Editing SBCG4AP Dev Blog

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[[Image:Dev Blog logo.png|thumb|300px|From the desk of Strong Bad.]]
[[Strong Bad]] regularly updates a '''Developer's Blog''' on the [[Telltale Games]] website to promote ''[[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People]]''.

== Blog Entries ==

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! Image !! Date !! Title !! Description !! Currently Playing:
|-id="Cheat Codes"
| || 11 Aug 2008 || '''[[SBCG4AP:devblog/id-16|Cheat Codes]]''' || Strong Bad reveals some cheat codes for SBCG4AP. || "Um, duh?"
|-id="Videlectricks"
|[[Image:Sbdev videlectrix render.jpg|100px]]|| 23 Jul 2008 || '''[[SBCG4AP:devblog/id-15|Videlectricks]]''' || Videlectrix writes to Strong Bad about their treatment by Telltale Games. || "4 player ''[[Wikipedia:Warlords (video game)|Warlords]]''.  Paddles man, paddles."
|-id="Large Decap Latte"
| [[Image:Marzychop.PNG|100px]]|| 10 Jul 2008 || '''[[SBCG4AP:devblog/id-14|Large Decap Latte]]''' || Strong Bad is disappointed that his game didn't get a Mature rating.  So he has some poorly created [[Severed Body Parts|decapitations]] to make up for it. ([http://www.telltalegames.com/imagedb/sbdev_decap.swf View the Flash file.])|| "[[Badminton]]. It's nice out."
|-id="O Contest, Mii Contest"
| [[Image:Sbmii.png|100px]]|| 26 Jun 2008 || '''[[SBCG4AP:devblog/id-13|O Contest, Mii Contest]]''' || Strong Bad has his own comments about the [http://www.telltalegames.com/community/blogs/id-348 Telltale Mii Contest]. || "''[[Wikipedia:Metal Storm (video game)|Metal Storm]]'' (best death explosion ever)"
|-id="Payable Demo!"
| [[Image:SBCG4AP Tech Demo.png|100px]]|| 10 Jun 2008 || '''[[SBCG4AP:devblog/id-12|Payable Demo!]]''' || Strong Bad shows off his [[SBCG4AP Tech Demo|"playable demo"]]. ([http://files.telltalegames.com/strongbad/videos/sbdev_demo2.swf View the Flash file]) || "''[[Wikipedia:Gold Rush!|Gold Rush!]]'' (lost the manual, anyone know when Sutter's Mill was built?)"
|-id="End Boss Feature"
| [[Image:sbdev box in.jpg|100px]]|| 04 Jun 2008 || '''[[SBCG4AP:devblog/id-11|End Boss Feature]]''' || Strong Bad discusses stickers, game features, and marketing. || "''[[Wikipedia: Abadox|Abodox]]'' (I refuse to believe that logo says 'Abadox')"
|-id="Concept Art is a SCAM!"
| [[Image:Devblog05-21-08.PNG|100px]]|| 21 May 2008 || '''[[SBCG4AP:devblog/id-9|Concept Art is a SCAM!]]''' || Strong Bad bemoans Telltale's decision to take the game visuals in a different direction. || "''[[Wikipedia:Viking Child|The Viking Child]]'' for [[Wikipedia: Atari Lynx|LYNX]]. Best Handheld Ever Man."
|-id="The Endinning of The End"
| [[Image:Sbdev rhonda.jpg|100px]]|| 14 May 2008 || '''[[SBCG4AP:devblog/id-8|The Endinning of the End]]''' || Strong Bad hates the French horn. || "''[[Wikipedia:Lost Eden|Lost Eden]]'' (the dinosaurs look REAL!)"
|-id="Logos Please"
| [[Image:Sbdev logos.jpg|100px]] || 7 May 2008 || '''[[SBCG4AP:devblog/id-7|Logos Please]]''' || Strong Bad explains that video game success is proportional to the number of logos before the title screen. || "''[[Wikipedia:Trojan (video game)|Trojan]]'' (they still have cartoon sticks of TNT in the post-apocalyptic future!)"
|-id="New Screenshots!"
|[[Image:DevBlog042408.png|100px]] || 24 Apr 2008 || '''[[SBCG4AP:devblog/id-6|New Screenshots!]]''' || Strong Bad shows off some new screen shots of the upcoming game... that have been altered slightly. || "[[Not X|Not]] [[MS Paint]]"
|-id="Anadigilogital"
| [[Image:Sbdev mig29 front.jpg|100px]] || 17 Apr 2008 || '''[[SBCG4AP:devblog/id-5|Anadigilogital]]''' || Strong Bad complains about the game's lack of box art and dipswitches. || "[[Wikipedia:Star Wars: Rebel Assault|''Rebel Assault 1'']] (from a time when nasty looking full motion video was the future of gaming!)"
|-id="Nobody Listens to Strong Bandrew"
| [[Image:Puzzmaster.jpg|100px]] || 10 Apr 2008 || '''[[SBCG4AP:devblog/id-4|Nobody Listens to Strong Bandrew]]''' || Strong Bad decries the Telltale Team's rejection of his game ideas. || "[http://www.gamespot.com/nes/action/wagyanland/index.html ''Wagyan Land''] (the end boss is a word game!)"
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== Fun Facts ==
===23 Jul 2008===
*The Cheat was previously referred to as a "yellow dog" in [[army]], and was also called "The Squeak" (labeled as such in the image) in [[hiding]].

