For years when people have talked about the best point-and-click adventure games people have talked about various monkey island iterations. Unfortunately they were more or less before my time. Grim Fandango I remember fondly. But it was not the first one I recall playing.
Whenever discussions like this would come up I would struggle to remember the name of the first one I played. The best way I could think to describe it was:
"A live-action guy in a cartoon world. There's some dark stuff on and you have to clean it up and make it bright and cheery again."
But I never ever remembered the name.
Then, when such a discussion game up in the #destructoid IRC, this happened:
Hit me like a fucking brick.
Because I had no idea what it was called I never had any luck googling for it. But now I can find images with ease.
My family were (and still are) fairly archaic when I was playing this game. As such I played it round my friend's dad's house. And it was good.
Hey, any game in which the main protagonists are mother fuckin' Christopher Lloyd (Doc Brown) and Dan Castellaneta (simpsons) HAS to be good. Fact.
Every so often there'll be a 'games that time forgot' post on the front page and I'll get hit with a similar feeling of nostalgia. but not like this time. I had be actively wanting to remember it for a long time and pretty much expected to be struggling with it for a longer time. I honestly thought that I was one of a few people that seemed to have played it. Then out of the blue comes Prof. Pew. Him and his LOST loving ways.
Anyway. Have any of you had a similar experience. Better yet, are you still struggling to remember a game? Perhaps we can help each other out and ease some frazzled brains.
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I LOVED THIS GAME SO MUCH
I remember the opening bit where Christopher Lloyd gets sucked into the cartoon through the paper
and he meets the weird ass purple dog thing
ANother thing thats awesome about Toonstruck is that when somebody asks me: "Whats the game with the best german synchronization?" Toonstruck is the first game I can think off.
I remember that you have to collect all kinds of items through the game to complete some kind of spaceship that is the counterpart of the bad guys space ship and for each item the bad guy had put on his spaceship you had to put the exact opposite of it on your space ship (for example he has salt you needed sugar). At my age I didnt get this principle at all and always had to refer to a walkthrough at that part.
The thing I liked and still like most about the game is its strange, sometimes even black humor and all its puns (the main protagonist who is a toon artist was even called "Mal Block" in German which translated means something like "Drawing Book", of course this doesnt make any sence at all in english, but in german its hilarious.
I need to reinstall it sometime if Im able to finde the cds. Searching for this game on the internet would be a pain in the ass.
Theres only one problem when you play it in xp. The part where you are at a machine and icons are scrolling from the top to the bottom very fast. If I recall correctly theres some kind of software that intentionally slows down your pc for things like this.
I only wish theyd made the sequel. The main problem that made Toonstruck sell so bad was that the game was too "brutal" for children and too childish for adults.
Everyone who hasnt played it: What are you waiting for?
This Toonstruck game looks alright though. I really like the art style.
Play it using DOSBox, you can slow down the CPU cycles until that part of the game is playable.
I originally thought it could have been Legend of the Mystical Ninja(Ganbare Goemon) but that was for the SNES, but I think it was similar to that game.
@Half Left It might be generic but it's one of my find video game memories as a kid. :)
I never got very far, I was shit at games when I was a kid.