Art Alive

Art Alive

released on Nov 18, 1991

Art Alive

released on Nov 18, 1991

Surprise yourself and impress your friends with astonishing graphics you can make in minutes. Animate them and your TV screen becomes a lively work of art. All with just your television and the 16-bit Genesis system. It's simply the easiest way to be an artist. Create masterpieces that run, jump, and dance! You can even record them on your VCR. It's better than a game... it's ART ALIVE! Turn your imagination loose with the gallery of tools: A rainbow of colors to paint with; 3 different pencil tips for freehand drawing; Circles, rectangles and squares in 3 different outline widths; Spray cans for shading patterns; An eraser and clear feature to make mistakes vanish; Over 50 supplied graphics and animations, including Sonic the Hedgehog and ToeJam & Earl, or create your own; Predrawn backdrops you can color with the fill bucket.


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I'm being REALLY generous with my score here because I can't hate this game due to it being one of the first games I ever owned. It do be a very basic drawing program on the mega drive. No mouse support means good luck drawing things easily with 8 directions of movement, there's no way to save a drawing in progress, and there's a very limited selection of color palettes. There were definitely more full-featured art programs than this at the time... But I still had fun messing about with it as a kid (even if I wasn't really sure what it exactly was I was doing) so while I can't really recommend it, I also don't dislike it.

Played as a kid.

This game is awesome if you hate yourself and hate art.

As a child, my parents were pretty strict about the times they let me play video games. Frequently, the only game I was allowed to play was Art Alive, because I guess it wasn't really a game. So I just sat there, looking at the Sonic cartridges resting on the shelf, "playing" Art Alive. I drew mazes with dots in them and used the eraser tool to hover up the dots, emulating Pac-Man. That, my friends, is desperation.

Today, I use the game's box to store my weed. A late, silent rebellion.

To be honest, I used to love the song effects of this game when I was a kid xD

I wouldn't say this is a terrible art tool but you are asking for violence when you make your software incompatible with a mouse and don't put in battery saves. mario paint fucking demolishes this