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Two hours after I first popped the After Dark Games CD into my computer I was still sitting there, mesmerized. There are 11 games included, games that challenge the mind and even word and problem solving skills. The first game I played was 'Hula Girl', a fabulous game of manual dexterity that challenges your ability to utilize the arrow keys. One simply must appreciate navigating a possessed-looking dancing child named Beluhla and her hula hoop on her journey to keep jumping as long as possible while eating ice cream sundaes, cupcakes and other high fat goodies. Heaven forbid she accidentally eat broccoli or bump into her evil twin Cruela, she'll lose her much needed hula hoop and score negative points on the yuckometer. I loved this game and if someone doesn't take it away from me soon there is a good chance I'll never go outside again.
'Fish Shtick' is a word scramble in which the player must attempt to create a word with the letters attached to swimming fish before they swim past the screen. Each correct word is rewarded with a point. It's like a swimming Wheel of Fortune without Vanna. Or Flipper on an acid trip. It's pretty neat.
'Roof Rats' was very amusing. People and rats are trapped on the roof of a building. Each room in the building is denoted by a color and when two rooms of the same color are beside each other, they can be removed with a mouse click and the tenants become that much closer to being saved. Musclemen can climb down a few floors, whereas the Granny needs to be lowered to the ground. When she is, she mutters 'thank you' and toddles off. The rescued rats squeal and scamper along. Getting the people off the roof becomes an obsession. The need to save imaginary computer game people becomes almost overwhelming. And the three skill levels can really keep you on your toes.
When it's time to mellow out, a quiet game of 'Solitaire' might be in order.
Then there's 'Rodger Dodger', an arcade style game where the object is to snag as many green geometric pieces as possible and avoid the red balls that try to kill you. Picture Pac-man but without the cute yellow guy with the big mouth. No ghosts. It kind of lacks something, like a character or theme.
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'Foggy Boxes' and 'Mooshu Tiles' didn't wow me. These puzzle games might appeal to the younger crowd, though. I tried the highest level of these and just didn't feel challenged. I bet kids would like playing though.
If trivia is your calling, 'Zapper' will be of interest. Score as many points as possible while answering yes or no questions before the clock runs out. The questions are strange and unusual enough that you probably won't know the answer, but hey, you've got a 50 percent chance of getting it right. This is a lot of fun, and pretty contagious.
Mowing the lawn can really suck, unless of course, it's on your computer screen. A guy on a tractor, 'Mowin' Man' tries to mow the lawn while somehow managing to avoid dogs, gardeners and even zombies. Extra power is achieved by snagging wallets, flags, cups and the like. And like any disgruntled individual, he takes pride in being able to run over his opponents with his lawnmower during the few seconds of extra power received by acquiring the correct object. Heaven forbid he get offed by an angry gardener, he wont have to fret. He's got two more lives.
Feeling powerful? Wanna save a cartoon characters life? The object of the game is to make as many words as possible while playing the 'Bad Dog 911' word game. This unfortunate fellow's dog has catapulted him onto the tower by releasing the winch level on the clock. It's up to you to create as many words as you can with the letters provided. Get enough words together and the clock cleaner is saved. Failure to come up with a sufficiency of words will only result in watching him fall and splatter. Do you really want that on your conscience?
'Toaster Run' has beautiful graphics of flying toasters, and if you are fortunate to be coordinated enough to navigate them around the game without flying into walls, refrigerators, doors then catching on fire, you're one step ahead of me. There are three levels, though I couldn't get more than five or 10 points on any given attempt before bursting into flames. The point is to not crash into things while trying to get the 'Baby Guy' safely back to his crib. Maybe I'll go practice this one.
Overall, this is a pretty amusing and entertaining CD and you're sure to find something that appeals to everyone in the household. You can't say that about most games, can you?
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| Original author(s) | Jack Eastman[1] Patrick Beard |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Berkeley Systems |
| Initial release | 1989; 30 years ago |
| Stable release | 4.0 / 1996; 23 years ago |
| Written in | assembly language, C |
| Operating system | Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, DOS[2] |
| Type | screensaver |
| Website | en.infinisys.co.jp/product/adx/ |
After Dark is a series of computerscreensaversoftware introduced by Berkeley Systems in 1989 for the Apple Macintosh, and in 1991 for Microsoft Windows.[3][4]
Following the original, additional editions included More After Dark, Before Dark, and editions themed around licensed properties such as Star Trek, The Simpsons, Looney Tunes, Marvel, and Disney characters.[4]
On top of the included animated screensavers, the program allowed for the development and use of third-party modules, many hundreds of which were created by the height of After Dark's popularity,[5] including Star Wars Screen Entertainment by LucasArts and Presage Software development, Inc.
