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https://twitter.com/IronclawFTW ♥ Please comment, rate, share, subscribe... ;) Being too lazy to type my own comment this time, I'll just quote a review from "CU Amiga" (Jun 1993): ---------------- Moving into the five and above range comes Mickey's Jigsaw Puzzles, an exercise in shape recognition. As you have probably guessed from the title, this game allows you to assemble jigsaws on screen from 15 different pictures. Choose the image you want to break down, along with the number of pieces to break it into, and let the computer do the rest. Mickey himself talks you through the entire process, offering help here and there and letting you know the result of any options you may have chosen. This is just another example of the work that has gone into making the child feel that Mickey is right there working with them, rather than letting the parent feel they have been conned into another tenuously licensed product. From this point, all you are left with is a drawing showing the shape of the pieces, and the pieces themselves. You already know what a jigsaw is, so I don't need to explain what the player has to do. And... that's it? Yup, it seems to be. I must admit, it doesn't seem like a hell of a lot, especially when you consider that (a) the 15 pictures included are the only ones you can use (the program doesn't let you load in pictures of your own, which seems like a strange thing to omit) and (b) a very similar package is included as part of Europress' Paint and Create rather than a standalone product like this. To be fair, though, this does have a few excellent options. Firstly, you can print out the pictures as a coloring book. Secondly, there are two jigsaw modes. The first one is when the entire picture is broken up, like any other jigsaw. The second is when a section of the picture, such as Mickey himself is removed and broken up, and the player has to fit the pieces back into the original image. Thirdly, the pictures can be animated once the jigsaw has been completed, giving the user an added goal to work toward. These are all solid plus points, but on the bottom line, I don't think that there is enough in this package to validate the price point." (£25.99)(he scored it 70%) ---------------- OK, I'll add some lines of my own anyway. There is a "MORE" button in the top right corner, clicking it will prompt you to insert another puzzle disk into the drive, but as far as I know, there are no other puzzle disks. So, you can only go with the 15 pictures that came with the game (as he mentioned in his review). Maybe there is a disk with extra images out there (not talking about potentially user created ones), or that Paint and Create he mentioned could maybe be used to make such disk. I could of course have tried that Paint and Create program to see if I could make such disk, or just simply put some .iff files on a disk and see if it accepts it, or just use SnoopDos to see what it tries to read in the background, like a certain disk label, file type, file names, etc... and replicate what it needed to make a successful disk. But, I'm too lazy to try it :) Also, the sound seems to sometime be... lighter, like clearer, and sometimes lower, like muffled (no, some voice lines are not simply lighter while others are lower, it's random). I ran it on a A1200 using WHDLoad, and no filter or sound settings made any difference. I don't think it should vary like that, and might sound proper on an A500, or maybe with some other settings, but... I just went with it anyway.
