Bite My Shiney PC-Metal Game

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!"

Comments

Game... yay

[delta407]

Frankly, I'd rather have the TV show.

Re:Game... yay

[unicron]

Yeah, but at least you don't have to worry about people canceling your game every week.

Re:Game... yay

[delta407]

FOX is.

Q: Is Futurama really cancelled?!
A: While FOX never said it cancelled the show, they did stop ordering new episodes. The production crew thus broke up. There is a slight chance that FOX might ask David X. Cohen to build up a new team for another season. The episodes shown this fall all were meant to be aired last year but never did due to various pre-emptions. So they aren't really new.

If it's as good as the Simpsons games

[L-Train8]

After all of high-quality, super-fun-to-play Simpsons games, I'm very excited about this.

Wow...

[krmt]

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.

How long has this thing been in development?

[handsomepete]

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.

Preempted?

[Anonymous Coward]

Judging by the last new episodes I watched; I think this game is going to be football based.

Also on Fox...

[Otter]

While a Futurama-themed arcade-style game doesn't especially excite me, this isn't the first Fox show they've turned into a game. Check out World's Scariest Police Chases . Now that's convergence!

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.

Parse these statements

[sam_handelman]

Let's fire up Yacc. Okay, I've parsed these statements, and yes, they really are an advertisement for a videogame.

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
|
;

JOKES:
| ATTEMPT_AT_HUMOR JOKES
|
;

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.

Willy Saves the Day Again

[LPetrazickis]

It's Shinney Metal Ass! Do you want to get sued, boy?:)

All Hail the Video Game

[bpfinn]

The Hypnotoad commands you to buy the video game.