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Animaniacs Video Game In The Works
GameGossip has word that an Animaniacs video game entitled "The Great Edgar Hunt" is currently in the works. The game is being done by the in-house Warner Bros. developers. From the article: "The game is a third-person action title developed by Warthog, and puts players to the task of guiding characters Wakko, Yakko and Dot throughout six levels while trying to find the Edgar trophies; each making use of their own moves. The game will also include five "Pinky & The Brain" mini-games."
Did I step into a time warp? Is "The Animaniacs" even on TV anymore?
It's time for Animaniacs
And we're zany to the max
So just sit back and relax
You'll laugh 'til you collapse
We're Animaniacs!
Come join the Warner Brothers
And the Warner Sister, Dot
Just for fun we run around the Warner movie lot.
They lock us in the tower whenever we get caught
But we break loose and then vamoose
And now you know the plot!
Wait, where was the article? The linked page contained pretty much the same information as the blurb. I think this is one of those times when RTFA won't help
Robert Bindler
A Computer Science student's views on technology.
Why can't Warner Brothers invest the money being used to develop this game into something else? Odds are this game isn't going to be a huge revolution in technology or gaming principles or programming or graphics or anything. This game is more likely to be a mediocre platformer, who's charm is going to be driven more by the story and the characters than the actual game itself. Why oh why can't they instead make more Animaniacs cartoons? That will target their prime audience better than a video game I think. A cartoonish platformer (unless it's done extremely well and elegantly) isn't likely to sell very well to the late teens/early 20's crowd, since these are the people who were the prime audience 10 years ago when Animaniacs was on the air. Since then I don't believe that Animaniacs has had a very big presence, and todays 8-14 year olds aren't as interested in it as we were. However, I don't think you'd find anyone who wouldn't be interested in the propect of new Animaniacs cartoons on TV.
Pinky and the Brain: 1995 to 1998
I think the game is going to fail, simply because it's not going to have an audience. My guess is that the target audience is going to be children; the game is probably going to be too easy for anyone who grew up with the show to enjoy it.
And barring the "third-person" line (which implies that the game will be 3D), it sounds a lot like the old Genesis/SNES title. I don't think I can think of any other franchises that made the jump from 16-bit to next-gen, and this doesn't seem like it's going to bode well for the game's fate.
In any case, though, I'm hoping that it's going to be a good game. The franchise deserves it, especially since this could very well be the last we ever see of either Animaniacs or Pinky and the Brain.
Goo goo g'joob.
or is it one of Brain's plots to take over the world?
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"The game is being done by the in-house Warner Bros. developers."
Time Warner has a near perfect track record of failing with any content that uses any kind of technology. This game should carry on the same sad tradition.
They need to stick to distribution, ink and paper, and celluloid.
and where else would you have heard about Lake Titicaca save for a boring geography class?
Everything I know about Titicaca I learned from The Great Cornholio.
Pinky: Yeah, but how will they ever fit all those llamas in such a small box?
Brain: Come on, we have to prepare for tomorrow night.
Pinky: Why what are we going to do?
Brain: Same thing we do every night, try to make a good video game.
And now the nations of the world, brought to you by Yakko Warner!
United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama
Haiti, Jamaica, Peru,
Republic Dominican, Cuba, Carribean
Greenland, El Salvador too.
Puerto Rico, Columbia, Venezuela
Honduras, Guyana, and still,
Guatemala, Bolivia, then Argentina
And Ecuador, Chile, Brazil.
Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua, Bermuda
Bahamas, Tobago, San Juan,
Paraguay, Uruguay, Surinam
And French Guiana, Barbados, and Guam.
Norway, and Sweden, and Iceland, and Finland
And Germany now one piece,
Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia
Italy, Turkey, and Greece.
Poland, Romania, Scotland, Albania
Ireland, Russia, Oman,
Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia
Hungary, Cyprus, Iraq, and Iran.
There's Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan
Both Yemens, Kuwait, and Bahrain,
The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Portugal
France, England, Denmark, and Spain.
India, Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan
Thailand, Nepal, and Bhutan,
Kampuchea, Malaysia, then Bangladesh (Asia)
And China, Korea, Japan.
Mongolia, Laos, and Tibet, Indonesia
The Philippine Islands, Taiwan,
Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Sumatra, New Zealand
Then Borneo, and Vietnam.
Tunisia, Morocco, Uganda, Angola
Zimbabwe, Djibouti, Botswana,
Mozambique, Zambia, Swaziland, Gambia
Guinea, Algeria, Ghana.
Burundi, Lesotho, and Malawi, Togo
The Spanish Sahara is gone,
Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and Liberia
Egypt, Benin, and Gabon.
Tanzania, Somalia, Kenya, and Mali
Sierra Leone, and Algiers,
Dahomey, Namibia, Senegal, Libya
Cameroon, Congo, Zaire.
Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar
Rwanda, Mahore, and Cayman,
Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Yugoslavia...
Crete, Mauritania
Then Transylviania,
Monaco, Liechtenstein
Malta, and Palestine,
Fiji, Australia, Sudan.
(Notice: Transylvania is included, but South Africa is not!
"I think so Brain, but me and Pippi Longstocking...what would the children look like?"
> Notice: Transylvania is included, but South Africa is not!
There are a number of little things like that. For instance, Scotland, Ireland, and England are included, but not Northern Ireland or Wales. I chalk this up to the fact that they were trying to make it fit the rhythm at least somewhat, as well as rhyme if possible. Also, since you mentioned South Africa, both Swaziland and Lesotho are included, even though South Africa is not. Then there's the small matter of using nonstandard names for some countries (e.g., naming the UAE by the capital city; though I can certainly sympathize with that one, as far as fitting rhythm and rhyming schems is concerned). Borneo, as far as I am aware, was *never* a country, and I'm not so sure about Sumatra either in that respect; Brunei is not included (was it an independent country at the time? it is now...); Tibet was no longer independent when the song was written; the song also lists the Spanish Sahara even while pointing out its demise as a recognized political entity. Another glaring omission on the continent of Africa is the C.A.R. There's also some inconsistency in how countries with similar names are handled; "both Yemens" seems reasonable enough (it is a song after all, so something has to give in the name of poetic license), but "Korea" and "Vietnam" were just listed as if one country each. Also, I am firmly of the opinion that Anvilania should have been squeezed in somehow.
Of course, the whole song is quite obsolete now, as world political geography in certain regions (northern Asia and the Balkans notably) has had quite a number of new lines drawn ad interim. Additionally, most island nations were not included unless they are closely associated with a major continent. Thus, most of Oceania was omitted, and most of the tiny Carribean nations. Between all of that and the breakups of the USSR and Yugoslavia, you could probably write three additional verses if you wanted to include a bunch of the nations that were not included at the time. You could also throw in San Marino (omitted), Eritrea (new), and whatever else strikes your fancy.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
...why not release a DVD?
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