We’ve got several entries from all types of game to go up today. And one entry that puts my Bubs disaster completely to shame. Enjoy!
Today’s Kotaku pumpkin patch includes the Godfather, Batman, the Spy from Team Fortress 2 and the World Ends With You. Cheers to Chris Wells, Lee Harris, Kevin “ShadesBot” Moore and Chae Wells!
Nintendo’s addition of SD memory card play to the Nintendo Wii has done amazing things for WiiWare developers, with Telltale announcing that sales of their Strong Bad series have doubled since the GDC announcement.
Strong Bad seems to be pissing everyone off over at Telltale. In part 2 of this – make believe – making of video series, Strong Bad who is ticked off about his office, attempts to gain creative control over his own game. If you haven’t gotten a chance to pick up the game yet, both Episode 1: Homestar Runner and Episode 2: Strong Badia the Free are ready for you to play via WiiWare and PC. Episode 3: Baddest of the Bands should be launching sometime later this month.
Strong Bad returns to WiiWare in the second installment of his excellent new Telltale Games adventure series, Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People this week, and what better Virtual Console title to go along with said release than Mega Man 2? It’s the two great tastes that taste great together – just ask Stinkoman. The latest SBCG4AP, titled Strong Badia the Free (1,000 points), deals with the King of Town finally succumbing to the power of office, instituting an email tax that sends Strong Bad on a quest for revolution. Also on WiiWare this week, Potpourrii (800 points), which is a puzzle game I’ve not heard of featuring helping leprechauns defeat an evil wizard. It looks kind of like a circular, multiplayer Bubble Bobble. Check out the official website for more info.
We all know that Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People is downright hilarious. What we take for granted sometimes are the little details, like how Strong Bad got his new office over at Telltale. In this video we get to tag along for part 1 of Strong Bad’s journey as he climbs the corporate ladder.
Strong Bad and friends have been entertaining the internet for over eight years now, combining colourful characters and pop culture reference to create one of the web’s rare clean destinations for comedic entertainment. As regular visitors to Homestarrunner.com know, video games have played a large part in the series over the year, to the point where they even created a fictional video game developer, Videlectrix (“We use computers…to make video games”), to handle their vast catalogueof titles. Now the Brothers Chap have teamed up with Telltale Games to deliver the first “proper” Homestar Runner video game in the form of Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People, an episodic adventure game for the Wii and PC.
The long-awaited first episode “Homestar Ruiner” is now available, and we checked it out to see if it passes muster or deserves to be DELETED!
Well this is certainly a pleasant change of pace after several weeks of relative crap with a side order of Beer Pong. Not only does the Wii get the first episode of Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People on WiiWare (1,000 Points) this week, we also get the formerly Japan-only Star Parodier for the TurboGrafx 16 CD-ROM (900 Points). Star Parodier is a Hudson game that pokes fun at traditional shooter conventions, giving players a choice between playing as the Paro Ceaser from Star Soldier, a giant flying Bomberman, or a living PC Engine Console that fires HuCards and CDs at the enemy.
The first episode of SBCGAP, Homestar Ruiner, follows Strong Bad’s efforts to crush Homestar’s spirit, and subsequent rebuilding of said spirit once the crushing goes awry.
Rounding things off is another TurboGrafx title, the pool title Break In (700 points), ruining what could have been a stellar crop while looking that much better for the company it’s keeping.
So he’s a couple months late. He’s Strong Bad. What are you going to do, not pick up the first episode of Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People when it hits PC and WiiWare this Monday? Oh I think not. Then there would be a reckoning, and I’m not at all certain how that would play out. Rather than dabble with uncertainties, let’s deal with what is certain. Telltale has officially announced that the first episode, Homestar Ruiner, will officially be available this Monday, officially. The Wii version will run you 1,000 fake Wii monies, and will feature the ability to send Strong Bad emails and screens to your friends using WiiConnect24.
Meanwhile the Compy version will be on sale via Telltale’s website for $US 8.95, or you can subscribe to the whole shebang for $US 34.95. We’ll have a full review going up on release day just in case you need some help deciding whether to buy the episode or buy five of them.
