“And you just have to sit there and imagine why on Earth you can’t get ye flask, because the game’s certainly not going to tell you.” I came into computers at the tail end of text adventures, but now that I have started playing several that we had and never finished, I never realized until now how painfully accurate that is.
I remember e-mailing Strong Bad when I was in Grade 4 about making a Stinkoman beat-em up game (like Double Dragon). That was almost 15 years ago, and this e-mail aired six months later. The Stinkoman 20X6 game was on their website three months after that. Maybe a lot of other people had sent similar e-mails, but my inner child always feels proud for feeling somewhat responsible.
Shining Yoshi man I feel, but when I was elementary school age and my siblings would be on this site, I'd watch it with them and play some games and barely understand half the shit that went on.
Ooh! Ooh! What about one of those cool point and click games where each segment of the game is sold separately! That would be a cool game....for attractive people...
Too bad they'd never come out with anything like that. On the Wii. In 2008. Or anything. Also, hello man from 4 years ago. I'm theNightStar from right now. How do you do?
The wireframe vector graphics were never really a thing on PCs, which always had raster displays. I think the Vectrex was literally the only home console with a vector display (because, of course, televisions are raster and converting between the two was prohibitive at the time). There were a lot of arcade machines that used vector displays though, like the original Asteroids, Tempest and Lunar Lander.
Been a fan since summer of '10. Since then, I've bought every DVD, watched every cartoon, and found every easter egg. Yes, it really is a great cartoon.
I remember when this came out in the early 00s that I was expecting him, at some point, to get to then-modern day graphics, like the GameCube and Xbox. It was only when I was a few years old that I realized the obvious limitations that Flash put on what kind of video game graphics they could make. And in hindsight it’s funny how they poke fun at themselves, like when Strong Bad talks about the SNES-looking Rhino Feeder being a super high tech game that takes tons of migs and megs of graphics.
I just google "Strongbad asplode" and Google brought me here. That's honestly pretty amazing. Asplode is not a word, so I don't think it would be indexed properly. And it's not in the subtitles, either.
I swear this email had extra content if you waited long enough. Strongbad commenting on how long the drink was pouring. Something to that effect. Really sad that flash is ending soon. I hope homestar runner lives on forever.
@@poopsmith6853 No. The soda does quickly end, and then transition to an image showing off the four games Strong Bad demonstrated here, and you could play them yourself by clicking on them.
@@Doughboy123x the toons and site could change very quickly in those days too. It was also years ago. I'll admit I don't exactly remember. What's on it now may not be what was the first time though. I checked the site probably daily or more in those days. Changing from looping to an image going to the games page would be as simple as editing some key frames.
>Get ye flask I do not understand >Examine flask The flask is in front of you, in easily grapsing distance >Pick up flask You fail to pick up the flask >Look under flask I do not understand 'under' >Look at underside of yonder enigmatic drinking receptacle Well why didn't you say so in the first place! There is nothing. > Pick up ye flask with thine hands making sure to first take off thine boxing gloves. Ask nicely >Quit Was it something I said? Hey, baby, I can change. Just give me one more chance ...
OH MY GOD, I FINALLY REALIZED A HAT IN TIME'S CORGI ADVENTURE THING WAS REFERENCING THIS SBEMAIL WITH THE DENNIS THING- OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH MY GOOOOOOOOD
And then we got a series of video games with strong bad in them and we now know what he would be like in a video game and what it would be like. Thanks, Taylor
as a 27 year old trying to un-freak my linux install, i find myself remembering this joke. i don't know why on earth i can't uninstall jack2, and the linux certainly isn't going to tell me.
This to me is the definitive SBemail. The one that always comes to mind when I think about HSR. In my college dorm, "your head a splode" and "you cannot get ye flask" were go-to lines on an almost daily basis.
I like how Strong Bad is stuck with past tech, to make it more timely and not painfully meta. However, it did came out at a earlier years than today, so I don’t know what happen.
Hmm... SBZ (the vector game) seems to be a mashup of both Vectrex/X (a Japan-exclusive Gameboy game) visual styles, but the idea of the floating head shooting polygons out of its mouth brings to mind Andross’s appearance in Starfox/Starfox 2... The closest thing I could think of to those would probably be Sigma’s final form from Megaman X2...
Well now we know it would be a beloved 5 episode Point and Click series that about 10 years later would be in desperate need of a proper remaster for modern systems like the Switch or whatever.
I played SBCG4AP before I ever watched any of the Homestar Runner content online and the way Strong Bad pronounced "Save/Load" when I highlighted the option, I was automatically in love with the character. X)
If I had the Hitman's Heatmaker, a Name Tag, and a Description Tag in Team Fortress 2, then I'd rename the weapon “Vector Derezzer” and have the description say: “Your head a splode.”
I've been working on a video game for several years and it JUST, JUST occurred to me that this is why I named some in-game hotel rooms "A," "B," "C," and "Dennis."