Flying Toasters[edit]
The most famous of the included screensaver modules is the iconic Flying Toasters which featured 1940s-style chrome toasters sporting bird-like wings, flying across the screen with pieces of toast. Engineer Jack Eastman came up with the display after seeing a toaster in the kitchen during a late night programming session and imagining the addition of wings.[6] A slider in the Flying Toasters module enabled users to adjust the toast's darkness and an updated Flying Toasters Pro module added a choice of music—Richard Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries or a flying toaster anthem with optional karaoke lyrics.[7] Yet another version called Flying Toasters! added bagels and pastries, baby toasters, and more elaborate toaster animation. The Flying Toasters were one of the key reasons that After Dark became popular, and Berkeley began to produce other merchandising products such as T-shirts, with the Flying Toaster image and slogans such as 'The 51st Flying Toaster Squadron: On a mission to save your screen!'
The toasters were the subject of two lawsuits, the first in 1993, Berkeley Systems vs Delrina Corporation, over a module of Delrina's Opus 'N Bill screensaver in which Opus the penguin shoots down the toasters.[8] After a U.S. District judge ruled that Delrina's 'Death Toasters' was infringing, Delrina later changed the wings of the toasters to propellers.[8] The second case was brought in 1994 by 1960s rock groupJefferson Airplane who claimed that the toasters were a copy of the winged toasters featured on the cover of their 1973 album Thirty Seconds Over Winterland.[9] The case was dismissed because the cover art had not been registered as a trademark by the group prior to Berkeley Systems' release of the screensaver.[6]
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A 3D version of the toasters featuring swarms of toasters with airplane wings, rather than bird wings, is available for XScreenSaver.
A flying toaster was used as a logo of the club called Peach Pit After Dark in the TV series Beverly Hills 90210.[10]
After Dark Games and onward[edit]
Sierra Interactive and Berkeley Systems released After Dark Games in 1998 for the Macintosh and Windows platforms, which contained several games modeled after their previously released screensavers.[11][12] These games included Mowin' Maniac (a Pac-Man clone based on the 'Mowin' Man' and 'Mowin' Boris' modules); Roof Rats (similar to SameGame and variants); Solitaire (After Dark themed); Toaster Run (a 3D adventure game featuring several After Dark Characters, including the Flying Toaster); Zapper (a trivia game); Hula Girl (an endless 2D platforming game based on the 'Hula Twins' module from After Dark 4.0); two word scramble games – Bad Dog 911 (based on the 'Bad Dog' modules) and Fish Shtix (based on the 'Fish' modules, mainly 'Fish World'); Foggy Boxes (a Dots and Boxes game based on the 'Messages 4.0' module); MooShu Tiles (a Mahjong-like game featuring many After Dark characters throughout the years); and Rodger Dodger.[13] 'Rodger Dodger' had been a module several years earlier, but also a playable game inside the module. Not much was changed from the module, except some of the music and most of the level set-ups. Many[who?] fans liked the games, but some[who?] felt it lacked games based on more fitting modules, such as 'Daredevil Dan', 'Lunatic Fringe' (which was a game inside its module, like 'Rodger Dodger'), and the After Dark re-working of 'Rock, Paper Scissors' (also a game inside its module).
In 1997, Berkeley Systems was acquired by the Sierra On-Line division of CUC International.[14]Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, the founders of Berkeley Systems, went on to create MoveOn.org.
Fans have made modern versions of several of the screensavers in the years since.
