Hollywood High

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This article is about Hollywood High, a computer game. For the school, see Hollywood High School.

Hollywood High is a creative writing game released in 1996 by Theatrix Ineractive. It is also the sequel to Theatrix's Hollywood, which featured only animal cartoon characters. The game features 37 scenes to be chosen from, as well as multiple human cartoon characters. Users input text and can watch the characters read it. Having been released for more than a decade and its original developer defunct, this software is abandonware.

Hollywood High features nine teen-age characters (four boys and five girls), a mother, an athletic coach and a baby sibling. The characters include:

Lily, a bubblegum-chewing girl with a blonde ponytail, identified in the Hollywood High promotional material as "Lily the ponytail girl"[1]
Matt, a brown-haired grunge aficionado, identified in the promotional material as "Matt the flannel shirt kid"[2]
Gus, a blonde punk rocker
Anna, a (possibly Italian-American) female basketball player
Gary, an African-American nerd in a red sweater and sporting a hi-top fade haircut
Baby, a baby in a high chair
Glenn, an Asian black-haired teen with a blue sweatshirt and hood
Ruth, a red-headed babysitter
Ed, an Asian athletic coach
Jenny, an African-American soccer player sporting the number 7
Susan, a parent with a blonde ponytail
Stella, an Asian class clown wearing a large blue hat

You may change, however, the voices, names, and jobs/interests of the characters.

When you have both Hollywood and Hollywood High installed on your computer, the two could be combined by using a key received by calling Theatrix after launching the "Unlock Hollywood" program; however, since the developer is now defunct, this feature is no longer available.