AAA-Ep1: Alfredo's Lost Cause

Episode one of Alfredo's Arduous Adventures; the original non-interactive computer animation series that featured a lovable trial-ridden stick-figure anti-hero named Alfredo. Alfredo is something of a cross between Mr. Bill, Wile E. Coyote, Aeon Flux, and Stick Figure Death Theatre. Alfredo's darkly humorous adventures were chronicled on the electronic magazines Softdisk(1981) and Big Blue Disk(1986).
Brought to you thanks to effector13.com/alfredo

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• alfredos
• arduous
• adventures
• of
• alfredo
• oldschool
• machinima
• stick
• figure
• death
• theater
• stickfigure
• threatre

[NamingTheMonster]

Holy hell! I remember this from my apple II GS. Where's the one about his name being changed to LAY? This is truly old school.

[Ayelis]

@NamingTheMonster We weren't able to acquire all the videos, unfortunately. We only had a certain number of disks at our disposal. If you can find us any of the Big Blue Disks or just the episodes that we were missing, however, we'd be grateful!

[timsteryt]

Ayelis - thanks so much for posting these!!! They're actually from 1987 (the PC version anyway), and I had a subscription to the "Big Blue Disk". Alfredo was my favorite part of each month's features. This is a great trip down memory lane. Ahhhh... the days of 128K ram, 5MB hard-drives, and 4 color 320x240 CGA graphics! Woo-hoo!!! LOL

[Ayelis]

Rofl... Yeah, I remember those days... I had two external 35 Meg drives, both about the size of a shoebox, and at least as heavy as a good sized bowling ball. Once I got qbasic on that 8088, I made some pretty cool stuff. I wish I still had a copy of that SUD I built.

[dabe111]

omg, gay

[Ayelis]

Yeah, but it was pretty awesome for 1981, when we didn't have websites like stick-figure-death-theatre and newgrounds and stuff.

[mysterep]

Thanks for posting these. I have always had Logo students try to write Alfredo bits since the mayhem so appeals to kids. I have been trying to use an old Apple disk to film a screen, but you have already done such a good job. Cheers!

[sammymarlo]

I created two new Alfredo adventures - The Return of Alfredo and Alfredo's Perilous Pitfall for the Commodore 64. They are on a single disk and can be run in a Commodore 64 emulator such as WinVice. PM me for more info.

[sanchopancho13]

I couldn't wait to get the next edition of Loadstar magazine for the C64, hoping that it would contain another adventure of Alfredo's. Thanks for bringing back fond memories!

[saltyrage]

This series is amazingly creative. To do what they did with what they had is impressive.