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Atari 2600 RPG Gets Homestar Runner-ed

Posted by simoniker on from the wasn't-expecting-the-strongmad-inquisition dept.

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.

8 of 42 comments (clear)

  1. Somebody... by JasonMaggini · · Score: 4, Funny

    get this freakin' duck away from me!!

    1. Re:Somebody... by Erbo · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh, I love this game! I got the high score, man, fifty thousand! Try and beat that!

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      Be who you are...and be it in style!
  2. Re:strongsad"? by GaimeGuy · · Score: 2, Informative

    Strong Bad, Strong Sad, and Strong Mad are all brothers.

  3. Re:strongsad"? by Dimwit · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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    ...but it's being eaten...by some...Linux or something...
  4. eBay by NeuroKoan · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean I'm gonna have to jump on eBay to get me an old 2600 system? Guess I better bid before the rush happens.

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    "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation."
    1. Re:eBay by Kris_J · · Score: 2, Informative

      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.

  5. Make ROM Available by Dunkirk · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd like to play it, because most everything the Chapmans have done until now has been a scream, but I don't have a console, nor do I want to buy one. I've got no problems with buying a ROM file and trying an emu, and I think there are a lot of HR fans that are in the same boat. Here's hoping they just sell the ROM file from the cart alongside the cart itself.

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    Acts 17:28, "For in Him we live, and move, and have our being."
  6. Re:Everybody.. by Canar · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.