Handheld Games Menu

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The Handheld Games Menu was the main menu for selecting Games from July 14, 2002 through July 29, 2004. It is modeled after simple handheld LCD games, such as the Nintendo Game & Watch or games created by Tiger Electronics.

Games are selected with left and right arrows, moving an image of a prancing Homestar Runner across the screen while playing a simple tone. At each stop, an icon representing the game appears above Homestar while its title appears below him. By default, the background is The Field; a "bkgrd" button cycles the background image through Strong Badia (featuring the tire), or The King of Town's yard (featuring his grill).

Contents 1 Modern Handheld Games Menu 1.1 Available Games 2 Original Handheld Games Menu 3 Fun Facts 3.1 Remarks 3.2 Goofs 3.3 Fast Forward 4 External links

Modern Handheld Games Menu

The Handheld Games Menu is currently available by choosing "Old Games" on the Scrolling Shooter Games Menu. In this iteration, the handheld game is called "Super Old Games-n-Such".

Page Title: Exciting Handheld Action!

Date: Thursday, July 29, 2004

Available Games

• Dancin' Bubs
• Homestar Talker
• Audition with Marzipan
• Bronco Trolleys
• Strong Libs
• Homestar Quiz
• Hairstyle Runner
• Fortune Cookies
• Who Said What?
• Astro-Lite 2600

Additionally, a small button labeled "new games" is intended to return to the Scrolling Shooter Games Menu (though the link is currently broken).

Original Handheld Games Menu

Previously, the Handheld Games Menu served as the main Games Menu.

Date: Sunday, July 14, 2002

• Dancin' Bubs
• Homestar Talker
• Audition with Marzipan
• Bronco Trolleys
• Strong Libs
• Homestar Quiz
• Hairstyle Runner
• Who Said What?
• Population: Tire
• TROGDOR!

Most of it was the same as the current Handheld Games Menu, but there were a few differences.

• The handheld game is labeled "Super Fun Games-n-Such" rather than "Super Old"; the outline of the text was also thicker.
• The selection of games differs across the two versions —
  • Population: Tire and TROGDOR! were moved to the Scrolling Shooter Games Menu, as they are both Videlectrix games.
  • Astro Lite and Fortune Cookies were only accessible through the Museum at this time.
• The "bkgrd" button was positioned where the "new games" button game is now. There was no equivalent to the small red "new games" button.
• The mouth of the Strong Bad face ("Strong Libs'" icon) as well as the full "Homestar Quiz" question mark icon were filled in with full black rather than semitransparent gray.
• There is a gray "back" button in the bottom-left corner of the screen, which the new version lacks.

Fun Facts

Remarks

• Pressing the "right" button while Astro-Lite 2600 is selected scrolls the selection back to the first spot, but pressing "left" when the first spot is selected does not move the selection at all.

Goofs

• There are actually two select buttons, one is the yellow one and there is one behind it which is black that can be selected by clicking below and to the right of the yellow button or by pressing tab a few times which scrolls through the buttons.

Fast Forward

• The YouTube related video thumbnail in the YouTube version of Characters from Yonder Website is "Puppet Strong Bad Let's Plays those Terrible Old Games" with the Handheld Games Menu displayed on the Lappy 486.

External links

• view the Handheld Games Menu
• view the Flash file for the Handheld Games Menu
• view the original Handheld Games Menu (mirror)
• view the Flash file for the original Handheld Games Menu (mirror)

Preceded by: Third Games Menu

Games Navigation 2002-2004

Succeeded by: Scrolling Shooter Games Menu