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|composers=[[Jason Skelly]]
|formats=[[IFF-8SVX]]
|publishers=[[XtC Software]]
|teams=[[No Frills (team)|No Frills]]
|title=<nowiki>Wayne's World Pong</nowiki>
|year=1994
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==About The Game==
[[Image:Waynes World Pong (ingame).png|thumb|left||Ingame - stunning eh? ;-)]]
Wayne's World Pong was a [[wikipedia:Shit|state-of-the-art]] two player only [[Lost In Translation/Pong|Pong]] clone written in [[AMOS]] by the '[[wikipedia:Lamer|programming genius]]' that is [[XtC]].  The only link to the [[Lost In Translation/Wayne's World|actual film]] are a large collection of sound samples and a couple of digitsed pictures!

===The Inspiration===
The project began early 1994, when a work colleague lent XtC an Amiga public domain Pong clone (not sure which) that was on a magazine coverdisk.  XtC played it and claimed he could do better than that, and started work on writing his own Pong clone later that evening.  A couple of days later he presented it to his work colleague to try out.  Both she and her partner liked it, but a simple Pong clone wasn't enough for XtC!

Although XtC had seen the [[Lost In Translation/Wayne's World|Wayne's World]] movie when it was originally released in cinemas in 1992, it wasn't to subliminally inspire him until later in 1993, when he purchased it on the amazingly crystal clear and not blurred at all [[wikipedia:VHS|VHS]] format.  With phrases such as "Game on!" and "He shoots, he scores!" it wasn't hard to understand why XtC chose this movie for the speech!

So XtC began to watch the film again and made a list of useful quotes ready for when he would eventually sample them using his trusty old [[AudioMaster]] software.


===AGA-only - Not!===
The game was developed on an unexpanded [[Amiga 1200|A1200]], which meant XtC had 2MB of [[wikipedia:Amiga Chip RAM|Chip RAM]] to play with.  By doing this, it possibly meant the game wasn't compatible with Amigas that had less than 2MB Chip RAM, but XtC was callous and didn't care.  This is also the reason why some people thought that the game was [[AGA]]-only - which it isn't.  I mean really, does it look like an AGA-only game?


===The Sound===
Sampling the speech from the film was the easy part - getting them all to fit on one floppy disk was the hard part.  The finished game contains 664,706 bytes of sampled speech!  Each of the 28 samples was carefully resampled to the lowest frequency possible without making them sound too awful.

So proud was XtC, that he even incorporated a 'sound test' section!


===The Video===
All the artwork used in the game was created by XtC using [[wikipedia:Deluxe Paint|Deluxe Paint]] and a PD [[wikipedia:Hold-And-Modify|HAM]] manipulation tool.

The intro font was taken from a PD font collection, whilst the digitised images were taken from a Wayne's World slideshow using an [[Action Replay]] cartridge, oh and the drawing of the Amiga was taken from an MC Hammer demo!


===The Gameplay===
The classic version of [[AMOS]] didn't support more than one mouse, so XtC had to find a way to let the second player use either a joystick or the keyboard so they could compete against player one's mouse.  To control the speed of the bat, player two would have to press a fire button - a novel feature that seemed like a good at the time!


===The Response===
XtC's friends and work colleagues liked the game, it helped that they also liked the film.  XtC was a happy camper!

This [[wikipedia:Euphoria (emotion)|euphoria]] encouraged XtC to submit the game to public domain specialists [[17BIT|17BIT Software]] who replied using a generic printed letter with a hand-written comment saying,

{{Quote
|text=The sound effects are great!  They had us in hysterics while we were playing it - ''schwing!''
|author=[[17BIT]]
}}
They included it in their extensive library as: -
{{Quote
|text='''2989 WAYNES WORLD PONG'''<br/>The only thing has got to do with Waynes World is the absolutely amazing quality samples accompanying the game. Basically its just a bat and ball game. But get to the sound test and there are TONS of extracts from the movie, and they all read from RAM too.
|author=[[17BIT]]
}}

==Screen Shot Gallery==
<gallery widths="180" heights="180" perrow="4">
File:Waynes World Pong (intro scroller).png|Intro scroller.
File:Waynes World Pong (xtc software).png|[[XtC]]'s first generic logo.
File:Waynes World Pong (title).png|Main Wayne's World logo.
File:Waynes World Pong (menu).png|Main menu.
File:Waynes World Pong (sound select).png|Sound test.
File:Waynes World Pong (game on).png|"Game on!"
File:Waynes World Pong (cd32 menu).png|CD³² main menu.
File:Waynes World Pong (game on cd32).png|CD³² "Game on!"
</gallery>

==Reviews==
===[[Amiga Power]]===
[[Image:Amiga Power 40 (Aug 1994) Page 085.jpg|thumb|right||Review taken from [[Amiga Power]] Issue 40 (Aug 1994, page 85)]]
'''A lousy 2/5 stars''' from a reviewer who was showing their ignorance: -
*As mentioned above, the classic version of [[AMOS]] didn't support more than one mouse - so the game couldn't either!
*In the movie [[Lost In Translation/Wayne's World|Wayne's World]], the character Garth does an impression of [[Lost In Translation/Scooby-Doo|Scooby-Doo]].  This is the sample heard in the game, and is not taken from the cartoon series.
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===[[Amiga User International]]===
[[Image:Wayne's World Pong review (Amiga User International) (June 1994, Page 98).jpg|thumb|right||Review taken from [[Amiga User International]] June 1991 Issue, page 98)]]
'''80%''' - are we paying attention [[Amiga Power]]? ;-)
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===[[Computer and Video Games]]===
[[Image:Wayne's World Pong review (Computer and Video Games) (June 1994, Issue 151, Page 93).jpg|thumb|right||Review taken from [[Computer and Video Games]] Issue 151, June 1994, page 98)]]
'''81%''' - Hey [[Amiga Power]]! Can we see a pattern forming here? ;-)
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===[[CU Amiga]]===
[[Image:Wayne's World Pong review (CU Amiga) (May 1994, Page 131) .jpg|thumb|right||Review taken from [[CU Amiga]] May 1994 Issue, page 131)]]
'''87%''' - And so, dear [[Amiga Power]], I rest my case! ;-)
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===Game/Skelly_Jason/Waynes_World_Pong.lha===
Download archive {{download|file=media/audio/UnExoticA/Game/Skelly_Jason/Waynes_World_Pong.lha|name=Game/Skelly_Jason/Waynes_World_Pong.lha}}<br />
Also included are all the ingame speech samples, which are also in IFF-8SVX format.
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;Updates : Monday 26 August 2002 (XtC): Added to collection
: Saturday 22 March 2014 (Ronaldvd): Add external link.
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