Should I pick up Strongbad or Star Parodier?

By Spencer . August 11, 2008 . 7:03am

Ys Books I & II is nowhere to be found, but this week’s WiiWare / Virtual Console update is solid without it. Telltale Games brings Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner. The 1,000 Wii Points ($10) episode has Strong Bad dress up in a Homestar Runner costume as part of the adventure portion. Strong Bad will have a five episode run on WiiWare and PCs. The games are essentially the same except the WiiWare version supports photo sharing where you can e-mail pictures to your friends using Strong Bad’s computer.

Two TurboGrafx-16 imports compliment Strong Bad. Break In, a pool game from the creators of Alien Crush, and Star Parodier, the Paridous of the Star Solider series. In the game you get to control Bomberman and a mega sized PC-Engine. Break In is 700 Wii Points ($7) and Star Parodier is 900 Wii Points ($9). Even with the $1 Virtual Console import tax Star Parodier is still substantially cheaper as a digital download that searching for a copy on eBay.

Images courtesy of Telltale Games.

TAGS: Hudson, Telltale, Virtual Console, Wii, WiiWare

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James

Pretty sure you cn take pictures and send them in the PC version aswell.

I'd get strongbad, it's a new game and a wiiware title actually worth getting which hasn't happened in a while.

Spencer

@James - You can and the photos are saved to the My Documents folder. However, in the WiiWare version you get to use Strong Bad's lappy.

James

Ahhh right :)

Reixn1770

Cool, but where the hell are the SNES, N64 or at least NES games on the Wii?

TreeFrog

If you want Star Parodier, there is another option: Hudsons forthcoming PSP collection: http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-9f-49-en-15... which looks quite nice.

Spencer

@Treefrog - Well aware of that. Actually, we broke the fact that the Soldier collection existed before Hudson announced it:
http://www.siliconera.com/2008/06/27/star-solid...