Can you find Wally?
why is wally easier to find than waldo
It's crazy to think back to when something as mundane as Wally/Waldo managed to become a worldwide phenomenon for the better part of a decade.
I'd fuck Wenda.
>>10907732It hit at just the right time. Graeme Base's Animalia just released in 1986 and was a smash hit of a children's book. Kids were suddenly interested in picture books, as long as the pictures were very detailed. I remember as late as 1995 kids at school were still interested in buying Where's Waldo in Hollywood at the school book fair, along with The 11th Hour and Looking for Atlantis.
>>10907928Where's Wally books were the one thing that could make any kid concentrate on something, every kid including myself would drop what we were doing to see if we could find him once one got opened.
>>10907928I'm 90s kid and those detailed look and find books were huge in my youth as well. I Spy took it to another level with the photoshoots of practical scenes, but Look-Alikes was also good. I have it on good authority that there are still books like that being printed, but they're all illustrated. I think after I Spy Treasure Hunt came out in 1999 everyone in the children's book industry decided they couldn't top it.
>>10907739あ・げ・る
warudo
Too easy to cheese these games on emulation+crystal clear PC monitor when they were intended to be played on a fuzzy CRT TV over RF where finding Waldo was hard as shit.
>>10910003The game in the OP is an arcade game meant to be displayed on an RGB monitor, and it has a variety of ways of providing challenge https://youtu.be/kgywKzg_mSk?si=K987zirkTegnfJk4
>>10910026I'd love to play or even buy this game, too bad it uses a trackball.
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friendly reminder that waldo canonically banged carmen sandiego
>>10910026can you emulate the arcade game?
>>10910091Just emulate it. Real Sega cabs from this period cost a fortune to ship and they're usually dead and cannot be repaired.
>the chad Waldo>doesn't even hide but they still can't find him>wears eye catching clothes as if daring others to notice him>massive public support, complete strangers dress up like him to fuck with the police's search>attends public gatherings despite being the world most wanted criminal>the virgin Carmen Sandiego>cowers in esoteric 3rd world nations you've probably never heard of>attempts to disguise herself which just ends up making her stand out even more>smells bad, has no friends>thinks she's being clever by leaving a trail of hints, doesn't realize she can be tracked down with a simple google search
>>10912208It’s in MAME
>>10912247You could beat Waldo's games in like 20 minutes. CS's games are...well...painful and you need the stupid encyclopedia that came with it.
>>10912247>smells bad, has no friendsso she's the more relatable character then
>>10912247yeah and you forgot waldo has a super smexy babe
>>10912247>being the world most wanted criminalIs Waldo really a criminal in the canon? What did he do?
>>10912401>What did he do?his sister >>10912368
>>10912368Wenda has a twin sister, Wilma, and Wally has fucked them both
>>10912213Sure I could just emulate it, but I don't have a trackball for the proper play experience (much less two for in-person multiplayer), and if I'm going to dump any money into it, I'd rather buy a PCB and use that.
>>10907962is warry yankee piggu
>>10912557>dr warry
>>10912557where in za warudo is warudo
>>10912401Nah, Waldo is just a guy who likes wandering about. It's why his original name in the UK is Wally, to show he's a silly and odd kind of guy. When the books exploded in popularity they made a cartoon that would affect the series in a bit, and Waldo's personality got cemented as the most all-smiles jovial kind of guy around. He just likes going on adventures, and never lets anything get him down (much as his friends can be seen as much more realistic about any given situation). The closest there is to any villain in Waldo canon is Odlaw, whose motivation is that he wants Waldo's walking stick which is what allows Waldo to travel to all the different lands. He'd use it to commit crimes like steal all the gold in Fort Knox. Waldo, conversely, barely even notices his existence. Despite Waldo's UK name being Wally, Odlaw is Odlaw regardless of region.
I remember feeling weird watching the cartoon as a kid. Wally/waldo would never display any negative emotion, he always had this blank ":)" expression or ":o" at most but never any angry, worried or scared facial expression or demeanor. And many times he was in dangerous life or death situations.I know it's a cartoon and all but I jist remembered how that made me feel weird as a kid, like it was hard to think of him as a human character. Uncanny valley shit.
>>10913650>it was hard to think of him as a human characterHe travels to warzones to hang out for fun. He's visited multiple era's and worlds with slaves and walked right by them being tortured while smiling away. He visited a dimension where everyone is Waldo, they all just stood around smiling and doing jack-all. No farming, no hunting, no fishing, no beds or bathrooms in sight.There is nothing fucking human about Waldo.
>>10913678I remember an episode where waldo and his friends were hanging from some broken bridge or something, they were all screaming in fear as they were falling to their deaths, except for fucking wally who had that big smile on his face, as he was falling. Of course at the end something happens and they're saved, but still, what the fuck? Is there any actual lore about him? Just what kind of creature is he?
