Main Page 13

From Homestar Runner Wiki

Revision as of 22:56, 21 July 2023

The Atari 2600.

An Atari 2600 main page.

Cast (in order of appearance): Atari Homestar, Atari Strong Bad, Atari Marzipan, Atari Dragon

Places: Atari The Field

Icon: Atari joystick

Date: Monday, June 25, 2001 or earlier

Page Title: Homestar Runner Game Pac

Button Effects

• Toons — The color of the sky changes for each rollover: first, from its original blue to orange; then to purple; red; lavender; and back to blue.
• Games — An airplane flies by and drops a bomb onto the field.
• Characters — Strong Bad jumps on screen. He disappears pixel-by-pixel when the cursor moves off the button.
• Downloads — Background is turned into a moving road from a racing game.
• Store — Marzipan goes across the screen chasing a butterfly with a net.
• E-mail — Strong Bad, holding the Enchanted Chalice from Adventure, runs away from Yorgle the Atari Dragon while yelling, "Somebody get this freakin' duck away from me!"

Fun Facts

Remarks

8-bit is enough, right?

• The scrolling road is like a daytime version of Nighttime Driving Type Game from Strong Bad's Message Bored.
• In the .swf, an 8-bit mouse cursor is visible outside the frame. This could possibly be from a scrapped idea to have a "custom cursor" in this page.

Goofs

The plane isn't low. It's just in the foreground.

• The wing of the airplane will pass over any action happening in The Field. The only thing it does not pass over is Homestar Runner's head.
• After Strong Bad runs across the screen when the cursor rolls over "E-mail", the Flash file restarts itself, causing the What's New, Main Page, and Weeklies links to disappear for one frame and the What's New button cycle to restart.

Inside References

• Strong Bad's line is a reference to Homestar Runner's line from the first deleted scene from In Search Of The Yello Dello DVD.

Real-World References

• The sound effects for the "Games" and "E-mail" buttons are taken from the Atari 2600 games Combat and Seaquest.
• The sound effect for the "Characters" button is from the Atari 2600 game Pitfall!, when Pitfall Harry would collect a gold bar, diamond ring, etc.
• The effect when Strong Bad disappears is from Pac-Man for the Atari 2600. The first sound effect made on the "Downloads" button is the sound Pac-Man makes when eating a pellet.

Fast Forward

• Strong Bad calling a dragon chasing him a "Freaking Duck" would later be redone with Trogdor as the Downloads mouseover effect for Main Page 27.

External Links

• go to "Main Page 13"
• go to "Main Page 13" on the old Flash site
• view the Flash file for "Main Page 13"

This article requires information that is no longer accessible. Our records are currently incomplete, but you could help the wiki by contributing your knowledge on the matter. Missing: release date