…Scored to the Robocop theme song, with all the sprites replaced by copyright-infringing mascots.
Basically, after we finished the “real” version of Runner — a version considerably more mopey and ex-girlfriend-filled than this one — Jon said he wanted to make a joke version with funny sprites. We didn’t really have an excuse until Bit.Trip Runner was announced.
Long story short, we thought it’d be funny to fabricate some lawsuit with Gaijin to (A) give us an excuse to post about their game every once in a while, because we like those guys a lot and (B) give Jon an excuse to make the silly version of Runner under the wait-that-makes-no-sense pretense of copyright infringement. Most people either didn’t like or didn’t get the joke, so it was kind of a failure in that respect, but whatever — we got to put Robocop’s head on my body. I call that a win.
Weirdly, the music in this version syncs up with the action WAY better than it did in the original game. Like, eerily so.
For some reason, that reminded me of the old Robocod game I had on the Atari. Probably because Robocod featured corporate shenanigans in the form of entire levels being made out of large popular chocolate biscuits.
But mainly, it was the song I was thinking of, and how it kind of suited NuRunner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRuttLbPFZ0
I was reading the fun legal letters about the fake lawsuit Gaijin, and came back here. I re-read my comment and noticed something.
“Day?”
“Hmm?”
“You realise that reads like you were unaware the Robocod theme is the Robocop theme done silly.”
“Shit.”
I apologise.