Touchscreen-controlled dentist office snowman collector game
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In 2009-2012 I went into a dentist's office in the United States of America. There were a few touchscreen game systems. One of them had one of the Luxor video games, I think Luxor 2 or Luxor 3. I looked at the names of all the games Wikipedia says the same developer made and found none that seem to be about snowmen.
A very similar system there had this game:
- In it, there are a lot of snowmen running around in circles on some sort of icy-looking surface.
- They were the kind of snowman with a carrot, coal eyes, and a coal mouth, like you see in movies.
- You can drag snowmen of the same height or smaller onto others to combine them. For example, a snowman made from one snowball could be dragged onto a two snowball snowman to make a three snowball snowman.
- I think some of them were given hats if they got tall enough.
- When going between levels, which each had a goal such as "Make 4 three-snowball snowmen", the levels were represented as different snow globes.
- The snowman could at least get to be four snowballs tall; I didn't beat the game, so it might have gone further.
- I believe this game was targeted towards kids.
User Valorum has found a video of someone playing the game here. As you can see, there's a bar marked "Magic" which would place this strongly on-topic for SFF.
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In 2009-2012 I went into a dentist's office in the United States of America. There were a few touchscreen game systems. One of them had one of the Luxor video games, I think Luxor 2 or Luxor 3. I looked at the names of all the games Wikipedia says the same developer made and found none that seem to be about snowmen.
A very similar system there had this game:
- In it, there are a lot of snowmen running around in circles on some sort of icy-looking surface.
- They were the kind of snowman with a carrot, coal eyes, and a coal mouth, like you see in movies.
- You can drag snowmen of the same height or smaller onto others to combine them. For example, a snowman made from one snowball could be dragged onto a two snowball snowman to make a three snowball snowman.
- I think some of them were given hats if they got tall enough.
- When going between levels, which each had a goal such as "Make 4 three-snowball snowmen", the levels were represented as different snow globes.
- The snowman could at least get to be four snowballs tall; I didn't beat the game, so it might have gone further.
- I believe this game was targeted towards kids.
User Valorum has found a video of someone playing the game here. As you can see, there's a bar marked "Magic" which would place this strongly on-topic for SFF.
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This one? youtube.com/watch?v=_yTocifQRRE
– Valorum
12 hours ago
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@Valorum yes, that’s it
– Stormblessed
12 hours ago
2
You guys have fun stuff at the dentist's. Here the only source of entertainment in the waiting room of any doctor are 15 years old pointless gossip magazines
– Jenayah
10 hours ago
3
This seems to be about identifying a video game, not a sci-fi story... you should have posted on gaming.stackexchange.com, but they only allow identification questions with images (which your original question did not have). The best place to post would've been reddit.com/r/TipOfMyJoystick
– BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
8 hours ago
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@BlueRaja identification of videogames is very much on-topic here, as long as they're sci-fi or fantasy. This one has animated snowmen and magic, so it's on-topic
– Jenayah
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In 2009-2012 I went into a dentist's office in the United States of America. There were a few touchscreen game systems. One of them had one of the Luxor video games, I think Luxor 2 or Luxor 3. I looked at the names of all the games Wikipedia says the same developer made and found none that seem to be about snowmen.
A very similar system there had this game:
- In it, there are a lot of snowmen running around in circles on some sort of icy-looking surface.
- They were the kind of snowman with a carrot, coal eyes, and a coal mouth, like you see in movies.
- You can drag snowmen of the same height or smaller onto others to combine them. For example, a snowman made from one snowball could be dragged onto a two snowball snowman to make a three snowball snowman.
- I think some of them were given hats if they got tall enough.
- When going between levels, which each had a goal such as "Make 4 three-snowball snowmen", the levels were represented as different snow globes.
- The snowman could at least get to be four snowballs tall; I didn't beat the game, so it might have gone further.
- I believe this game was targeted towards kids.
User Valorum has found a video of someone playing the game here. As you can see, there's a bar marked "Magic" which would place this strongly on-topic for SFF.
story-identification video-games
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In 2009-2012 I went into a dentist's office in the United States of America. There were a few touchscreen game systems. One of them had one of the Luxor video games, I think Luxor 2 or Luxor 3. I looked at the names of all the games Wikipedia says the same developer made and found none that seem to be about snowmen.
A very similar system there had this game:
- In it, there are a lot of snowmen running around in circles on some sort of icy-looking surface.
- They were the kind of snowman with a carrot, coal eyes, and a coal mouth, like you see in movies.
- You can drag snowmen of the same height or smaller onto others to combine them. For example, a snowman made from one snowball could be dragged onto a two snowball snowman to make a three snowball snowman.
- I think some of them were given hats if they got tall enough.
- When going between levels, which each had a goal such as "Make 4 three-snowball snowmen", the levels were represented as different snow globes.
- The snowman could at least get to be four snowballs tall; I didn't beat the game, so it might have gone further.
