Jonah Has Played the First Strong Bad Game for the Nintendo Wii!

Ladies, form a line to the right for Make Outs. Dudes, form a line to the left for high fives. "Homestar Runner", the first of five monthly Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People episodes, is here! "Homestar Runner" is available on Nintendo's WiiWare download service in North and South America and worldwide on PC. WiiWare availability for Europe, Australia and New Zealand will follow shortly. Finally you can control Strong Bad of Homestar Runner fame! We’ll I suppose it’s more of a suggestion. No one really controls Strong Bad. He is his own man after all.

In the season premiere, Strong Bad's plans to beat the snot out of Homestar Runner backfire, and he ends up with an unwanted houseguest cramping his style. Strong Bad must get life back to normal, by any means possible. As Strong Bad, you don’t just check e-mail. You quest. You earn unlockables. You annoy Strong Sad! Comical point-and-click gameplay progresses the story, with side quests, mini games, achievements, and an "extended play" sandbox mode that unlocks after the story is complete. While you never get to actually pummel Homestar, you do get to pummel snakes in SNAKEBOXER (from videlectrix), use your metal detector, and torment the Cheat—who remains “not dead”.

The game does a fantastic job of capturing the essence of the popular website. The jokes are chortle funny, and the quotes bear repeating. But more, the gameplay is incredibly engrossing. The environments are as interactive, just as fans of the site are used to. And the addition of typical videogame aspects is brilliant. Unlockable outfits let you got to the photo-booth for example. And all the while, Stong Bad’s banter continues hilariously.

New Strong Bad episodes can be downloaded from the Wii Shop Channel each month for 1000 Wii Points. Using the WiiConnect24 technology by allows players to send Strong Bad-themed emails to Wii friends directly from the in game Lappy. Photos taken using the camera feature can be attached to emails, allowing players to show off Easter eggs uncovered or hidden costumes collected during the game. There is just so much content!

Downloadable versions of each Strong Bad episode will also be available for the PC exclusively from Telltale's website: www.telltalegames.com/strongbad

Episodes can be purchased individually for $8.95 or as part of a five-episode subscription for $34.95. As with Telltale's popular Sam & Max series, customers who purchase the full series from Telltale will later be eligible to get a disc version for the cost of shipping and handling.

According to Telltale, future games will focus on topics from political struggles to rock’n roll to the world of videogames (of course), with the season finale coming in December. Many fan favorite characters from Free Country USA will appear in each episode, along with special new super 8-bit style mini-games from Videlectrix. (My favorite still.) And with as much as you CAN do with this game, the plan is to increase the depth of interactivity with characters and the environment with each episode. Politics? Rock? Burninating!!!!! I can’t wait to own them all!

But don’t take my word for it, the good folks at Telltale have offered this link to the demo version you can try for yourself.

http://www.telltalegames.com/demo/homestarruiner

Now, if you will excuse me, I must go check da e-mail, da e-mail….