Comments on: Retro Scan of the Week: Daddy's Little Surgeon

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: Daddy's Little Surgeon by: Tandy

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:48:15 +0000

I have this game with the box and instructions…it's pretty boring after about 5 minutes! Basically, you get to choose from a few (like 6) face shapes, eyes, noses, lips, and hair. You build a face, and then you can do things like make the ears wiggle, or make the eyes wink. You can program the face to do a series of things and then click play. That's about it. The graphics are pretty crude, I believe the manual lists the copyright as 1983.

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: Daddy's Little Surgeon by: Benj Edwards

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:19:03 +0000

Spinnaker games were great. I just couldn't resist poking fun at this particular title.

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: Daddy's Little Surgeon by: Jason Scott

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:09:48 +0000

Oh, without a doubt, there were excellent educational games back then (and now). People like just talking trash. Spinnaker knew what they were doing.

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: Daddy's Little Surgeon by: KitsuneDarkStalker

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:25:39 +0000

I heard the Spinnaker adventure games based on classic books were actually pretty good…

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: Daddy's Little Surgeon by: Stefan Gagne

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:44:37 +0000

Actually, as a kid, I LOVED the Spinnaker games. They were high quality stuff; Delta Drawing was a near complete implementation of LOGO, fer cryin' out loud. I didn't care that I was learning anything or not, it was simply fun.

I miss those bath-book plastic boxes of theirs. I checked Wikipedia for some info but there's very little, other than a rundown of Search For The Most Amazing Thing.

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: Daddy's Little Surgeon by: Benj Edwards

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:19:59 +0000

Oh yes, my friend. They were there pretty much since the beginning.

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: Daddy's Little Surgeon by: Dennis P

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:37:38 +0000

So, the roots of lame "educational" computer games were planted long ago.

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: Daddy's Little Surgeon by: Zoyous

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:30:08 +0000

At last! Something to get kids interested in games!

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: Daddy's Little Surgeon by: Benj Edwards

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:51:35 +0000

He obviously played Facemaker.

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: Daddy's Little Surgeon by: KitsuneDarkStalker

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:31:12 +0000

So now we know why Michael Jackson is so messed up…