Weird Red Dwarf CD

I’m not familiar, but I can give you a couple of leads…

alt.tv.red-dwarf was the newsgroup in question, and it’s archived here: https://groups.google.com/g/alt.tv.red-dwarf?pli=1 

There’s also loooooads of ancient unofficial Dwarfy things on archive.org, and if you scroll down far enough there’s plenty of fan-made software of various types. One day I’ll get round to cataloguing it all, but in the meantime: https://archive.org/search?query=%22red+dwarf%22 

I was trying to do a list of all Red Dwarf fan made games a few months back and that “lousy Amiga shoot-em-up” passed me by.

https://reddwarf.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Fan_Media#Fan_Games

Any chance you could direct me to it online?

I was trying to do a list of all Red Dwarf fan made games a few months back and that “lousy Amiga shoot-em-up” passed me by.
https://reddwarf.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Fan_Media#Fan_Games
Any chance you could direct me to it online?

Here’s a video (gameplay starts at 3:45, after all the loading and amusingly having to restart): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35SebERquiI

It might be playable on archive.org (it used to be – I can’t access the site any more to check) if you trawl through with searches like “amiga,” “seuck” (Shoot-Em-Up Construction Kit).

One of the stock, non-RD related SEUCK games sampled Queeg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiuJTD-lACo&t=256s

Non-game Amiga shit to waste everyone’s time:

The Red Dwarf Demo

The Red Dwarf Slideshow (as gripping as it sounds)

has anyone done a deep dive into every RD video game, including unoffical and the mobile games etc?

I probably wrote about this before, but when I was a kid I had this idea for a Red Dwarf game that would be a 2D platform with puzzles and action, set around the ship and other locations. I wanted it to be a mix of Alien 3 (SNES/mega drive), Earthworm Jim, and Prince of Persia/Shadow of the Beast type games. I wish I at least had the ability to mock up some screenshots of how I imagine it. I want a text bar on the bottom of the screen with digitised characters and funny lines. And everything, like, an adventure with Ace, a trip to the “Back to Reality” dimension/hallucination, a new Polymorph that does something funny and original as you hunt it down… 

Having done a deep Google dive back in February, the two most complete ones seem to the be the 1996 text adventure game for MS DOS and the 1998 graphical adventure game made in Visual Basic 3 for Windows 95. The fun fact about the latter is that it was actually made by one Michael Dodson, the classmate of Yahtzee Croshaw (of Zero Punctuation, now Fully Ramblomatic) and it was in fact making competing games (Red Dwarf and Arthur Yahtzee) that got him into video game development. On a similar note, there was a short Red Dwarf demo made in Adventure Game Studio in 2007.

Me, I kinda wish there had been a Doom TC made for Red Dwarf back in the day (e.g. make the Imps into GELFS, the Hell Knights into Simulants, the Cacodemon into the Space Corps external enforcement vehicle…).

I vividly remember Earthworm Jim from my Genesis days. Upon replaying it as an adult I quickly began to doubt I had ever beaten the trashcan in level one.

Whip it when it stomps, shoot it when it moves. EWJ was one of the defining 16-bit / 90s games in my household, I’m surprised it’s not such a huge deal in the nostalgia. But we didn’t get a console until 1994, which I guess was late in the day. It fit the lolrandom/grossout Ren & Stimpy era well, better than Boogerman that tried too hard.

My recollection of Earthworm Jim is that it suffered massively from a platformer bugbear that’s a game killer for me – lack of clarity between what is a platform or otherwise interactive, and what is background decoration. 

My recollection of Earthworm Jim is that it suffered massively from a platformer bugbear that’s a game killer for me – lack of clarity between what is a platform or otherwise interactive, and what is background decoration. 

Now I need to know the MOST ever egregious platform/decor confusion classic games.

Are you quite totally sure we can’t just replace the exclamation point on Bubsy’s shirt with an H?

Hm, Yahtzee Croshaw’s comic fantasy novel “Mogworld” had a few jokes nicked from Dwarf (or at least very inspired/similar), Discworld too. I suppose they were homages.

http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/essays/rimmer.htm

Safe to say he is a fan, yeah.

This is something I just knocked up to show how my dream RD game would look. btw, none of these images are mine, I found the Lister and Rimmer sprites on Google, and the background is Alien 3 (mega drive).

I did my own attempt at a Red Dwarf sprite sheet earlier this year, based on an image posted on Twitter. I have a full rotational display, but the walk cycles still need fine tuning.
I kind of was dreaming of a Red Dwarf equivalent of the 16-bit sprites Doctor Who and Star Trek got from Dalek Attack and the 25th Anniversary games.
https://reddwarf.fandom.com/wiki/File:Red-Dwarf-Sprites.png

Yahtzee is the former narrator of the Zero Punctuation review series on YouTube before he and everybody else decided Escapist was a crappy outlet and buggered off to go form Second Wind. He’s known for his bitingly sardonic review style.

What bicycle jokes are they even on about? The only proper one I can think of from VI – VIII is Lister marrying the gelf. 

“A great, great disservice” in Duct Soup and maybe there’s one when they join the Canaries?

Yahtzee’s Mogworld had the “get back in touch with a lost species to find out they had a holy war based on some small difference in their faiths” joke, only it was dwarfs, and it’s…IIRC, he draws it out more. It’s like, “we’re both supposed to wear…” and there’s some long, complicated list of the outfit the dwarf race are supposed to wear, but he ends with “they point their hats to the left, not the right like us!”. It’s a slightly different spin. I actually read the first half, laughed and enjoyed it, but never finished it for some reason.

Yahtzee’s Mogworld had the “get back in touch with a lost species to find out they had a holy war based on some small difference in their faiths” joke, only it was dwarfs, and it’s…IIRC, he draws it out more. It’s like, “we’re both supposed to wear…” and there’s some long, complicated list of the outfit the dwarf race are supposed to wear, but he ends with “they point their hats to the left, not the right like us!”. It’s a slightly different spin.

I don’t think I’ve ever made the connection with the Cats in Red Dwarf before but this is also in the same vein as the war in Gulliver’s Travels over which end of a boiled egg should be broken.

I want a Red Dwarf game as a one-on-one Street Fighter II esque beat-em-up, with outrageous special moves. Lister can blow people away with a bazookoid like Cable in MvC2, Rimmer can teleport behind his enemies like Raiden and switch between hard and soft light, Kryten can throw his head at people, that kind of thing. You could have the Inquisitor as the final boss.

I just want that dumb adventure game where you get a potion from Gandolf the master wizard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_%281982_video_game%29

Whether or not Gandalf will sell you a potion, I couldn’t say…

I want a Red Dwarf game as a one-on-one Street Fighter II esque beat-em-up, with outrageous special moves. Lister can blow people away with a bazookoid like Cable in MvC2, Rimmer can teleport behind his enemies like Raiden and switch between hard and soft light, Kryten can throw his head at people, that kind of thing. You could have the Inquisitor as the final boss.

I searched to see if anyone had made Red Dwarf characters in Mugen. Doesn’t look like it, but someone has done these stage backgrounds and music:

So are we all agreed that Holly wiled away the three million years hosting a fight club with holograms in the sleeping quarters?

Thanks to Sonic brainrot, this is the only Red Dwarf CD I can imagine. 

I don’t know, the annoyed girlfriend part sounds more like Chloe than Clare. Are you sure this isn’t just bits and pieces of Series VII clumsily cobbled together like in my upcoming fanedit where I clumsily cobble together bits and pieces of Series VII?

Someone come up with a way to associate Timewave with Wacky Workbench in a meme format. They’re both equally shit.

I’d do it myself but can’t be arsed right now!