History Videogame / StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople

* CharacterFilibuster: Parodied, when Strong Bad fast-forwards through Marzipan's lecture on the environment. At the end of the game, she chastises him for doing this, as the content was educational.

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* CharacterFilibuster: Parodied, when Strong Bad fast-forwards through Marzipan's lecture on the environment.

* GoodAngelBadAngel: A variation: when Strong Bad interacts with someone, often he has one of two choices of how to speak to them, represented by an angel and a devil, respectively. Choosing the "angel" choice causes Strong Bad to say something nice, while the "devil" choice causes Strong Bad to say something mean. However, when Strong Bad is explaining this system in a tutorial, he says that choosing the "devil" option will cause him to "say something ''I'' would say." Most of the time it's recommended that you choose the angel option in order to make progress in the game, though at least one occasion does require choosing the devil. Getting the Nuisance achievement, however, requires using the Bad Devil twice in many situations.

* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Like in the source material, Strong Bad repeatedly antagonizes and insults people for his own amusement, especially Strong Sad. The first half of ''Homestar Ruiner'' in particular consists of him ruining Homestar's reputation for shits and giggles. When the tutorial introduces the nice and mean dialogue options, SB openly says the latter is "something ''I'' would say".

* YesNoAnswerInterpretation: One of the exchanges if you get caught by Strong Mad in the King of Town's castle.
-->'''Strong Bad:''' Hey, brother Strong Mad! Are you here to help me steal Homestar's record?\\
''(cut to outside where a screaming Strong Bad is thrown out a window)''\\
'''Strong Bad:''' I'll take that as a no.

* ObviousBeta: As with many games made by Creator/TelltaleGames, there are ''many'' {{Game Breaking Bug}}s. One infamous example is on the Wii version of Homestar Ruiner; if the Wii is set to widescreen mode, and if the player talks to Coach Z in Extended Play, the game will freeze.

* EdutainmentGame: In-universe, the Fun Machine game ''Math Kickers'' claims to be educational. It bears much more resemblance to ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon'' than anything even remotely educational, aside from random algebra equations being scattered all over the game.
** That being said, when you think about it the gameplay actually does integrate the algebra in a remarkably clever way. The equation appears on screen with [[GratuitousNinja a bunch of ninjas]]. Dex can kick the ninjas and disintegrate them, while Ryu can fire energy blasts that duplicate them. Adding or subtracting a specific amount of ninjas will solve the equation. (It's only the boss battles that really don't bother; there, Dex and Ryu have to whale on an equation box; hitting it enough times will causes it to explode while displaying the correct solution.)

* EdutainmentGame: In-universe, the Fun Machine game ''Math Kickers'' claims to be educational. It bears much more resemblance to VideoGame/DoubleDragon than anything even remotely educational, aside from random algebra equations being scattered all over the game.

* MythologyGag: A small portion of Level 1.1 of ''VideoGame/Stinkoman20X6'' is playable, and Stinkoman himself, as well as some of the robot enemies, appear as [=NPCs=]. Strong Bad mentions that Sticklyman is "the secret hidden boss" in Level 10.5, referencing the infamous delay of level 10 (at that point, three years in the making) in the real world. In turn, when level 10 of ''Stinkoman'' finally came out ''twelve'' years after this episode, Sticklyman was included as an OptionalBoss fought during the credits, fulfilling Strong Bad's statement.

* {{Pun}}: Strong Sad remarks that the ''Trogdor'' machine sounds like it needs its cooling fan serviced. Strong Bad replies "Where am I supposed to get {{fanservice}} around here?", which is [[TemptingFate immediately followed]] by the Trogdor machine coming to life.[[note]]Strong Bad is invoking the PanderingToTheBase sense of fanservice, since fans often clamored for a return appearance of Trogdor before the game was released.[[/note]] [[invoked]]

* {{Pun}}: Strong Sad remarks that the ''Trogdor'' machine sounds like it needs its cooling fan serviced. Strong Bad replies "Where am I supposed to get {{fanservice}} around here?", which is [[TemptingFate immediately followed]] by the Trogdor machine coming to life.[[note]]Strong Bad is invoking the PanderingToTheBase sense of fanservice, since fans often clamored for a return appearance of Trogdor before the game was released.[[/note]]
* RandomlyGeneratedQuests: Parodied. Strong Sad has been [[TrappedInTvLand warped into the world of a video game]] that exists [[ShowWithinAShow within the series]] and when you find him, he has taken up the mantle of quest-giver. He'll ask for a randomly named item, which is always just the same cube, or "pixel" as characters within the game refer to it. After delivering the cube to him, he "rewards" you by giving you another quest, which is just to find the same cube, in the same place you found the first one, under a different name. This can be done infinitely many times, and nothing will ever be accomplished by doing so. [[spoiler:The real solution is to deliver a similar-looking cube of "scorpion bait", which causes the King of Town (who's been merged with a scorpion monster from the game) to attack him, letting you get him out of the way of the path he was blocking.]]

* YouCantGetYeFlask: As a ContinuityNod to ''Thy Dungeonman'', there is a [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe ye flask]] on a shelf in the Peasantry level of ''8 Bit Is Enough''. No matter how hard he tries, Strong Bad cannot get ye flask.
** Since this game does have graphics, though, we can see the reason is [[spoiler:because his arms are too short]].

* {{Pun}}: Strong Sad remarks that the ''Trogdor'' machine sounds like it needs its cooling fan serviced. Strong Bad replies "Where am I supposed to get [[{{Fanservice}} fan service]] around here?", which is [[TemptingFate immediately followed]] by the Trogdor machine coming to life.[[note]]Strong Bad is invoking the PanderingToTheBase sense of fanservice, since fans often clamored for a return appearance of Trogdor before the game was released.[[/note]] [[invoked]]

* ExpositionFairy: Homestar gets turned into one of these. Naturally, [[AnnoyingVideoGameHelper he's not very helpful]].

* {{Pun}}: Strong Sad remarks that the ''Trogdor'' machine sounds like it needs its cooling fan serviced. Strong Bad replies "Where am I supposed to get {{fan service}} around here?", which is [[TemptingFate immediately followed]] by the Trogdor machine coming to life.[[note]]Strong Bad is invoking the PanderingToTheBase sense of fanservice, since fans often clamored for a return appearance of Trogdor before the game was released.[[/note]] [[invoked]]