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Cartooners

Not exactly a game, but a nice little tool to create animated cartoons. There aren't that many options to play around with, but still enough to create some cool cartoon sequences. Since everything is fairly…

31 December 1989

Cartooners is a video game developed by ITDA, released 31 December 1989 on DOS.

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What Cartooners is

Cartooners was developed by ITDA and released in 1989. It is available on DOS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Not exactly a game, but a nice little tool to create animated cartoons. There aren't that many options to play around with, but still enough to create some cool cartoon sequences. Since everything is fairly easy, this one is probably more aimed at kids. Gameplay is like mix-and-match-- just pick the backdrop, cartoons, objects, then add text to the blurbs to make a complete comic-book style panel. Animations are cute, but limited interaction with the characters probably means the program is meant more as a "print kit" than a game.
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What it launched against

Cartooners launched on 31 December 1989, within three weeks of Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Denaris and Pipe Dream.

Released around the same time: Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Denaris, Pipe Dream.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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When did Cartooners come out?
Cartooners was released on 31 December 1989 for DOS.