May-20-2011, 11:58 AM (UTC)
(This post was last modified: May-20-2011, 12:09 PM (UTC) by 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...
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...
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