Strong Bad's Technology

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Strong Bad shows a strong preference for out-of-date technology. Sometimes his feelings are so strong they lead to a state of denial, in which he describes such outmoded technologies as cutting-edge. Similarly, the company Videlectrix seems to embrace a mission plan of releasing 8-bit and 16-bit "video computer games on TV" which they consider "good graphics".

Appearances

• Almost every Strong Bad Email - Strong Bad uses outdated computers, and praised the Compy 386 and Lappy 486 as state-of-the-art computers with awesome features. The Paper, as well, appears to come from a tractor-fed dot matrix printer. In home use, such printers are now nearly non-existent.
• Email duck pond - Strong Bad says that the Atari version of Duck Pond has state-of-the-art graphics.
• Email gimmicks - Despite Strong Sad's claim that he could replace the Tandy 400 with a comparable computer "at a yard sale for, like, fifteen dollars," Strong Bad asserts that he "liked that computer." He evidently disregards Strong Sad's encouragement to get a modern computer when he chooses the Compy 386.
• Email weird dream - Strong Bad is unaware of how to use The Cheat's Apple OS.
  • Despite this, Strong Bad had no trouble working Pom Poms Palm Pilot in the bird.
• Email lures & jigs - Strong Bad refers to Fishing Challenge '91 as "the pinnacle of graphics".
• Email website - Strong Bad's Website is similar to many other outdated ones created during the '90s.
• Email video games - Strong Bad considers the SNES-style RhinoFeeder to be on a brand new and super-photorealistic system.
• Email haircut - Strong Bad edits a Polaroid picture of Strong Mad with a marker, claiming that he's using a light pen to edit a scanned picture.
  • Here, he also referrs to the tech as "Cutting art, state-of-the-edge".
• Teen Girl Squad Issue 9 - Strong Bad is irate that Babbages has no Turbografx games.
• Real-Live E-Mails - Strong Bad is unaware of the term "burning DVDs" and sets fire to a spindle of them using the BMW Lighter.
• Biz Cas Fri 3 - Strong Bad fails to back up his files, and then seems to think he can do so by keeping some of the ashes of his exploded computer.
• Email lady...ing - Strong Bad uses a Laserdisc and sings a brief, nostalgic tribute to the medium, saying that "everything is better on Laserdisc".
• Email animal - Strong Bad scoffs at The Cheat for using new computers.
• Email long pants - Strong Bad deems the email "too long" and proceeds to edit it with a white-out pen, which he calls a "light pen" with "expensive electrons". When the plan backfires on him, though, he refers to it as "stupid made-up technology that I made up".
• Email highschool - Baby Strong Bad describes the video games of his earlier era as "better."
• Email technology - A whole email on the subject; Strong Bad makes numerous references to older technologies being state-of-the-art.
• The bad special effects in disconnected may be a reference to SB's preference of bad technology.