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.

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Ok, er, time to dust off the ol Atari 2600

[Tuxinatorium]

...Oh wait, I never had one because Atari was overpriced rubbish and Nintendo beat the crap out of them with NES, the first home game console that actually succeeded in mass market! It's not just that they're devoting an entire article to the imminent development of an obscure game on a decades-dead console, but the fact that almost nobody in the US has a 2600 or would even care if they did have one! Anything that can be done on a decades-dead console can be done 10 times better on a PC; get with the program!