Older Newer
Sun, 11 Jul 2004 22:32:33 . . . . codeman38 [spelling correction; composer of Rad Racer theme]


Changes by last author:

Added:
== Easter Eggs ==
*At the very end you can click on the words, "Japanese Cartoons" and see "Stinkoman K 20X6" in action.
*At the end of "Stinkoman K 20X6" you can click on "Japanese Cartoons" again to see Homestar watching it and singing along to the theme song.
*While or after Homestar is watching the intro to Stinkoman, you can click on the "NES Endings" video tape to see various ending to NES games.
*Once the NES Endings window opens you can click on it to show more.

== Fun Facts ==
The endings for the Nintendo games are as follows:
#Rad Racer (Rad Racer is also the source of the Stinkoman theme song)
#Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest (Normal Ending)
#Megaman 2
#Super Mario Bros. 2 (Super Mario USA in Japan)
#Arch Rivals: A Basket Brawl!
#Ghosts N' Goblins (Good Ending)
#Blaster Master
#The Legend of Zelda (First Quest)
#Metroid (1-3 Hours Finishing Time)
#Jackal
#Rygar

*In the third slide of the "credits", you can see a parody of Vegeta, all Strong Bad'd up.

According to Strong Bad, the steps to making a cartoon character into a japanese cartoon character are:
#Make the head a little bean
#Have real-real big eyes
#Get rid of the thumbs
#Make it all shiny
#The shoes would be a whole lot cooler, like robot boots
#And for some reason, they'd have blue hair. You gotta have blue hair!
#Then there's the mouth. Real-real small when closed, ridiculously huge when open
#Then you just put them in space and have them fly around in cool poses

*This is one of two StrongBadEmails in which the paper doesn't come down. The other is StrongBadEmail/superhero name.

*For some reason, when Stinkoman is running on Homestar's TeeBee, he will stop running in mid pose at one point.

*The name Stinkoman is a reference to StrongBadEmail/island. Homestar suddenly calls Strong Bad "Stinkoman."

*20x6 is actually a reference to the first Metroid game, which is set in the year 20x5.

*The spaceship looks a lot like [this] spaceship from the videogame Galaxy 5000

*The credits for Stinkoman K are lifted from The Legend of Zelda for NES.

*The theme music is lifted directly from [Rad Racer], an old NES game. Rad Racer's music was composed by Nobuo Uematsu, who, of course, would later go on to become famous for his Final Fantasy soundtracks.

*At the begining of the email, Strong Bad recites a Haiku, which is very fitting:
**So cool an email
**I thought you would enjoy it
**Ding dong Dear Strong Bad