SBCG4AP Dev Blog

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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.

Contents

Blog Entries

Image Date Title Description Currently Playing:
10 Jul 2008 Large Decap Latte Strong Bad is disappointed that his game didn't get a Mature rating. So he has some poorly created decapitations to make up for it. (View the Flash file.) "Badminton. It's nice out."
File:Sbmii.png 26 Jun 2008 O Contest, Mii Contest Strong Bad has his own comments about the Telltale Mii Contest. "Metal Storm (best death explosion ever)"
10 Jun 2008 Payable Demo! Strong Bad shows off his "playable demo". (View the Flash file) "Gold Rush! (lost the manual, anyone know when Sutter's Mill was built?)"
04 Jun 2008 End Boss Feature Strong Bad discusses stickers, game features, and marketing. "Abodox (I refuse to believe that logo says 'Abadox')"
File:Devblog05-21-08.PNG 21 May 2008 Concept Art is a SCAM! Strong Bad bemoans Telltale's decision to take the game visuals in a different direction. "The Viking Child for LYNX. Best Handheld Ever Man."
14 May 2008 The Endinning of the End Strong Bad hates the French horn. "Lost Eden (the dinosaurs look REAL!)"
7 May 2008 Logos Please Strong Bad explains that video game success is proportional to the number of logos before the title screen. "Trojan (they still have cartoon sticks of TNT in the post-apocalyptic future!)"
24 Apr 2008 New Screenshots! Strong Bad shows off some new screen shots of the upcoming game... that have been altered slightly. "Not MS Paint"
17 Apr 2008 Anadigilogital Strong Bad complains about the game's lack of box art and dipswitches. "Rebel Assault 1 (from a time when nasty looking full motion video was the future of gaming!)"
10 Apr 2008 Nobody Listens to Strong Bandrew Strong Bad decries the Telltale Team's rejection of his game ideas. "Wagyan Land (the end boss is a word game!)"

Fun Facts

10 Jul 2008

  • 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 die in it.
  • This is another instance of 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.

26 Jun 2008

  • The blog entry's title refers to O Captain! My Captain!.
  • The characters the Miis are supposed to look like are, in order, Marzipan, The Cheat, Strong Bad, and Bubs.
  • Strong Bad sees the Marzipan Mii as Alice the Goon, a character from the Popeye series.

10 Jun 2008

  • Strong Bad mentions a giant novelty toothbrush, which was also mentioned by Homestar Runner in from work.
  • 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 Sierra games of the era, the game would periodically ask for certain words or facts from the manual as a form of copy protection.
  • Phensics is a portmanteau.

04 Jun 2008

21 May 2008

  • Strong Bad refers to bullstyle.
  • Strong Bad also says that the "Smelly Guy" has "several months' worth of empty cans of 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 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 Kate Pierson of 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 Nestlé's flavored milk drink Nesquik.
  • Strong Bad claims to launch a "heat-seeking 3-Stooges eye-poker missile" in his game. The hallmark slapstick comedy of the Stooges often included eye-poking.

17 Apr 2008

10 Apr 2008

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