Kotaku
Brett Tosti, Executive Producer and Emily Morganti, Marketing Coordinator, from Telltale Games publicly demonstrated Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People this morning at the opening of day two of the Nintendo Media Summit. The WiiWare title, announced yesterday, will feature the e-mail answering character fave from Homestar Runner.
The demo began with Strong Bad waking up on his couch, after dreaming of Super Punch Out!!, a quick musical number and a hasty interaction with his portly brother, Strong Sad. After hassling his housemates, Strong Bad heads downstairs to chat with a despondent Homestar.
We're introduced quickly to Strong Bad's motivation. Homestar has been caught for indecency and Strong Bad is either tasked with cheering him up or making reparations for Homestar's pantslessness.
Interaction with characters uses a simple pop up talk bubble, with a minimal HUD that can be interacted with via Wii Remote pointer or the plus, minus and B buttons on the remote. Players will check the game map, use game tools and access other menus this way.
In the house kitchen, Strong Bad picks up a cell phone adding it to his inventory, giving him the ability to make prank phone calls. Strong Bad then heads outside to make a call to Marzipan and dig up a hidden Teen Girl Squad comic.
Heading upstairs, Strong Bad sits down in front of a television and Videlectrix console to play Snake Boxer 5, a simplistic top-down boxing game in the vein of Atari 2600 Boxing, but with snakes.
The demo ended there, but it certainly nailed all the right Strong Bad points. It was funny—genuinely funny, not typical video game writing funny—featured many of the series' beloved characters and looked very polished visually. The Telltale Games point & click adventure pedigree should do right by the IP and looks to please the rabid Strong Bad fanbase.
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I am so sad my Wii will not be able to play this. D::::
Region locking makes a sad prinny.
@Witzbold: I never been happier to have a Wii!
Now.. my only concern on this is the size the game will occupy on the Wii memory :/
man that title hurts my head ...
AWESOME....!!!! This is going to be a Top 10 All-Time Fav D/L game for certain...!!!
Will there be a port of this for ugly people?
The truly sad thing is that StrongBad is not even the main character. It was supposed to be Homestar Runner. But sadly, no one even remembers him anymore =/
I'll be searching feverishly for the "Throw Baby in Lake" easter egg.
Nice, it sounds like they are planning to pack the game with easter eggs just like the cartoons. Should make for a pretty addictive game trying to see everything thats hidden in there.
@Witzbold: Dont forget your old pal the PC!
i haven't been following this WiiWare stuff much... will demos be available to consumers too? Like they are on XBOX LIVE? Or is it going to stay the same as the VC games and force you to buy full game before you can try it?
TROGDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!
Glad to hear that they captured the essence of the series so well. I can't wait to download the first episode of this game, definitely a day one purchase for me.
@Witzbold: Wait... what? Is this only being released in America or something?
@Kanik:
Second.
I need a Wii! Or some PC money!
June can not come soon enough.
I love Strong Bad, but I do not have rabies. Can I still play this game?
@Witzbold: It could come to other regions.
@ExistentialEgg: Demos are up to the developer's discreation. They are not required. This is quite a good thing cannot begin to tell how many crappy demos ruined a games sales because the dev team used their resources on the demo rather then the game. Or how many crappy games had fantastic demos. They are expecting the game to sell like Sam and Max did due to word of mouth, tv advertisements, internet ads. If you go to the homestarrunner site you will see they already have an involved ad campaign.
I must be the only person on earth who prefers Homestar to Strong Bad. Oh, well...I'm totally looking forward to this!
With this and the Penny-Arcade game coming out soon, internet nerd-dom will know no bounds.
So, when are we going to get a game based on Kotaku???
@Kanik: Strong Sad's Pottery Party for the Rest of Us?
@Witzbold:
we're you from??
@DorkimusPrime: I personally prefer the inimitable Homsar to all of them.
@Yetanotheruninspiredscreename: It goes both ways to me. There have also been quite a few games that I would have never considered buying if it hadn't been for being able to play a demo.
This is one of the few times I've been sad I sold my Wii.
Nice, it seems like it has a lot of content in the game. I mean usually there is only on TGS or email or what have you per week. But if there is a couple of everything in the one game then that might actually be a higher jokes per month rate than you get from the site!
@Yetanotheruninspiredscreename: There is no $$$ in bringing this to Japan mate.
Its like bringing a Japanese meme to the US.
There just is no $$$ in it.
I love StrongBad! But no Wii do I have! :(
@KreacherOfBloodandRank:But sadly, no one even remembers him anymore =/
Do you mean Homeschool Winner?
But it's not uncommon for a minor character to break out and become the star. Look at the Fonz, Stewie and Steve Urkel for examples.
yeeeeeeeeeeessss
I'm definately going to go catch up on the last,uh,year's worth of cartoons since I last visited the site. So that should take me about 15 minutes. Bad Dum Bum Tish!
But seriously,it's a great cartoon and I'd rather have infrequent hilarity than a constant strem of so-so episodes.
HOME
STAR
RUN
GO
i am all over this like stink on shit!
:( I'm a llama face! I'm ugly!
@Witzbold: Is your PC not capable of running it?
I'm not looking forward to this game... Not to directly bash Homestar Runner or Telltale, but when I first started school there was this kid in one of my classes that was somehow involved with homestarrunner.com. I don't know exactly what the dude did with the site, all I know is that he had a yellow VW beattle with Cheater McCheat pasted all over it and he spammed my AIM, phone, and e-mails asking (more like demanding) for input on the site. I guess because I was involved for a time with the DVC school paper and frequented the gaming rec room on campus.
I imagine this stalkish feeling is what gamepolitics.com experiences with Jack Thompson on a daily basis.
Since then, I've transferred to a different and pretty much changed all of my contact information to avoid him and that site. So although I'm pretty sure this will be a moderate success, I'll be maintaining my pseudo-restraining order for that series or that guy from touching my Wii.
@DorkimusPrime: You aren't. I love Homestar to death! :D
On topic, it's too bad I'm not attractive. I was so excited about this game. Le sigh. :(
@Witzbold: If PC distribution is anything like Sam and Max surely you would be able to buy direct from Telltale regardless of location.
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