The not-so secret Nintendo origins of Strong Bad

[@elfiebranford9330]

Famicom Dojo and Homestar Runner ... Two things that fill my nostalgic little heart with joy ;;w;; I had no idea this is where the idea came from!! I always assumed that it was to rhyme with Strong Dad, and that's how we got Strong Bad, Strong Sad, and Strong Mad. I still like to believe that Strong Bad's face is actually just the Kenyan flag x3

[@SeanOrange]

I thought his head was just an electronic keyboard that played the demo when he got mad.

[@elfiebranford9330]

@@SeanOrange You've got a point there, actually!!

[@omikronweapon]

Strong Bad was in Guitar Hero 2, at least his voice was. Trogdor is playable as a bonus song.

[@FamicomDojo]

Ooooh, good callout!!

[@ruffamaryders]

I always enjoy this channel. I dont understand why they dont have more subscribers

[@FamicomVinnk]

Maybe we are not young enough? I mean young people have a lot more time to make content and engage in social media. We are both dads with non KZbin jobs. I really feel that had youtube been around a few years earlier Sean and I could have (maybe) become big. As it is though we are happy to continue making it for the people who have discovered us. Spread the word.

[@elfiebranford9330]

@@FamicomVinnk I gotta admit, I think that just shows how passionate you two are with Famicom Dojo. Even with other stuff in your lives, and busy lives to boot, you guys still love making these classic videos. It really is the epitome of doing what you love because you want to rather than have to!! Famicom Dojo always holds a special place in my heart, and while I'd love to see you guys grow, the small, humble community is something I appreciate and treasure. Keep staying awesome, guys~!!

[@chadwolf3840]

man i love your channel. so addicting and very criminally underrated.

[@FamicomVinnk]

Thanks man! We appreciate the feedback. We have been doing this for years but the KZbin gods have never been on our side.

[@FamicomDojo]

Thank you! We just gotta remind people every once in a while that we exist, snd maybe the rest will take care of itself!

[@becketclark9942]

This is a really great vid, y'all have great chemistry, editing and writing. It seems like you had a lot of fun making it too - plus this is the first I've heard of this homestar runner lore!

[@FamicomDojo]

There’s been a version of this script bumping around since we started; it’s nearly criminal that we didn’t get to it sooner, but it really lined up with the theme of the season.

[@TBustah]

I bought a copy of the game for this very reason. I’m a big fan, I even made it into one of the costume slideshows.

[@SeanOrange]

COOL, what year, and which one was yours?

[@TBustah]

@@SeanOrange 2009, Pistols for Pandas. They were incentivizing costumes that year by offering a $20 gift certificate to their store, so I tried to keep mine cheap to see if I could turn a profit of sorts. It was just a baseball shirt, a sawed-off cap gun, a balaclava, and a mask I made by gluing a printout of the logo onto some cardboard. I didn't win anything, but it was good enough to make the video without catching any lip from Strong Bad. hrwiki.org/wiki/User:TBustah homestarrunner.com/costumes2009.html

[@Sarumaru]

That's so cool! I loved Homestar Runner and had no idea of this. Really funny vid too fellas 😆

[@FamicomVinnk]

Thanks so much. Warms my heart to see people like it.

[@ebbhead]

More great stuff here, guys! Thanks for the new content!

[@imojado7294]

Saw this being advertised. It takes me back to when youtube was not a corporation and all money based.... Good content. I was not disappointed

[@FamicomDojo]

Thank you. Once upon a time KZbin gleefully recommended our videos and most of our subscribers were notified to watch them. Now we have to pay to get it in front of a fraction of those same eyeballs.

[@imojado7294]

@@FamicomDojo Unbelievable, yet believable. Money runs this company and its a shame.

[@-Chrome-]

Why is HomeStar Runner coming back to relevance?

[@CommodoreFan64]

Yeah seems over the past few days YT has been pushing HomeStar Runner videos into my feed. 🤔

[@battra92]

Probably because Flash has like a month left of support and there's a mad rush to archive everything.

[@CommodoreFan64]

@@battra92True that, but there are some open source alternatives like LightSpark, and GNU Flash.

[@FamicomVinnk]

@@CommodoreFan64 Yeah but only diehards will take the trouble to use them.

[@CommodoreFan64]

@@FamicomVinnk Maybe so, but I'm just happy they exist.

[@magyarbluey4670]

00:43 hahah

[@robynb1125]

There was also the music from the Stinkoman “game” that was originally from Rad Racer!

[@durstein]

The winner is me!!

[@JerryTerrifying]

I just discovered this a few weeks ago.

[@1secondarysmile]

I love Homestar Runner and this series and I am surprised that Famicom Dojo would make a video about good ol’ Homestar.

[@FamicomDojo]

It’s fair to say that Homestar Runner help mold our sense of humor, and/or gave the false impression that just anyone could “make it” on the internet.

[@Waifu4Life]

Either Sean got a haircut and is using "Just for Men", or this is an old video that was never uploaded.

