Monty Python To Celebrate 40th Birthday With Mini-Games?

[Earnest Cavalli]

Monty Python To Celebrate 40th Birthday With Mini-Games?

What's the best way to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the most influential comedy troupe of all time? If you said "gimmicky mini-games," you're sadly correct.

PPC Enterprises, the licensing firm who holds the rights to Python, has begun shopping the IP around with the express purpose of turning the group's madcap hijinks into a collection of "digital mini-games," according to MCV [http://www.mcvuk.com/news/35957/Monty-Python-licence-up-for-grabs].

One can be forgiven for automatically assuming any such collection would be a cheap cash-in designed to suck money from fans who still revere Python. Games based on the group's films and comedy bits have been released before, and without exception have all been terrible at best.

What makes this even more worrying is that Python's fortieth anniversary is this year. Even if PPC was able to strike a deal to have these mini-games made right this very second, that would leave almost no time to craft a compelling game. The best they, and Python's fans, can hope for is a bunch of sound clips and Terry Gilliam animations spliced together and regurgitated onto the bargain bins.

Sadly, that would still probably sell well enough to justify the expense.

(Image [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flyingcircus_2.jpg])

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[TheNumber1Zero]

Crap. Just Crap man.

 

[A Weary Exile]

Ahhh....and I was hoping for a funny game.

 

[Megacherv]

That's weird. Saw this whilst listening to the Penis Song

 

[coldfrog]

There were Monty Python games in the past too, and weren't they basically what you've described? They didn't sound interesting at all to me and neither does this. I am saddened.

 

[Low Key]

I remember playing a Monty Python game on my dad's Windows 3.1 computer. It was a very strange game, especially for a kid who was no older than 5 years old. Gimmicky or not, I'd probably give them a look if they are free to play online (with tons of ads obviously).

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

Nooo! Don't reduce the Python's to that level! Argh, bloody money grabbers.

 

[Arbitrary Cidin]

I hope it's an RPG! I wanna put all my points into defending against fresh fruit. That, or the how not to be seen stat.

 

[DJPirtu]

I remember playing a Monty Python game on my dad's Windows 3.1 computer. It was a very strange game, especially for a kid who was no older than 5 years old.

Might have been the aptly named Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time.
I also seem to recall a Monty Python and the Holy Grail themed game.

 

[Low Key]

I remember playing a Monty Python game on my dad's Windows 3.1 computer. It was a very strange game, especially for a kid who was no older than 5 years old.

Might have been the aptly named Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time.
I also seem to recall a Monty Python and the Holy Grail themed game.

Nah, it was Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Computer Game. It came with a book of cheeses and you had to match the cheese that popped up on screen with one that was in the book before it would let you play. I guess it was their take on preventing piracy.

 

[brewbeard]

There was a Holy Grail game. It played like a pseudo point-and-click adventure game with little sound bytes and movie clips secreted away throughout. It also played host to several mini-games, but the only one I really enjoyed was Bring Out Your Dead, which was a Tetris clone where bodies in the shape of the traditional blocks fell moaning from the sky. There was also a Simon style Burn the Witch and a Black Knight Fight clickfest. I think Spank the Virgin was the other mini-game. I'll let you use your imagination on that one.