Line #23 VideoGame/TotallyRad


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3	-> "THANKS FOR BUYING TOTALLY RAD FROM JALECO, DUDES. IT'S JUST ONE OF MANY MOST EXCELLENT AND BODACIOUS GAMES WE WILL BE BRINGING OUT FOR YOUR NES."
4	-->'''Totally Rad instruction manual'''
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6	If Franchise/BillAndTed made a videogame, this would be it.
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8	''Totally Rad'' began as a 1990 Platform/{{Famicom}} PlatformGame by Creator/{{Jaleco}} titled ''Magic John.'' It featured ordinary anime teens with magic powers, and a dorky and forgettable plot.
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10	Then Jaleco USA localized it as ''Totally Rad''. The main character and his girlfriend were replaced with a bodacious [[SurferDude surfer dude]] and his happenin' babe. The plot was mostly kept the same, but was turned into a [[SelfParody self-parody]], featuring exaggerated and ridiculous surfer dude slang throughout. It concerns Jake, an apprentice to the magician Zebediah Pong, who is learning magic. However, his girlfriend Allison is kidnapped, and Jake has to take off to save her. Afterward, Jake discovers Allison's kidnapping was just a feint to force Allison's father, a renowned scientist, out of hiding. Jake must not only rescue Allison's father, but ultimately take down an evil underground king who plans to lead a group of under-dwellers up to take over the surface of the world.
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12	The game is perhaps best known for inspiring the webcomic ''Webcomic/KidRadd''.
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14	[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused]] with the 1986 film ''Film/{{Rad}}'', which is just as TotallyRadical, despite not having "Totally" in the title. It is also not be confused with the 2019 Creator/DoubleFine {{Roguelike}} ''VideoGame/{{RAD}}''.
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16	!!This totally excellent game has examples of only the most extremely bodacious tropes, as follows:
17	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: As quoted from the manual. "Little did Jake and Allison know that they had become pubescent pawns in the pestilent power politics of Edogy, the malfeasant underground menace who, through mental malpractice and mesmerism, has managed to impose the malevolent meanderings of his morally moribund mind onto the majority of the inhabitants of the underground world. Whoa! somebody slap me!" Try saying that radical paragraph 3 times fast, dude.
18	* AskAStupidQuestion: At the end of the game:
19	-->'''Professor:''' Are you the one who saved me?\
20	'''Jake:''' Dude, did you get a blow to the head or something? Of course I saved you. I'm here, aren't I?\
21	'''Professor:''' Yes, of course.
22	* CulturalTranslation: The localization transforms the prepubescent Japanese-style cartoon friends into adolescents from [[TheEighties 1980s]] California.
23	* DamselInDistress: Allison because, like, her locked underwater chest escape artistry needs work and stuff. The translation has it PlayedForLaughs like everything else:
24	-->'''Allison:''' Jake, they're like stealing me or something.
25	* GagDub: The localization is essentially the videogame translation equivalent to one, translating the entire game into intentionally over-the-top surfer-dude lingo and relentlessly making fun of the original plot in the process.
26	* GameOverMan: Zebediah, who doubles as a "Continue Man".
27	-->'''[[http://www.carbon-izer.com/mirror/rad/index.htm The Rad Project]]:''' [[AltText Why do you need this guy's permission to continue anyway?]]
28	* MultiformBalance:
29	** JackOfAllStats: Jake in human form
30	** BeastMan / ShockAndAwe: Lion
31	** WingedHumanoid: Eagle
32	** FishPeople / {{Ninja}}: Fish
33	* NintendoHard: The game can get totally difficult at times, even for a rad dude (or dudette) like you.
34	* RougeAnglesOfSatin: The cutscene before the final boss mispells "traitor" as "traiter".
35	* SaveThePrincess: Jake has to save Allison after she gets stolen.
36	* SelfParody: Yeah, baby - far out!
37	* SpoiledByTheManual: Invoked; immediately after spoiling Zeb's backstory (which is only revealed, as a surprise, at the very end of the game itself), it says "only, there's no way you're supposed to know that yet, ok?"
38	* StealthParody: Like, there were these critic people out there who thought that this game's content was being all serious-like in appealing to teens, rather than a ''parody'' of it. How dumb can you get, right?
39	* SurferDude: Jake all the way.
40	* TotallyRadical: It's, like, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in the game title]], bro.
41	* UselessUsefulSpell: The elemental magic (fire, water, wind, and stone) hits every enemy on the screen. This at first seems, like, totally awesome, but it costs 2 totally precious and unrechargable points and most enemies will {{respawn\|ingEnemies}} after just a few seconds. Bogus! [[ZigZaggedTrope But]] those same totally crazy expensive spells can, like, half kill any boss, if you don't use up your magic points bro!

Context VideoGame / TotallyRad