Wayne's World Pong

Wayne's World Pong
Composer(s)	Jason Skelly
Team(s)	No Frills
Publisher(s)	XtC Software
Music Format(s)	IFF-8SVX
Year published	1994

About The Game

Ingame - stunning eh? ;-)

Wayne's World Pong was a state-of-the-art two player only Pong clone written in AMOS by the 'programming genius' that is XtC. The only link to the 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 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 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 A1200, which meant XtC had 2MB of 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 Deluxe Paint and a PD 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 euphoria encouraged XtC to submit the game to public domain specialists 17BIT Software who replied using a generic printed letter with a hand-written comment saying,

“

The sound effects are great! They had us in hysterics while we were playing it - schwing!

” - 17BIT

They included it in their extensive library as: -

“

2989 WAYNES WORLD PONG
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.

” - 17BIT

Screen Shot Gallery

• 

  Intro scroller.

• 

  XtC's first generic logo.

• 

  Main Wayne's World logo.

• 

  Main menu.

• 

  Sound test.

• 

  "Game on!"

• 

  CD³² main menu.

• 

  CD³² "Game on!"

Reviews

Amiga Power

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 Wayne's World, the character Garth does an impression of Scooby-Doo. This is the sample heard in the game, and is not taken from the cartoon series.

Amiga User International

Review taken from Amiga User International June 1991 Issue, page 98)

80% - are we paying attention Amiga Power? ;-)

Computer and Video Games

Review taken from Computer and Video Games Issue 151, June 1994, page 98)

81% - Hey Amiga Power! Can we see a pattern forming here? ;-)

CU Amiga

Review taken from CU Amiga May 1994 Issue, page 131)

87% - And so, dear Amiga Power, I rest my case! ;-)

UnExoticA Music Files

Game/Skelly_Jason/Waynes_World_Pong.lha

Download archive Game/Skelly_Jason/Waynes_World_Pong.lha
Also included are all the ingame speech samples, which are also in IFF-8SVX format.

Filename	File Size	Composer	Game	Year	Team / Publisher
Waynes_World_Pong
8svx.WayneTheme	234464	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
Bonus
8svx.AhhBiteMe	6634	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.AlmostToEasy	18774	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.AreYouMental	9306	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.FadeToBlack	17928	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.GameOn	26290	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.GoodOneShaggy	11974	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.GoThen	46898	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.GretzkyIsDenied	36598	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.HeShootsHeScores	14332	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.ICantBelieveTheyDidThat	18550	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.IMustHaveSlipped	17024	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.ItWasNeverMeantToBe	12428	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.ItWillBeMine	27584	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.NoWay__Way	13198	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.One	6128	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.Owww!	10992	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.Owww2	7372	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.PrettyCoolHuh	8042	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.ScreenRippleFX	9540	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.Swing_G	11782	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.Swing_W	7650	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.Swing_W&G	19576	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.ThatsNotGood	35088	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.Tsang!	7460	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.Two	5448	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.WhyGod	17462	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills
8svx.Yeeah	6184	Jason Skelly	Wayne's World Pong	1994	XtC Software / No Frills

Updates

Monday 26 August 2002 (XtC): Added to collection

Saturday 22 March 2014 (Ronaldvd): Add external link.

External Links

• Wayne's World Pong at Lemon Amiga