===10 Jul 2008===
*[[Wikipedia:Entertainment Software Rating Board|ESRB]] is an organization created for rating video games. "ESRB" actually stands for "Entertainment Software Rating Board".
*The Dev Blog entry has every main character [[Death|die]] in it.
*This is another instance of [[Strong Sad's Severed head|Strong Sad being decapitated]].
*In the Flash file, if you click play (after clicking on a button), it will show [[Strong Bad]]'s head being decapitated off of the previously clicked character's body. Additionally, that same "half Strong Bad" is also seen outside the frame of the menu.

===26 Jun 2008===
*The blog entry's title refers to [[Wikipedia:O Captain! My Captain!|O Captain! My Captain!]].
*The characters the Miis are supposed to look like are, in order, Marzipan, The Cheat, Strong Bad, and Bubs.<!--These characters are all correct according to each image's filename which includes the character they are supposed to be's name in it.-->
*Strong Bad sees the Marzipan Mii as [[Wikipedia:Alice the Goon|Alice the Goon]], a character from the [[Wikipedia:Popeye|Popeye]] series.

===10 Jun 2008===
*Strong Bad mentions a giant novelty toothbrush, which was also mentioned by Homestar Runner in [[from work]].
*[[Wikipedia:Lemonade Stand|''Lemonade Stand'']] is an early educational computer program, where players had to set the price for their lemonade depending on conditions.
*Strong Bad's request for the manual is because, like many [[Wikipedia:Sierra Entertainment|Sierra]] games of the era, the game would periodically ask for certain words or facts from the manual as a form of copy protection.
**[[WIkipedia:Sutter's Mill|Sutter's Mill]] was built in 1847.
*Phensics is a [[portmanteau]].

===04 Jun 2008===
*Entry includes examples of [[deliberately poor English]].

===21 May 2008 ===
*Strong Bad refers to bull[[style]].
*Strong Bad also says that the "Smelly Guy" has "several months' worth of empty cans of [[Minor Foods#Bull Honkey|Bull Honkey]].
*Strong Bad's concept art was seen at the end of the [[SBCG4AP Advertisement]].

===14 May 2008===
*The game Strong Bad is complaining about is ''[[Wikipedia:Pitfall II: Lost Caverns|Pitfall II: Lost Caverns]]''.  Frogs and balloons were two of the new features in the game, as well as unlimited lives.
*Strong Bad should know that the "silver french horn" is a scorpion, as he positively identified it as such in the commentary of [[In Search of the Yello Dello]].
*"Endinning" is a [[portmanteau]] of "end" (or "ending") and "beginning."

=== 24 Apr 2008 ===
*Strong Bad alters a screenshot from the game and claims that it's a dating sim featuring [[Wikipedia:Kate Pierson|Kate Pierson]] of [[Wikipedia:The B-52's|the B-52's]].
*One of Strong Bad's fake screencaps reveals that Homestar's innards are filled with "Strawberry Quik".  "Quik" was the original name of [[Wikipedia:Nestlé|Nestlé]]'s flavored milk drink [[Wikipedia:Nesquik|Nesquik]].
*Strong Bad claims to launch a "heat-seeking [[Wikipedia:Three Stooges|3-Stooges]] eye-poker missile" in his game.  The hallmark slapstick comedy of the Stooges often included eye-poking.

=== 17 Apr 2008 ===

*''[[Wikipedia:Mig 29 Soviet Fighter|Mig 29 Soviet Fighter]]'' is an unlicensed game for the [[Nintendo#NES|NES]]. The switch on the back of the game triggers a [http://kevtris.org/mappers/lockout/camerica.html voltage spike] intended to temporarily disable the NES's [[Wikipedia:10NES|lock-out chip]] so that the unlicensed game can be played on an official console.
*Strong Bad [[Strong Bad's Spelling|uses "it's" in place of "its"]] even though he considers people who do this to be [[local news|scalawags]].

=== 10 Apr 2008 ===

*The blocky 3D Strong Bad head in the [[Wikipedia:Sudoku|sudoku]] puzzmaster picture is most likely a reference to [[Wikipedia:Dr. Kawashima|Dr. Kawashima's]] representation in the [[Wikipedia:Brain Age|Brain Age]] series, which included sudoku in the North American version of its first installment. Dr. Kawashima's head also sometimes used an expression similar to Strong Bad's in the game.
**[[Wikipedia:NPR|NPR]]'s program [[Wikipedia:Weekend Edition|Weekend Edition Sunday]] includes a weekly segment with [[Wikipedia:Will Shortz|Will Shortz]], puzzle constructor (including [http://nymag.com/arts/all/features/17244/ Sudoku]), [[Wikipedia:The New York Times|New York Times]] puzzle editor, and referred to by NPR as the "[http://www.npr.org/templates/people/?typeId=1#S Puzzlemaster]".
*Strong Bad's idea of a "flame cubicle" in the Telltale offices gets "[[SBLOUNSKCHED!]]"
*The title makes a reference to the book [http://www.amazon.com/Nobody-Listens-Andrew-Elizabeth-Guilfoile/dp/0590093185 ''Nobody Listens to Andrew''].
*Unlike the other dev blog images, the [[Videlectrix:vii/puzzmaster.jpg|puzzmaster image]] is hosted on the [[Viidelectrix]] site.

== See Also ==
*[[Strong Sad's Lament]]

==External Links ==
*[[SBCG4AP:devblog|Read Strong Bad's Dev Blog]]

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