Lego Island

LEGO Island is an open-world sandbox game developed and published by Mindscape in 1997. It is classified as the first LEGO licensed game to be released outside japan (The first one was Lego Fun to build for the Sega Pico).

Why It Rocks

 * 1) 5 different playable characters (Laura Brick, Nick Brick, Mama Brickolini, Papa Brickolini and Pepper Roni), each with their own special abilities to use around LEGO Island.
 * 2) Over 300 pages worth of dialogue, and it's actually funny!
 * 3) As well as not-well known voice actors, professional voice actors voice the main characters, including June Foray as Mama Brickolini, John Morris as Pepper Roni and David L. Lander as The Brickster.
 * 4) You can create your own LEGO Vehicles, even if you have to place the pieces "Brick by Brick, Tock by Tick".
 * 5) As well as building Vehicles, you can ride them as well.
 * 6) Catchy music.
 * 7) Good graphics for 1997 standards.
 * 8) Loads of places to explore.
 * 9) The activities can be fun, like Racing, Jet Ski Racing, Driving an ambulance or a tow truck and catching the brickster at the end.
 * 10) The game also allows you to change objects and the type of colors and clothes that the character will wear.
 * 11) The game also allows you to change the color of the weather.
 * 12) The Lego logo you get when you play the game is visually stunning for 1997 standards.
 * 13) Back In 1997 You Could Get A Free Informaniac Minifigure If You Got A Copy Of The Game

Bad Qualities

 * 1) As the controls are based around the framerate if the framerate is high the controls will be way too sensitive.
 * 2) Wonky physics.
 * 3) The game is just a perfectly disguised activity center.
 * 4) It's a pain to run on some PCs, as sometimes the framerate and game speed can be way too high. But that's a problem with many, many old PC games.
 * 5) The game can glitch out on modern PCs, leading to things like a constantly repeating "Are you ready to le-"
 * 6) The final part where you have to catch the Brickster can be too hard, as you throw pizzas to make a path for the Brickster and throw donuts to make a path for Officer Nick and Laura Brick. Making it extremely hard to get the good ending. Speaking of the ending....
 * 7) The ending you get when the player fails to help the Lego police catch the Brickster is horrifying as the characters can be heard crying and Lego island has been destroyed. The beta ending is even worse. And remember, this game is for ages 6-12

Trivia

 * If you load the game without the game's CD in the PC, an animated message appears with the Infomaniac saying "Whoops! You have to put the CD in your computer!".
 * There is an unused audio clip saying "Whoops! You have to put the CD back in your computer!", which is likely supposed to play if you eject the disc while playing; however, the developers likely dropped the idea as the game will simply crash if you eject the disc. It is also likely that the same audio clip was instead used in the message that plays when you load the game without the CD but with the "back" removed.

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