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.

Not Gloves!

[pete-classic]

the infamous boxing-glove-adorned character

They're not boxing gloves, they're his hands. How many times do we have to cover this?

-Peter

Also availiable on PC

[gearb0x]

Here be the link :D http://www.telltalegames.com/strongbad [telltalegames.com]

Re:WTF? Translation, anyone?

[McNally]

I have absolutely no idea what this story is about. Might as well be in Farsi. How many nerd points do I loose? Anyone want to fill me in for the benefit of anybody else in my shoes?

Strong Bad is a character featured on the popular animation web site homestarrunner.com [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.

Re:WTF? Translation, anyone?

[Mr. DOS]

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 [homestarrunner.com], 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 are some links to help sort it out...

[LaTechTech]

Here is a link to the main Homestar site:
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html [homestarrunner.com]

Here is a link to Strong Bad animated emails:
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html [homestarrunner.com]

I highly recommend the following episode:
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail58.html [homestarrunner.com]

Review

[KohlyKohl]

http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=1647 [vgchartz.com]

Re:Come on

[Enderandrew]

http://www.homestarrunner.com/fhqwhgads.html [homestarrunner.com]

Star Parodier...

[FornaxChemica]

...is the reason why you should rejoice. It's like Parodius but with Hudson's characters (including Bomberman and a PC Engine shooting CDs !).

Uninformed mods

[Spy der Mann]

This is a clear reference to the strongbad e-mail "Techno music".
On topic.

Re:Finish the other one first!

[shma]

Back in 2005, they actually did make a great flash game [homestarrunner.com] for their website called Sinkoman 20X6 [hrwiki.org]. It was a platform game that paid homage to Mega Man, and contains tons of H*R in-jokes, as usual. Unfortunately, they stopped updating right before the final level, leaving us with a 3 year old cliffhanger.

Re:Finish the other one first!

[Paul Slocum]

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.

Re:Trogdor.

[Enderandrew]

http://www.homestarrunner.com/trogdor.html [homestarrunner.com]

Like this game?

Re:Trogdor.

[biovoid]

What, like this? [homestarrunner.com]

There's also a Trogdor arcade machine in the basement of Strongbad's house in Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive etc. etc... But I haven't been able to play it yet - the joystick's broken & we're waiting for parts that Strong Sad has ordered.