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Kai's Power Goo - Classic '90s Funware! [LGR Retrospective]
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Date: 2022-04-14
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DigiFootage
This brings back a ton of memories for me too. Kai's Goo was everywhere in the mid 90's, if you were into graphics. It was super fun, but you found out relatively quickly that it was intended only for fun because of the limitations in resolution and other shortcomings. It could have been very powerful tool if they allowed higher res or more frames in the animations, but that wouldn't come until much later in Adobe products etc. Metacreations were way ahead of their time in many respects. Weren't they the ones who acquired and expanded on Painter?
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This brings back a ton of memories for me too. Kai's Goo was everywhere in the mid 90's, if you were into graphics. It was super fun, but you found out relatively quickly that it was intended only for fun because of the limitations in resolution and other shortcomings. It could have been very powerful tool if they allowed higher res or more frames in the animations, but that wouldn't come until much later in Adobe products etc. Metacreations were way ahead of their time in many respects. Weren't they the ones who acquired and expanded on Painter?
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Adam
Okay, so I remember hearing about Kai's Power Goo, although I don't think I ever had the opportunity to use it. It looked pretty cool though, definitely pretty damn impressive for a $50 piece of software at the time. I always wondered where the name came from, and I knew absolutely nothing about Kai Krause, what a fascinating individual. He seems like a real rock star (in the technical sense) to be so involved in so many different amazing creation tools, along with all of his other work. I had no idea, this blew me away.
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Okay, so I remember hearing about Kai's Power Goo, although I don't think I ever had the opportunity to use it. It looked pretty cool though, definitely pretty damn impressive for a $50 piece of software at the time. I always wondered where the name came from, and I knew absolutely nothing about Kai Krause, what a fascinating individual. He seems like a real rock star (in the technical sense) to be so involved in so many different amazing creation tools, along with all of his other work. I had no idea, this blew me away.
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George
Oh man, how i miss this kind of stuff! Back when you didn't have the internet and either couldn't afford (new) videogames, or got bored with them (old ones, you'd just start exploring the PC to see what different programs did and chanced upon something cool like this, then spent hours messing around. You just can't replicate the feeling anymore. -
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Oh man, how i miss this kind of stuff! Back when you didn't have the internet and either couldn't afford (new) videogames, or got bored with them (old ones, you'd just start exploring the PC to see what different programs did and chanced upon something cool like this, then spent hours messing around. You just can't replicate the feeling anymore. -
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Gareth
Huh, I never realised this was a full blown piece of software that was sold widely.
We had a cut down version of it bundled with our old packard bell pentium mmx 166. As far as I remember, it couldn't import or export anything. All it could do was play around with that stock image of the Mona Lisa.
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Huh, I never realised this was a full blown piece of software that was sold widely.
We had a cut down version of it bundled with our old packard bell pentium mmx 166. As far as I remember, it couldn't import or export anything. All it could do was play around with that stock image of the Mona Lisa.
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Drew
This was my first real piece of software in the age of Windows in the early 90s. I remember my father chuckling at the instruction booklet that has a b&w pic of a guy who replaced JFKs face with his, and saying -this is a little tasteless-.
Edit: No! It was the manual for the Snappy! My mistake.
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This was my first real piece of software in the age of Windows in the early 90s. I remember my father chuckling at the instruction booklet that has a b&w pic of a guy who replaced JFKs face with his, and saying -this is a little tasteless-.
Edit: No! It was the manual for the Snappy! My mistake.
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Arqvyle
I used to love this program. I remember long ago in like 1998 my babysitter would be really mean to me and steal the computer to design boys she thought were cute using that compositing feature the second program had. I told her they were ugly and it pissed her off real bad.
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I used to love this program. I remember long ago in like 1998 my babysitter would be really mean to me and steal the computer to design boys she thought were cute using that compositing feature the second program had. I told her they were ugly and it pissed her off real bad.
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Sean
OMG! We had so much fun with Goo back in the day! We once manipulated a school pic of one of my friends so that he ended up looking a lot like Robert Picardo from Star Trek Voyager. I think that's the actor's name. He played the holographic doctor. It was hilarious.
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OMG! We had so much fun with Goo back in the day! We once manipulated a school pic of one of my friends so that he ended up looking a lot like Robert Picardo from Star Trek Voyager. I think that's the actor's name. He played the holographic doctor. It was hilarious.
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Rene
Power Goo: P we had a school project in 1999 to merge different pictures to a other. That was the first time i had to teach my classmates in computer and graphics because our teacher can't use this kind of tools; -)
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Power Goo: P we had a school project in 1999 to merge different pictures to a other. That was the first time i had to teach my classmates in computer and graphics because our teacher can't use this kind of tools; -)
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nickeltuesday
it would be so bad ass if you guys all did a video together! I mean you kinda did in this video but it doesn't count. The fans would love it. Come on LGR work your magic and make that vid a reality.
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it would be so bad ass if you guys all did a video together! I mean you kinda did in this video but it doesn't count. The fans would love it. Come on LGR work your magic and make that vid a reality.
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hellaraiser
oh my god, that fusion room image of the older guy and girl just sent me waaay back. i remember i had a photoshopped monkey version of that image saved to my computer many, many years ago haha.
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oh my god, that fusion room image of the older guy and girl just sent me waaay back. i remember i had a photoshopped monkey version of that image saved to my computer many, many years ago haha.
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