McZee
What is McZee, exactly? It depends on who you ask. To some, McZee is a lifestyle choice – one of most fanciful jest, where frivolity and freedom are at a hallmark. To others, McZee is a curse, a hex upon society that plagues your thoughts at every turn. To most, however, McZee is simply the annoying purple dude who appeared in a few Microsoft games.
Premiering in 1993’s Creative Writer and Fine Artist titles, McZee led children through the land of Imaginopolis, hoping to assist them with all of their prose and painting endeavours. He had an uncanny ability to change costumes within a flash, hopefully not while we were still in the room. He would enter his renaissance (known to some as the McZee Era) in 1995 with the addictive 3D Movie Maker, fleshing the character out with revolutionary FMV, and even a voice provided by Michael Shapiro, better known as G-Man of Half-Life fame.
3D Movie Maker gave you not only the opportunity to create robust films, but also to explore a theatre, collecting lost pages of the talent CV’s along the way. Of course, McZee hounded you no matter where you went, armed with more puns than Splash the Manatee. Remember that guy? He used to be a boyatee, but then he grew up.
