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gotta hit the eraser and use the dynamite!

But I guess if you hadn't used kid pix you might not know that.

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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.

oh no!

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

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.

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

unfortunately I can't seem to freeze the dynamite.

yeah I seem to remember being able to make it stay on the screen if you start another action.

[edit] - Give it a try now; press ctrl during the animation to stop it.

WHEEEE!

Not sure if it is a bug or intentional - If you dynamite, ctrl, dynamite, ctrl quickly so that both animations are still going the screen still clears.

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