I wish this Calvin and Hobbes game really existed.
May 17, 2011 12:21 AM Subscribe
What if Calvin and Hobbes was made into a video game. The blog Pleated-Jeans has created a very realistic mock-up of what that video-game would be like.
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(selflink) Calvin And Hobbes- Here's What Happened
posted by The Whelk at 12:30 AM on May 17, 2011 [9 favorites]
posted by The Whelk at 12:30 AM on May 17, 2011 [9 favorites]
I'm picturing some indie platformer, a cross between A Boy And His Blob and the upcoming The Last Guardian.
posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn at 12:32 AM on May 17, 2011
posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn at 12:32 AM on May 17, 2011
What if I just make a comment without clicking any of the links.
posted by Samuel Farrow at 12:35 AM on May 17, 2011
posted by Samuel Farrow at 12:35 AM on May 17, 2011
Sorry, the heckler link below is really good.
posted by Samuel Farrow at 12:36 AM on May 17, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Samuel Farrow at 12:36 AM on May 17, 2011 [1 favorite]
Original source for Hobbes and Bacon, with a second strip!
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:54 AM on May 17, 2011 [8 favorites]
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:54 AM on May 17, 2011 [8 favorites]
I feel now that the past has done me a wrong in not having made this real.
posted by cmoj at 12:55 AM on May 17, 2011
posted by cmoj at 12:55 AM on May 17, 2011
And now the community blog Plated-Beans will discuss it.
posted by Pruitt-Igoe at 12:57 AM on May 17, 2011
posted by Pruitt-Igoe at 12:57 AM on May 17, 2011
Yeah, a Calvin and Hobbes video game. That would be an example of using your imagination.
You don't need a game system to play "Calvin and Hobbes", you need a cardboard box and an imagination. You supply the imagination.
posted by alex_skazat at 12:59 AM on May 17, 2011 [8 favorites]
You don't need a game system to play "Calvin and Hobbes", you need a cardboard box and an imagination. You supply the imagination.
posted by alex_skazat at 12:59 AM on May 17, 2011 [8 favorites]
Nice idea, and I love Calvin and Hobbes, but this isn't a very good mock-up. The bad mixture of resolutions, aliasing, and palettes with the weird sprite sizes is almost nauseating. And the artist couldn't even be bothered to crop everything properly after pasting in the screenshots from Google Images. Am I really the only one that thinks it looks terrible? Is that the joke? Am I up too late?
posted by MrFTBN at 1:01 AM on May 17, 2011 [9 favorites]
posted by MrFTBN at 1:01 AM on May 17, 2011 [9 favorites]
It would be nearly impossible for a video game to match the quality of Calvin and Hobbes, and I'm glad it has never been tried.
posted by Harpocrates at 1:11 AM on May 17, 2011
posted by Harpocrates at 1:11 AM on May 17, 2011
It would be nearly impossible for a video game to match the quality of Calvin and Hobbes, and I'm glad it has never been tried.
It would be possible, but Electronic Arts ain't gonna do it. Maybe WayForward.
posted by JHarris at 1:20 AM on May 17, 2011
It would be possible, but Electronic Arts ain't gonna do it. Maybe WayForward.
posted by JHarris at 1:20 AM on May 17, 2011
I think we all know that if legal trickery had been used to wrest game rights away from Bill Watterson, the result would have been a lame platformer with repetitive backgrounds, ugly and washed-out art, poor collision detection, unresponsive controls, and Calvin inexplicably armed with a neverending supply of jacks or something, all rushed out for the Christmas season. Watterson knew what he was doing.
posted by No-sword at 1:40 AM on May 17, 2011 [6 favorites]
posted by No-sword at 1:40 AM on May 17, 2011 [6 favorites]
Also, Hobbes does not feature, except at the end where he reveals himself as the final boss. He has kidnapped Susie. Calvin fights Hobbes to rescue her. When he wins, Susie kisses him on the cheek. And he likes it.
That's what a movie-licensed game is like, good friends.
posted by No-sword at 1:52 AM on May 17, 2011 [3 favorites]
That's what a movie-licensed game is like, good friends.
posted by No-sword at 1:52 AM on May 17, 2011 [3 favorites]
I agree with No-sword. This will probably sound a little "get off my lawn," but Calvin and Hobbes doesn't need this kind of merchandisable world-expansion. That's not to say that all fictional universes operate in that way: I think my appreciation of Buffy, Star Wars, Star Trek, Harry Potter, und so weiter, has largely benefited from consuming supplementary or extra-canonical material. But the brilliance of Calvin and Hobbes lies within the circumscribed confines of its panels. I like this mock-up for its creativity (though there'd better be a Tracer Bullet level, goddammit), but it also fills me with a nigh-overwhelming relief that Watterson was so firm about licensing rights.
(In the spirit of full disclosure, I'm a rabid enough C&H fan that I have a tattoo of an image from it, so...yeah.)
posted by myownlostrib at 2:04 AM on May 17, 2011 [1 favorite]
(In the spirit of full disclosure, I'm a rabid enough C&H fan that I have a tattoo of an image from it, so...yeah.)
posted by myownlostrib at 2:04 AM on May 17, 2011 [1 favorite]
You're in an Opposite Zone! Calvin & Hobbes now make you into a video game!
posted by UbuRoivas at 3:25 AM on May 17, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by UbuRoivas at 3:25 AM on May 17, 2011 [1 favorite]
I have anti-opposite zone boots on.
posted by The Whelk at 3:34 AM on May 17, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by The Whelk at 3:34 AM on May 17, 2011 [1 favorite]
Not any more - I just touched you with the shoeless flag!
posted by UbuRoivas at 3:35 AM on May 17, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by UbuRoivas at 3:35 AM on May 17, 2011 [1 favorite]
I have a racing coin! I challenge you! first one to the next tree wins
posted by The Whelk at 3:39 AM on May 17, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by The Whelk at 3:39 AM on May 17, 2011 [1 favorite]
Which tree? This one? ONETWOTHREEFOURIWIN!
posted by Maaik at 3:41 AM on May 17, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Maaik at 3:41 AM on May 17, 2011 [1 favorite]
*knocks The Whelk out with the Calvinball*
on preview: SINGING ZONE!
