Population: Tire

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Population... TIIIRREEE!

Population: Tire is a game by Videlectrix where you bounce The Tire around with your mouse cursor and try to hit things like The Cheat, a bird, a balloon, and Strong Sad. Sometimes the wind changes direction, as evidenced by the Strongbadia flag, to make it harder. Every time you hit an object, the multiplier goes up one. When your multiplier goes too high, a spinning Cold One will fly through. Never break a Cold One. If you break them, you get 5 subtracted from your multiplier. They go by more and more as you get a higher score.

Page Title: I FEEL ASLEEP!

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Premise

In the year 19xx, the citizens of Strongbadia are terrorized by a faceless foe. As a top secret crack commando operative, it is you(r) job to protect the last remaining citizen from touching the tainted soil. You are (a) soldier! Score points by bouncing tire with mouse. Hit infidels to increase the value of each bounce. String combos to prevent the value from dropping over time. You one are of brave few. (You are one of a brave few.) Accept your mission and step fourth. And remember; never, ever break a cold one.

Scoring Chart

Hitting various objects increases your multiplier. Depending on what your multiplier is, you'll get that many points for each bounce of the tire.

Here are the various objects you can hit, and how much they increase or decrease your multiplier by:

  • Balloon: +1
  • Bird: +2
  • Cold One: –5
  • The Cheat: +1

The Cheat can be hit repeatedly, and whenever you do so, he changes direction. If you time it right, you can increase your multiplier by a lot using The Cheat.

Strong Sad Effects

Depending on what word Strong Sad is thinking when you hit him, you get a different effect, some good and some bad.

  • 2X: Your multiplier is increased by 2.
  • -2X: Your multiplier is decreased by 2.
  • BIG: The Tire gets bigger, making it easier to hit.
  • FLY: The Tire falls more slowly.
  • SAD: Your multiplier is reduced to 0.

Fun Facts

Trivia

  • When you score 500 points or higher a plane flies by and gives you a different message. The possible messages are:
    • YOU RULE
    • PURE FUN
    • GIVE IT UP
    • FHI-FIVE
    • POP:YOU
    • ROCK/ROLL
    • GOOD ONE
    • TIRE-TASTIC!
    • JAM ON IT
    • LET GO
    • PARTY.WOO!
    • PARDON ME?
    • X-L-NT
    • GROW IT OUT
    • PARENTAL!!
    • GOSH!
    • LOVIN' IT
    • SPANKIN'!
    • YOU 4 EVA
    • YOU.COM
    • YOU.CALM
    • WISHIWASU
    • WHO'S THAT?
    • THE BOUNCA!
  • The background changes with the time of day. If it's night then you'll get a night background, etc.
  • The parody used to say "9,1", but was fixed. 9 means the second drive.

Real World References

  • Instead of the usual loading screen, the game starts with a parody of the Commodore 64 boot screen:
  • The above is another indicator that this game is a close parody of a C64 game, in which you bounced a balloon around to similar effect.
    • As well, this shows that the Compy 386 is probably a reference to the 'Commodore 64' computer.
I'M GETTING SLEEPY!!
  • The page title "I FEEL ASLEEP!" quotes Metal Gear for NES.
  • The bird and sounds in this game are a reference to the 1988 game 'California Games'. The very same bird can also be found in the take-a-break.exe application highlighted in huttah!
  • Several sounds in the game are taken from the C-64 game Wizball, an almost surrealistic shooter. These include bouncing the tire off of The Cheat's head (Wiz shoots) and breaking a cold one (Wiz dies).
  • Destroying a balloon makes the same sound as running through an explosion in the C64 game "Paradroid".

External Links

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