ScreenToyz Screensavers: $10 Million Failure from 1994 🎃 An LGR Halloween Thing
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Oct 29, 2025 12:31
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Taking a look at Creative Insights ScreenToyz! Gimmicky mid 90s peripherals that plug into a computer keyboard port letting you control "interactive screensavers"... so, a game then, right? Ha. Yeah they sure tried something, charged $50 for it, failed spectacularly, and that's how you end up on LGR 30 years later.
● LGR things elsewhere:
Patreon https://www.patreon.com/LazyGameReviews
Bsky https://bsky.app/profile/lgr-yt.bsky.social
● Archive of the Screen Toyz software CD-ROM:
https://archive.org/details/screentoyz-cd-stitch
● Background music licensed from Epidemic Sound:
https://www.epidemicsound.com
● Halloween stock footage licensed from Storyblocks:
https://www.storyblocks.com/
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