Toonstruck

The Fluffy Fluffy Bun Bun Show needs more cute cartoon characters, and animator Drew Blanc is the guy who has to come up with them... by tomorrow morning! Working through the night, his TV suddenly starts acting up and he's sucked into a world filled with toons! Or maybe it's just a dream, who can tell? Either way, Drew is now stuck between a host of different zany cartoon characters as he tries to get back home somehow. That's the premise for Toonstruck (1996, Burst Entertainment / Virgin Interactive), starring "Doc Brown" from Back to the Future, Chris Lloyd. He's joined by an all-star cast of famous voice actors, including Tim Curry, Dom DeLuise, the list goes on. This game is a huge production, but is it any good? Let's find out!

Hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") are joined by three guests on this episode. First of all we have returning member Lars ("fastwinstondoom"), who not only has been on many episodes before, but who also suggested we play this game! We're also joined by Daniel ("ainmosni"), who's brand new to the show and only has been a member for a couple of months after he found us through our Mastodon instance. And last but not least we have Ben ("ps_garak"), who previously joined us for Discworld. He streams adventure games on Twitch and is one of the hosts of Quest Quest, a podcast about adventure games.

We also received a voice message from DGC member Watchful, which we are very thankful for. If you also want to contribute a voice message for a future episode, please email it to club@dosgameclub.com

[ download mp3 ] (133 mins, 153 MB)

Thanks to our producer Pix for helping to make the podcast happen, and thanks to DGC member Console for editing the audio.

Thanks to all who make this show possible, we couldn't do this without you!

RELEVANT LINKS:

* Ben's Twitch channel

* Quest Quest, the adventure game podcast hosted by Ben and Jess (who was on our Space Quest episode)

* Advertisement for Toonstruck which focuses on the kinky cow scene, from Computer Gaming World issue #142, May 1996

* Great article about Toonstruck on the Digital Antiquarian by Jimmy Maher (who was on our episode about Planetfall not so long ago)

* While searching for audio clips, we found this great resource of unused media found on the Toonstruck disc

* Thread on our own forums about how to get subtitles in the cutscenes when playing in ScummVM

* And speaking of our forums, as always Pix has scanned in some magazine reviews for us

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