ScreenToyz Screensavers: $10 Million Failure from 1994 🎃 An LGR Halloween Thing

Taking a look at Creative Insights ScreenToyz! Gimmicky mid 90s peripherals that plug into a computer keyboard port letting you control "interactive screensavers"... so, a game then, right? Ha. Yeah they sure tried something, charged $50 for it, failed spectacularly, and that's how you end up on LGR 30 years later.

● LGR things elsewhere:
Patreon   / lazygamereviews  
Bsky https://bsky.app/profile/lgr-yt.bsky....

● Archive of the Screen Toyz software CD-ROM:
https://archive.org/details/screentoy...

● Background music licensed from Epidemic Sound:
https://www.epidemicsound.com

● Halloween stock footage licensed from Storyblocks:
https://www.storyblocks.com/

00:00 spooky 90s e-waste
01:08 intro to ScreenToyz
02:36 oddly fascinating history
06:30 unboxing the box
09:33 setup in Windows 98
12:17 first test!
14:27 ...it's a thing
19:08 can't imagine why this failed lulz

#LGR #computer #retro