Line #38 VideoGame/Dazzeloids


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Hi-ho! Dazzeloids away!]]
3	''Dazzeloids'' is a 1994 children's CD-ROM game created by Rodney Greenblat (visual artist and art designer for ''VideoGame/PaRappaTheRapper''); it features the Dazzeloids (Anne Dilly Whim, Titan Rose, Yendor Talbneerg and Stinkabod Lamé), a team of boredom banishers fighting the forces of mediocrity set by the Mediogre and his geeky assistant, Pin Bleeper.
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5	Within the CD are three interactive stories:
6	* A Child Is Bored: Jeremy Gerbilman ends up a {{Brainwashed}} zombie due to bland television, and it's up to the Dazzeloids to cure him.
7	* Banker, Spare That Pet Shop: When Stinkabod's pet hamster, Shortnin'head, contracts Fuzzy Rodent Flu, Anne calls the Probe & Poke pet shop for help, but the place had vanished (or rather, ''"transglumified"'') into AnotherDimension. Yendor, Titan and Stinkabod investigate the scene, but they end up teleported themselves.
8	* Dazzeloid Dreams: A look into the dreams of the Dazzeloids, as well as the main villain.
9	It also includes [[Characters/{{Dazzeloids}} a page on the characters]], as well as a how-to page and a "[[DancingTheme splashy intro]]".
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11	[[KeepCirculatingTheTapes Sadly out of print, the CD can still be found through web stores such as Amazon and eBay.]] It's well worth a look, especially if you're a fan of Greenblat's work.
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13	!!Tropes in this CD-ROM:
14	* BlackAndWhiteMorality: The two major factions are the BLANDO Corporation (a sinister [[MegaCorp megacorporation]] build around boring people for profit that is run by a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive megalomaniac]] who wants to TakeOverTheWorld) and the Dazzeloids (who are superheroes devoted to "imagination, happiness and ... healthy between meal snack[s]" and opposing BLANDO). It's not terrible complicated to figure who is the good guys.
15	* BeastMan: The main characters:
16	** Anne is nearly human, but she has bovinesque horns on her head, as do her family.
17	** Titan is a [[MegaNeko hulking feline]] man.
18	** Yendor is a humanoid insect, possibly an ant.
19	** Stinkabod is a humanoid sheep.
20	** The Mediogre is [[BigCreepyCrawlies a snail or slug man]].
21	** Pin Bleeper is a "[[TechnoWizard techno]]-[[YesMan weasel]]".
22	* BeepingComputers
23	* CardCarryingVillain: The Mediogre ''loves'' making everything [[CreativeSterility sterile of imagination and fun]], and he'll gladly tell you all about it.
24	* CatchPhrase:
25	-->'''Anne Dilly Whim:''' "Hi-ho! Dazzeloids away!"
26	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Mediogre, head of the [[FunWithAcronyms BLANDO]][[note]]'''B'''ig '''L'''ethargic '''A'''malgamated '''N'''ational '''D'''evelopment '''O'''rganization[[/note]] company in charge of all boring media.
27	* CosmeticAward: The program ''actually rewards you'' for playing it a certain number of times, from the 10th to the 25th to the 100th time. This is merely a bit of silly fun that can easily be achieved with some simple rewriting of a file within the program folder.
28	* CreditsMedley: The credits feature several bits of the incidental music throughout the CD-ROM.
29	* {{Cultured\|Badass}} [[GeniusBruiser Bruiser]]: Titan Rose was built on these tropes. [[WarriorPoet He even wrote a book of love poems]] the same year he won the weight-lifting grand finals.
30	* DeathByOriginStory: Anne's sister, Leanna, died from boredom thanks to a re-run of a show produced by the BLANDO Corporation. This motivated Anne to oppose BLANDO.
31	* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas:
32	-->'''The Mediogre's only "good side":''' "The Mediogre still loves his mother."
33	* ExplosiveOverclocking: What Yendor does to his Personal Distress Assistant to create a reverse anti-reality disturbance to restore the pet shop to its rightful place.
34	* ExpositoryThemeTune: Featured in the "splashy intro".
