@@Chuggaaconroysson Oh snap, I forgot about that. I've been listening to the "Come on Fhqwhpods" podcast and the amount of lore implications in those answering machines is nuts.
@@videooblivion Was looking for someone to have figured this out. The SOUND was my first guess, too, but remember how the behavior changed when he altered the second POKE address? That implies the original POKE address was also throwing the same error... possibly altering the value there caused it to pull a different sound, one in range, until x got incremented enough? Edit: Just realized, same problem from 2 different lines. The 2nd POKE is at some point calling an out-of-bounds address when the -2 is there, and the SOUND is doing so as well. X = 1, Y = 1 (the minimum values I suspect) yields 1 on the first POKE but 0 on the 2nd, so I suspect that's what is happening there. SOUND is either unsupported or x = 500 is putting it out of range. Now why we have part of 1 loop and all of another on the same line is a mystery for the ages.
Reminded me of editing Freelancer, Starsector, FTL:FTL, Stick Ranger, Dark Souls, Skyrim and Fallout mods to better suit my tastes. Notepad++ is good and all but Xedit is a wonderful tool.
Severely felt this, too. I wish my 7 yr old brain could wrap my head around it. All I knew what to do was to type in some code to open up a rudimentary UI DOS menu that my dad pre-programmed for me. I could play Bio Menace, Commander Keen (Aliens Ate my Babysitter), Jill of the Jungle, Animal Quest... Kid Pix.. and, lol, among the several other few.. Leisure Suit Larry and the Land of the Lounge Lizards. My dad helped me through the "adult check" multiple choice. I will always remember what in which year Jimmy Carter got inaugurated in... recently, I tried to answer those questions... I still have a hard time. Google wasnt a thing back then. Not even Alta Vista. We had Prodify, though...
Even more so for me cause i was born around the time of HSR’s peak, and have only experienced any of the classic content from a minimum of 10 years after the fact.
Sewiously. Strong Bad should just do some Let's Plays at this point. I'd watch it. Also, for those who are shocked that Strong Bad knows how to program, remember that he created the Homestar Runner and Marzipan Dating Sim XR and that had 3D graphics even!
honestly i’d pay to watch strong bad do let’s plays of random games. it would be hilarious to see him playing on one of those ad-ridden sites with the crappy games (like girlsgogames or something!)
I am endlessly excited for the possibility of more of these half-blood cartoon/letsplays of obscure, riffable software - it's like HSR's take on MST3K.
The best two parts about this are (1) MORE STRONG BAD, and (2) I had this FriendlyWare program! I played all of these...I didn't recognize the name but I nearly fell out of my chair when SB loaded up that first menu. Thanks for the catastrophically head-chunkular nostalgia trip, TBC!
"I should've got some graph paper before I did this." Damn...that just summed up my childhood... From Akalabeth to Ultima V, Legacy of the Ancients, Zork, Eamon, Wizardry, even Cranston Manor; I mapped them all!
I'm getting flashbacks of Phantasy Star 1 on the GBA, just from that comment alone. I never owned a SEGA Master System. Hey, maybe I should buy that game from the SEGA Ages lineup on the Switch eShop! I still got some money left from the previous purchase. Maybe it's enough. Okay, it's not enough, but it's like a few bucks more than what I got, but no matter, I might get it anyway.
Graph paper… I actually got teary for a second there from nostalgia. Whenever the teachers in Elementary school asked us to get out graph paper, I was always excited - "YES! Drawing and patterns!" Then grade 10 & 11 math sucked the joy out of it.
I recently started playing emulated retro games and was like, holy crap all of Banjo Kazooie fits in a 15mb zipped file. It wont be long until "History of Computing" is a class in every college
My dad had this on his work "laptop", which I'm 90% sure was an IBM. It was the size of a tower, and had a keyboard that folded (popped) out and revealed the tiny monitor. And it was the most amazing thing ever. The end.