Other kids' games are all such a bore!
They've gotta have rules and they gotta keep score!
Calvinball is better by far!
It's never the same! It's always bizarre!
You don't need a team or a referee!
You know that it's great, 'cause it's named after me!
Haha - Maaik was too busy singing to reach the tree!
posted by UbuRoivas at 3:44 AM on May 17, 2011 [1 favorite]
on preview: SINGING ZONE!
Other kids' games are all such a bore!
They've gotta have rules and they gotta keep score!
Calvinball is better by far!
It's never the same! It's always bizarre!
You don't need a team or a referee!
You know that it's great, 'cause it's named after me!
Haha - Maaik was too busy singing to reach the tree!
posted by UbuRoivas at 3:44 AM on May 17, 2011 [1 favorite]
I got a double reverse branch! Everyone has to sing and I reach the base before you finish I WIN
posted by The Whelk at 3:51 AM on May 17, 2011
posted by The Whelk at 3:51 AM on May 17, 2011
the base is the cat.
The base is up a tree.
Please advise.
posted by The Whelk at 3:59 AM on May 17, 2011
The base is up a tree.
Please advise.
posted by The Whelk at 3:59 AM on May 17, 2011
WHEEEELK! DINNER TIME!! IT'S GETTING COLD! AND HAVE YOU SEEN THE CAT?
posted by UbuRoivas at 4:31 AM on May 17, 2011
posted by UbuRoivas at 4:31 AM on May 17, 2011
Bacon and Hobbes, and the video game are examples of grown-up professionals using their imaginations to honor an inspiration. As such, they're awesome.
I would be very upset if there was an actual series sequel or video game, tho.
posted by Slap*Happy at 4:55 AM on May 17, 2011
I would be very upset if there was an actual series sequel or video game, tho.
posted by Slap*Happy at 4:55 AM on May 17, 2011
Cute but nothing beats the strips...
posted by Alexandra Kitty at 5:11 AM on May 17, 2011
posted by Alexandra Kitty at 5:11 AM on May 17, 2011
I love you people. We need a biweekly Calvinball thread.
posted by Rock Steady at 5:14 AM on May 17, 2011 [3 favorites]
posted by Rock Steady at 5:14 AM on May 17, 2011 [3 favorites]
You wanna play a Calvin & Hobbes game? This is all you need.
posted by hippybear at 5:20 AM on May 17, 2011 [4 favorites]
posted by hippybear at 5:20 AM on May 17, 2011 [4 favorites]
My childhood was occupied largely by both C&H and Nintendo, and I would have been insulted by this game.
posted by Uther Bentrazor at 5:45 AM on May 17, 2011
posted by Uther Bentrazor at 5:45 AM on May 17, 2011
Despite the fact that I would love to see video game developers attempt to make Calvinball playable on the Nintendo ("Opposite zone!"), I'm glad that Bill Waterson never sold the C&H rights to anybody. Its awesomeness would have been diluted (and my childhood destroyed with it).
posted by hypotheticole at 5:50 AM on May 17, 2011
posted by hypotheticole at 5:50 AM on May 17, 2011
I can't help pointing out the oxymoron in "links to high-res 8-bit images".
posted by supercres at 6:08 AM on May 17, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by supercres at 6:08 AM on May 17, 2011 [1 favorite]
If you haven't read the Whelk's take on the future of Calvin, you really should. It's brilliant.
The only thing that didn't quite work for me was the "long and pale" part, but that's just because I remember Calvin as a short kid whose shorts reached the top of his socks.
And he could have had a growth spurt.
posted by misha at 6:23 AM on May 17, 2011
The only thing that didn't quite work for me was the "long and pale" part, but that's just because I remember Calvin as a short kid whose shorts reached the top of his socks.
And he could have had a growth spurt.
posted by misha at 6:23 AM on May 17, 2011
A platformer?
An adventure game or an RPG (Earthbound-esque RPG?) would work better.
posted by FJT at 6:26 AM on May 17, 2011 [2 favorites]
An adventure game or an RPG (Earthbound-esque RPG?) would work better.
posted by FJT at 6:26 AM on May 17, 2011 [2 favorites]
I remember Calvin as a short kid whose shorts reached the top of his socks.
SHORT PANTS TOUCH MY FEET, OKAY?
posted by shakespeherian at 6:30 AM on May 17, 2011 [2 favorites]
SHORT PANTS TOUCH MY FEET, OKAY?
posted by shakespeherian at 6:30 AM on May 17, 2011 [2 favorites]
It's somehow appropriate that this depiction of Calvin gives him Mega Man's face.
posted by AugieAugustus at 6:40 AM on May 17, 2011
posted by AugieAugustus at 6:40 AM on May 17, 2011
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okay I still would
posted by Stunt at 12:23 AM on May 17, 2011 [1 favorite]