Cartooners
This is another one of my bought ‘games’. Its not really a game, its more of an educational application. In Cartooners its all about making cartoons. There are no real game elements in this application, its just letting your creativity flow.
When you start Cartooners, you get into the main menu where you can choose a couple of options. Look, Play, Create and Quit.
Look
In ‘Look’ you are at the theatre, you can click on the tickets to play a short movie. The movies already listed are the default movies which came with the application. These movies show off what you can do with the software.
Play
‘Play’ is about the same as the ‘Look’ option, however when the movie ends when you just watched one, you dont return to the theatre, but you stay in the editor where you can edit the movie and add bits.
Create
‘Create’ is the most interesting option, here you can do whatever comes to mind, to make the ultimate cartoon. When you start ‘Create’, you’ll start in a blank screen where you can start making your cartoon. First of all you can load scenes. The scenes can be anything from the default list, but you can also load your own pictures, saved from LBM files. I just loaded the ‘graveyard’ setting and added a bunny to the scene. You can place the bunny everywhere in the scene, but it makes the most sense when you put him/her on the ground. You can set it just far right, one pixel away from the border and you can make it ‘Act’. For instance, you can make the Bunny hop into the view. Then press record and it starts recording frame for frame in (faster than) real time. When it has hopped past from right to left and off the screen, you can slide the frame marker back to the beginning and press play. Now you see the bunny hop from right to left, your first cartoon has been made! To add music go back to the first frame and select a tune from the ‘Music’ menu. Select the ‘spooky’ music and press record again until your bunny has hopped out of the screen again. Now when you slide the frame marker back again and press play, your cartoon will play with spooky music playing 
This is just an example of what you can do with Cartooners.
There are lots and lots more actors to play around with, that can do (act) different things, like dancing and flying and landing and walk and move in all sorts of ways. You can load more than one scene, switch scenes as you go, add sound effects and music, work in multiple layers and add scenes and actors of your own. Speech and exclamation balloons help you with clearing up things. Its just a program to let your creativity run wild.
Its lots of fun making your own cartoons, but its too bad you cant add digital effects and the program only supports LBM files. However the program does support CGA, EGA, VGA, Tandy and various soundcards: Adlib, CMS Gameblaster, Roland MT-32, PC Speaker and Tandy.
It will keep you entertained for a while, but it wont last long anymore these days.
Related Links
- MobyGames: Cartooners
Read all about it on MobyGames. - Wikipedia: Cartooners
Read all about it on Wikipedia. - Home Of The Underdogs
Review of Cartooners at Underdogs
Cartooners
- Published by: Electronic Arts
- Designed by: ITDA
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Size: 592kb (2 min on 56k dial-up)
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:26 am
Bunny Abandonware Rocks!
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:35 am
And you know it!
February 27th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Hello! I have WinXP running on my machine and I couldn’t install Cartoons on int
How can I do that?
Thank you!
Esteban
(estebancervi at gmail dot com)
February 28th, 2008 at 1:44 am
You should install it under DosBox, thats an ms-dos emulator and then it should work okay. If it doesnt, you could put it on a floppy disk and install from that. The emulator can be found at http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
If you need help with something else, let me know it please.
September 8th, 2009 at 8:51 am
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September 7th, 2010 at 5:30 am
so cute. keep going on
November 17th, 2010 at 6:47 am
Will my XP Service Pack Cartoons? Who knows?
January 21st, 2011 at 1:35 am
The best games for me are educational for sure, I do not see a reason or sence to play strike games or something like that!
March 25th, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Bux Bunny one of my favorite cartoon character
March 27th, 2011 at 5:09 am
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May 17th, 2011 at 9:45 am
They are so adorable
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June 30th, 2011 at 6:51 am
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August 26th, 2011 at 12:12 pm
I used to love this computer program! I would always make the bunny the butt of jokes!
September 10th, 2011 at 7:41 am
I’m not sure if I even remember this game… Been a long time since I have played any DOS games.
Although, it is amazing to look back at the graphics of those days. Back then, we all thought they were so amazing. Now, they are laughable.
September 16th, 2011 at 5:46 pm
This is cool. I missed these games. Thanks for making live again in this site.
September 21st, 2011 at 8:39 pm
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September 29th, 2011 at 10:58 pm
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October 5th, 2011 at 8:30 pm
hahaha! I remember those games back when windows 3.11 and windows 95 were out to market. I love it!
October 9th, 2011 at 5:16 pm
Brilliant minds! Very excellent work. I used to play these games.
October 12th, 2011 at 2:19 pm
I was obsessed with these games during college days! It was really fun playing it.
October 12th, 2011 at 8:33 pm
Amazing find! I hope it can run on DOSBOX
October 13th, 2011 at 12:40 am
I am looking as well for Doom Game.
October 17th, 2011 at 10:16 pm
Hilarious cartoon application i’m sure.. thanks for sharing!
October 21st, 2011 at 1:42 am
This game releases my stress in my body. Thanks for the post.
October 25th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Thank you for this download. It was really a rare one. I appreciate your doing making it available to us.
December 1st, 2011 at 8:32 pm
I feel like to play this game now!
December 3rd, 2011 at 8:41 pm
This is where all the 3d games started. Let us always remember these games as it is part now of the history of gaming industry.
December 8th, 2011 at 2:10 am
first of all thnx for download.
this game\app\”whatever u name it” is realy helppfull for starting to read\write. it’s gr8 for kids for many reasons.
i seen somewhere someone adding hes own background pictures as LBM files any clue how can i do it?
plz contact go1981@walla.com if u do, would be helpfull to get answer b4 friday … lolz thnx again
December 10th, 2011 at 12:19 am
Cartooning is not that easy. The most difficult part of it is that making those cartoon move and live.
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December 12th, 2011 at 7:05 pm
What a cute site you have! And I would like to do cartooning someday.
December 13th, 2011 at 8:24 pm
I wish you post more of these.
December 23rd, 2011 at 8:07 pm
These games look cute. I wanna try it!
December 31st, 2011 at 7:01 pm
I love this games and honestly back when I was a child, I was addicted to it
January 10th, 2012 at 11:05 pm
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January 11th, 2012 at 7:26 pm
I really enjoyed this stuff back when I was young and have no other thinking but to play
February 2nd, 2012 at 5:21 pm
I like to play them all.
February 6th, 2012 at 1:09 am
Am not the game type but i play game when i am worried in order to relieve myself.
I have not really tried an educational application before. May be i should give this a try.