That ending takes me back to when I used to go around at school, and start using basic to make simple programs to "10 Print" and "20 Goto 10" rude messages on all the Apple II's in the classroom and watch the teacher not know how to stop it without just turning the whole thing off. Then watching them yelling at the class for someone to fess up until they were blue in the face.
Heh, I remember setting up little bat "The computer will restart in T-10 seconds, press C to cancel." programs, where there was no input to stop them of course, and copying them to the classes computers.
I just went and looked it up, and apparently a "Tampa Nugget" was a kind of cigar. It was manufactured by the company Hav-A-Tampa, which also produced "Tampa Sweet" and "Phillies" cigars. So, good riddance to 'em.
HAPPY!!! I'm just happy you're making new content, with two different microphones none the less ;) This was awesome and hilarious. Confused over the 4 of 12, I don't see you've done this before? Made me sad I thought there were 3 more to watch, unless I'm missing something?!?! THANKS CHAPS!
"So wait. Was there ever a Jibblies 1?" "Nah, horror movies don't even need first movies anymore. This is the reboot of the reimagining of the reinvention of the original!"
shades of "Tape Leg 2." When I was 10, I spent hours looking for that email. (along with the one where Coach Z and Bubs had a knife fight on the bridge.)
Whoa, Minidisk! This was way ahead of its time! They mispelled it, though. I remember some of these... I can't believe it! We had a Compydore, and several years later, behold: The 386!
Strong Bad's skillz in DOS and BASIC programming are impressive. Twenty years later and we still learn all kinds of new things about the inhabitants of Free Country U.S.A.
@@stomper1232 🎸🎸🎸🎸 It is Old Man Rootbeeeeer And Mr Poofers is heeeeereee... Picking Pimecones all day As in a hammock he'll lay 'Fore that dog steals his beeeeeeaaarrrrd!
Can I just say that this is a real Let's Play? Like, the fun of a Let's Play is never the game, you could play that for yourself. It's the person playing it, and the stuff they do with what they're given. This 90% scripted short with animation and tonnes of gags is so much better than most videogames playthroughs. Hope to see more in the future!
I think this is my favorite piece of content I've seen in the last decade. I grew up playing Friendlyware, and programming in BASIC, and I don't know the last time I've laughed so hard on RU-vid. Thank you, Strong Bad.
Thank you for covering FriendlyWare! My grandmother had this on her home office computer in the '80s, and I remember playing around with it on the amber-on-black monitor when I went to visit her!
Literally every username i used to have in middle school was thecheat something or other. And to get the hunch to see if you were still around, AND to find out that youre still making content in 2021 was the sweetest gift I never knew I needed... amazing; please, dont ever stop 💛🌻
As an early 80s baby, this was maybe the best 13 minutes of my life. Also the a-x quadrant I believe it wanted you to choose a/s/z/x for the 4 quadrants of that plane setup, then choose a letter to bomb battleship styles. p'shoo
reminder that letsplays took off because youtube fucked animators over all animators are obligated to give letsplaying a try, and what's more Strong Bad than waiting until like 10 years after everyone else hopped on that train?
at first glance i thought this was an old video i'd missed, you've got no idea how happy it made me to see that this was new content! i would definitely watch a few hundred strong bad lets playing very old games.
Really appreciate how well you guys have stuck to the same high quality animation aesthetic in short bursts throughout the video, while filling out most of the content of the video focused on the characters. I'm sure all your fans would love regular full animated toons again, but this format is a fantastic compromise that gives us the characters that we miss. Keep it up!
Holy shit. This just triggered a flashback from my childhood...I played these games when they were NEW! In the early 80's, my dad brought home from work the first personal computer I'd ever seen. It was a Compaq "Portable," which was a huge heavy suitcase-shaped PC with a built-in monochrome screen and two 5" floppy bays. He had a few games with it - The classic text game "Adventure," MS Flight Simulator ver. 1, a text game called "Cutthroat," a martial arts game called "Bushido," and this collection - "FriendlyWare." I played the heck out of this collection. I am floored by seeing it here so many decades later. Thanks for the memories!