- I believe this game was targeted towards kids.
User Valorum has found a video of someone playing the game here. As you can see, there's a bar marked "Magic" which would place this strongly on-topic for SFF.
story-identification video-games
story-identification video-games
edited 11 hours ago
Valorum
409k11029713196
asked 13 hours ago
StormblessedStormblessed
2,183632
edited 11 hours ago
Valorum
409k11029713196
asked 13 hours ago
StormblessedStormblessed
2,183632
edited 11 hours ago
Valorum
409k11029713196
edited 11 hours ago
Valorum
409k11029713196
edited 11 hours ago
Valorum
409k11029713196
409k11029713196
asked 13 hours ago
StormblessedStormblessed
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asked 13 hours ago
StormblessedStormblessed
2,183632
asked 13 hours ago
StormblessedStormblessed
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This one? youtube.com/watch?v=_yTocifQRRE
– Valorum
12 hours ago
3
@Valorum yes, that’s it
– Stormblessed
12 hours ago
2
You guys have fun stuff at the dentist's. Here the only source of entertainment in the waiting room of any doctor are 15 years old pointless gossip magazines
– Jenayah
10 hours ago
3
This seems to be about identifying a video game, not a sci-fi story... you should have posted on gaming.stackexchange.com, but they only allow identification questions with images (which your original question did not have). The best place to post would've been reddit.com/r/TipOfMyJoystick
– BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
8 hours ago
4
@BlueRaja identification of videogames is very much on-topic here, as long as they're sci-fi or fantasy. This one has animated snowmen and magic, so it's on-topic
– Jenayah
8 hours ago
|
show 1 more comment
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This one? youtube.com/watch?v=_yTocifQRRE
– Valorum
12 hours ago
3
@Valorum yes, that’s it
– Stormblessed
12 hours ago
2
You guys have fun stuff at the dentist's. Here the only source of entertainment in the waiting room of any doctor are 15 years old pointless gossip magazines
– Jenayah
10 hours ago
3
This seems to be about identifying a video game, not a sci-fi story... you should have posted on gaming.stackexchange.com, but they only allow identification questions with images (which your original question did not have). The best place to post would've been reddit.com/r/TipOfMyJoystick
– BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
8 hours ago
4
@BlueRaja identification of videogames is very much on-topic here, as long as they're sci-fi or fantasy. This one has animated snowmen and magic, so it's on-topic
– Jenayah
8 hours ago
2
2
This one? youtube.com/watch?v=_yTocifQRRE
– Valorum
12 hours ago
This one? youtube.com/watch?v=_yTocifQRRE
– Valorum
12 hours ago
3
3
@Valorum yes, that’s it
– Stormblessed
12 hours ago
@Valorum yes, that’s it
– Stormblessed
12 hours ago
2
2
You guys have fun stuff at the dentist's. Here the only source of entertainment in the waiting room of any doctor are 15 years old pointless gossip magazines
– Jenayah
10 hours ago
You guys have fun stuff at the dentist's. Here the only source of entertainment in the waiting room of any doctor are 15 years old pointless gossip magazines
– Jenayah
10 hours ago
3
3
This seems to be about identifying a video game, not a sci-fi story... you should have posted on gaming.stackexchange.com, but they only allow identification questions with images (which your original question did not have). The best place to post would've been reddit.com/r/TipOfMyJoystick
– BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
8 hours ago
This seems to be about identifying a video game, not a sci-fi story... you should have posted on gaming.stackexchange.com, but they only allow identification questions with images (which your original question did not have). The best place to post would've been reddit.com/r/TipOfMyJoystick
– BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
8 hours ago
4
4
@BlueRaja identification of videogames is very much on-topic here, as long as they're sci-fi or fantasy. This one has animated snowmen and magic, so it's on-topic
– Jenayah
8 hours ago
@BlueRaja identification of videogames is very much on-topic here, as long as they're sci-fi or fantasy. This one has animated snowmen and magic, so it's on-topic
– Jenayah
8 hours ago
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This is Megatouch Games' Feeding Frosty
Unfortunately, the products that played this game (the Merit Megatouch Countertop Touchscreen range) are now discontinued. You can pick them up on ebay or from specialist retro-gamer retailers but they're not cheap.
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Just FYI, I found this by googling "Snowman touchscreen game" which led me to this video. I then searched for other people who were talking about this video and found it referenced here. Although the poster didn't know the name of the game, they mentioned that they'd played it in McDonalds which led me to search for "Touchscreen game McDonalds Snowman" which led me to this video with the name of the game.
– Valorum
10 hours ago
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I've twitted at the rights-holder to find out if there is any way to still play it (e.g. any system that still has it) or whether it's available as an app. I suspect that the answer is 'no', but we'll see
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This is Megatouch Games' Feeding Frosty
Unfortunately, the products that played this game (the Merit Megatouch Countertop Touchscreen range) are now discontinued. You can pick them up on ebay or from specialist retro-gamer retailers but they're not cheap.
