Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Launches August 11
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Launches August 11
Premiere episode, "Homestar Ruiner," will release simultaneously on WiiWare and
PC
SAN RAFAEL, CA, August 5, 2008 – Telltale Inc., the leader in interactive
episodic entertainment, is announcing that "Homestar Ruiner", the first of five
monthly Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People episodes, will premiere
Monday, August 11. "Homestar Ruiner" will release on Nintendo's WiiWare™
download service in North and South America and worldwide on PC simultaneously.
WiiWare availability for Europe, Australia and New Zealand will follow shortly.
As the star of the popular Homestarrunner.com web cartoons, Strong Bad has been
answering emails (in boxing gloves), pranking his friends, pummeling his
enemies, and making people with questionable taste snort milk out of their noses
for years. Now he's branching out to star in the monthly Strong Bad's Cool Game
for Attractive People series developed in partnership with Homestarrunner.com
creators Mike and Matt Chapman.
In the season premiere, Strong Bad's plans to beat the snot out of his rival
Homestar Runner backfire, and he ends up with an unwanted houseguest cramping
his style. Now he needs to get life back to normal, by any means possible.
Comical point-and-click gameplay progresses the story, with side quests, mini
games, achievements, and an "extended play" sandbox mode that unlocks after the
story is completed rounding out the game experience.
"Homestar Ruiner is a great series premiere and kick-off for the season. The
next five months will be filled with lots of surprises," says Telltale CEO Dan
Connors. "This is how we always envisioned episodic gaming—monthly releases,
straight into the living room. We’re happy to be working with the Chapmans and
Nintendo to make it a reality."
New Strong Bad episodes can be downloaded from the Wii™ Shop Channel each month
for 1000 Wii Points™. The series takes advantage of the WiiConnect24™ technology
by giving players the ability to send Strong Bad-themed emails to Wii friends
directly from the Lappy. Photos taken using the in-game camera feature can be
attached to emails, allowing players to show off Easter eggs uncovered or hidden
costumes collected during the game.
"We are very excited," said a Videlectrix spokesperson from his pretend
high-rise office, "Our last game topped out at 8 bits. We've heard this one
might reach 9 or 10!"
Downloadable versions of each Strong Bad episode will also be available for the
PC exclusively from Telltale's website, with preorders starting today at
www.telltalegames.com/strongbad. Episodes can be purchased individually for
$8.95 or as part of a five-episode subscription for $34.95. As with Telltale's
popular Sam & Max series, customers who purchase the full series from Telltale
will later be eligible to get a disc version for the cost of shipping and
handling.
After the "Homestar Ruiner" premiere on August 11, storylines in the monthly
episodes will run the gamut from political struggles to rock’n roll to the world
of videogames (of course), building to the exciting season finale in December.
Many fan favorite characters from Free Country USA will appear in each episode,
along with special new super 8-bit style mini-games from Videlectrix. Additional
details about the series can be found at
www.telltalegames.com/strongbad.
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