Snake Boxer 5
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Snake Boxer 5 (alternately rendered as Snake Boxer V) is a game developed by Videlectrix for the FunMachine. It appears as a playable minigame in Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People episode 1 "Homestar Ruiner", accessible in Strong Bad's Room.
The fifth game in the Snake Boxer series, Strong Bad compares it positively to prior installments Snake Boxer 2: The Biting of Boxer Joe, Snake Boxer 3: Solving Problems Through Diplomacy, and Snake Boxer 4: Lady Snake Parade.
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[edit] Gameplay
The game is a loose parody of Boxing for the Atari 2600: players control Boxer Joe as he fights off endless waves of snakes.
By finding all four of the game manual's pages, players can unlock the game's "Super-Secret Forbidden mode" and play as another, larger snake. Instead of punching, the snake lunges with the attack key. The guard key draws the snake back instead of defending, but holding the button down allows your snake to breathe fire, causing more damage.
[edit] Manual Pages
SNAKE BOXER V
VIDEO GAME MANUAL
After failing to lead the Lady Snake
Parade into space, Boxer Joe returns
to his roots as a New York deli owner.
It isn't long, however, before the
local Snake Mafia learns of his
return and forces him back into
the ring!
How long can you last against
wave after wave of deadly snakes,
and can you unlock Boxer Joe's
deadly secret before it's too late?
SNAKE BOXER V
VIDEO GAME MANUAL
Lead Game Cartridge Cleaner • Dan Kaskoun
Graphics Tightener: • John Wallace
Beta Max Tester • Edd "RabidZombie" Shaw
Bleep Composer • "Pikey"
Assistant Tongue Forker • David D
SNAKE BOXER V
VIDEO GAME MANUAL
notes
cobra secret mode
↑ ↑ ↓ ↑ start
[edit] Screencaps
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[edit] Easter Eggs
- Pressing "S" in the PC version ("+" in the Wii release) during gameplay will ring the judge's bell heard at the beginning of each round.
[edit] Fun Facts
[edit] Explanations
- The game's manual and launch screen establish that it was developed by Videlectrix.
- This was first revealed in the "Homestar Ruiner" gameplay video "Around the Field"; the box art posted to the Telltale Games FAQ page showed an earlier version of the cover sans Videlectrix logo.
[edit] Trivia
- On May 9, 2008, Telltale Games announced a contest: submit a tagline for Snake Boxer 5, and the winners would have their name included in "Homestar Ruiner".
- The contest concluded shortly thereafter, on May 12. The winners' names were included in the Snake Boxer 5 manual (reproduced above).
[edit] Remarks
- This game features snakes.
[edit] Real-World References
- Snake boxing is a real style of Shaolin kung fu, though practitioners imitate the movements of snakes with their fists rather than actually fist-fighting snakes.
- The position of "Graphics Tightener" references a commercial for Westwood College, which featured a duo of game testers remarking that they "need to tighten up the graphics". The commercial became infamous online for its nonsensically unrealistic portrayal of video game development and terminology.
- "Beta Max Tester" is a play on both the gaming industry position of "beta tester" and the media format of Betamax.
- Betamax was an alternative to VHS tapes; despite being widely regarded as superior, it lost the videotape format war and is mostly remembered for its commercial failure.
[edit] Fast Forward
- Strong Mad mentions wanting to play Lady Snake Parade in Baddest of the Bands, expressing worry and sorrow that the Fun Machine was broken.
- Boxer Joe, as well as some of the snakes he fights, appear again in "8-Bit is Enough" — this time in Free Country, USA.
- In Poker Night at the Inventory, Strong Bad mentions a sequel: Snake Boxer 6: Now The Snakes Have Fists Too.
