Little Monster at School

Little Monster at School
Developer: Brøderbund Publishers: Brøderbund, Random House Platforms: CD-i, Windows, Mac OS Classic Released in US: 1993 (CD-i), 1994 (Win/Mac) This game has revisional differences.

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Little Monster at School is the Living Books adaptation of the book of the same name. It's notable for being the second (and last) title to be released on a console, following the Tandy VIS version of Just Grandma and Me.

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Revisional Differences

The first version of the game was released for the CD-i before it was released for Windows and Macintosh computers. As a result, there are a few differences between these versions.

Title Screen

CD-i	Windows/Macintosh

While the PC versions' title screen is identical to the physical book's cover, the CD-i version uses an approximation of the original artwork redrawn to fit the console's smaller screen size.

Cutscene Changes

The company logo underwent a revision with a remixed theme and the removal of the six-note scale. "Broderbund's" was replaced with "A Random House/Broderbund Company".

Main Menu

In the CD-i version, the main menu has the title logo used from the book cover and the background is a plain yellow screen. In the PC/Mac version, the title logo is different and the background is a book. Also, the PC/Mac version has a Spanish language option unlike the CD-i version.

Other

• There are several sound and graphic differences, including a few animated frames that are missing from the PC/Mac versions.
• There is no quit page as it's a console port.
• When cutting between scenes, the transition engine fades transparently into another scene instead of fading to/from black, hence the fading screens are done differently here than in any other game in the series.
• In the CD-i version, there is a credits sequence where a woman does a voiceover session in addition to the Painting sequence. In the PC/Mac version, it was replaced by the Programmer and Music sequences.