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Gamasutra has another in its series of articles about games from Schadenfreude Interactive. The highly unusual developer has gained acclaim for its Cthulu Karts title, and the Gamasutra site looks at what it was like getting mega-star David Hasselhoff to do voice work for their game. From the article: "When we heard Mr. Hasselhoff would be in nearby Frankfurt for an appearance, we jumped at the chance to have him record a few lines. Crispin was somehow able to get Mr. Hasselhoff's agent to agree. How he was able to explain what Cthulhu were, and why they were racing karts, I do not know (I will tell you, though --Cthulhu are a race of hideous godlike trans-dimensional monsters created by author H.P. Lovecraft. They are racing karts because, well, karting games were popular at the time)."
I find it hard to believe nothing else of note has been submitted, Zonk.
Hasselhoff ends up not showing, so an intern actually does the voice-over.
Why not fork?
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
Cthulhu is a unique, singluar and fictional deity invented by HP Lovecraft. The description given fits Lovecraft's Elder Gods, as well as a horde of more mortal monsters he created in support of his pantheon.
Yes, I'm being pedantic.
Yes, I'm probably missing the point.
No, I don't care.
Don't let THEM immanentize the Eschaton!
Just tell me he didn't have to ride the Hasslehoff to get it.
First he's on american idol, then he's at the mavericks game, get working on the knight rider move already!!
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These are the Schadenfreude Interactive guys.
I'll let you come to your own conclusions about Mr. Hasselhoff's schedule keeping abilities.
It's too bad. I really wanted to license that German Deathmetal song.
Ja! Ja! I eat vermin
Yeah! Yeah! Taste them squirmin'
All alone or on a cracker
I am a maggotsnacker
Die! Die! Die! Die!
Ja! Ja! Ja! Ja! etc.
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Hooked on a Feeling - David Hasselhoff
First time I read it there was a misspelling that omitted the first 't', so it got stuck in my head as Chu-thoo-loo, Chew Through You.
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!
Seriously, how massive a fit of laughter did hearing of Hasselhoff called a 'mega-star' send you into?
When you spend your days playing hoff invaders
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
Does Cthulhu drive KARR in this game?
Man, I would totally buy that game..
Repton.
They say that only an experienced wizard can do the tengu shuffle.
They didn't actually get the Hasselhoff to do the voiceover. :(
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Better yet, DEW!!!!!
omg!!!
A fictional anecdote from a parody website is what we get now? Did someone actually think this was real? Granted it's not very funny, but that's just because a somewhat amusing concept was mercilessly pounded into the ground.
I thought that was only to be practiced by consenting adults.... /ducks
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I prefer Shit-u-lu. Works every time.
I have freaks! I did something right...
Who moved my Hasselhoff?
Arbitrary sig
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Of course, any Hasslehoff discussion is incomplete with mentioning...
THE HASSELHOFFIAN RECURSION
Behold, and weep.
You can thank me later. Muah hah hah hah!
m-
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"No no. Cthulu Karts is a race."
Funniest thing I've read in months.
Worth remembering that the vast majority of Lovecraft's output was letters. (That'd be snail mail, with stamps, for you youngins.) Most of the "mythos" is the work of obsessive fans. Frank Belknap Long & Clark Ashton Smith are unfairly neglected. Long's work was closer to Lovecraft's but acknowledged the existence of the outside world. Children, sex, jobs, that sort of thing. Clark was a rare word vomitorium. He knew what the words meant, unlike his pulp fellows. Robert E. Howard couldn't help tapping into what made pulp thrilling. It was part of him and it killed him. (The Whole Wide World is the rare chick flick starwarsroxorz can enjoy. Highly recommended.)
The above was an attempt to make this a useful post. BUT I DON'T CARE. Come on, "Cthulhu, Shub-Niggurath, Yog-Sothoth, Nyarlathotep, the Magnum Innominandum" really are "like anagrams of breakfast cereal names" and I'm posting because I can never resist my all time favorite literary put down. The quote is from Brian Aldiss' Billion Year Spree, required reading for any SF fan.
There's occasional power in Lovecraft. I enjoy and own his work. I humbly suggest reading the collected works of Fritz Leiber instead.
Feeling so good natured I could drool
And this is not a real game... it's a hoax.
The AC is right, if a bit pedantic. According to HPL, Khlul'-hloo is the closest approximation that human speech can produce.
:-)
However, the generally accepted (and much easier) pronunciation is Cuh-THOO-loo. This is how it's pronounced by the HP Lovecraft Historical Society (http://www.cthulhulives.org), as well as the organizers of the Necronomicon sci-fi/fantasy convention held annually in Tampa, FL (http://www.stonehill.org/necro.htm), whom I know IRL.
I believe that pronouncing it "AIIEEEEEEE!!! THE MADNESS!!! *glork*" is considered acceptable as well.
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He was in over 100 movies/tv shows
The newest listing in imdb (currently in preproduction) is...Knight Rider, the movie . He plays "Michael Knight"
William Daniels, who was the voice of K.I.T.T., was in about as many movies/tv shows as Hasselhoff. An impossible range of shows from Knight Rider to Faery Tale Theatre to Galactica 1980.
I liked him in Knight Rider as a kid, but after I grew up never respected him. I had no idea he had such a prolific film career.
Oh, and I was disappointed that the car voice wasn't Edward Woodward.
Man, you really need that seminar!