Toonstruck
Developer(s)	Burst Studios
Publisher(s)	Virgin Interactive
Designer(s)	Richard Hare
Engine	N/A
Release date(s)	1996
Genre	Adventure game
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	ESRB: Teen (13+)
Platform(s)	Windows, DOS
Media	CD (2)
System requirements	Intel Pentium 486/66 or equivalent CPU, 8MB RAM, 34MB hard disk space, 2X CD-ROM, Sound Card
Input	Keyboard, Mouse

Toonstruck is a 1996 point-and-click adventure game in which, although all the imagery is drawn and scanned into the game, the protagonist Drew Blanc (played and voiced by Christopher Lloyd) is an actual video-captured representation of the actor (the name is probably a homage to Mel Blanc or is a sort of pun, Drew Blank.) Drew's sidekick, crudely named Flux Wildly, is a drawn character voiced by Dan Castellaneta. Toonstruck also features scan-line compressed FMV. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (640x807, 78 KB)The European box art for the video game Toonstruck. Source: http://www. ... A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates computer or video games. ... Video game publishers are companies that publish video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer. ... Virgin Interactive was a successful and influential British video game publisher. ... 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Game Features

Story

In Toonstruck, Drew Blanc is an animator and original creator of the Fluffy Fluffy Bun Bun Show, but in reality the many cute talking rabbits that star in the show sicken him. His self-revered creation, Flux Wildly, a wise-talking and sarcastic purple animal, has been denied the chance of starring in his own show. Drew's boss, Sam Schmaitz (played by Ben Stein), sets him the task of coming up with an idea of a new character to star in the Fluffy Fluffy Bun Bun Show by the next morning. The depressed animator nods off before coming up with this new character, suffering from an acute lack of inspiration. Waking up early in the morning by his television coming on, Drew is "sucked" into the television as it displays the Fluffy Fluffy Bun Bun Show, the cartoon world he created becoming his reality. Ben Stein Benjamin Jeremy Stein (born November 25, 1944, in Washington, D.C.) is a fervently conservative (with strong libertarian economic impulses) pro-life former White House speechwriter (for the late Republican President Richard Nixon); he is/was also an attorney, (former) game show host, actor, commercial personality, screenwriter, law...

Gameplay

Toonstruck is a point-and-click adventure game. The game uses extensive minimalism in its design, with only an inventory icon (represented by a "Bottomless Bag") as an omnipresent HUD. The pointer key, represented by an animated white-gloved hand, changes situationally depending on what it is rolled over. Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features. ... Omnipresence is defined, in a general sense, as: the ability to be present in every place at the same time; unbounded or universal presence. ... For other meanings of Hud, see this article A Rafale fighter of the FS Charles de Gaulle, seen through the HUD of another Rafale. ...

Other Information

Credits

Drew Blanc - Acted and voiced by Christopher Lloyd Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) and Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) from the movie Back to the Future. ...

Flux Wildly - Voiced by Dan Castellaneta Dan Castellaneta Daniel Louis Castellaneta (born September 10, 1958 in Chicago, Illinois) is an Italian-American actor who is best known for providing the voice of Homer Simpson and other characters on the animated series The Simpsons, and as the voice of the Genie in Disneys The Return of...

Count Nefarious - Voiced by Tim Curry Tim Curry Timothy James Curry (born April 19, 1946 in Grappenhall, a district of Warrington, England) is a British actor, vocalist and composer perhaps best known for his role as mad scientist Dr. Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). ...

King Hugh - Voiced by David Ogden Stiers David Ogden Stiers in his most famous role, as Charles Emerson Winchester III David Ogden Stiers (b. ...

Sam Schmaitz - Acted and voiced by Ben Stein Ben Stein Benjamin Jeremy Stein (born November 25, 1944, in Washington, D.C.) is a fervently conservative (with strong libertarian economic impulses) pro-life former White House speechwriter (for the late Republican President Richard Nixon); he is/was also an attorney, (former) game show host, actor, commercial personality, screenwriter, law...

References

• Toonstruck Credits
• Toonstruck entry at GameFAQs.
• ESRBs rating of Toonstruck