#bfdia announcer

[bfdifan26]

mushy comic about leafy and announcer running into eachother in bfdia

[tapwater118]

Has anyone ever heard of “Battle for Dream Island” (1990) before? Really obscure NES game, doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page (or hell, even a mention in one).

From what little I can find about it on the internet, Battle for Dream Island was an NES game released on January 1st, 1990, apparently made entirely by a pair of independent American developers. Never made all that many sales, but eventually it garnered a rather niche following on an obscure gaming forum, though it had long since dissipated. Unfortunately, seemingly nothing from the forum threads was archived, so all I have to go on are a few vague threads titles from a navigation page.

I, rather cliched like, bought this BfDI cartridge from a sleazy old guy at a flea market (along with Puzznic and Wario’s Woods for a bargain deal). I dumped the ROM and booted it up on an emulator to take some screencaps.

Upon pressing start, you are prompted to “Choose Contestant,” and have a choice between any of 20 playable characters (who are all everyday objects, for some reason). Each contestant has their own stats, and while you can feel the difference while playing, the overall impact of character choice is pretty negligible. (Also some of these guys don’t even have arms?? Weird design choice but okay.)

Two screencaps of the character select screen. I went with Pin for my first playthrough cause idk she seemed kinda cute. I’m almost sure the stats are “Strength,” “Speed,” “Jump,” and “Skill.”

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While touting itself as a game show, BfDI is essentially a glorified minigame collection. The gameplay loop is as follows: You and the 19 other contestants play a minigame (referred to as “challenges”) to earn points based on how well you do (though I’m fairly certain the computer contestants just get a random amount of points for each challenge). Most of the challenges are various platforming segments, though some others fall more into puzzle game territory.

Two of the challenges. The green “Win Tokens” can be collected for bonus points. LEFT: A horizontal platformer level. The grey wall in the middle of the screencap moves up and down. RIGHT: A challenge about climbing ladders while avoiding “acid spitballs.” The game pauses to scroll vertically a la Super Mario Bros. 2.

After each challenge, this speaker thing shows up (pretty sure he’s supposed to be like a game show host?) and tallies up everyone’s score. The contestant with the least score gets “eliminated” and removed from the game.

The results screen. Leafy did rather poor on the last challenge, so she’s out of the game.

The game continues like this until you lose (have the least amount of points) and get booted to the game over screen, or until you are the last one left, in which case you win Dream Island! (Though of course in reality you just get booted back to the title screen. No Dream Island for you.)

The victory screen, with the gates to Dream Island in sight. Feels more like the gates to hell given how Pin’s staring at me.

It’s a fairly easy game for NES standards (I won on my first try). Took me about 80 minutes on my first playthrough, though subsequent ones could take less than an hour as I knew what I was doing. The brevity and the fact it saves your high score gives BfDI a nice sense of replayability (though this is probably best done sporadically, as the challenges tend to get a bit samey after a couple of back-to-back playthroughs).

So yeah, just wanted to share this in case anybody else has heard of it. I’ll probably rip the sprites and upload them sometime later cause it doesn’t look like anybody’s done that yet.

[asbestos-boy-68]

lowkey bitchass limbless robotic object show characters you don’t understand how much i love you

[drawing-an-osc-everyday]

Drawing one OSC everyday

Day 17 : ANNOUNCER! (BFDI)

[l1ghtbulb]

CAN YOU DRAW MY FAVORITE IS FRIES??

here he is my dear fren @sodacansilly

[goodeguy]

Maybe Six, Nine, and Announcer?

Hanging out at the park, maybe?

park island

[spadeiguess]

I decided to make this list yesterday [ BFDI and II version ]

Help the BFDI one was so hard to come up with I don’t think I even hate Evil Leafy LOL

[ampre-4]

I drew all the hosts and co-hosts that have appeared so far in BFDI! I didn't put Grassy because it hasn't been long, nor the Firey Speaker Box clone and all the other speaker box because I don't care about them except Flower Speaker Box, Firey Speaker Box and Puffball Speaker Box. (Text comes from "abcdefg") I will no longer draw drawings with many characters for a long time!!

[gameslotel]

head empty

[deezii69]

FIGHT ME 😡😡

The ranks are not ranked if that makes sense cuz I wanted it to be rainbow 😊

[occasionallycoinpin]

occasionally coinpin 26

[hikkokeka]

... yes.

[tapwater118]

uhhh bfdi swap au

[asbestos-boy-68]

if jnj is releasing an announcer plush i’m going to buy him and soak him in milk and then suck the milk out and throw him against the wall and then coat him in concrete.

[inanimateinsanitystuffzbecos]

there’s so many things wrong with benjis animated version of the bfdia song

The animation (don didn’t animate this one 😔)

so many characters are just the pngs you find on google

X IS THERE?!??

ANNOUNCER HAS A MOUTH?!??

rocky doesn’t move his mouth when it gets to his part but teardrop does when it gets to her part so you can’t even use the excuse she was singing in her head they flat out just didn’t know she was mute

PUFFBALL HAS ARMS?!?? but no legs still at least

[ohnoiyo]

I MADE AN OSC BRACELET!!

now, you may be thinking… what’s with those weird color choices for the beads? Starting from the top left:

Green, blue, yellow, orange, silver - BFDI season title cards! G&B for season one and YOS for season 2! same thing with the BFDI(A) letters except i couldn’t find a green F :/

Black, blue, yellow, green - BFDI’s main hosts! We’ve got the Announcer and the 3 algebralien hosts!

OSC in the middle because why not

Turquoise, magenta, white, green - II hosts and co-hosts! MePhone, MePad, Toilet, and Floory.

III for the 3 season title cards, green for season one, blue for two, black for three! And repeat for the last three beads

p fun, but i made it too tight so it’ll just be there for emotional support for II18😥