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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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Hypnotoad commands you to buy the video game.
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