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Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People coming to WiiWare

Thursday, April 10th, 2008 at 11:18am by Press Release

Strong BadSAN RAFAEL, CA, April 10, 2008 – Interactive entertainment pioneer Telltale, Inc. is pleased to announce Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People (SBCG4AP), a new series of episodic games for WiiWare™, in partnership with Videlectrix. Starring Strong Bad, the self-proclaimed coolest person ever, the series is based on Matt and Mike Chapman’s online animated series, which has been running at Homestarrunner.com since 2000. SBCG4AP will launch on WiiWare this June.

“Telltale has been rejecting my ideas for green text adventures for years,” laments thousandaire gadabout Strong Bad, “but we finally reached a compromise with this puffy 3D point-and-click-em-up adventure. They claim all the coding was done with green text, so I guess that’s pretty cool.”

As the very first episodic series for connected consoles, Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People has been designed specifically for WiiWare, with easy-to-use controls and WiiConnect24™ features. Like Telltale’s popular Sam & Max series, SBCG4AP will be released as a five-episode “season” akin to a season of television. The episodes will come out on a monthly schedule. Release dates and pricing details will be revealed in a future announcement.

“Homestarrunner.com is one of the biggest success stories in online entertainment,” says Telltale CEO Dan Connors. “The Chapmans have been treating the Internet to episodic content for years. We’re thrilled to have teamed up with them to take episodic gaming to the next level via Nintendo’s innovative WiiWare delivery system.”

Telltale is working closely with the Chapmans on the series’ art style, storylines, and scripts. This hands-on collaboration will deliver long-time fans the ultimate Strong Bad experience and give new players a crash course in the series’ offbeat and unusual humor. The episodes play like extended cartoons, during which the player assumes the role of Strong Bad—controlling his actions, hearing his innermost thoughts, and becoming part of his awesome world. SBCG4AP features the cast of characters and locations from the Homestarrunner.com cartoons, and the games are fully voice acted by Matt Chapman and the rest of the original cast.

Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People is a story-driven series with a comic spin that’s undeniably Strong Bad. The player uncovers each episode’s comedic plot through character interaction, dialogue-based puzzles, and the use (and abuse) of inventory items. In addition, each episode will be crammed with time-wasters to keep players poking around in the world, including Strong Bad emails to check, prank phone calls to place, and mini-games styled after the arcade games on the Homestarrunner.com website.

In addition to WiiWare, Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People will be available on PC. For more details about the series, including a brand new trailer, screenshots, and Strong Bad’s development blog, please visit www.telltalegames.com.

14 Comments

  1. Pnut says...

    Oh man, this is awesome news

  2. benthedorklord says...

    YES. OH GOD YES. THIS IS GOING TO BE AMAZING.

    cool game for attractive people is also the greatest video game name i’ve ever heard.

  3. Jonkind says...

    I guess that Wii Safety video starring Strong Bad wasn’t an April Fool’s prank afterall.

  4. Drahken says...

    Wow. That’s pretty bitchin.

  5. Lifeisaglitch says...

    Finally a game marketed at my kind…You know the cool attractive kind.

    Awesome?

    ( ) yes
    ( ) no
    (X) OHFU**SH**YEAH!!! :D

  6. ejamer says...

    Homestarrunner.com has long been one of the best uses of the Wii Internet Channel (right up there with streaming episodes of South Park on demand), and this is an incredible announcement…

    Even if the game ends up being as mediocre as the Simpsons game, it’ll attract lots of attention and be worth spending a couple dollars to see.

  7. Derek says...

    Beth looks like a dude.

  8. Soup says...

    no, strong bad!

    You’ve sold out your green-text constituents!

  9. Roddy says...

    I never got into the Strong Bad craze… Don’t know why either…

  10. HunterGrant says...

    Roddy likely you are not Cool and/or Attractive. I am happy to hear this as there is not enough gaming built around comedy.

  11. Atlantis1982 says...

    :D

    …(In a trance of happiness)

  12. ggeorge759 says...

    http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbcg4ap.html

  13. -_Q says...

    The Brothers Chaps and their whole Homestarrunner crew are some of the most consistent deliverers of hilarity I have ever seen.

    This game will be amazing.
    It’s almost impossible for it to NOT be amazing.

    Wow.

    And that title
    = Perfect.

    I admit I don’t have a Wii yet.
    Actually, all I have is a Snes.

    This is possibly even more attractive than Brawl.

    “Sever your head, please.”

  14. David says...

    I totally called it.

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