Video Game References

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This article is about miscellaneous references to video games. For the Strong Bad Email, see video games. For the DVD-exclusive email, see Videro Games.

References to video games, especially those of the 8-bit era, are constantly made within the Homestar Runner universe. While Nintendo, Atari 2600, Sega, Intellivision, and Namco are most commonly referenced, others are listed here.

Generic / Ambiguous References

• Email pom pom — Pom Pom beats up Strong Bad by repeatedly kicking him in mid-air, in a similar fashion to fighting games. Numbered combo points also appear.
• The Cheat Theme Song — Homestar Runner claims the video is "the best video game [he's] ever played".
• Email the bet — Strong Bad asks if The King of Town has any video games. He introduces him to Typing Tutor, an arcade cabinet that Strong Bad later hoisted over a blindfolded King of Town, intending to drop it on him.
• Email highschool — Baby Strong Bad pretends he is playing better video games.
• Email secret identity — As Cara Carabowditbowdit, Strong Bad writes to Buttless in Bedstuy that she needs to play more video games.
• Email keep cool — One of the pool rules is to "press UP, A, and START" before re-entering the pool after eating.
• Email 4 branches — Strong Bad uses a video game's scoring system as a simile to how Homestar Runner's stupidity works.
• Videro Games — Strong Bad describes the effects of video games on children.
• Email concert — Strong Bad and Strong Sad play their FunMachine together while discussing sloshy.
• Email slumber party — Strong Bad claims that "uncool kids' dads definitely still play video games" before going to Homestar's house, where he is playing Clapping Party because his father's M-rated titles are "off-limits".
• Email environment — Homestar "plays" his FunMachine without a cartridge inserted, claiming he is "about to win".

Specific Games

• Email homestar hair — Strong Bad plays Temple of Apshai as respite from the email.
• FAQ — The page title reads "FAQ - Ouch. What do you do?". In The Goonies II, non-player characters in mazes would respond with this Engrish phrase when attacked.
• Email modeling — An advertisement for foot cream includes the phrase "GOT STINKFOOT?", a reference to Parodius, in which gaining a power-up will sometimes result in the main character saying "GOT A STINKFOOT?!" out of a megaphone.
• Email bedtime story — In two Powered by The Cheat segments (the latter of which is an Easter egg), The Cheat and Moses Malone play The Adventures of Lolo and The Adventures of Bayou Billy.
• Email from work — Strong Bad says that he hasn't taken his "sit in the men's room and play Tetris for an hour break" yet.
• Email hremail3184 — Bubs has a drink called "PONK!", a possible reference to The Scout's BONK! energy drink from Team Fortress 2. He also shouts "PONK!" at Coach Z the same way as The Scout.
• Poker Night at the Inventory — Since The Inventory is established as a place where video game characters go on their day off, the game contains characters from Monkey Island, Sam & Max, Team Fortress 2, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, and Back to the Future: The Game.
• Joystick Wagglin' with Videlectrix: Halloween Edition — The Videlectrix Guys play the Atari 2600 game Haunted House.

Specific Consoles

• Email video games — Sender Taylor R. asks what Strong Bad would look like in a video game. He explains that it would depend on what system he was on. He envisions himself on "one of those really old machines", "one of those 3-D vector games", "one of those text-based adventures", and "one of those brand-new super-photorealistic games".
• Teen Girl Squad Issue 9 — Strong Bad is surprised that video store "Babbage's" doesn't carry Turbografx games.
• Teen Girl Squad Issue 13 — Tompkins is "baby-sat" and yells for Timkins not to play his PSone.
• Email alternate realities — The Cheat created a dimensional portal device using a Game Boy.
• SBCG4AP Advertisement — when describing the power needed to run his game, Strong Bad mentions the SuperFX chip, Mode 7, and the Nintendo 64 Expansion Pack (" that red thing you stuck in the N64").

See Also

• Atari 2600
• Cacodemons
• Couch Mumbling
• Doom
• Floppy Disk Container
• FunMachine
• Intellivision
• Namco
• Nintendo
• Sega
• Strong Bad's Technology