>>10913648>gold in Fort Knox
>>10913680Dunno, but The Great Waldo Search book on IA has one review and this is it. Maybe related?
>>10913680it's called autism, anon. waldo has autism.
>>10913683Yeah, da gold in Fort Knox. Pay attention ya mug.
>>10913648>>10913650I never knew there was a Where's Waldo cartoon.
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>>10907945I spy was cool just to see how they did everything.
>>10907928>>10907945>Waldo>I Spy>Magic Eye90s picture books that reigned supreme
>>10913838Magic Eye, there's something I haven't seen mentioned in a long time. Those never worked for me so it was a pretty frustrating fad.
>>10913868They worked for me in the sense that I could see the hidden image, but i don't think I could usually tell what the fuck it was (outside of reading the answer)
>>10913692well I suppose he does have the stripes
>>10913868>>10913881And then Nintendo sold an entire handheld on same gimmick.
>>10913868i can see them instantly and look around at it without losing the imagethe one above is a baseball catcher trying to catch a ball before someone dives to home base
>>10914121Bet you were the coolest kid at the book fair
>>10913881you were probably just going crosseyed and looking at it inverted, if you do it right I've never seen one that wasn't immediately identifiable
>>10907739Now can you find her G spot?
>>10907709Waldo was the biggest thing when I was a kid. There were tons of knock off books too.Now? I have no idea if they still even have those kinds of kids books.
>>10915575They still make them, and they've made more since you read. As an added bonus, they've reprinted the originals and moved Waldo's place in every picture
>>10915575>I have no idea if they still even have those kinds of kids books.They do, a lot in fact. They are not like Waldo's though.There are also tons of free games on Steam where you search for cartoon cats or some stuff like that. The "hidden object" genre itself is now reserved to bored housewives. I remember playing some of those games in mid-00s.
>>10915291I think this is just what I’ve always done and i never learned the right way to do it.
>>10915596Nice to read that Waldo is still around
>>10915291How are you supposed to do it? I see things talking about shifting your focus, which I can do, but it doesn't make the image appear.
>>10913838ive read many Where’s Waldo books while in prison. I also like anything written from the vampire’s point of view. There were also lots of books where guys sent in naked pictures of their chicks.
>>10913648So, he went from Wally to Waldo in the US, but the UK adopted Odlaw and never bothered changing him name to something like Olly to match? Weird...
>>10915612idk depends on you, can kind of brute force it by sticking your face up in it, unfocusing your eyes, then slowly increasing the distance, but probably doesn't work for everyone
>>10916139Not that anon, but it will never work for me. My eyes don't sync up like everyone else's due to eye surgery I had when I was a kid. I can't see in 3D, I can't judge distance by sight, and I could never ever get anything out of the magic eye stuff.
>>10916170anon this is a discussion for humans not cyclopses
>>10916139Unfocusing then moving your head left and right like a dinosaur works for me.
>>10912247>a simple google searchSurely, you meant Ask Jeeves.
>>10916173>cyclopsesA) It's cyclops's. And B) "eyes". You managed to fail at spelling and making an accurate reference. It would be more accurate to refer to >>10916170 as a horse, rabbit, goldfish, or other creature lacking in binocular vision.
I didn't know there was an SFC one too. Looks kind of cute
>>10916215begone cyclops lest i inform the argonauts of your presence
>>10914108Which was awesome, and only mentally ill people or little kids couldn't handle the slider all the way up constantly.>>10915840They probably thought it wasn't worth the trouble having two different versions of yet another character's name, I'm guessing.
>>10915840It's kind of like how Mario is known as Sanchez in Japan, yet Wario is still called Wario.
>>10916215>>cyclopses>A) It's cyclops'sNTA. I was going to call you a fucking retard, but maybe I'm the retarded one, so is there a.) an actual a rule that allows for "'s" to be used as a marker for plurals, and b.) do you know of a reference where the plural form of "cyclops" is written as "cyclop's" rather than the standard plural suffix for nouns ending in an "s" or "x" sound: "-es"?Otherwise, you are a fucking retard.
>>10916215>>10916258*as "cyclops's"
>>10916258Apostrophes never indicate plurality, ESL-kun. The plural of cyclops of cyclopodae.
>>10914535not really, i just learned how easy it isif you are capable of focusing your vision on something close, then focusing on something farther away, then you can do the magic eye thingsif you can cross your eyes you can even see them like they were carved into a big block
>>10916226You wouldn't dare. I'll grind your bones to make my bread
>>10916405you can make bread out of bone?
>>10917427>what is bonemeal
>>10917673I thought that was for plants?
>>10913838that's quite an impressively 3d magic eye
