Slashdot Mirror
Strong Bad Episode 1 Hits the WiiWare Shop
Nintendo has added a new title to their WiiWare shop, Strong Bad Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner from developer Telltale Games. The new title features the infamous boxing-glove-adorned character in the first of five installments of Telltale's "Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People." "The point-and-click adventure game stars Strong Bad, the lucha libre mask-wearing character from web cartoon series Homestar Runner. Players can create 'Teen Girl Squad' comics, play a retro-styled minigame titled Snake Boxer 5, and send pictures and messages to their friends through the Wii's message board system." In addition to the new title, two classic titles have also been added for virtual console, Break In, and Star Parodier.
...the enemy PS3 with explosives?
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
Though I'm excited to see that the Homestar Runner folks are still going strong, $10 sounds a little excessive for that.
By what name do you wish to be mourned?
They're not boxing gloves, they're his hands. How many times do we have to cover this?
-Peter
They should concentrate their efforts on the other H*R game.
Circumcision is child abuse.
Here be the link :D
http://www.telltalegames.com/strongbad
Will they get the trogdor song from GH2?
YOUR HEAD ASPLODE
...your karma is vaingloriously devoured by a gelatinous monster. Grandpa.
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
Seems kind of odd that it's more expensive on Wii than it is on PC.
How many nerd points do I loose?
Some things are better than nerd points.
Is Down
I say that you loose them upon the cats and the dogs.
Using "loose" where you mean "lose" is worse than not being familiar with a particular internet meme (yeah, that's right, Strong Bad is an internet meme).
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Strong Bad is a character featured on the popular animation web site homestarrunner.com.
The write-up concerns a downloadable game written for the Nintendo Wii gaming console that uses Strong Bad and other characters developed by homestarrunner.
fhqwghads I said come on fhqwghads!
homestar runner is the name of one of the characters. to say he developed strong bad would be weird.
it was developed by two brothers - Mike and Matt Chapman.
Join the Free Software Foundation
I think the other replies pretty much sum up the answer to the nerd points question, but I'll try to sum up what this is about.
Strong Bad is a fictional character created by The Brothers Chaps of Homestar Runner, a very popular Flash cartoon series.
While the name would suggest that the toons are about Homestar, the majority of them come from a section of the site called "Strong Bad Emails", in which Strong Bad answers e-mails sent to "his" e-mail address (strongbad [at] homestarrunner [dot] com) by the readership.
TFA is about the first episode in a video game starring Strong Bad. As a side note, in case you didn't know, Telltale Games are the good folks who gave us the (modern) adventures of Sam & Max. Great stuff.
--- Mr. DOS
Here is a link to the main Homestar site:
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html
Here is a link to Strong Bad animated emails:
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html
I highly recommend the following episode:
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail58.html
I want my! I want my! I want my Eee PC!
Only a non-nerd would say that.
Let's get 'im boys!
www.homestarrunner.com a website of varied flash cartoons featuring the aforementioned Strong Bad. All the humor is clean, and yet the site is quite popular with adults. Check it out.
http://blindscribblings.com - Tasty pop-culture in conceptual fashion.
You know, for all the years of their unique brand of humor, WITHOUT ads, without a subscription, and without resorting to having strongbad basically beg you to buy his merchandise, think of it as a $10 donation to the chaps bros.
Seriously, all that animation must take an assload of work, it's always the same quality, there are only occasional long lapses in updates. Pay the $10 or at least nominate them for internet sainthood.
http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=1647
Bullshit. How much a month do you spend on coffee? Eating out? Other crap?
$10 for a game like this makes me feel like I'm ripping them off, seriously.
...is the reason why you should rejoice. It's like Parodius but with Hudson's characters (including Bomberman and a PC Engine shooting CDs !).
Sir, I'll need your geek card, please.
Anybody want my mod points?
However many nerd points you loose, you gain nerd points for not following the link to RTFA in the slashdot article from a couple days ago with the Internet Meme timeline.
http://www.dipity.com/user/tatercakes/timeline/Internet_Memes
You'll find homestar runner at june 30, 2001, at the first level of zoom!
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
How do you hold the Wii controller with your boxing gloves on?
Yours truly,
Chicago, Illinois
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass
Let's see...for inability to use Wiki, you lose half of all nerd points and for inability to use Google, you lose the rest.
The cake is a pie
Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3?
You lose no nerd points for not knowing Strongbad, you lose a crapload for using "loose" instead of "lose" :D
How many nerd points do I loose?
Since you misspelled "lose", you get a credit of one nerd point and come out even.
This is a clear reference to the strongbad e-mail "Techno music".
On topic.
Oh come on. The games they have on the site look like something that you would have played on a Commodore 64 or an Atari.
