Comments on: Epic Win: Kid Pix

By: Earnest P. Worrel

Earnest P. Worrel — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:19:12 +0000

LOL!!! The whole point of this program was to nice and simple. I Always played this program on my dad’s Apple Macintosh Quadra 605 at home.

By: Karen Rice, AKA Wizzy

Karen Rice, AKA Wizzy — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:02:49 +0000

My kids use Kid Pix.

By: Aimee C

Aimee C — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:48:40 +0000

My preschoolers totally use this program! doesnt look like this anymore, but they absolutely love it!!!

By: practical_mess

practical_mess — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:37:25 +0000

My brother and I used to turn the stamps into little pictures of X-wings and TIE fighters and stamp them all over the page, then take turns drawing red or green lines from one ship to another. It was almost a game. My brother and his friends also used to make these strange little movies with the amount of swearing and boobies typical of ten- or eleven-year-old boys. Great program.

By: TeH Destroyer26

TeH Destroyer26 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:46:58 +0000

Installing Kid Pix 1.00 right now lol

By: TGreen

TGreen — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:33:29 +0000

live in canada so we always had indoor recesses in february and such when it got to be like -30, -40 (celsius with wind chill) and we made a game out of who could stare at the screen the longest during lunch recess with the rainbow effect paintbrush on, this game is the reason i found out i’m epileptic

By: Tigerwings

Tigerwings — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:10:51 +0000

they still have it and its up to version 11.0!

By: DizzyEmili

DizzyEmili — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:45:31 +0000

KID PIIIIIIX! Good god! This game stole so much of my childhood, and I’m damn glad that it did. I sooo want to find some place to download it or something. I miss the “Draw Me” thing so much. ;D

By: jenny

jenny — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:13:18 +0000

omg i love kid pix (i have new shiny version at my school it is haxors.) i love the little dynamite thingy.

By: Mahdi

Mahdi — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:59:34 +0000

YEAH! DUDE! I STILL HAVE KIDPIX!!!!!!

THE ORIGINAL VERISON!

DYNAMITE TOOL KICKS ASS

By: Mamakittehmeow

Mamakittehmeow — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:27:42 +0000

Ahh! Classic! It is all coming back to me now! Man, I LOVED this thing!!

By: Anna?

Anna? — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:40:18 +0000

i also forgot the draw me’s! they were the best..oh how i miss the wonders of elementary school

By: Anna?

Anna? — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:38:16 +0000

Not to worry! until 6th grade my grade school used this brilliant peice of programming! its still my favorite..

By: Richard Lang

Richard Lang — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:43:39 +0000

Best image manipulator I used before Adobe (Not much of an image editor). Though this thing would bog down any computer after using that magic random color tool for too long, I remember taping all the mouse buttons down for like 6 computers in the lab when the substitute teacher was gone. One of them went as far as a BSOD, the others froze.

By: ally

ally — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:04:36 +0000

i remember this in the computer lab… TONS OF FUN

BTW: i’m wondering if anyone remembers an old (90s) computer game-ish thing where you could create your own neighborhood and build houses and you could have dinosaurs and random stuff strewn about… it’s not the sims… that’s for sure. but it was my FAVORITE game. i made my dreamhouse all the time… any help would be greatly appreciated

saagirlie07@aim.com

By: james

james — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:09:15 +0000

i’ve got a copy of KPD3 on a reader rabbit disc.

By: Higa

Higa — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:53:32 +0000

I remember that I spent so much time at home drawing those and then making those “movies”. man, the dynamite was fun.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:24:11 +0000

KidPix is still around and used by a lot of schools. If you’re wanting to take a trip down memory lane you can also check out TuxPaint (at http://www.tuxpaint.org) – an open-source (free) alternative that rocks just as much as KidPix, but doesn’t cost a dime.

By: Cary

Cary — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:34:05 +0000

I loved this game!!!!!!

Does anybody have any more screenshots…? Please?!

By: Waffle-Copter

Waffle-Copter — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:51:50 +0000

OH. MY GOD. I had forgotten all about this~
Thanks once upon a win~!!

By: lilfishie

lilfishie — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:52:29 +0000

I had this and Kid-cuts on my computer!!!!! i had a blast with it!!! what a flashback!

By: ryan

ryan — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:00:34 +0000

I used to teach kids in Ewing Elementary last year, and every computer there had Kidpix 6 or 8 or whatever on them. Still have dynamite too.

By: sean

sean — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:58:40 +0000

Didn’t this have a little video post card feature with short movies. One was about Big Foot the monster truck and one was about Jackorabits in texas. I remember watching these 4 minute videos after about 20 minutes of load time.

By: Chipmunk.

Chipmunk. — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:08:45 +0000

I never had Kid Pix, but my elementary school had Dazzle, which was way cooler!

By: FAIL-IEN

FAIL-IEN — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:27:23 +0000

Funny, I just saw a copy of “Kid Pix” at a local thrift store for $2.99! Probably a newer version, but would’ve got it to reminisce on old times deleting useless scribbles of teachers I hated with the dynamite function during computer lab time.

By: Allison

Allison — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:59:41 +0000

YEEEEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Loved this

By: Maa

Maa — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:38:45 +0000

I remember the old version from around grade 1. But by grade 8 they had a new version.. Kid Pix deluxe 3!! It’s actually still around i think

By: b

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:00:09 +0000

I only used the program once, and the memory has been with me since grade school. I almost cried when I saw this post up. Truly, this was an epic win.

