Second Games Menu

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The Second Games Menu is an Atari 2600 themed menu, which is now found in the Museum. The concept of the menu was on moving Homestar Runner around the screen and onto icons representing the different games. According to The Brothers Chaps, it was "a little too hard to figure out".

Current Page Title: The Original Website!

Earlier Page Title: Games!

Page Title (before Museum): The Games Menu!! For use with Joysticks or Paddles

Page Title (later, archived version): The Games Menu!! For the Whole Damn Family!!

Contents 1 Available Games 1.1 Returning from Original Menu 1.2 New for this menu 2 Fun Facts 2.1 Trivia 2.2 Remarks 2.3 Real-World References 2.4 Fast Forward 3 External Links

[edit] Available Games

[edit] Returning from Original Menu

• Fortune Cookies — Pearls of wisdom from the master himself, General Tso. Or is it General Tsu? Or wait. General Tao? Just order the egg roll.
• Homestar Talker — Homestar says the darndest things. You want to make him swear don't you? Shame on you. Call your mother.
• Bronco Trolley — Help Homestar eat as many Bronco Trolleys as possible. You don't know what a Bronco Trolley is? Go find out!!
• Hairstyle Runner — What you've all been waiting for! Finally, you can give the gift of hair to Homestar Runner. Make it great!
• Astro Lite 2600 — Remember the Lite Brite? Neither do we. This is something totally new. And now it's easier to use than... something easy.
• Dancin' Bubs — Who is the man? Why it's Bubs of course! Help Bubs put his weight on it on the dancefloor. Solid.

[edit] New for this menu

• Strong Libs — We forced the 3 Strong Brothers to reunite for this blatant rip-off of the classic word game. Let brotherly love rule.
• Back Button Description — Help Homestar fight the evil back button-- Oh wait. This is just the back button. It'll take you back to the main menu page.

[edit] Fun Facts

[edit] Trivia

• The back button always leads to Main Page 1.

[edit] Remarks

• The later page title contains a swear, even though the page disapproves of a potential user wanting to make Homestar Runner swear.

[edit] Real-World References

• The updated page title refers to Atari joysticks and paddles, two common control methods for Atari 2600 games.
• Tso Tsung-t'ang (the namesake of General Tso's chicken, although there is no connection between him and the meal) is referred to in the Fortune Cookies description.
• The Homestar Talker description alludes to Kids Say the Darndest Things, a show hosted by Bill Cosby.
• Helping Bubs "put his weight on it" references the dancehall exhortation of Rudy Ray Moore in Disco Godfather.

[edit] Fast Forward

• The joke structure of "Easier to use than... something easy", a simile abandoned partway through, returns in isp when Strong Bad mentions his "internet's crawling along like... something... funny... that crawls along."

[edit] External Links

• view the Games menu on the old Flash site
• view the Flash file for the Games menu
• view the alternate Flash file featuring working links

Preceded by: Original Games Menu

Games Navigation 2000-2001

Succeeded by: Third Games Menu

Old Flash Stuff
Current	First Flash, Second Flash, Old Intro, Old Intro 2, Pom Pom, Too, Original Games Menu, Second Games Menu, She Loves Me!, Old Characters Page
Old	Who Said What Now?, Astro-Lite 2600, Fortune Cookies