Classic Board Games

Classic Board Games
Developer: Random Games Publisher: Hasbro Interactive Platform: Windows Released in US: 1999 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused text.

Play a bunch of classic Milton Bradley games on your computer, hosted by a 3D cel-shaded Italian guy who likes to rhyme. Its sister game, Classic Card Games, contains most of the unused content found here.

Unused Text

No Text

Connect Four and Pente require no text, so their respective language files Connect4.eng and Pente.eng contain the following:

no text for Connect Four
no text for Pente

This is the same for Classic Card Games, except with the games Solitaire and Racko.

charsound.dat

This file controls what sound effects play for each character-specific animation. It also comes with a handy guide.

#this file contains the data for characters
#all you need to enter is the following.
# what character index 1-10, what expression index 1-12, and what sound 1-1000
#make sure there is only one entry per line and the last line should have ~ by it's self.
#example:
#10,2,32
#to create a remark just put a # and then your remark note the # must be the first character of the line.

The comments also list some characters under an early name.

Early	Final
Jeckyl and Hyde Spy Guy Veronica Little Suzie Sarge Farmer Guy	Jeckyl and Clyde Guy Spy Mary Lynd Suzie Little Gunney Cleatus

Remnants of Development

Some C++ project file locations can be found in the executable.

C:\ClassicSrc\Game\checkers\CCheckersGame.cpp
C:\ClassicSrc\Game\Pente\CPenteAI.cpp
C:\ClassicSrc\Game\CharAnim.CPP
C:\ClassicSrc\Game\connect4\ConnectFour_AI.cpp
C:\ClassicSrc\Game\credits.cpp
C:\ClassicSrc\Game\MainGame.cpp
C:\ClassicSrc\network\network.cpp
C:\newcore\Nib\Src\RGNetExtra.cpp
C:\newcore\Nib\Src\RGUtil.cpp
C:\newcore\Nib\Src\RGNet.cpp
C:\newcore\Nib\Src\RGDPlay.cpp
C:\newcore\Nib\Src\DPErr.cpp
C:\newcore\Nib\Src\RGLMngr.cpp
D:\New Core\Sound\Src\Sounds.cpp
D:\New Core\Sound\Src\DSnd.cpp
D:\New Core\Sound\Src\DWSSound.cpp
ParcheesiVH.cpp

Error Messages

The game's executable also features a few interesting error messages.

Failed to create SCREEN BUFFER port!!!
Sorry! Only one game at a time!
Surface is NOT in SYSTEM MEMORY!
Generic Failure!!!!!
Randal is Bored!
Flipping is not supported!
Window NT Registry Support Not Yet Implemented!
BUY A GOOD GRAPHICS BOARD!
INET ADDRESS????
Unable to open Menu
Problem loading menu