Scrolling Shooter Games Menu

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*[http://www.homestarrunner.com/games.html View the Games Menu]
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[http://www.homestarrunner.com/games.html View the Games Menu]
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*[http://www.homestarrunner.com/gamesmenu_new.swf View the flash file for the Games Menu]
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*[http://www.homestarrunner.com/oldgames.html View the Old Games Menu]
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[http://www.homestarrunner.com/gamesmenu_new.swf View the flash file for the Games Menu]
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*[http://www.homestarrunner.com/handheld.swf View the flash file for the Old Games Menu]
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[http://www.homestarrunner.com/oldgames.html View the Old Games Menu]
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Revision as of 04:10, 18 October 2004

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The current Games menu

The Homestar Runner games section is where you can play games with your favorite characters in them. Here's a list of all of the games recently available on the games section.

Page Title : Shots do NOT hurt other players... yet.

Contents

New Games Menu

Easter Eggs

  • Click the center "Games Menu... 1982 Videlectrix" to go to the Videlectrix website.
  • Click on the level number to change the backgrounds.
  • When you collect one of the power-ups that appear occasionally, the character changes.
    • The Characters are: 20X6 Homestar (H Pill), Stinkoman (SB Pill), 20X6 Coach Z (Z Pill), 20X6 The Cheat (Cheat Texture Pill) and Pan Pan (P Pill).

Fun Facts

  • The game menu is a reference to side scrolling shoot 'em ups. The idea was simple: blast enemies, snag power-ups and avoid collisions.
  • The levels are all inspired by classic video games.
    • Level 1 (landscape) is modeled after Xevious (by Namco, 1982).
    • Level 2 (sea/ships) is modeled after 1941 (by Capcom, 1984).
    • Level 3 (space) is probably a reference to Galaxian (by Namco, 1979) and Galaga (by Namco, 1981), though neither game had nebulae.
  • The capsules are from Arkanoid (by Taito, 1986).
  • This is the first time a 20X6 The Cheat and 20X6 Coach Z have ever been shown.
  • The "Old Games" ship is an airplane with smoke coming out it and is similar to one from Time Pilot (Konami, 1982).
  • When you choose Pan Pan, his mouth moves even though he communicates by bouncing, seen in Under Construction.
  • When this menu was first released, the information bar at the bottom (score, brand, level) was not there. It was added shortly thereafter.
  • The "Ready!" text that you see when you enter the menu is from one of the NES Mega Man games, that is, it uses a similar font and placement.
  • The continually rolling "1982 Videlectrix" bar at the bottom is a reference to a similar animation that appeared in most Atari 2600 games made by Activision.
  • The ships have similarities to the characters they represent.
  • While most of the website fits into a small rectangle with rounded edges, this menu has proportions more like that of an arcade cabinet's monitor, with sharp edges.
  • You can never get a score higher than 0000 as of 7/29/04.
  • The page title, "Shots do NOT hurt other players...yet." is from the classic arcade game Gauntlet.
  • Each of the character's ships has a different speed (How fast it can keep up with the mouse). From fastest to slowest: The Cheat, Homestar, Stinkoman, Coach Z, and Pan Pan.
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Screenshot of the New Games page when loaded on slow computers; note the unused TROGDOR! message.
  • Loading the page up in certain really slow computers will cause the browser to complain about a script in the background making everything run slowly. Tell it to cancel to cause it to cease loading the levels (you'll be on "Level", without any numeric value assigned, leaving a blank screen), to cause the sprite to go haywire (it'll go through every morphing and moving animation over and over and over...) and have some characters say an otherwise unused message ("Trogdor is the Greatest Game! Play 2Nite!"). Maybe this was the original message but was dropped in favor of the current one instead?
    • Note: The message "TROGDOR IS THE GREATEST GAME PLAY 2NITE!!" is actually the default value of the text box. It is replaced with another message when you move the mouse over an item. The text is never seen unless all actionscript is stopped, which happens when you get the "running slowly" dialog box and choose to stop running scripts.

Old Games Menu

Choosing "Old Games" on the above menu brings you to the "Super Old Games-n-Such" menu, a modified version of the previous games menu, modeled after an old Nintendo Game and Watch. The games listed there are:

Page Title : Exciting Handheld Action!

Other Games (secret, old, etc.)

There are also other games that don't appear on the Homestar Runner games menu, which are old games, games that appeared on another page or in the cartoons. Here is a list of those games:

From Cartoons

Other Pages

Strong Bad's Message Bored

Old Games

External Links

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