Art

SHOPRITE

by Janeil_H | Sep 30, 1996 | Art

**Backdated for historical purposes**

Except for my ORCA and BRTHDY16 piece, this was the only “close to reality” digital kid art I did from what I recovered.

Sure, it depicts me essentially driving a Shoprite truck, but I was a kid driving said truck. This was also not a short cab, being those sleeper cab types that I’d see on the road while traveling all the time.

No space battles, no outer space anything.

Just little me driving a repainted truck in livery of a real toy I had.

You can see I goofed up the hose hookups on the trailer with the green spot, likely going to erase them then being greeted with white space. So I had to fill it up with grass to keep the look.

I’m impressed with my 10-year-old self that I almost mimicked the Shop-Rite font for the time. I know it’s not exact, but it feels that it was old enough that I may have seen it someplace.

But the funny thing? I have dabbled in American Truck Simulator from time to time. I got it as a freebie from someone in an Elite: Dangerous gaming group, but never bothered to dust it off till October 2025. Admittedly I have thought of part-time truck driving with the way work has gone in the world, but I don’t think I’d be up for backing up a trailer into a dock.

Again with the date of this file, I think I made this in New Jersey on my relative’s PS/2, likely in the evening when everyone was visiting. There was no way I was using the computer this late unless something special was going on.

Done in Paint on a Windows 3.11 machine, likely an IBM PS/2 65sx.

CANNON

by Janeil_H | Aug 18, 1996 | Art

**Backdated for historical purposes**

I’m actually surprised this survived. This is the earliest evidence I have of consistent worldbuilding digitally.

At the time, I had the idea for this space-faring organization with their own motives. While they generally were good-leaning, they weren’t goody two-shoes like most heroes of the time. While I had no concept of this at the time, you can equate them to gray-area special ops teams like in this modern day and age.

I was aware of Star Fox at the time, and this drew partial inspiration from that. There was also a video game I have no idea was that I’d seen on the NES, which also lent to its inspiration.

Either rate, this organization employed ships known as Cannonballs; rightly named for being able to ram through smaller ships and disintegrate them. They were very difficult to shoot down to having strong hulls to make such a feat, but they had trade offs. Very simple weapons that might’ve been useless, no cargo space and barely enough room for two. I very much thought of them as a sports car to a point, much like a Mitsubishi Lancer or the like.

Little did I know growing up, that Northrop would test the XP-79, which was a specialized aircraft to ram enemy bombers in 1945. I only became aware of this concept in 2023, which I’m sure I have in my “to-do” bookmark pile somewhere.

I guess bright minds can come up with similar ideas.

Also again real funny business going on with this file; it’s last edit date was after midnight. Something special had to be going on then

Toy Train Set

by Janeil_H | Mar 30, 1992 | Art

**Backdated for historical purposes**

One of the things I always wanted as a kid was a train set. This came about after an uncle gave my Dad some leftover parts of a defunct train set. All I had was the caboose and one track length to play with. Later on another uncle did provide a cheaper complete set that I could fool around with to a point, which was fun till the engine broke (it was some generic battery-operated store brand, I think).

Since then, I’ve always wanted a proper one to fool around with till about my later teenage years. This is me trying to imagine a new, complete store-bought train with the imagined bits of the old one I had. While I now realize a modern electric train wouldn’t be hauling a steam train caboose and coal car, little me was creative enough to smack old and new together.

SHOPRITE

CANNON

Toy Train Set

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