The grand videogame thread

[Albertosaurus Rex]

Now this is the most bizarre thing I've come across in a long time...

Back when I was a kid I played the game Oscar a lot. It was an unremarkable but challenging game with nice, colorful graphics.

I recently discovered that a sequel called Oscar in Toyland for the DSi came out last year. That news left me totally falbbergasted. Why would anyone bother to make a sequel to a totally obscure game that came out... wait for it... seventeen years ago?

The answer: they wouldn't. Back in 1993, Flair software made two games: Oscar and the more popular Trolls, based on those Troll dolls with the brightly colored hair. (Anyone remember those? I do.) Somebody decided to port Trolls to the DSi, but decided that the Trolls had lost their marketability and, apparently too lazy to come up with a new protagonist themselves, just stuck Oscar in the game. And so a sequel was born. And now there's an Oscar in Toyland 2 coming up, I'm not kidding.

(By the way... "The new kid on the block"? I don't think so...)

EDIT: Apparently, Oscar in Toyland 2 has already been released a few months ago. I don't know if they made original levels this time or got "inspiration" from somewhere else, but do note that they haven't used the levels from the original game so far...