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Just FYI, I found this by googling "Snowman touchscreen game" which led me to this video. I then searched for other people who were talking about this video and found it referenced here. Although the poster didn't know the name of the game, they mentioned that they'd played it in McDonalds which led me to search for "Touchscreen game McDonalds Snowman" which led me to this video with the name of the game.
– Valorum
10 hours ago
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I've twitted at the rights-holder to find out if there is any way to still play it (e.g. any system that still has it) or whether it's available as an app. I suspect that the answer is 'no', but we'll see
– Valorum
10 hours ago
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This is Megatouch Games' Feeding Frosty
Unfortunately, the products that played this game (the Merit Megatouch Countertop Touchscreen range) are now discontinued. You can pick them up on ebay or from specialist retro-gamer retailers but they're not cheap.
answered 10 hours ago
ValorumValorum
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Just FYI, I found this by googling "Snowman touchscreen game" which led me to this video. I then searched for other people who were talking about this video and found it referenced here. Although the poster didn't know the name of the game, they mentioned that they'd played it in McDonalds which led me to search for "Touchscreen game McDonalds Snowman" which led me to this video with the name of the game.
– Valorum
10 hours ago
2
I've twitted at the rights-holder to find out if there is any way to still play it (e.g. any system that still has it) or whether it's available as an app. I suspect that the answer is 'no', but we'll see
– Valorum
10 hours ago
add a comment |
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This is Megatouch Games' Feeding Frosty
Unfortunately, the products that played this game (the Merit Megatouch Countertop Touchscreen range) are now discontinued. You can pick them up on ebay or from specialist retro-gamer retailers but they're not cheap.
answered 10 hours ago
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This is Megatouch Games' Feeding Frosty
Unfortunately, the products that played this game (the Merit Megatouch Countertop Touchscreen range) are now discontinued. You can pick them up on ebay or from specialist retro-gamer retailers but they're not cheap.
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Just FYI, I found this by googling "Snowman touchscreen game" which led me to this video. I then searched for other people who were talking about this video and found it referenced here. Although the poster didn't know the name of the game, they mentioned that they'd played it in McDonalds which led me to search for "Touchscreen game McDonalds Snowman" which led me to this video with the name of the game.
– Valorum
10 hours ago
2
I've twitted at the rights-holder to find out if there is any way to still play it (e.g. any system that still has it) or whether it's available as an app. I suspect that the answer is 'no', but we'll see
– Valorum
10 hours ago
add a comment |
6
Just FYI, I found this by googling "Snowman touchscreen game" which led me to this video. I then searched for other people who were talking about this video and found it referenced here. Although the poster didn't know the name of the game, they mentioned that they'd played it in McDonalds which led me to search for "Touchscreen game McDonalds Snowman" which led me to this video with the name of the game.
– Valorum
10 hours ago
2
I've twitted at the rights-holder to find out if there is any way to still play it (e.g. any system that still has it) or whether it's available as an app. I suspect that the answer is 'no', but we'll see
– Valorum
10 hours ago
6
6
Just FYI, I found this by googling "Snowman touchscreen game" which led me to this video. I then searched for other people who were talking about this video and found it referenced here. Although the poster didn't know the name of the game, they mentioned that they'd played it in McDonalds which led me to search for "Touchscreen game McDonalds Snowman" which led me to this video with the name of the game.
– Valorum
10 hours ago
Just FYI, I found this by googling "Snowman touchscreen game" which led me to this video. I then searched for other people who were talking about this video and found it referenced here. Although the poster didn't know the name of the game, they mentioned that they'd played it in McDonalds which led me to search for "Touchscreen game McDonalds Snowman" which led me to this video with the name of the game.
– Valorum
10 hours ago
2
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I've twitted at the rights-holder to find out if there is any way to still play it (e.g. any system that still has it) or whether it's available as an app. I suspect that the answer is 'no', but we'll see
– Valorum
10 hours ago
I've twitted at the rights-holder to find out if there is any way to still play it (e.g. any system that still has it) or whether it's available as an app. I suspect that the answer is 'no', but we'll see
– Valorum
10 hours ago
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This one? youtube.com/watch?v=_yTocifQRRE
– Valorum
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@Valorum yes, that’s it
– Stormblessed
12 hours ago
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You guys have fun stuff at the dentist's. Here the only source of entertainment in the waiting room of any doctor are 15 years old pointless gossip magazines
– Jenayah
10 hours ago
3
This seems to be about identifying a video game, not a sci-fi story... you should have posted on gaming.stackexchange.com, but they only allow identification questions with images (which your original question did not have). The best place to post would've been reddit.com/r/TipOfMyJoystick
– BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
8 hours ago
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@BlueRaja identification of videogames is very much on-topic here, as long as they're sci-fi or fantasy. This one has animated snowmen and magic, so it's on-topic
– Jenayah
8 hours ago