The Magic Screen

Greetings from the faraway Soviet past! We bring to your attention “The Magic Screen” game. In the remote 1960 a French inventor André Cassagnes presented children with the first personal “tablet” and called it “Etch A Sketch”. With time this game became available in the USSR. The Soviet kids knew it under the name “The Magical Screen”. Hours on end we used to draw uncomplicated pictures, sometimes true masterpieces, or, driven by childish curiosity, disassemble the toy, break it and hide the aluminium powder away from our parents.Today you have a chance to feel like a kid and recall how difficult it was to draw with just a single continuous line. We did our utmost to renew the main distinctive features of “The Magical Screen” in the computer program:• The real, authentic sound• Erasing the picture by shaking• The marks of the previous pictures on the “blank screen”Remember how it used to be? Every line would press into the screen forever. On closer look one could see the “shadows” of their previous pictures.Let’s fall into nostalgia and recollect how it used to be…