Homestar Runner RPG
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Homestar Runner RPG is the first official console game for homestarrunner.com. It is currently under development for the Atari 2600 by Paul Slocum. Due to the immense scope of a full 2600 RPG, as of February 2006 the demo is approximately 1/3 finished.
Gamers will be able to play as Homestar Runner, Homsar, or Strong Sad and possibly Marzipan and Coach Z against the villain Strong Bad and possibly The Cheat and Strong Mad in a traditional swords and sorcery RPG. The enemies will include those from other games in the Atari family. The map will be comparable in size to the early computer RPGs. Gameplay will be turn-based with lots of mini-games and story text with codes given to "save" game.
The game will be released in an Atari 2600 cartridge for the dedicated old-school gamer, and as a downloadable ROM for systems with an emulator.
On January 4th, 2005 the developer published this statement:
"The game's on hold for a while. I'm too busy with my band and other projects to work on it right now, but I do plan to return to it when I can. Sorry it's taking so long, but that's life."
It now seems like it may never materialize, as Matt Chapman said this in an interview on September 5th, 2005:
I think it's— it's sort of in limbo. I mean he— know he's talking— I think it was really pushing the limits of what the 2600 could do, especially with an RPG, and so uh, I think he was getting a little overwhelmed. He realized that all the work he had done, which was, you know, hours and hours and hours, amounted to like 2% of what the game would finally be. And so he just kinda— I think he kinda freaked out. So he kinda— he was on hold on that for a while, but he did say that he— he's— he's willing to look into some uh, other 2600 projects that are a little more, you know, within the normal 2600 realm. Not necessarily trying to, uh— I think that's gonna be his opus, and so the Homestar Runner was sort of just being applied to it. He could make an RPG that really didn't have to be Homestar Runner or not. So uh, so I hope he makes it someday 'cause— 'cause I would love to play an RPG on the 2600 for sure.
