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Game: The Story of Jonah
Platform: CD-i
Company: Interlight Productions (AKA Interlight International)
Year: 1992

(From the "Interlight's Children's Bible Stories" collection, which contains six games that we're aware of, all by Interlight for CD-i)

My grandparents had a CD-i and some kids' edutainment games literally as something for their grandkids to do whenever they visited, so this was a game that a young me very much spent a lot of time with. Years later, we wanted to show footage of it to our friends who hadn't experienced it and there WASN'T ANY. This began a years-long project that went through the dire and unworkable state of CD-i emulation and then through getting a physical player and capture card setup, all so that we could show this (and overlooked products like it) off. This and maybe games like Family Dog were the literal reason we started Warm Fuzzy Game Room, back when we thought that was going to be the name of our YouTube series we ended up not doing because video editing is hard. After SeireaSong got us into speedrunning which got us on Twitch, I took all the old WFGR assets I'd made because we still had them lying around, put them around our Twitch window, and that's how we got to where we are today.

At long last, and for perhaps the first time on the entire Internet (that we've seen or that we know of,) here it is. Lost Sheep is Lost no more.

This is from our Twitch channel ( https://twitch.tv/kjorteo ) which is where we do most of our game streaming these days because, again, video editing proved to be a bit too daunting for us. Feel free to come follow us there, since we're trying to get enough attention to get Affiliate. :P

This video is also available on Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1273176357

Special thanks:

XyzzySqrl, who hooked us up with a friend of hers who was unloading the CD-i we ended up buying to make this whole physical hardware + capture setup work when the emulation route decidedly didn't.

SeireaSong, who got us into speedrunning, which got us on Twitch, at which point the Twitch incarnation of the old abandoned WFGR project kind of came together. We always wanted to get this game out there, and it's only thanks to this chain of links (and the comparative ease of Twitch streaming vs. YT video editing and polishing) that we finally were able to do so. It's a chain of coincidences and connections worthy of "It's a Wonderful Life," but if Sei hadn't inspired us with their River City Ransom EX streams, then we wouldn't be here finally able to showcase our CD-i collection today.

Everyone in Clan Sugardoom, Team Hatoful, VGG, the Dishcord, and any kind of close friend group/circle that's cool enough to have a name like that. You all supported us and our mission. You *cared* when we wanted to showcase some weird old CD-i games, in a world that's often too cold to welcome them even from a "lost footage of this never before seen rare game" perspective. The WFGR motto is "Act with love and sincerity" and you all have done that, which gave us the spiritual support to keep going even when this whole project was getting discouraging. ("It's really hard to get everything working and all the parts are expensive and does anyone even care about games like this, even if we do get them running?" You cared. And that meant everything when it was needed the most.)

Helpful timestamps:

6:51 Booting up the game
9:45 "About This Disc" video sequence and credits
14:25 Lost Sheep: Intro
17:50 Lost Sheep: Run 1
24:42 Lost Sheep: Run 2
32:52 Lost Sheep: Run 3
39:48 Lost Sheep: Run 4
49:16 Lost Sheep: Run 5
57:34 Lost Sheep: Run 6 (Any% speedrun)
1:00:41 Lost Sheep: Run 7
1:10:08 Lost Sheep: Run 8
1:14:45 Lost Sheep: Run 9
1:16:17 Lost Sheep: Run 10
1:26:44 Closing speech