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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.
They're not boxing gloves, they're his hands. How many times do we have to cover this?
-Peter
Here be the link :D
http://www.telltalegames.com/strongbad
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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
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.
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.
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
We had to abandon it, it was just too ambitious, and during the time that I was working on it my schedule was gradually getting more and more ridiculous. The display code for that RPG was pushing the Atari so hard, and so it was very delicate and became time-consuming to keep in balance. Most of the display, music, map-handling, and memory management was in place. But the battle system and overall RPG design were just getting started. I've had some people interested in the code for other 2600 RPG projects so something may still come out of it.
We still may release a H*R Atari 2600 game at some point -- we've talked about some other ideas that would be much more reasonable.