An official version of After Dark was released for Mac OS X (running on PowerPC) by Infinisys Ltd (of Japan) in May 2003.[15] For Intel Macs, three of the most popular modules—Flying Toasters, Mowing Man and Boris—are being sold as standalone screensavers.[16]
Sierra released a Flying Toaster video game for cell phones in 2006.[17]
The animated series Bad Dog was inspired by the eponymous screensaver.[18]
Modules[edit]
| Module Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Starry Night | The original After Dark screen saver, featuring a pixelated city skyline under a night sky |
| Aquatic Realm | Underwater world of fish with a black background |
| Artist | A digital artist applies artistic touches to images in a slow manner so one can see the artist work |
| Bad Dog | Popular module featuring a white dog with a black ring around one of his eyes, causing trouble on the desktop |
| Bogglins | Green slime creatures are formed and make obnoxious noises |
| Boris | The opposite of Bad Dog, a good cat plays on the desktop and chases butterflies |
| Bouncing Ball | A ball bounces around the screen, including bouncing off the edges |
| Bugs | Digital bugs crawl across the screen |
| Bulge | Expands portions of the screen, making the screen appear to have a 'bulge' |
| Bungee Roulette[i] | Various characters bungee-jump from the top of the screen, but occasionally the bungee cord breaks |
| Can of Worms | 'Worms' emerge from the screen, crawl around, and 'eat' the screen content |
| Chameleon[i] | Chameleons walk across the screen, changing colors and eating icons |
| Clocks | Different objects appear as a clock and move around |
| Coming Soon![i] | A salesperson pitches fictitious 'products' |
| Confetti Factory | Confetti falls from the top of the screen and onto conveyor belts below |
| Daredevil Dan | A daredevil motorcyclist attempts dangerous jumps over school buses, flames, and piranha tanks |
| Dominoes | A game of dominoes is played on the screen |
| Doodles | Draws doodle-like images |
| DOS Shell | A mock DOS shell is run on the screen, reliving earlier days of computing |
| Dots | A game of 'dots' is played on the screen |
| Down the Drain | The desktop appears to spiral down a drain |
| Einstein | Complex mathematical and scientific equations are performed on the screen |
| Fade Away | The desktop fades away in different ways |
| Fish Pro | Fish module similar to Aquatic Realm |
| Floating Suns[ii] | Displays the Phoenix Suns basketball team's logos floating around the screen |
| Flocks | Displays flocks of various creatures on the screen |
| Flying Toasters | Classic module featuring flying toasters |
| Flying Toasters Pro | Updated version that allows one to select more than flying toasters and also has music |
| Flying Toilets[i] | Like Flying Toasters, but with toilets |
| Fractal Forest | A forest of trees is generated on the screen |
| FrankenScreen[i] | A digital Frankenstein creates creatures out of various parts |
| Frost and Fire | Produces patterns similar to splattering paint on paper |
| GeoBounce | A geometrical figure bounces around the screen |
| Globe | Takes an image and wraps it around a sphere, then spins like a globe |
| GraphStat | Draws scientific and mathematical graphs on the screen |
| Gravity | Circles bounce around the screen |
| Guts | Gravity simulation |
| Hall of Mirrors | Reflects parts of the screen in an infinite mirror style |
| Hallucinations | The computer 'hallucinates' |
| Hard Rain | Rain falls onto the desktop |
| Hula Twins | Displays two animated figures who walk around and twirl hula hoops |
| Lasers | Lasers create patterns on the screen |
| Lissajous | Displays Lissajous designs |
| Logo | User-supplied image moves randomly on screen |
| Lunatic Fringe | A playable space shooter game within a module |
| Magic | Creates soothing patterns |
| Mandelbrot | Generates a mathematically created Mandelbrot set |
| Marbles | Marbles bounce around the screen |
| Meadow | A computer-generated meadow |
| Message Mayhem[i] | A figure on the screen scrawls out a message |
| Messages | Displays a crawling marquee message on the screen with selectable font and text colors |
| Mike's So-called Life[i] | Features a man named Mike, living in his apartment and doing nothing exciting |
| Mime Hunt[i] | A playable module that features a mime and cross-hairs |
| Modern Art | Modern Art displayed on the screen |
| Mondrian | Inverts parts of the screen |
| Mosaic | Creates a mosaic of the screen |
| Mountains | Generates 3-D mountains |
| Movies 'Til Dawn | Plays QuickTime movies |
| Mowin' Boris[i] | Mowin' Man mows a field with Boris the cat around. When Mowin' Man runs over Boris, blood and guts appear |
| Mowin' Man | A man mows a constantly growing field |
