ScreenToyz Stitch - LGR Halloween Thing
Added 2025-10-27 13:14:21 +0000 UTCSpooky greetings! Happy to be back with another thing I've put off for years, found again in storage while moving back home, and dug up way more interesting stuff about its history than I ever intended when I first acquired it.
Taking a look at Screen Toyz from 1994! Which are gimmicky peripherals plugging into a computer's keyboard port that allow you to control interactive screensavers... so uh, just a game then, right? What even is an "Interactive screensaver" other than a game by another name! Yeah they sure tried something, charged $50 for it, failed spectacularly, and that's how you end up on LGR 30 years later.
Hope you enjoy this bit of seasonal silliness! If anything I sure had a lotta fun putting together some Halloweeny visuals and stuff. I rarely do anything for the holiday so this was just a good time, so hopefully that comes across. Stay tuned for the next LGR things in November, it's shaping up to be quite a full month!
Comments
Ha, 50 bucks for a slow Frankenstein to slowly punch your Excel documents. Back in MY day (read: 2000s kid), all I had to do to "destroy" the desktop was download a free program... way more satisfying than this lumbering obnoxious oaf! lmao
Cyborg Sun
2025-11-01 15:11:00 +0000 UTCWith no offense intended to the developer who has already commented here, I have to imagine that a lot of the people who actually paid money for this were underwhelmed.
CharlieVictor
2025-10-28 23:15:39 +0000 UTCHahaha! Another Dankpods fan here!
CharlieVictor
2025-10-28 23:05:11 +0000 UTCI love your holiday themed episodes :) Surely there are Thanksgiving games 🤔
Z
2025-10-28 06:35:32 +0000 UTCIt's great to see that you can do more set dressing and creative staging again
chris cashmoney
2025-10-28 03:22:17 +0000 UTCtell us you tried to figure out the keyboard commands it sent? try a keyboard sniffer, actually don't. it seems like a bad idea.
Brian Cummings
2025-10-28 00:50:06 +0000 UTCOh wow, no kidding! I'd love to hear anything interesting you'd care to share. About this project or your time at the company at all :) So it actually does rely on a driver to communicate?
LGR
2025-10-27 23:13:23 +0000 UTCWow, blast from the past. I worked on this thing at Creative Insights. Mainly just the windows driver that allowed it to communicate via the keyboard port.
Roy Eltham
2025-10-27 23:12:01 +0000 UTCThanks!
LGR
2025-10-27 19:40:14 +0000 UTCThe halloween theming was a nice touch!
J Ruonti
2025-10-27 19:19:48 +0000 UTC“Can you believe no one bought this?”
Mark Pompeo
2025-10-27 14:21:09 +0000 UTCAbsolutely the visual vibe it gives off!
LGR
2025-10-27 14:09:10 +0000 UTCThis was like a mini tech tales, neat stuff. Reminds me of the cheap plug into TV "games" that they sold back in the early 2000's.
Cody
2025-10-27 14:07:25 +0000 UTCAccording to its designer it uses a Z86C04 microcontroller to send keycodes through the keyboard port, but nothing recognized by a text editor or other apps I've tried. I'll add a section to the video showing this!
LGR
2025-10-27 13:45:19 +0000 UTCHave you tried it with a text editor to see if it's actually passing some key strokes or is it something totally different?
Dukefazon
2025-10-27 13:40:51 +0000 UTC