[@FamicomVinnk]

All the videos are a process. Some parts of this were recorded months ago. My parts were recorded in November. It was written several years ago.

[@Waifu4Life]

@@FamicomVinnk Well that explains it.

[@magyarbluey4670]

Hell yeah Famicom dojo

[@only1gameguru]

Vinnk found the third best console ever... I love me some Saturn

[@FamicomVinnk]

As do I.

[@bicuspidfish]

This is quality entertainment right here.

[@bluekewne]

Strong Bad's Game For Attractive People is on Steam & goes on sale during the Summer/Fall/Winter/whenever sales (& is Steam Deck compatible)

[@FamicomDojo]

There was that scary time where TellTale ent under and all the purchase games disappeared from Steam. The digital apocalypse is real!

[@ViewpointProd]

I'd suggest when filming a CRT, when editing use a noise removal tool, as the high pitch tone is a little annoying, and since the sound kind of moves around from left to right, duplicating the tone to make it stereo, so it isnt moving around so much, and mixing it down.

[@FamicomDojo]

Wow, we’re sorry this is such a problem. We’ll see what we can do in the future; our best bet might be to use microphones that cut out those frequencies, because we don’t have editing tools that are this sophisticated.

[@sw3dishla8rat]

The strong bads I thought that name sounded familiar!...An hey you don't have to work so hard to beat Nintendo wrestling!, back in the day you just took your nes advantage controller, turn the rapid fire dial all the way up and lock arms with the other wrestlers,,,going straight to the Great puma

[@FamicomVinnk]

I think I remember that trick!

[@av1869]

lol love the fact that mostly only 30year olds will get it..soo good!!

[@FamicomDojo]

Or in our case, two 40 year olds!

[@elfiebranford9330]

21 year old here, and I feel proud that I got this lol xD

[@WesleyWhiteside]

Things about to go crazy go nuts

[@SlyHikari03]

Homestar runner! That webseries was pretty good. Also, I knew about the Mario paint thing,

[@TheUncommonValley]

I'd be embarrassed to admit this: I never watched a single Homestar Runner video when it first came out. I heard everyone talk about it when it first came out, but never got around to watching any videos.

[@FamicomDojo]

That’s alright! They’re all on KZbin now; have you tried checking any of them out?

[@TheUncommonValley]

@@FamicomDojo Not yet, I'm so behind on a lot of content that it's hard for me to keep up at times. But will eventually. :)

[@screwthenet]

Just think about it like this: Just like a human generation is a good 20 years, once a game or system is 20 years or older....its old school/ retro. If its near or over 40 years old... "classic" but obviously far removed from anything close to modern standards. ANd the vidja games like the early arcades that are 60 years or older...ANCIENT And AWESOME :P

[@FamicomDojo]

Famicom Dojo: Ancient and AWESOME

[@mechamind90]

Twees it out, Sean! Twees it out!

[@PurpleChevron]

There are dorks. There are geeks. There are nerds. And then there are whatever these guys are.

[@FamicomDojo]

Yep, we are unique alright.

[@battra92]

Tag Team Wrestling is a strange game. You hit the punch button then mash the other button to select your move. I played the ever living snot out of it as a kid. I thought it was sooo gooood but everyone else said it was no good.

[@FamicomVinnk]

I also had it as a kid and always enjoyed it.

[@battra92]

@@FamicomVinnk the audio samples always struck me as being quite good. Hearing the ref count to three was cool.

[@thesxex]

dojo is short for dosk jockey

[@SeanOrange]

That is galaxy brain

[@wayn0r]

All masked wrestlers aren’t “Lucha Libre” luchadores.

[@FamicomDojo]

That's fair!

[@SoraHjort]

Sean, something to look into for future videos is high pitch frequencies. It might have been the TV, or something else. But your audio (and not Vink's) had a high pitched screech. If you can't hear it, you might beable to see it on an audio graph, and then... what's the word i'm looking.... basically trimming that frequency range out of the audio track.

[@SoraHjort]

ow ow ow.. it got worse during the Pro Wrestling "Transformation" sequence. Edit: and remained pretty bad through the rest of the video till the bloopers. =\

[@mattwynnyk5739]

Still n o avgn but good

[@Tailikku1]

I was the first to like it

[@FamicomVinnk]

And I was the first to like your comment :)

[@tomwaters5090]

I am really disappointed because I can't watch anymore of this bad acting because you I have a lot of great information in your video it's just presented in such a cringe-worthy way that it makes the video not fun to watch. So disappointed that you put the information in this way because I really would have liked to watch the rest of the video and seeing what you guys had to say if you were actually talking about it as yourselves and not trying to act which you can't do. I've never been more disappointed in a video in my life.

[@omikronweapon]

yeah, I can't stand this bad acting/deliberately cringe style very well either. Making good AVGN-esque videos takes more than just giving it the old college try. Most guys are probably better off just playing it straight. But even that isn't as easy as just talking. People don't realise that dudes like James Rolfe are actually trained in filmmaking and doing voiceovers. Maybe's there plenty of people that enjoy this level of campyness, but I'm not one of them.