| MultiModule | Displays a user-selected combination of After Dark modules with the modules all displayed simultaneously and optionally overlaid over each other |
| NightLines | |
| Nirvana | Generates colorful textures |
| Nocturnes | Shows the eyes of various nocturnal creatures, such as bats |
| Nonsense | Nonsensical phrases are displayed on the screen |
| Om Appliances | Various appliances do weird things on the screen |
| Origami | Computer-generated origami appears on the screen |
| Out and About | A musician walks out with a chair and an instrument, sits down and begins to play while other people slowly appear and begin milling around while kids play |
| Pattern | Animated patterns appear on the screen |
| Pearl | An optical effect featuring squares |
| Penrose | Penrose tiling effect |
| Phlegm Boy[i] | An obnoxious slimy creature is disgusting and displays bad habits |
| Photon | Computer-generated particles of light are emitted from the darkness |
| PICS Player | Plays an animated sequence from a PICS file on the Mac platform |
| Plasma | Plasma-like image generated |
| Punch Out | Round holes appear to be punched out of the desktop |
| Puzzle | The desktop becomes a sliding puzzle |
| Rain | Colorful raindrops fall on the desktop |
| Rainstorm | Like the Rain module, but with wind and lightning |
| Rainy Day[ii] | Rain drops on your screen. User can select how fast they fall and how strong the wind is. |
| Randomizer | Randomly displays modules chosen from a user-generated list of modules |
| Rat Race | A race featuring three rats with names, mindlessly wandering around the track until there is a winner |
| Rebound | Balls rebound around the screen |
| Rose | Mathematical pattern based on trigonometry |
| Satori | Color animated light show |
| Say What? | Displays humorous phrases |
| Scrubbing Bubbles[ii] | Displays multiple Scrubbing Bubbles (Dow Brands) floating around the screen |
| Scrubbing Bubbles II[ii] | Displays multiple Scrubbing Bubbles (Dow Brands) 'scrubbing' the screen and going down the drain |
| Shapes | Fills the screen with colorful, geometric shapes |
| Shock Clocks[i] | Scary creatures are turned into clocks |
| Shooting Spree[ii] | The desktop appears to be shot up by a gun. User can select which gun to use. |
| Sinkhole[ii] | The desktop appears to fall into sinkholes |
| Slide Show | A basic slide show of user-supplied images |
| Snake | A pixelated snake tries to find its way through a maze |
| Spheres | A number of spheres fill the screen |
| Spin Brush | Smears points on the screen like wet paper |
| Spiral Gyro | Vector module that twists lines |
| Spotlight | The desktop becomes black and parts are 'illuminated' by a randomly moving light spot |
| Squigwig | Generates mathematical circles |
| Stained Glass | Produces quilt-like patterns |
| Steam Rollin'[ii] | Displays a guy driving around squishing toys, snakes and babies. (A take-off on the Mowin' Man module.) |
| Stormy Night | Random lightning bolts, with thunderclap sounds |
| Strange Attractor | Computer-generated color image |
| String Theory | Moire patterns |
| Sunburst | Color pattern that appears to come from the Sun |
| Supernova | Displays an exploding supernova |
| Swan Lake | Swans swim around the desktop |
| This Ol' House[ii] | Someone appears to be working on the desktop from the other side with power saws |
| Toxic Swamp[i] | Like Aquatic Realm, but in a toxic polluted swamp with mutated fish and a mob boss |
| Tunnel | Makes the screen appear to be a tunnel |
| Use Your Own![ii] | Displays multiple images of the users choice moving around the screen |
| Vertigo | Colorful rainbow spirals drawn on the screen |
| Virex-D | An implementation of the Virex anti-virus utility. Scans for viruses and displays icons in 3D form.[19] |
| Voyeur[i] | One appears to be spying on an apartment complex with a big city skyline in the background |
| Warp | One appears to be traveling among stars at high speed |
| Window Blinds[ii] | Desktop is separated into columns and then each one turns like a window blind |
| Wrap Around | Draws three-dimensional loops |
| Wrecking Ball[ii] | A wrecking ball appears to demolish the desktop |
| You Bet Your Head | Playable quiz game featuring three colored 'heads' that are smashed by a hammer if one supplies the wrong answer to a question |
| Zoom! | Creates colorful triangular tubes |
| Zot | Attempts to generate lightning |
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- ^ abcdefghijklmAn edition called After Dark Totally Twisted includes the more macabre modules, namely Bungee Roulette, Chameleon, Coming Soon!, Flying Toilets, FrankenScreen, Message Mayhem, Mike's So-called Life, Mime Hunt, Mowin' Boris, Phlegm Boy, Shock Clocks, Toxic Swamp, and Voyeur.
- ^ abcdefghijkModules from the Still in the Dark collection of 11 modules by Bob Loeffler.
