Saturday, 27 January 2024

951 - ALOOF

This is my 9-year-old Granddaughters' version:

In Hedgehog HoLlow, everybody wAs either rushing about with supplies or delivering news. It was nearly winter and the hedgehogs had to get everything ready for their hibernation like food, warm beds and pillows. Hedgehog Hollow was split into two parts. One of them was mostly for meetings, speeches, storing foods and for their bells(money) bank. The other part is just lots of room for all the hedgehogs to set up their hibernation equipment. TOOT TOOT! along come the kinder gardeners each carrying a backpack containing one's blanket, one's eye mask, one's sleeping hat, one's water bottle, one's school folder and one's special toy. Their teacher -Mrs Forage - had asked each little hedgehog a random question to test them on their learning. "What is a large group of fish called?" or "8+32= what?" and the kids would answer back... "a shoal of fish" or "40!". Mrs Forage led the children into a medium sized room and wrote with chalk on a blackboard how to set up their hibernation equipment. Oh! In comes grumpy old Mr hard nut. He was a cold man, aloof and distant. Suddenly the leader of hedgehog Hollow's detective/right hand hedgehog dashed across the hall and into the leader's office looking worried. "The rope went slack!" he panted, wiping his forehead.

Hedgehog Hollow residents
Hedgehog Hollow residents

This is my version:

Lemmings was invented by a team of Scottish computer games creators. The games are quite addictive. The Lemmings never slack at their allotted tasks and at the end of the game you hope to chalk up a better score than last time. Lemmings are a bit like a shoal of fish going along in the same direction until they hit an obstacle of some sort. Lemmings are all equally capable - no one is originally more capable, or stands aloof from the others. It was one of the most popular computer games of the 1990s. Nowadays it uses very little of modern computers etc and you can even play the original game in a browser: Play Lemmings.

Typical 1990s Lemmings screen
Typical 1990s Lemmings screen

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