#super bug

Hey everyone! I hope y’all are doing well!

My apologies for not posting in a hot minute. I’ve been working on the next episode for Wolfe’s Hotel! (Hopefully making its debut this year December 17th!)

Now, I’ve come here to make an announcement. Me and the Hotel Team have been trying to get Bugbo creator @sillyassboy (Also known as Bensilly) to possibly make a cameo as the bug himself in this episode! However, I unfortunately haven’t been able to contact him.

With the help of the hotel team, We created this funny image of the whole Bugbo cast in a room with the words “Did this convince you” written all over the walls as a way to possibly convince Ben into helping us record a couple lines as Bugbo for this small cameo.

If you guys can, Please try to help us contact Ben (please don’t spam or be annoying though of course!! I don’t wanna force him into doing something he might not want to do) and if we are lucky, he might just appear in the next episode! (We plan for the episode to be fully colored and animated as well! So keep your eyes peeled! I’ll be posting frequent updates!!)

Please also check out Ben’s stuff. He’s honestly such a great and funny guy. He deserves so much more love lmao-

And thank you @hootbon (co-director of WH) for drawing this image to (hopefully) get his attention! ^^

Scarabella - Icons from Miraculous Ladybug season 4

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Super Bug (Arcade) Developed/Published by: Atari / Kee Games Released: 9/1977 Completed: 12/03/2023 Completion: Hit bonus time ending with 200 points. Version Played: Atari Flashback Classics Trophies / Achievements: n/a

So this came out–as far as the internet knows–the same month people were being wowed by the Atari 2600 in the home, so it’s interesting to compare the cutting edge (?) of arcades at the time with a game that (apparently) remained a top-grossing arcade game until 1979. What’s surprising, I guess, is how basic this still seems? There’s still a black and white monitor–with the Super Bug’s yellow just a stick on piece of yellow film–and the game follows the “play to a time limit” system that games haven’t grown past yet (they won’t learn to limit play time by just being brutally difficult for a while yet, it seems.) It is, otherwise, a mildly diverting top down racer with a strange focus on gear shifting: there are no rival cars (well, apart from some parked ones you might crash into) so the game is mostly about getting to top speed and trying to turn corners in good time. If you ever crash you have to quickly work your way back up the gears to get up to speed as quickly as possible, but you can’t see your revs and gears 1 and 2 you seem to top out of almost instantly, meaning it adds almost nothing other than some pointless fumbling about while you get back on track. And collision detection is still nearly as vicious as Sprint 8, you’ll be fumbling a bit more than you think is fair.

My suspicion is that while the gear shifting doesn’t add much to the play, the original arcade machine’s gear shifter was likely a selling point–the nearest comparison point I can make being the way that slamming through the gears while playing Daytona USA always felt amazing (even if I have never mastered drift shifting.) So maybe what I now view as “pointless fumbling” was actually why you’d play this–trying to memorize the track, go as fast as possible, and then getting to clunk a big shifter around as a reward for when you fouled up. In 2023 this is pretty forgettable though. 

Will I ever play it again? No.

Final Thought: Super Bug would go on to form the basis of 1978’s Fire Truck, which is unusual for being a rare co-operative driving game. How many of those can you think of? Lucky and Wild? Uh…