Release history[edit]
- version 1.0 - 1989[20]
- version 2.0 - 1992 - The first official release for Windows.[21][22]
- version 3.0 - 1994[23][24]
- version 3.2 - 1995[25]
- version 4.0 - 1996[26]
Licensed Products[edit]
- The Disney Collection Screen Saver - 1990-1993
- Marvel Comics Screen Posters - 1993[27]
- Looney Tunes Screen Saver - 1995[28][29]
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References[edit]
- ^Lammle, Bob (March 16, 2012). ''90s Tech Icons: Where Are They Now?'. Mashable. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
- ^DOS user Need No Longer Covert After Dark for Windows, PC Mag, 7 Dec 1993, Page 59
- ^Greg Shultz (April 14, 2011). 'Flying Toasters - A look back at After Dark for Windows 1.0'. TechRepublic.
- ^ ab'Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark'. Lowendmac.com. Archived from the original on 11 February 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-18.
- ^'On Mighty Toaster Wings: More After Dark History'. Lowendmac.com. Archived from the original on 11 February 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-18.
- ^ abPhin, Christopher (2015-02-03). 'Think Retro: Bring back the Flying Toasters'. Macworld. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
- ^'AfterDark Deluxe — Review'. Mymac.com. Archived from the original on 2010-01-07. Retrieved 2010-03-18.
- ^ abBloomberg Business News (1993-10-11). 'Software Parody Is Toast After Court Ruling'. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
- ^Rose, Lance (1994-10-01). 'Another Poppin' Fresh Lawsuit'. Wired. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
- ^'Beverly Hills 90210 article – example of product placement'. TVtropes.org. Archived from the original on 2014-07-05. Retrieved 2014-09-01.
- ^After Dark Games, by Berkeley Systems, Published 1998, Internet Archive
- ^Advertisement Video:After Dark Games, by Sierra Entertainment, Published 1998, Internet Archive
- ^After Dark Games MobyGames
- ^Berkeley Systems Acquired by CUCArchived June 15, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Wired.com
- ^'Press Release : Infinisys Releases After Dark X+Fish for Mac OS X'. Infinysys. Retrieved 2010-03-18.
- ^'After Dark Screensavers : Classic Set (Macintosh)'. Infinysys. Retrieved 2014-08-05.
- ^GameSpot (2006-05-19). 'Vivendi Universal Games Mobile Announces Six New Titles'. Gamespot.com. Archived from the original on 2013-01-24. Retrieved 2010-03-18.
- ^Kidscreen » Archive » Bonneau names that toon, By Virginia Robertson, May 1, 1999
- ^TidBITS Electronic Publishing (1991-08-12). 'TidBITS#76/12-Aug-91' (76). TidBITS. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
- ^First Looks: Windows Screen Blanders: Blanking Your Screen Is Only the Beginning, By Barry Simon, PC Mag, 14 May 1991
- ^Announced, InfoWorld, 17 Feb 1992, Page 18, ...After Dark 2.0 for Windows will add digitized sound and the capability to turn any After Dark display into wallpaper. Berkeley Systems Inc.'s screen-saver utility is due to ship this month for $49.95...
- ^Swans! Mirrors! More Fish!, PC Mag, 26 May 1992, Page 64, ... Berkeley Systems, maker of the popular screen saver After Dark for Windows, is now shipping a new ...Version 2.0..
- ^Review/Test Drives:Screen Saver: After Dark joins rat race, By Patrick Marshall, InfoWorld, 5 Sep 1994, Page 95
- ^After Dark 3.0, by Berkeley Systems, Published 1994, Internet Archive
- ^After Dark 3.2, by Berkeley Systems, Published 1995, Internet Archive
- ^After Dark 4.0 Deluxe, by Berkeley Systems, Published 1996, Internet Archive
- ^After Hours: Windows Screen Savers: giving your PC a touch of panache, By Melisaa J. Perenson, PC Mag, 17 May 1994
- ^Berkeley Systems After Dark Looney Tunes Screen Saver, by Berkeley Systems, Published 1995, Internet Archive
- ^After Dark Looney Tunes Collection, by Berkeley Systems, Internet Archive
Further reading[edit]
- Fenton, Erfert. Art of Darkness. Peachpit Press, 1992.
External links[edit]
- After Dark X — the official version for Mac OS X by Infinisys
- Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark, By Tommy Thomas - 2007.02.09
- On Mighty Toaster Wings: More After Dark History, By Tommy Thomas - 2007.02.12