Perfect Strangers Game is Perfectly Strange

Mike Kayatta

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Perfect Strangers Game is Perfectly Strange



Cousin! Achieve your dreams with this free-to-play game!

Did you actually think that your life-long goal of someday ruling the moon with an iron fist would never come to sweet, tyrannical fruition? Don't be ridiculous! That dream, and dozens of others can now all come true with the help of just one powerfully inspirational game that dares its users to embrace the motto "Nothing's gonna stop me now!" while jumping after stars in a bizarre, literal word-for-word graphical depiction of the theme song to 1980s hit sitcom comedy show, Perfect Strangers.

Many of you may be too young, too hip, or frankly too cultured to remember (or want to remember) when a young man from Mypos by the name of Balki first showed up on his cousin's Chicago doorstep back in 1986. For seven years, American cablites tuned in for what, in today's terms, would probably be summed up best as Borat meets The Real World. What's best about this game, however, (other than the fact that it's actually official and not ironically fan-made) is that you need exactly zero familiarity of the show upon which its based to appreciate and/or enjoy it. In fact, it might be all the funnier that way.

The game is simple and short; players type in their dream and, with the help of some inspirational song lyrics, fight to run toward the bright horizon of their possibilities for about one minute and nine seconds. For every star you miss, part of your goal will become jumbled at the end. So, do a good job, otherwise your dream may become: "I want to rhde a comet bexng pullad by a velodiraptor."

So, if you'd like to join a long, celebrated line of prestigious dreamers that currently includes such visionary idealists as www.nothingsgonnastopmenow.com [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Hd3uWKFKY&feature=related#t=00m55s] and get jumping! Remember, people, a hostile military moon-coup is only fifty stars away if you believe it is!

Will you win, and become so happy that you perform the Myponian Dance of Joy? I'm counting on you.

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Dastardly

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Cou-sin... Lar-ry... App-li-ton...

And after that show, the next time anyone heard from Bronson Pinchot was, what, The Langoliers? Now I'm just waiting for the Small Wonder game...
 

Mike Kayatta

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MattAn24 said:
Aaaand the link leads to site that's been suspended. Well played!
You may want to try again. All of the links are working fine over here. :)
 

Susan Arendt

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Dastardly said:
Cou-sin... Lar-ry... App-li-ton...

And after that show, the next time anyone heard from Bronson Pinchot was, what, The Langoliers? Now I'm just waiting for the Small Wonder game...
I actually looked it up, and dude's been working pretty steadily ever since the show ended. Cousin Larry, on the other hand, not so much.
 

MattAn24

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Mike Kayatta said:
MattAn24 said:
Aaaand the link leads to site that's been suspended. Well played!
You may want to try again. All of the links are working fine over here. :)
Nope :( Still borked! D:

Not blaming you guys, by the way! Just thought I'd query it :p
 

Lucem712

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I'm also encountering the suspended issue, I'm at Uni right now so I'm wondering if it's IE. I'll have to try again when I get home :(
 

VonKlaw

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I'll third not being able to see it - leads to some "PowWeb" "This site has been suspended" page.

EDIT: Tried Chrome, Firefox and IE so I doubt its that - might be a region thing though (UK here)
 

Steve the Pocket

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Mike Kayatta said:
What's best about this game, however, (other than the fact that it's actually official and not ironically fan-made) is that you need exactly zero familiarity of the show upon which its based to appreciate and/or enjoy it. In fact, it might be all the funnier that way.
Mike Kayatta said:
it's actually official and not ironically fan-made
What.

Somebody explain this to me because I think I just swplbsl.
 

Mike Kayatta

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VonKlaw said:
I'll third not being able to see it - leads to some "PowWeb" "This site has been suspended" page.

EDIT: Tried Chrome, Firefox and IE so I doubt its that - might be a region thing though (UK here)
Bummer, guys. I wonder if it's just getting slammed with more traffic than expected.
 

octafish

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I'm always a little saddened that Mark Linn-Baker will be more remember as "Cousin Larry" than for his fantastic Benjy Stone in My Favorite Year.
 

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For giggles, (it worked) I typed "Kill everyone" as my dream. At the end, it was scrambled to "Kill evipsoni." So, *que chainsaw revving up* looks like I need to go find someone...

In all seriousness, I have no idea what this is about.
 

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Dastardly said:
Cou-sin... Lar-ry... App-li-ton...
"Hello! My name is Cousin Laddy Appliton."
"How are you?"
"Fine."

The fact that this is a thing that exists has completely destroyed my mind. It doesn't help that I just about lost it in the flying stage.