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EPISODE 144 |
“Grease” game coming to Nintendo
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(Credit: Paramount Pictures)As if movie-to-game licenses weren't already a bizarre enough landscape, Paramount Pictures announced Wednesday that 505 Games will develop "Grease" into a family game for Nintendo systems--meaning the Wii and DS. We already have cooking shows turned games and a game version of "Grey's Anatomy," and now Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta will be getting musical with your Wiimote/stylus. How the game works has not been announced, and the mind boggles with the possibilities.
Paramount promises players will be able to "sing and dance alongside Danny, Sandy, The Pink Ladies, and the T-Birds," taking "full advantage of the Nintendo Wii's motion-sensing controls and microphone, and the DS' touch screen." Well, the Wii doesn't have a microphone, so we assume Grease is including one...unless they meant the DS microphone. Should we expect a sing-along karaoke experience? A '50s-rhythm-high-school-gang-fight game (we hope so)? Or some sort of mutant vaguely misogynistic platformer? Perhaps all three?
"Grease is the ideal opportunity to reach a broad gaming audience who love to sing, dance, and have fun with a party-style game," John Kavanagh, senior vice president of video games for Paramount Digital Entertainment, said in a press release.
Is this true? Have gamers out there been secretly hoping for a Grease game all this time, keeping their fervent dreams a secret, lest they be mocked by a legion of Mario and Zelda acolytes? Stand up and be counted.
505 Games' previous and current projects include Cooking Mama and Armored Core, as well as Hotel for Dogs and Discovery Games' Dolphin Discovery, so be sure to keep those summer lovin' dreams in check.
The release date has not yet been announced, but we'd guess it'll slide into stores this holiday.
Now, how long until our Rocky Horror video game?
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Greasecar)
Greasecar has a product it calls the Vegetable Oil Conversion System, which can convert your diesel car or truck to run on vegetable oil in any climate. It's a DIY kit, so this certainly isn't for people who don't know a spark plug from a fan belt.
Different vehicles have different types of kits, with prices varying from $995 for a 13-gallon cylinder tank to $2,350 for a 40-gallon tread plate tank. If you're game, you need to find out whether your vehicle model is available for this kind of modification. We'll also throw in a disclaimer here that you do this at your own risk and depending on the laws of your country.
(Source: Crave Asia)
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