35	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: When the Mediogre tries to create a superpowered Transglumifier, it backfires in humorous ways (exactly how depends on the Lava Lamp Power Cell you choose), [[NoOntologicalInertia sending the teleported pet shop back to its original place]].
36	** This is also the subject of the Mediogre's NightmareSequence:
37	-->"[[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney EVERYTHING IS NOT FOR SALE! YOU CAN'T HAVE IT, NOW GO AWAY!]] [[DoomedByCanon YOUR LITTLE DREAM IS GONNA FAIL!]] [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas CALL YOUR MOMMY!]] [[VillainousBSOD RUN AWAY!]]"
38	* ForTheEvulz:
39	-->'''Mediogre:''' "Being the villain is ''so much fun!''"
40	* HackerCave: The lair of the Mediogre and Pin Bleeper.
41	* InformedAttribute: The character bios mention character traits that aren't really seen elsewhere such as Anne being a SpoiledBrat and Mediogre being a NeatFreak.
42	* JustAStupidAccent:
43	** Anne has a Texan accent.
44	** Titan has a Shakespearean dialect.
45	** Stinkabod has a hillbilly drawl.
46	** Yendor has a {{Scotir\|eland}}ish brogue.
47	* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d with the song "Are You Waiting", which plays when a section is loading.
48	-->''Are you waiting?'' Yeah, we're waiting for the CD to spin.
49	-->''Are you waiting?'' Yeah, we're waiting for the fun to begin.
50	-->''Are you waiting?'' Yeah, we're waiting, but it's been too long.
51	-->''Are you waiting?'' Yeah, we're waiting; has something gone wrong? [[note]]If nothing has gone wrong, you should only be able to hear the first verse on a good computer. You're able to hear the whole song through the story map menu.[[/note]]
52	* MadLibsDialogue: Happens often, but especially with food.
53	* MediumAwareness:
54	-->'''Titan Rose:''' "Behold, the pet shop up on high in the void; we know not why. [[RocksFallEveryoneDies If it were to fall like a pet-filled bomb, it would ruin this happy CD-ROM.]]"
55	* MusicalEpisode: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVceblxCGMg Each dream in "Dazzeloid Dreams"]] (except Titan Rose's) is an animated music video:
56	** Anne gets [[LyricalDissonance an upbeat pop-rock tune]] about trying to save sentient trees from being killed by sentient televisions.
57	** Yendor gets a weird instrumental tune.
58	** Stinkabod gets a trippy rap song about his birth and growth.
59	** The Mediogre gets a noisy, atonal TheVillainSucksSong.
60	* {{Neologism}}: Many of the words on the CD-ROM, [[RainbowSpeak displayed in pink]]. Clicking on them will bring up their "meanings", told by Yendor. Their dictionary also includes {{Technobabble}} and otherwise unusual items, such as "creamy corn" (Titan's favorite between-meal snack) and "[[DeflectorShields energy field]]".
61	* NoFourthWall: The tutorial.
62	-->'''Yendor:''' "Hey you! Quit clickin' on my face! Hey, that's my body you're clickin' on."
63	* OldMediaAreEvil: One of the main themes of the game is how television is boring and will turn you into a "brainwashed zombie".
64	* PixelHunt: Assembling the Vibrobeam requires you to click-and-drag the main segments of it to their rightful spot; the only trouble is that that "spot" is incredibly small, and it might take a while before they'll fall into place.
65	* PoliceAreUseless: Not so much ''completely'' useless as much as useless with the fantastic goings-on.
66	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Anne Dilly Whim's parents were the king and queen of Chucklestein, making her the princess, but they were discharged when Chucklestein was bought by the BLANDO company, and now live in their royal mansion, which acts as the Dazzeloid Headquarters.
67	** She mostly sends out the boys to investigate the scene of boredom, but in ''Banker Spare That Pet Shop'', one of the story options [[GadgeteerGenius has her build a]] "Vibrobeam" to save her teleported comrades.
68	* SdrawkcabName: Yendor Talbneerg. ''Guess who?''
69	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Anne Dilly Whim is the only woman of the Dazzeloids team, [[FlawlessToken but she's also their level-headed leader]].
70	* SpaceWhaleAesop: Kids shouldn't rely solely on television for entertainment, ''or else they will literally die, as happened to Anne Dilly Whim's sister.''

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