our parents wouldn't hear us making the robot voice say swears. I also remember a lot of purposefully misspelling words to get it to pronounce them correctly (it had particular trouble with the word "imbecile"). What a gem.
I was not looking forward to watching this video, but now, strangely enough, I'm glad I did 😂😂
Fresh oats...
The 4 PC games are mentioned in your Lazy Game Reviews video: Let's Talk About Me! CD-ROM, McKenzie & Co. CD-ROM, Rockett's New School and Barbie Fashion Designer. My mom bought Rockett's New School (old PC game from 1997) off of the Smart Kids Software store website a few years ago.
I love how this educational channel about obsolte computer stuff gives me bigger, more frequent laughs than most any of the comedy content I've seen on CZcams.
please make random skits in this game every so often xD
It goes to show that games are really more than the sum of their parts
Imagine what people like Scott the Woz can make with this. This game needs to be more well known.
Someone make a channel of just purely this game with the characters saying weird, unsettling absurdist bullshit and I can die happy. Oh my god I laughed so fucking hard at this. This is better than any drug.
Pit-Fighter: American Girls Edition
Holy crap I was so into these dolls, books, etc. as a kid. Actually me and my little brother both. They added a ton of other characters over the years. My favorite was Josephina though. >_>
the american girls premiere was also the name of a short-(ish)lived performance venue and program (i think) in one of the big american girl stores in nyc (? again, not sure) that ran sometime in the 80s to the early 00s! they put on shows based on certain characters' stories :) just some context on why this uh ... exists
I have a feeling this and/or "Opening Night" is going to become an Internet meme eventually...
FRESH OATS!
This game reminds me of Storybook Weaver which was like 90% of my computer usage from the age of 7-10.
this might be your funniest episode yet! I sincerely thank you for the laughs!
American girls premiere was my first experience with any type of video editing, and some of the tricks I use an ending my videos. I picked up playing this game.
😲😲😲
Steamed hams but recreated on American Girl premiere
Turns out I'm not the only one with that idea xD
Oh my god, it sounds exactly like Tomodachi Life.
Actually... You're kinda right. Especially the "low-pitched" female voice.... Odd.
Oh my god, that Hexen in the background!
AAAHHHHH I love this! Thanks so much for this video. I collect American Girl Dolls and I have the tin and user guide from this game. Still waiting to find the entire set.
LGR, please do a Let's Play video for this!!!
highlight of this clip 8:07
Can you review 911 operator? I think you will enjoy the game
Did someone mention Bangers?
I love watching your videos sober a lot but watching them on opioids is an awesome experience as well! Keep up the good work, been watching for years and I'm not anywhere close to getting bored, thanks for so many videos over the years!
Any content you find time to create is a joy. And I know they are the probably the most involved. But please more "Tech Tales" videos!
there should be series of nonsense done with this game on youtube already. I'd waste many hours on watching them for sure.
I think Kevin O'Leary still gets a 2.5¢ royalty for each clip you play.
Gregory Gonzalez Kevin O'Leary won't rest until he has ALL the money! Muwahahahaha!
LGR, you're teaching me stuff, and I thought I knew a thing or two about old software. You're probably the only one who'd be able to identify the source of the software for this.
This was a truly strange video about a strange game, but having played this as a kid (and thinking it was just a fun, regular old childhood hallucination) this was a great video to see from you! Awesome as always!
Now review Microsoft 3D movie maker
Imagine such a game with todays 3d technology... and microtransaction nonsense
It's called "GoAnimate".
Had this game way back in '97. The text to speech really scared the hell out of me.
I Love your Videos. Your humor is always so dry and on point. And I love your enthusiasm and that your videos are very well edited. Greetings from a long time channel subscriber and a big fan from Germany. I Love that you are grounded and always speak where your mouth is. ;) Keep on making such good Oldie- Odd- thrifting XD meant thriving videos...