Nerding Day: The Complete Austin Powers for Gameboy Strategy Guide
Added 2024-08-01 12:00:09 +0000 UTC
Does Austin Powers make you horny, baby? Yeah, baby, yeah! Well, you better (oh) behave, because there’s now two incredible games based on the hit Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery franchise. And, I know what you’re thinking, and yes, they are actually both parodies of Windows 95 (well, technically Windows 2000) for the Game Boy Color. It’s time to wake up, sweetheart, because the games of your dreams are here in real life. And those games are Austin Powers: Oh, Behave! and Austin Powers: Welcome To My Underground Lair!.
Developed by Rockstar games, the company behind the pretty-similar-in-quality Grand Theft Auto 5, Austin Powers: Oh, Behave! and Austin Powers: Welcome To My Underground Lair! are both packed with Easter eggs for fans of the series and/or Microsoft operating system history up to that point. If you’re a fan of either Mike Myers or Steve Ballmer, you’re going to find a lot to love here!
But “find” is the keyword! Without this guide, you might not see everything these games have to offer without spending minutes of time searching. True, a lot of the fun is discovering that you can access the same three or four features the same three or four confusingly different ways! But why not cut to the chase and have the time of your life with, one more time, Austin Powers: Oh, Behave! and Austin Powers: Welcome To My Underground Lair!
First up in the Austin Powers Windows 95 parody series is “Oh, Behave!” Although, technically, neither game is the “first” game. Think of the two Austin Powers Game Boy Color games as a bit like Pokémon, except there is barely any difference between versions and the only thing you can catch by owning them both is looks of pity from family and friends. Still, since this one is themed after the hero of the game, let’s go first!
Next up is Dr. Evil’s game, Austin Powers: Welcome To My Underground Lair! As you know, this is also a Windows 95 parody. We really liked Windows 95 at the time. There was a whole video with some of the cast of friends explaining why Windows 95 was so great. Although, I guess when this came out, Windows 2000 was already a thing. The two didn’t have a big difference as far as I remember, but I was a child. Okay, I have to write about the game now. I’m sorry to do this to you. Can I call you back later? Great. Love you, bye. Shit, I didn’t mean to say “love you.”
Anyway, this game starts like the other with the words and the booting and the jokes and the references and whatnot. I want to be critical, but there were actually one or two gags in there that I liked and that just made me feel bad about myself and the future ahead.
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Comments
Oh god, I had both of these as a child and had somehow repressed that fact until I saw those screenshots...that motorcycle game was at least a 6/10 to this playground hero.
Josh M
2024-08-05 13:34:42 +0000 UTCThey have their moments, but they really leaned into the kind of 00s 'comedy' appealing to teenage boys that aged like bananas at the best of times.
Swift Justice
2024-08-05 10:14:40 +0000 UTCLook I know it wasn't on purpose but that 83 is going to haunt me. I'll be trying to sleep in the heat waves wondering why 83? Is that why this happened, did the 83 cause this? Either way it's still Groovy Baby, Yeah!
LyraV
2024-08-02 18:56:03 +0000 UTCWe need the "So I married an axe murderer" graphical adventure
Fatamatician
2024-08-02 02:49:16 +0000 UTCThat sentence about rose colored glasses made me stop. Look out the window at the partly sunny/partly rainy sky. Take a sip of my drink. And sigh. Dial up internet was pretty bad.
Vooster
2024-08-01 20:46:46 +0000 UTCWhat I love about Austin Powers is that they finally made a realistic spy trilogy. No sneaking around, finding things out, just pure spycraft with gadgets and weapons and deadly effective judo, like what I assume the CIA uses. Of course it's just a movie, so we'll never have a perfect, lethal agent like that. That's why the Mustafas and Dr. Evils out there are able to keep launching celebrities into space. Those kinds of threats are why I will always vote for a politician that increases funding to our intelligence agencies with thier wonderful, wonderful spy cars. They're the real heroes. And scientists too, I guess. We need them to reverse engineer fembot technology.
skjoldr
2024-08-01 20:15:52 +0000 UTCYes it is the perhaps under-aknowledged price of pursuin the hot dog path that sometimes the pixelated fat bastard stares back at you
sissyneck
2024-08-01 19:41:01 +0000 UTCThere could’ve been more but Rockstar either realized the GBA was right around the corner or that GTA was the only cash cow they needed for handhelds.
Devon the Rogue Supreme
2024-08-01 19:12:56 +0000 UTCThis is one of those 1900HOTDOG articles where I was left guessing, until about half way through the article, whether the topic of discussion was even real. I am guessing now, that it is, but I will leave it a bit of a mystery. Also, divorces can be done by mail in Washington? If my parents had known that, first grade might have gone a lot easier.
Matthew Harris
2024-08-01 18:42:15 +0000 UTCI absolutely refuse to watch any of the Austin Powers movies and these few references attest to my wisdom. I've made good choices and lived a decent life. Whenever I start to forget that, Hotdog is here to remind me. With jokes.
Bonnybedlam
2024-08-01 18:01:13 +0000 UTCMichael Caine is extremely open about the fact he's done shit movies for the money. His comment when asked if he'd seen Jaws 4 was basically "No, but I've heard it's terrible. I have seen the house it paid for, and that's lovely."
Matt Edwards
2024-08-01 17:43:44 +0000 UTCMade the mistake of renting the first Austin Powers movie. Within minutes of viewing, I felt compelled to flee to the kitchen to wash dishes. It's the first time I walked out of a movie at home.
Kevin Hanlon
2024-08-01 16:42:29 +0000 UTCBy the end of most 1900hotdog articles, I end up in a cloud of despair, regretting my life. I'm glad for this peek behind the curtains, as I now know the writers feel the same way.
The Parallel Viewmaster
2024-08-01 15:29:11 +0000 UTCIs “Let’s plug and play baby, yeah” intended to be a double entendre rather than just a dumb use of buzzwords? If so, that’s pretty decent. Also, kinda disappointing that “Yes please” isn’t an option for Sex. The censors must’ve caught that.
SudsiestPanda
2024-08-01 14:31:36 +0000 UTCDon't give up! There's still Austin Powers: Goldmember Edition where it's basically the same as the other two versions but Michael Caine follows you around and you can talk to him and he'll tell you if he likes you and why he agreed to do On Deadly Ground.
FancyShark
2024-08-01 14:24:28 +0000 UTCWe mock, but respect to the dev team and project lead that pitched this, managed to talk a moneyman into permitting it, and got it pushed out through Nintendo's walled garden. You absolute madlads.
Robert K.
2024-08-01 14:17:00 +0000 UTCDo the Love Guru phone game next!
Skebotron
2024-08-01 14:08:16 +0000 UTCWhat's the difference?
Pee-Wee's Uncle
2024-08-01 14:04:58 +0000 UTCCome for the comedy, stay for the lifetime of bitter regret.
Max Rockatansky
2024-08-01 12:32:55 +0000 UTC
