Muppets Inside Explained
The Muppet CD-ROM: Muppets Inside is a PC computer game based on The Muppets franchise produced by Starwave in 1996. The title is a play on Intel's advertising slogan, "Intel Inside." The game's plot consists of several Muppets characters getting trapped inside a computer, and Bunsen sending Kermit and Fozzie Bear into the computer to rescue them.
Gameplay
As players rescue the Muppets, they encounter seven "Muppetized" games:
- Kitchens of Doom: A parody of Doom, with the Swedish Chef fighting giant vegetables in a crypt-like kitchen.
- Beaker's Brain: The player helps Bunsen unscramble Beaker's memories of Muppet Show clips.
- Statler and Waldorf: Two Thumbs Down: The player rotates boxes to unscramble Statler and Waldorf's video clip.
- Wocka on the Wild Side: In a parody of Missile Command, the player shoots down flying tomatoes that the audience throws at Fozzie Bear as he crosses the Muppet Theater stage.
- Death-Defying Acts of Culture: The player positions Gonzo's cannon so he flies through a target.
- Scope That Song: Clifford hosts a version of Name That Tune, with the songs played by Lew Zealand's fish or Marvin Suggs and the Muppaphone.
- Trivial But True!: A Hollywood Squares game, with Fozzie Bear as the center square.
Additional content
Muppets Inside's gameplay contains over an hour of new audio and video footage, as well as five new songs and classics from The Muppet Show. The game also contains a bonus "Muppetizer'" feature that provides custom cursors, sounds and wallpapers. The game's CD-ROM also came packaged with a 6x6 inch, 30-page booklet with Henson history, character profiles, game instructions, and credits.
Cast
- Steve Whitmire as Kermit the Frog, Rizzo the Rat, Beaker
- Dave Goelz as Gonzo the Great, Waldorf, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew
- Jerry Nelson as Statler, Lew Zealand, Floyd Pepper, The Muppet Newsman, Announcer, Crazy Harry
- Frank Oz as Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Sam the Eagle, Animal, Marvin Suggs
- Kevin Clash as Clifford
- Bill Barretta as The Swedish Chef
Reception
The editors of Computer Games Strategy Plus nominated Muppets Inside as their pick for 1996's best "traditional" game, but the award ultimately went to Power Chess.[1]
In a retrospective review, PC Gamer praised the humor of the videos and game concepts, while criticizing the tedium of the small number of games.[2]
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Staff. https://web.archive.org/web/19970614161401/http://www.cdmag.com/news/0325971.html . Computer Games Strategy Plus announces 1996 Awards . March 25, 1997 . . June 14, 1997 . dead .
- Web site: Saturday Crapshoot: Microshaft Winblows 98 - PC Gamer. PC Gamer. 27 August 2012.
