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Last time I encountered was while backing up my CD copy of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of The King for PC. The CD of Bygg hus med Mulle Meck incorporates a disc copy protection scheme known as SafeDisc V2, which was very common in games of the era.
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I mounted a backup disc image of the game, and tried to run the installer on my Windows 10 computer. While it is technology-wise quite similar to the first two games, from the preservation point of view it includes an unfortunate addition: DRM. The fourth game - about building houses, of course - was released in 2002 (2003 in Finland) and is somewhat more difficult to run on modern systems. However, it is by far the worst of the series (don’t me) and can be ran with the help of a virtual machine if nothing else. The third game (about planes) is more difficult to run because it uses an ancient version of Direct3D, and I remember it being fiddly to run even when it was new. The first two games (about building cars and boats respectively) are quite easy to run even on Windows 10 with the help of a few compatibility settings. Luckily all of the games are preserved on. None of the games are on sale anymore, and since a lot of people (at least here in Finland) played them in schools or public libraries there are not too many physical copies around. The simple gameplay was supported by lovely hand-drawn art and quirky fully voice acted dialogue.
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For me the games were primitive yet effective gateway drugs to more complex engineering-y games year later like Garry’s Mod and Kerbal Space Program. Like many other people of my vintage I played and greatly enjoyed them at the time. Four of the five games were localised & released in Finnish, and they were wildly popular between the late 90s and early-to-mid 2000s. The franchise consists of five games about designing and building things, plus naturally a personal organiser / calendar application. There was a Swedish series of children’s somewhat educational video games called Mulle Meck, known in other languages with similarly alliterative names like Masa Mainio, Gary Gadget and Willy Werkel.
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