Did anyone catch that typo?
Clearly, the person writing the article is typing with boxing gloves on.
/fhqwagads
The Rapture is NOT an exit strategy.
"The games they have on the site look like something that you would have played on a Commodore 64 or an Atari."
Uh, you do realize that's exactly the point of them don't you?
Sometimes my arms bend back.
Wow. A low comment count.
At first glance, I thought HSR had suffered from the ravages of time and a fickle public, but from the comments, it seems that there are some people who manged to avoid the mega-internet sensation which ripped through my town three years back.
A Strongbad point & click adventure from the Sam & Max guys?
Aside from the fact that content driven story adventures are today's Pong in the game world, it should be pretty impressive. I love their voice acting and comic timing, even if the HSR humor is cynical and mean-spirited.
I'd check it out if I didn't have to actually play it. Or own a Wii. I miss the days when I could kick back as my friends labored their way through silly games while I watched. I pretty much cannot stand the act of actually working through nearly any kind of video game myself, but for some reason, I really enjoy seeing my friends play them. --That way I don't have to muck around with annoying control pads or remember button combinations and I don't have to stress out over endless, repetitive hand-eye coordination challenges, whereas I DO get to see a story (of sorts) unfold before me and share in the camaraderie of cheering on friends as they confront challenges. It was generally far more fun than regular TV programming because I got to see people I cared about achieving their goals, (even if they were meaningless digital goals). --Then I grew up and no longer have time to blow on basement adventures and junk food.
Still, good for the Strongbad creators. They've worked long and hard and they have lots of talent. I hope this project does well for them!
-FL
Yeah, but you get them "cheap as free!"
It took me a while to realize you were making a joke, by the way, I was about to chide you about looking a gift horse in the mouth.
The system is down
The system is down
Ah bless, so good to see people with 'special needs' allowed to post here.
I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil
And for the PC, of course - Wii-only releases make Lappy 486 sad.
I'd check it out if I didn't have to [...] own a Wii.
You do realize that the H*R game was also released for the PC at the same time?
Or have I been imagining those four hours of playing through it yesterday?
Why? Is he sleeping with your wife or something?
Right, but I wouldn't consider "commodore 64" graphics an "assload of work." They have flash templates set up for everything. It's just a matter of rearranging it and spending 5 minutes writing new scripts for everything. And by scripts, I mean action scripts...because the actual dialog has to be written on the fly to be as unfunny as it is.
Wise men say, "Forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza."
But not as weird as if he was developed by Homsar.
"MIT betrayed all of its basic principles."
Perhaps after Nintendo takes their cut, the fellows will still have $7.50 with which to buy some buffalo chicken tenders.
Agh! We need a game where you can play as Trogdor, the burninator!
"Trogdor was a man
I mean, he was a dragon man
Or maybe he was just a dragon
But he was still TROGDOR!
Burninating the countryside,
Burninating the peasants
Burninating all the peoples
And their thatched-roof COTTAGES!
And theTrogdor comes in the NIIIGHT..."
/.Mattsson - My native language is not English, so please don't whine over linguistic errors. (That's lame anyway...)
Ah, but remember, there's four more episodes following this one. Count on them being about $10 apiece too. (Or if they really take off, more?) And meanwhile, they're making more of a name for themselves, and possibly growing their audience. Why, from a certain view, this looks like advertising.
In the long run, I think they'll do okay.
You cannot truly appreciate Dilbert until you read it in the original Klingon.
Some things are better than nerd points.
He's a witch! Get the torches.
About time for the paper to come down on this thread.
Mod Me Up. You'll make a grown man cry.
yeah... because new scripts take *only* 5 minutes
*rolls eyes 720 degrees*
Get yourself to an ophthalmologist ASAP.
You get a "season pass" (5 episodes) for $ 34.95
http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1583230/775222/
It doesn't require modchip
Watch this to learn how to install wad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIH7Aw_oG-8
If you enjoy the game, please consider buying it from Telltale!
Is this the patch that makes Strong Bad funny?
Torches? Don't we need a duck and some large scales to tell if she's a witch?
11 was a racehorse
12 was 12
1111 Race
12112
www.homestarrunner.com a website of varied flash cartoons featuring the aforementioned Strong Bad. All the humor is clean, and yet the site is quite popular with adults. Check it out.
Clean? Are you saying Strong Bad has lost edge?
You've never actually programmed a game, have you? Just because Commodore 64-style graphics require less processing power to manipulate than fancy modern graphics does not mean that they require less time or skill to create. It's an aesthetic choice, not a cheap way out.
I love it when people who don't have any experience in a field come along and start talking about how easy it must be. Seriously, it's hilarious.
I'm forever your girl