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My Amazing Human Body

My Amazing Human Body is a late-'90s educational game starring Seemore Skinless, a spooky scary 3D skeleton who teaches you about, you guessed it, the human body.

Unused Cutscene#

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An unused video featuring a bunch of dancing Seemore Skinless copies with people's pictures (most likely the game's developers) over their faces. Found exclusively on the Greek, Polish, Czech Swedish and the Nesquik English releases of the game at the executable's folder as gang0000.mov.

Unused Music#

Unused Cutscene's Music#

A piece of the unused cutscene's music, only featuring the song's ending. Found at TOPL\WIMB\wimb001m.wav alongside the files for the "Build me a body" game. Unlike the unused cutscene itself, this file can be found on all releases of the game.

Unknown Music#

An unused short song, most likely meant for a cutscene during the "Me and my day" game. Found at TOPL\MAMD\mamd233d.wav alongside the files for said game.

Unused Graphics#

Early Contents Menu#

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A screenshot of an early version of the Contents menu, which lacks any navigation buttons on the left side of the screen, an early version of the "Build me a body" game called "Where's My Body?" (supported by the fact that the folder where the files of the "Build me a body" game are located is called WIMB, which could be short for Where Is My Body), no standalone Seemore Skinless on the center, a button to go to Dorling Kindersley's website not featured in the final game, and a "Look It Up" button with no clear purpose (although it might be an early version of the "Search" button featured on the navigation side of the screen in the final game). Found at TOPL\CONT\cont03m.dib alongside the files for the Contents menu.

Theater Setting#

A theater setting presumably for the unused cutscene, which is further supported by the graphic's filename, as well as the empty space on the center having the exact dimensions of said unused cutscene. Found exclusively on the Greek, Polish and Czech releases of the game at the executable's folder as gang.dib.

Alternative User Entry#

An alternative, presumably early version of the user entry window, which asks new users not only for their name but also for their age! In the actual game, the user is only asked to enter their name, and the user's age can instead be optionally entered on the Secret File menu. The text is written in English regardless of the game's language, which further proves the graphic is unused. Found exclusively on the Greek, Polish and Czech releases of the game at TOPL\CONT\cont01us.dib alongside the files for the Contents menu.

Alternative "Take Me Apart" Screen#

A screenshot of an alternative version of the "Take Me Apart" game after Seemore Skinless is put together. The only difference from the actual game, besides the different arrangement of the labeled organs and the Bladder on Seemore Skinless being wrongly layered behind his Large intestine and Small intestine, is the color of the background, being a light blue made out of dithered lines instead of being plain white. Also the navigation panel on the left of the screenshot is cut off.

Red Blood Cells Description Text Copy#

Didn't think you'd end up learning about red blood cells in here, would ya?

An unused copy of the image used for the description of red blood cells. Judging by the filename, this image might have been used as a temporary placeholder for descriptions in general, or as a template to create text descriptions using the correct file dimensions. The text is written in English regardless of the game's language, which further proves the graphic is unused. Found at INFO\HE\HEBL\tempscr.dib.

Unused Animations#

Unused Contents Menu Animations#

MAHB_Contents_Unused_Animation.mp4

An unused animation of Seemore Skinless looking at all four games on the Contents menu. It goes unused since Seemore Skinless either stares at the player if left alone, or only looks at the game the player hovers the cursor at. Found at TOPL\CONT\cont03cq.mov alongside the files for the Contents menu.

MAHB_Contents_Unused_Animation_2.mp4

An unused animation of Seemore Skinless extending his arms. Found at TOPL\CONT\cont02cq.mov alongside the files for the Contents menu.

Unseen Endings of Contents Menu Animations#

When hovering the cursor over any of the games in the Contents menu, Seemore Skinless points at the game you hover the cursor at and his animation is paused once he opens his mouth in order to give the illusion that, while a voice clip plays, Seemore Skinless is talking to you. However, once the voice clip ends, the animation doesn't resume. All four of those animations have an unseen ending where he returns to his original pose.

MAHB_Contents_Animation_1.mp4

The animation for hovering the cursor over the "Build me a body" game. Notably, Seemore Skinless blinks at the end of the animation, which honestly makes him look a bit less scary...

MAHB_Contents_Animation_2.mp4

The animation for hovering the cursor over the "What am I made of?" game.

MAHB_Contents_Animation_3.mp4

The animation for hovering the cursor over the "Take me apart" game.

MAHB_Contents_Animation_4.mp4

The animation for hovering the cursor over the "Me and my day" game.

References#


  1. MobyGames↩︎