When did you first learn about Wallace & Gromit?
Emily
Telltale Alumni
I'll admit I didn't know much about them until Telltale started working on this game, although strangely enough in college I lived in an apartment that had two W&G magnets on the fridge when we moved in. (My roommate was like, "You've never heard of Feathers McGraw?!")
Since the games will be coming out pretty soon, I'm curious, when did you first start watching Wallace & Gromit? Are you an old pro or a newbie?
Since the games will be coming out pretty soon, I'm curious, when did you first start watching Wallace & Gromit? Are you an old pro or a newbie?
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I cant remember much but one thing I remember pefectly was
Yeah, same for me. I know my nieces had a copy of Curse of the Were-Rabbit at some point, but didn't actually see it myself.
I actually watched the first three shorts in 1996 or 1997. I'm not sure, but I know my parents taped The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave, and I watched them over and over. In 1997 we had a program called Wallace & Gromit Fun Pack. It had a trivia game, some wallpapers, screen savers, clips and sound bites, a game where you play as Gromit washing windows, and a game where you play as Gromit in the railroad tracks scene at the climax of The Wrong Trousers.
I outfitted the computer with some of the sound bites, so that when a window was maximised the line "We're at maximum speed" played, when there was an error message it was "Daddy didn't create you for this!", when a program was started it was "Right, off we go then", and when starting up it was "Windows are my speciality."
With the train game, Wallace's lines during the scene it's based on were played at the start of every level, so that when I actually watched the scene again recently everything Wallace said sounded like background noise.
I played the window washing game a lot. The thing I remember the most is Wallace saying "the bounce has gone from his bungee" a lot. Probably when I lost.
Basically I breathed Wallace & Gromit for a while. When Curse of the Were Rabbit came out much later, I went to see it and really enjoyed it. I giggled for an embarrassingly long time when Hutch said "The bounce has gone from his bungee" because I was still so familiar with the line.
And that was me rambling in an attempt to cover up the fact that I don't know when I first heard about Wallace & Gromit.
When The Curse of Were-Rabbit came out, I rented the rest short films from Netflix and watch all the web-shorts online. Of course, I also rented Chicken Run and Flushed Away, and only one of it is crap.
If the most recent version I played is any indication, then you'll be a happy man.
Indeed. Shaun from QA is all over the game.
Yay!
*Yes, I actually talk like that.
I remember asking: "Dad, what does "program in" mean?" (From the wrong trousers)
Then I bought the VHS copy of it in the store, and the movie when it came out.
And I will no-doubt buy the game for Wii. (or, if its PC only, Crossover Games)
Now I can't wait to have news of the game and I may venture into illegal territory if there is no news on when we'll be able to see the new short in Canada.
P. much this.
Except for that last part...
I'm actually in disbelief that some have not heard of these adventures from before curse of the were-rabbit.
That's like, not knowing Mario!
yeaaaaaaaaah....no.
I would, but it looks like it may not be compatible w/ CrossOver. Strong Bad was not, so I wouldn't bet it will.
I was playing that Wallace & Gromit: Project Zoo game for the GameCube, and I was in an underground cavern filled with lava. I was playing as the only playable character, Gromit, and I walked over to a machine that needed fixing, so I called in Wallace. He wasn't walking over. So I called again. Nothing. I went over to see what was happening, and when I saw, I just started cracking up.
He had sank up to his shoulders into the lava.
He wasn't even fazed. He was just saying the same usual things he says whenever he's walking over. I was laughing so hard I couldn't get angry.
Same here!
I think I'd probably seen all the shorts before then though. I can't remember a time when I didn't know about Wallace & Gromit.
Hmmm..... yes.
Same thing happened to me too, but I'm pretty sure that, like what KayJay said, I'd already seen all the shorts, but I'm almost positive that the rest of my class had never seen nor heard of them before this. The only exception is that my class didn't watch the Wrong Trousers. I believe we watched A Grand Day Out.
I played Dangeresque with Crossover... At least I think it was Crossover. One of the OS X virtualization apps played it properly. It was one of the Wine based ones, which dropped the game into its own self contained .app file and everything. Worked like a charm on my friend's MacBook Pro.
... although you never know.
If, by any chance, he does get consumed with lava, would he still be acting as he would normally?
I need to see if I can get my hands on Project Zoo next.
I'd only ever seen video games of the characters up to that point. The games charmed me with their focus on over-the-top Goldberg-esque contraptions.
Curse of the Were-Rabbit is what introduced me to the rest of the toons. I've always been a big fan of stop-motion animation. Everything about it, from hand-crafted scenery to the slight jerkiness in the character's movements from capturing the tiny bits of change between hand-manipulated frames just makes me smile.
I hope that the animation guys can make it look somewhat like a stop-motion film.
A Grand Day Out is actually my favorite.