Cheerwine Deluxe

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Cheerwine Deluxe
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Developer(s) VinnyVideo
Announce Date January 10, 2011
Release Date January 29, 2011
Genre Platform
Players 1
Input Keyboard, mouse
Medium Game Maker Studio (originally Game Maker 8)
Platform Windows
Status Complete

Cheerwine Deluxe is a joke game made by VinnyVideo and first released in 2011. In this offbeat platformer, Iggy Koopa must save the world from the Council of Evil! The game is replete with intentionally unfitting music, zany sound effects, frustrating gameplay, bizarre scenarios, incoherent storylines, and strange, clashing graphics, including many backgrounds based on photos Vinny took himself.

The game was originally developed for another community's Joke Game Contest, although Vinny also created a topic for the game on the MFGG forums and later released a more Mario-centric version for the MFGG mainsite.

Story

In Cheerwine Deluxe, seven evil celebrity warlords have conquered the Canadian province of Saskatchewan by taking control of Saskatchewan's Seven Pillars of Justice: Cattle, Elections, the Supreme Court, the Lieutenant Governor, the Flag, the City Councils, and Education. The player must defeat all of these fiends to restore peace and freedom to Saskatchewan and prevent the so-called Council of Evil from extending their reign to the entire planet. Several plot twists occur as the game progresses.

Gameplay

Cheerwine Deluxe is a side-scrolling platform game that combines twisted Mario-like worlds with mini-games involving the characters who are part of the Council of Evil. These games range from a button-mashing contest against Jay Leno on the lawn of the Saskatchewan Legislature to a pie-baking match in a butter-laden level featuring Paula Deen.

Obscure References

Much of the game plays homage to other joke games, most notably Waligie, whose namesake character even appears on the intentionally-broken "Choose Your Avatar" screen. The game also pays homage to Super Mario Storm, Late Night Mario, Normal Super Mario Bros., and other games.

The "Choose Your Avatar" screen includes three different images of the entertainer Will Smith, a reference to the infamous World's Biggest Puppy fad; in particular, the Minus World incarnation of WBP.

Secrets

If you press the Q key as the game begins, you can play as Lucca (the brainy inventor from Chrono Trigger) instead of Iggy Koopa (the brainiest of the Koopalings). The two characters handle the same, and despite Iggy's increased height because of his trademark mohawk, the characters have the same collision masks. Regardless of whom you select, the player's default name will always be Oarack Bbama. In the original beta of the game, Lucca was the default character and Iggy was the alternate.

The Bridge to Nowhere actually takes you to a warp zone, but it remains to be seen whether its effects are positive!

Legend has it that an elite player may find Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo hidden in the game, but it's virtually impossible to find him without cheating.

The game's subtitle changes every time you play.

Cheerwine Deluxe 2 is a very, very short game. This was intentional.

2019 Update

In 2019, Vinny released an updated version of the game: 'Cheerwine Deluxe 1 & 2: Eighth and a Halfth Anniversary Edition'. This game combines the first two Cheerwine Deluxe games into a single executable. The game also makes other improvements, including adding the ability to save progress, making various changes to decrease the difficulty level, improving several small issues with graphics and text, and changed the Lou Bega song to make it more fitting.

Reception

A rushed demo originally appeared on Minus World at the deadline of their Joke Game Contest in January 2011. The game had only four levels and contained some collision problems, and most of the people who played the game complained that they couldn't get past the Angry Shuriken Cow in the first level. Since then, updates have added more levels and made the game marginally easier. The game was released on MFGG on January 29, 2011, and it met with mixed opinions.

While still a somewhat frustrating game, the 2019 update fixed a number of issues that players complained about.

Links

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Download Cheerwine Deluxe from MFGG's main site

File Size: 55.19MB
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