Hollywood High

by Theatrix

Product Features

• Write, direct, and produce the stories of your life.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• ASIN: B0002NXU9S
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 10, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,425 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Write, direct, and produce the stories of your life. For ages 9 to adult.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Without a doubt, the coolest computer game ever!, June 9, 2005

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Eggplant "Eyehateamazon" (state of denial) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hollywood High (CD-ROM)

Wow, I can't believe I actually found good old Hollywood High on amazon! Now I can finally write the review I've had in my head for eight years...

Ever wanted to make your own little cartoon movies? Don't have much know-how? Well, Hollywood High is definitely the game for you! In this game, the basic premise is that you can write and direct your own little cartoons, and it's so easy, a child could do it! You pick from 12 characters (my favorite is Gus, the Lars Fredericksen look-alike), lots of backdrops (the couch, the homecoming dance, the music store, et cetera), and go from there. You can do a serious movie, or you can just make 'em do tricks ("Watch me pull a burger out of my..."). Either way, even after eight years and thousands of stories, it never gets old, and I have a feeling it never will.

If you can get your hands on a copy (Theatrix went bust a few years ago so I think this game is out of print), I highly recommend doing so. It may not work on newer computers (it wouldn't install properly on my Sony Vaio, which I got about a year ago, but it works on the one downstairs which is about a few years old), but if you have an older computer... this game is even worth a HUNDRED dollars! It's that damn good! It's addicting, fun, and without a doubt, the best computer game ever (sorry Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 and 2). Period.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hollywood High, January 9, 2007

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R. Delainey (North America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hollywood High (CD-ROM)

Hollywood High is a program that can be used to teach English language skills (and dialogue in particular) to children of all ages. As a teacher, I use the program's novelty to help teach creative writing while providing the students with some useful computer experience. The program's interface is quite intuitive and there is a very short curve to learning (and utilizing) all the program's features.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This made me want to be a film maker, July 27, 2006

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Nicholas S. Denman "N. S. Denman" (Las Vegas, NV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hollywood High (CD-ROM)

When i was 8 years old i bought this game for my macintosh performa. I wrote hundreds of scripts on it using the interactive cartoons that could read my work back to me. I would then print the scripts out and use my friends to act them out for me, but it was so much easier to have something to show me in advance if i was making mistakes. I would reccomend this for anyone who might want to be a film maker, but doens't want to spend a bunch of money on other programs to find out.