By: Mag

Mag — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:52:15 +0000

omg YES, i used this so much when i was in elementary school ^3^
i remember goofing off and making up my own little stories by placing stamps of animals and such all over a scene i would draw for them such as a swamp or a city O: my gawd, i wonder if i can still find that cd somewhere in my room, i remember flipping out because my friend got it for my birthday in like.. 6th grade =D ~ definitely a nostalgic win!

By: kati

kati — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:04:03 +0000

KidPix is still around. My daughter uses it at school all the time. And, yes, they still have the dynamite and the stamps.

By: NinjaNina

NinjaNina — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:38:40 +0000

I had that first version, from ‘91, up until 2005. Then I got addicted to MS Paint. But they have it at my school computers, and I am in middle school! Ah, first love of KidPix. It’s the new version though. Not the same.

By: Aeyvi

Aeyvi — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:07:10 +0000

This is the reason I’m a graphic designer now
They started me in early.

By: catgirl

catgirl — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:05:04 +0000

I never had this in school (we only had Oregon Trail), but I had it at home and I loved it! I would spend most of the time customizing the stamps and then using them. I’d make a row of different colored cats and then a row of men with different colored pants.

By: Diana

Diana — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:36:23 +0000

Man! Everyday in Computer class I would look foward to Kid Pix. But, for some reason our teacher would get mad at us for using the dynamiyte…………….what a fun Nazi!

By: rebecca

rebecca — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:10:35 +0000

oh my god, i LOVED kid pix! i played it all the time in like second grade! this is one of the most epic wins on this site

By: Tank

Tank — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:50:06 +0000

Reading the comments, someone said they played this on a Mac LC. My god…I had/have a Mac LC and I’m 99% sure that Kid Pix 2 was the first computer game I ever played. One of my earliest computer memories was staying up late (which was probably around 8 or 9 PM) with my dad and playing KidPix. I made a picture called “Breaking Rocks”. It was just a bunch of broken black triangles and randomply placed letters. I found that old Mac LC, but it doesn’t work anymore. I guess there are some files that can only really be saved in your own brain…

By: Collin

Collin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:58:42 +0000

this was the most epic game ever ever. you could make randome nonsensical bullcrap… with instructions! And then you get to explode it all!!!! the sound effects were awesome and were oh so fun to annoy my classmates with.
Kidpix= superultrazomflololololololzchucknorisschnooglyooglyWIN

PS. i’m a dizzy daisy, getting lazy, with 20 foot toes and a pickle in my nose, draw me.

By: Veronica

Veronica — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:19:16 +0000

i always loved kid pix, but they do still use it, i only graduated from public school 2 years ago and they still had it while i was there

By: caro

caro — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:09:01 +0000

whoa weird at my middle school we’d be designing our own programs everyday

By: yavideogames

yavideogames — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:52:03 +0000

actualy, kids still use this! there on version 9.0 now,
at my school once a week all the kids go to the computer lab and thats all they do.

you can make movies and music now too.

By: Sunshine

Sunshine — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:49:27 +0000

Same here. Didn’t stop it from being the coolest thing ever and my favorite part of the day, though. I know I used to own a newer version than the one in school, but I had, like, Windows 95 then. XD I highly doubt it’ll work on Vista, even if we still had it.

By: Emilio

Emilio — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:01:22 +0000

What do you mean “It’s a shame kids don’t get to use Kid Pix anymore”? They still make it! http://www.smartkidssoftware.com/ndlec159.htm That’s like saying “It’s a shame we don’t get to use photoshop 1.0 anymore”! Just because there’s a different number at the end, it no longer exists? Research is hard…

By: toribug11

toribug11 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:56:33 +0000

smartboard!!

By: nitrogamer

nitrogamer — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:48:08 +0000

i remember putting a port a john in the middle of the screen, then putting dynamite and bulldozers and a bunch of stuff around it.

By: billytheskink

billytheskink — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:22:24 +0000

Probably one of the very few drawing programs that people will say they have “played” instead of “used”.

Kid Pix was and still is a blast, and it’s still a great way to teach kids basic mouse and drawing program skills.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:15:10 +0000

they have newer versions of kid pix out now and my little sister uses it at school. we found one for the home computer and now pictures line the walls.

By: J_S

J_S — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:49:46 +0000

Oh my gosh I have the best childhood memories of Kid Pix. The first time I used it, it was on a tiny black and white Macintosh. Later in elementary school we had Kid Pix Studio Deluxe on the Macs there, and eventually the computer lab wouldn’t let us use the dynamite eraser tool because they thought it was “too violent.” I need to find this program again, TuxPaint comes close, but it’s not the same!

By: itwasadarkandstormynight

itwasadarkandstormynight — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:28:17 +0000

I loved the thing where you erase the screen and reveal another picture behind it. That’s what I always did!

By: itwasadarkandstormynight

itwasadarkandstormynight — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:22:47 +0000

Me too!

By: thisandthis

thisandthis — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:44:35 +0000

That program was epic!! I remember using it on those old Macintosh LCs’ from 1990 back in the 1st grade. Oregon trail was fun too. I also remember being forced to play “mouse practice” way to much. The mouse only had 1 button!!! why did we need to practice?? Not like it had gestures or anything…