In this interactive app, children explore a whimsical world by discovering characters and scenes around a manhole. Includes hand-rendered scenes, original music, and interactive puzzles.
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AppRecs rating 5.0. Trustworthiness 76 out of 100. Review manipulation risk 24 out of 100. Based on a review sample analyzed.
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76% trustworthiness score from analyzed reviews
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96% of sampled ratings are 5 stars
About The Manhole: Masterpiece
This award-winning romp transports children to the fanciful world around, above, and beneath what appears to be just an average, everyday manhole. But there is much more than meets the eye - have tea with a rabbit, wake up a walrus, nibble biscuits with a dragon, hang with a penguin, boat with an elephant, speak French with a turtle, and much more!
First released in the 80's, the original version won rave reviews and numerous awards including "Best New Use of a Computer" from the Software Publishers Association. This Masterpiece Edition was produced in the 90's as a ground-up re-make of the original with meticulous computer-rendered scenes layered with delightful hand-rendered characters. There are over 30 original music compositions and scores of original sounds and voices.
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Reviews for The Manhole: Masterpiece
PureRainX
Worth it so see it again
If you loved this in the 1980s, it might be worth $2 to see it again. It was for me. I remember it used to take forever to go through the game and click on all the options (which were not always obvious.) Originally, this was created in HyperCard, the precursor to the links used in HTML. I imagine it was much slower in certain parts as it loaded from the 800k floppy disk, and in this version, it never seems to crash the computer. I’m sure it will be just as astonishing to play with this when I’m living in the retirement home.
Withoutastyle
Nostalgic
We had the computer CD as kids so it is a delight to show it to our own kids now.
