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dagashi writes "'The ingenious, creative mind of Matt Groening (The Simpsons) now brings arguably his greatest creation yet, Futurama, to the interactive entertainment screen.' Looks like Futurama is signed to become a game. Yeha!"
Frankly, I'd rather have the TV show.
blackjack? And hookers?
After all of high-quality, super-fun-to-play Simpsons games, I'm very excited about this.
Don't forget that Friday is Hawaiian shirt day.
This will go down in history right beside the many memorable, thrilling, and compelling Simpsons games for the NES and SNES, as well as nearly every other license-based game ever made. I can hardly contain myself.
"I may not have morals, but I have standards."
Maybe this will be as difficult as all those simpsons NES games. They were almost as hard as super star wars.
Futurama will be released at the hight of its popularity. Exactly one year after its cancelation from FOX.
Great Timing!
Talk about a mountain of information! Who needs gameplay details? Why even bother telling us it'll be out "when it's done?!?"
(I think this is the one Slashdot story where you probably won't have anything more interesting or insightful to contribute if you bother to follow the link.)
I'm assuming for the same reason 'yeah' is spelled 'yeha'. I didn't catch that one until I realized it wasn't a Dukes of Hazard reference. Now if only they will release that game! Oh well, so long as I can find a Daisy skin for the Futurama game.
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It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
Normally I wouldn't say this, but this is old news indeed. It was announced and UDS got the rights in September of 2000... there's a reason it says (c) 2001 on the bottom of that page. CGEF has a little more info here, although it's a mixture of fact and guesswork.
I honestly did enjoy some of the early Simpsons games (can't tell if other comments are being sarcastic or not - Bart vs The Space Mutants and the original arcade game are fun) and am looking forward to this. Maybe it'll be good use of a TV license.
Judging by the last new episodes I watched; I think this game is going to be football based.
The real score would be a Temptation Island game, though. Tiffani may have been underutilized on the show, but I can assure you she'd play a much more prominent role in my fantasies, errrr, gaming.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
give it up. Have something better to do than criticize peoples' typing, dude. You have typos in your post, so watch that glass house action!
Which typo are you pointing out? Hemos spelled "shiny" wrong. He was asking if it was a joke that he should laugh it. It's not a joke, but you can still laugh. Go ahead, laugh. It's healthy. Even at the expense of others who can't spell shiny.
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
futurama is good for its writing. not its graphics. I can bet that the graphics in any futurama game will likely look close to the TV show - in which case, I'll play Hitman 2, UT(X) and other visually pleasing games.
Its kind of like southpark on DVD - I bought the movie and watched it maybe two times ever.... waste of money.
most tv based arcade games were allright
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Pretty sure he's talking about reverence as opposed to reference.
Let's fire up Yacc. Okay, I've parsed these statements, and yes, they really are an advertisement for a videogame.
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The ingenious, creative mind of Matt Groening (The Simpsons) now brings arguably his greatest creation yet, Futurama, to the interactive entertainment screen.
so, this parses into
{TAGLINE} {TAGLINE} {PLUG}
Featuring Bender, Fry, Leela and a whole host of other Futurama characters we've come to know, love and bemuse at, this 3D arcade adventure game is winging its way toward you soon.
{TAGLINE} {ATTEMPT AT HUMOR} {THIS GAME IS QUAKE}
Recall, an advertisement for a videogame can be parsed with the following grammar:
where
ADVERT:
| PLUGS JOKES THIS_GAME_IS_QUAKE
PLUGS:
| PLUG PLUGS
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JOKES:
| ATTEMPT_AT_HUMOR JOKES
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PLUG:
| TAGLINE PLUG
| a statement that a game is to be made.
ATTEMPT_AT_HUMOR:
| TAGLINE ATTEMPT_AT_HUMOR
| something which is uniquely characterised as not funny.
TAGLINE:
| a cultural reference.
THIS_GAME_IS_QUAKE:
| any sentence containing the words "adventure" and "3D."
Next week we'll learn how to parse slashdot comments, a preview -
{INACCURACIES | BAD_JOKES}* {IMAGINE A BEOWULF CLUSTER} {TOPIC}
Imagine a beowulf cluster of... er.... videogames.
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
- a Fry timeline would be fun
:)
- centerfolds; one of Leela, one of Zoidberg
- Good soundbites from the show
- Digs at Fox for letting go the best thing they had going
- What else?
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
>Now if only they will release that game!
:)
Too late!
Download and 'enjoy'.
