Noby Noby Boy Stretches to Uranus

The Wooster

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Noby Noby Boy Stretches to Uranus

Fans of Noby Noby Boy have played enough to allow Noby Noby girl to stretch to Uranus, much to the delight of sniggering journalists everywhere.

It is pronounced Yoo-ran-us, people. This article will not be the butt of a series of immature arse jokes.

Noby Noby Boy, the last game Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahasi made for Namco Bandai before going on to design school playgrounds, is weird. Really weird. The game features very few traditional goals, instead players are tasked with stretching the titular Noby Noby Boy as far as possible. The collective stretching of the player base is recorded by GIRL, a giant ... thing that stretches off into space.

GIRL reached the moon four days after Noby Noby Boy's release, and then mars a few months later. Girl finally reached Uranus last week, after 1045 days of play. What's impressive about these achievements is that the in game distances are real; meaning GIRL has stretched a minimum of 2.57 billion kilometres to bask in the glory of Uranus.

Neptune is next, I'm sure that'll get just as many headlines.


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Broken Blade

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Why, are butt puns considered cheeky?

In a less jokey vein, this is kinda nifty. I can see a few ways to use this to demonstrate the incredible distances involved with even interplanetary travel. I mean, three years of gamers all over the world playing this game to collectively stretch that far? That's pretty amazing.
 

Moonlight Butterfly

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Hahahaha.

Awesome, I love the fact that as soon as Uranus is reached it becomes newsworthy. Ah humanity...

This story made me smile :)
 

The_Echo

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xXxJessicaxXx said:
Hahahaha.

Awesome, I love the fact that as soon as Uranus is reached it becomes newsworthy. Ah humanity...

This story made me smile :)
I think every new planet reached has gotten reported by someone.

All I can say is... took long enough. I'm actually a little bit surprised people are still playing it. I know I lost interest after a couple months.
 

zehydra

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"meaning GIRL has stretched a minimum of 2.57 billion kilometres to bask in the glory of Uranus."

lulz.

I'm sorry I don't really have anything else to add.
 

ShaneGunWolf

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I wonder what'll happen when it stretches to Neptune (Unless they're still counting Pluto as a planet in this game).
 

F-I-D-O

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So Neptune is a stretch goal?
What? I would.have.sounded like an old fart if I had .made a butt joke.
 

JackJL

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At its current rate of 2.45 billion km/day, it should reach alpha centauri in 17.6 million days. It remains to be seen if anyone is still playing in 51st century.
 
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And once again, Japan's weirdness REARs it's ugly head. What a BUMmer. In all seriousness though, this story is of the utmost importance. I'm glad it didn't slip through the CRACKs. I'm always glad to see the Escapist's unique ANALysis of current events.

You know, reading it now, these cracks about butts[footnote]or "butt cracks" if you will[/footnote] are pretty CHEEKY. Oh well. HINDsight's 20/20, right?

PS: For anyone else trying to make the best "butt" puns, you better hurry up. You're falling BEHIND.
 

ThePurpleStuff

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LOL, reading this article makes me wanna play again, I want to reach the end of the universe itself, I'll play it in the afterlife if I must! I want them to reach the biggest planet in the known universe and then the biggest star! I can't pronounce their names but that would be an amazing feat.
 

PlasticTree

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Well Grey, I'm glad to know that whenever I search for 'I don't know what genre this is' I'll get referred to this game. You have my thanks. ;)

(Sounds like a terribly fun game, by the way. Who needs guns and mutants when you have this?)
 

Riobux

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Grey Carter said:
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johnathan grey carter, i dont know what genre this is, katamari, namco bandai, noby noby boy, space, uranus
Who needs genres?
 

Eric the Orange

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Grey Carter said:
It is pronounced Yoo-ran-us, people.
Actually according to a college professor who teaches Classical Mythology, greek, and latin, it's pronounced oo-ra-nos, with the last o being long (I do not know how to make accent marks).
 

Onyx Oblivion

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And that is just the players who are hooked up to the internet when they play, too.

I should probably buy this game already.