History Trivia / LivingBooks

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The ''Green Eggs and Ham'' Living Book had a clip where Sam-I-Am approached the unnamed grumpy character on the plate of green eggs and ham in an oddly... suggestive pose. This didn't make it into the final game, but it appeared in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV3FkoB8rWA?t=2m11s prototype of the game's demo]] featured on the ''Berenstain Bears in the Dark'' title.

** The ''Magic Tales'' series was a take on classic foreign folk tales rather than children's books, and were made by Davidson & Associates and Animation Magic. Yes, [[VideoGame/IMMeen that]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Animation Magic.]]

** The ''VideoGame/DisneysAnimatedStorybook'' series, which adapted various Disney films into interactive books. Some of these were ''Disney/TheLionKing'' and ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''. Ironically, Media Station developed some of these titles, and would later go on to make ''D.W. the Picky Eater'', which was an ''actual'' Living Book, and would also be the OddballInTheSeries.

** Little Critter's voice actor was also replaced in the re-release of ''Just Grandma and Me''.

* KillerApp: For CD-ROM drives on the family side of things. The first title released at the tail end of 1992, and at the time, a game aimed at children being released exclusively on a compact disc (as opposed to CD and floppy) was pretty unheard of. During the line's first few years, some parents and teachers reported buying a CD drive for the sole purpose of running these games. It wasn't exactly a ''huge'' CD-ROM drive seller like ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'', but it's still at least noteworthy enough that it could be considered an example.

** Packard Bell created a few interactive storybooks and bundled them with their computers in the mid-to-late 90s.

** Living Books and GT Interactive had entirely different interpretations of Little Monster. On the Living Books side of things, most of the characters sounded like young kids and were energetic, whereas they had rather deep voices and were much more easy going when GT Interactive gave it a shot. It's also a bit weird to see Little Monster's pet Kerploppus go from [[AllAnimalsAreDogs acting like a dog]] to becoming a talking anthropomorphic character just like everyone else.

** The Disney Animated Storybooks, which adapted various Disney films into interactive books. Some of these were ''Disney/TheLionKing'' and ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''. Ironically, Media Station developed some of these titles, and would later go on to make ''D.W. the Picky Eater'', which was an ''actual'' Living Book, and would also be the OddballInTheSeries.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The titles based on ''Creator/DrSeuss'' books will likely never see release on modern tablet devices as Seuss's books are exclusively licensed to Oceanhouse Media, Inc. as far as interactive apps go. Mercifully, the CD-ROM versions are among the most reprinted in the series.

** GT Interactive did various ''[[Literature/LittleCritter Mercer Mayer]]'' stories, such as ''Just Me and My Mom'', ''Just Me and My Dad'', and ''Little Monster Private Eye: The Smelly Mystery''. These were arguably some of the better clones though, as they made it less of an interactive book and more of a game. These are some of the few titles that are high enough quality (and similar enough in style) that some people mistakenly remember them being ''actual'' Living Books.

** Simon has a raspy and higher pitched voice in all of the samplers compared to his role as the narrator in ''The Tortoise and the Hare''.

** GT Interactive did various ''[[Literature/LittleCritter Mercer Mayer]]'' stories, such as ''Just Me and My Mom'', ''Just Me and My Dad'', and ''Little Monster Private Eye: The Smelly Mystery''. These were arguably some of the better clones though, as they made it less of an interactive book and more of a game.

** Simon has a raspy and higher pitched voice in all of the samplers compared to his role as the narrator in ''The Tortoise and the Hare''.

* TheOtherDarrin: Living Books and GT Interactive had entirely different interpretations of Little Monster. On the Living Books side of things, most of the characters sounded like young kids and were energetic, whereas they had rather deep voices and were much more easy going when GT Interactive gave it a shot. It's also a bit weird to see Little Monster's pet Kerploppus go from [[AllAnimalsAreDogs acting like a dog]] to becoming a talking anthropomorphic character just like everyone else.

* TheOtherDarrin: Living Books and GT Interactive had entirely different interpretations of Little Monster. On the Living Books side of things, most of the characters sounded like young kids and were energetic, whereas they had rather deep voices and were much more easy going when GT Interactive gave it a shot. It's also a bit weird to seeing Little Monster's pet Kerploppus go from [[AllAnimalsAreDogs acting like a dog]] to becoming a talking anthropomorphic character just like everyone else.

* CrossDressingVoices: This was done with, of all characters, Grandma in ''Just Grandma and Me''. She was played by Mark Schlichting.

* CrossDressingVoices: This was done with, of all characters, Grandma in ''Just Grandma and Me''. She was played by Mark Schlichting.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Quite noticable. You can recognize a few of the VAs in DrSeuss' ABC. E.g. one of the VAs also appeared in an episode of MASH.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The Art Lesson is exceptionally rare, and finding it would be an ultimate mystery!

* CrossDressingVoices: This was done with, of all characters, Grandma in ''Just Grandma and Me''. She was played by Mark Schlichting.

* CrossDressingVoices: This was done with, of all characters, Grandma in ''Just Grandma and Me''. She was played by Mark Schlichting.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes:
** The games have had virtually no re-release, and thus haven't aged well in terms of compatibility with newer computers. Also, several games have been long out of print, including ''The New Kid on the Block'', ''Sheila Rae, the Brave'', and both ''BerenstainBears'' titles.
** ''The Art Lesson'' was only included in the very rare and expensive ''Living Books Library - School Edition'' for a long time, until The Learning Company finally decided to re-release it.

** The games have had virtually no re-release, and thus haven't aged well in terms of compatibility with newer computers. Also, several games have been long out of print, including ''The New Kid on the Block'', ''Sheila Rae, the Brave'', both ''BerenstainBears'' titles, and ''D.W. the Picky Eater''.

** ''The Art Lesson'' was only included in the very rare and expensive ''Living Books Library - School Edition''.

** The games have had virtually no re-release and a lot of them aren't on the shelves anymore, and thus many of them have started to become rare, like ''The New Kid on the Block''.
** ''The Art Lesson'' was only included in the very rare ''Living Books Library - School Edition''.

** ''The Art Lesson'' was only included in the very rare ''Living Books Library - School Edition''.
* According to [[http://silicon-valley.siggraph.org/MeetingNotes/LivingBooks.html this article]], the running guy cursor during the load screens was used to keep the players distracted while they wait.

** ''The Art Lesson'' was only included in the very rare ''Living Books Library - School Edition''.

** The games have had virtually no re-release and a lot of them aren't on the shelves anymore, and thus many of them have started to become rare, lik ''The New Kid on the Block''.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: ''The Art Lesson'' was only included in the very rare ''Living Books Library - School Edition''.