Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Top ten strange licensed products

9.

Home Improvement ... the Video game.

I have already written on this site about Home Improvement and the psychotic Tim the tool man Taylor (nickname fits) But after I heard about this game I have to write about him yet again. In 1994 A Home Improvement video game was released for the SNES.

The plot of the game is that Tim has to find some Binford power tools that seem to have gone missing from the set of Tool Time (most likely the fault of that dumbass Tim). Time looks for the tools and fights Mummies and Dinosaurs along the way WTF?
Yes The guy from the family sitcom fights Mummies and Dinosaurs. And to sum the game and the show up the game itself had no manual at all. It's splash screen just explains “Real men don’t need instructions.” ugg.

Looking back at the 16 bit era this game based on a sitcom is kind of a outlier (not Malcolm Gladwell), after all they never made a video game of Dannt Tanner or Al Bundy fighting Zombies.

7 comments:

  1. Are you going to review the 7-UP Spot NES game?

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  2. I didn't even know they had a game for this show. I think I watched this show once or twice. Didn't see what the big deal was. Never thought it was funny. I am shocked there was a game for this show. CRAZZZZYYYYY! I would rather watch paint dry!

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  3. I may talk about the Spot game but that is kind of well known and I may want to go even more obscure than that.

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  4. They should make a game about watching paint dry.

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  5. They did. It was called WWF King of the Ring for the NES.

    Or WWF WrestleMania.

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  6. I actually owned this game ,might still have it. Bought it when the local video stores where blowing out all the SNES and Genesis games for $2 a pop.I would buy any game that i didnt already own. Shit i ever bought the Wayne's world game.

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