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by clarle 1774 days ago
The nostalgia of the explosion is too much for me this morning.

I remember everyone in the computer lab always never actually drawing stuff and mostly just clicking the dynamite to get as many explosions on the screen as possible.

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I recall the speed of the explosions being CPU dependent. When we got a new family computer in the late '90s I recall the explosion going from taking several seconds to happening almost instantly. 7 year old me thought this was hilarious for some reason.
Same experience as winning Windows Solitaire on a Pentium for the first time and watching the cards instantly fall to the bottom. I was considerably older than 7 at the time and I still laughed.
oh no!

yeah, I don't remember the stamps repeating as quickly on the original but otherwise this seems pretty right on.

Was there any other use for Kid Pix? I thought that was all there was to do back when I was in elementary school.