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531: Toonstruck

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Games, Leisure, Technology, Video Games

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Christopher Lloyd and Toons, together again! New contributing host Jess O'Brien, Cohen Edenfield, and KC Green unpack Toonstruck, the 1996 cult point-and-click that makes us wonder "Who is this for?" and "Why is it so horny?"

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0:00.0

This week on RetroNots, why the flux is this game so horny?

0:04.0

Hello everyone, welcome to RetroNots this week we are covering TuneStruck, the star-studded

0:32.0

1996 FMV Point and Click adventure game that sees Christopher Lloyd trapped in a

0:37.7

twisted cartoon world that aged really poorly but before we get into that who the heck is

0:44.9

speaking right now this is not one of the usual hosts of RetroNots it is instead me

0:50.1

Jess O'Brien aka Voidberger you might know me from my previous gig at giantbomb.com

0:55.8

where I was the video producer and you may also recognize me from a smattering of

0:59.7

RetroNots guest spots over the years but enough about me who are my esteemed guests let's go in

1:07.2

the alphabetical order. That's me hey I'm Cohen Eddenfield I'm a game writer and a

1:14.8

cultural archivist Jesus no I was trying that out for the first time I don't know I like

1:21.4

video games oh I made one of these one time an adventure game that you really liked.

1:26.0

I'm sorry. No it's just really funny. For context it was a homestuck game and I had never played

1:33.9

homestuck so I was like what the fuck is this? It's all good we all dance to the devil we know go

1:38.9

go ahead yeah that's me a skull mandible on Twitter if you care about such things in these days

1:46.4

and I'm Casey Green I'm a cartoonist and cartoon and enjoyer I've never written a game

1:54.5

but I've played plenty and that's a shame you should you should get into the game development that

2:00.3

be it. It's not the only hobby I have is video games and when I try to put into any kind of job

2:09.4

based thing it's don't don't monetize everything you love it's not a good thing folks you heard

2:15.4

at your first don't do that. No I got my like I started drawing because of video games in general

2:22.3

I'm not in video games cartoons in general I'm sorry. Well this is smashing of both of those

2:27.4

things. Yes yes both of those and once let's add a first heard about it I said let's go give it to

2:33.5

me and then you get this and you get to instructing I'm like stop it don't go. Let's not say let's go

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