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Atari 2600 RPG Gets Homestar Runner-ed
Thanks to several readers for pointing out that Paul Slocum's new, in-development Atari 2600 RPG, which we've mentioned previously on Slashdot, is now revealed to be using the official Homestar Runner license. According to the newly-released info, "Mike and Matt Chapman (creators of Homestar Runner) will be contributing story, graphics, and creative ideas to the game", and you will be able to "...play as Homestar, Poopsmith, or Strongsad" and, as before, "...fight enemies from other Atari 2600 games" when the game is released as an actual cartridge, early in 2004.
Strong Bad, Strong Sad, and Strong Mad are all brothers.
Well, I was going to issue a fatwah that you be flamed for not knowing who Strong Sad is, but I figured given the nature of the thread, it would be more appropriate to call for your...BURNINATION!
TROGDOR! TROGDOR!
Seriously, though, Strong Sad it Strog Bad's little brother who is always - you guessed it - sad.
...but it's being eaten...by some...Linux or something...
Local swapmeets are also an okay source of 2600s. I've been collecting for a couple of years and I've probably got half a dozen spares that I had to get because the seller wouldn't sell just the games. If anyone in the Perth metro area is after a 2600, my homepage has my email address as an image (damn spam spiders), feel free to contact me.
It's fhqwhgads. Get it right.
The line is, precisely:
"Ev'rybody to the limit, the Cheat is to the limit, ev'rybody come on fhqwhgads."
And for reference, it's pronounced fah-hoo-(kwoo|kwha)-gods, more-or-less.