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
Duck Tales for NES
Bart's Nightmare for SNES
Tiny Toons for SNES
That's all I can come up with
Matt Groening recently announced the latest creation in a series of video games based on his Fox TV shows. "Futurama", based on the TV show of the same name, is his first non-Simpsons forray into the realm of video game spin-offs. "The potential for this game is amazing," said Mr. Groening. "We made a killing with the Simpsons games despite a complete lack of creative effort. One can only imagine how successful a game based on a show that's actually been cancelled will be." Stan Skinner, owner of TheStupid.com, concurred, adding "TheStupid will snap this game off the shelves. Everyone knows that the writers save the best jokes for the video game spinoffs, making purchasing this game an absolute necessity for the Futurama fan." "I'm just so happy that Matt has been so generous," exlaimed Judy Thomas. "There arn't many in the television industry who would so readily leap at the chance to sell old material in a new media format."
paintball
From my experience with Matt Groening spawned games, they all end up being really bad. The only good ones were "Bart VS The Space Mutants" and "Simpson's Bowling". It's too bad they get a competent team together and produce a great game. Simpsons with the right team of people could make a phenolemal game.
Cross your fingers for next one guys.
Just my 2 cents.
I would create a sig, if only something of value could be said with just 120 chars.
in the context used, reverance is accurate.
It's Shinney Metal Ass! Do you want to get sued, boy?:)
Is this a sigs-optional kind of place? 'Cause I am totally down with that if you know what I mean.
Maybe this will be as difficult as all those simpsons NES games. They were almost as hard as super star wars.
What are you saying? Super Star Wars was a great game. If only they'd make it into a movie...
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
The Hypnotoad commands you to buy the video game.
Hmmm, there have been plenty of turkeys but at least a couple of the games based upon the Star Trek universe have been decent.
Elsewhere, you could make a case for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle game or two and, for our younger brothers and sisters, various Barney, etc games were probably hours of fun.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
To make the Futurama game experience as much like the TV show as possible, the game checks the date and time when it is launched. If the game is launched on Sunday evenings between late September and January, it starts in the middle.
~Philly
That game kicked ass! Just thinking of it brings up those warm, fuzzy memories. Time to pull out my SNES...
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I've invented a new machine that will transform our lives into a video game!
Fry: Yes! I've always wanted to see an animated version of myself!
Bender: Oh great. Now I have to deal with the real you AND the virtual you.
Leela: I want to axe you, will this have stereoscopic goggle support?
Professor: Heavens no, I'm not a MIRACLE worker.
Leela: Oh good.
"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
Oh my, how did I forget that one?! You know what would be interesting is a discussion on movie to game translations instead. There were many more good movie to game translations than series to game.
...but it was smacked down so hard by Fox's lawyers that they've basically rewritten history and you can barely find any trace of its existance on the web. I know an Atari 2600 hack of Oink with Futurama characters is a violation of copyright, but I don't have to like the way Fox behaved. I don't know that I'll bother with an official game after that.
"Did anybody play The Simpsons' Road Rage? It sucked.
License!=Good Game "
Wow, what a thoughtfully expressed opinion!
In all seriousness, though, parent poster makes a good point despite the retarded 'flamebait' moderation. Licenses do not instantly equal a good game. As a matter of fact, they tend to detract from it.
People like familiarity. That's why movies and games bring in big $$$ when they have famous characters or actors in them. The problem is that they tend to focus on little else. They don't even need to!
In most cases, licensed games are WORSE for it. I can see why, though. Most places think they need to pack the whole movie or TV show into a game. They don't seem to realize that one aspect of the license can be fun. Look at Rogue Squadron, for example. That game doesn't have you running around trying to get C3PO off of an Rebel ship. Instead, they focused on the fun part: Flying around and blowin shit up. Result? Good game. In the same vein, Shadows of the Empire stunk. It tried to be too much.
Anyway, I think I beat the dead horse enough. The parent poster was basically saying "Just because it's licensed from a good show doesn't mean it'll be a good game." And he's right. Too bad that the mod that nailed him didn't pay more attention to what he was saying.
"Derp de derp."
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Oh, God, I loved all of Sierra's "* Quest" games. A great chunk of my youth passed by while working through many of them. /me gets especially nostalgic for the Police Quest series (sniffle)
~Philly
except one thing - the lack of it being for pc.
I saw PS2, GCN, Xbox. So in a way it's on PC. And if they do decide to make a game for the Game Boy Advance, it'll be a drastically different design (due to the GBA's hardware support for 2d but only software support for 3d), but it'll at least be playable on PC with a cart reader and VisualBoyAdvance.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Futurama maid me illitrit!
> well balanced people don't care
I'm reasonably well balanced, and I care.
I don't generally pick people up on spelling or typos but I always do my best to make sure there aren't any in anything I write. If nothing else it's a common courtesy to the people who might read it.
I don't want to wade through a heap of awful spelling and bad grammar. Rightly or wrongly, I can't help but assume that someone who writes good English is smarter than someone who doesn't. (For native English speakers of course!)
Of course, the odd mistake is bound to get through, but don't you ever assume that someone who hasn't gone to the trouble of checking their spelling *certainly* hasn't gone to the trouble of checking their facts? Oh, and I'm not talking about clicking a spell check icon either: I mean reading back over what you've just written.
To get back on topic, Futurama as Groening's greatest creation? Puh-lease!