So recently, I had one of those weird dreams. I guess it wasn't really that weird - in fact, it seemed semi-plausible in parts - but I'll let you judge for yourselves.
Anyway, in that dream, I learned of a lost SNES game titled Mickey's Magical Adventure (not to be confused with the actual VTech game with that name). Apparently, it was a collab between Disney, Nintendo, and Sega, and even featured Sonic and Tails - and, for some strange reason, Dennis the Menace (the UK comics character, not the US one) - as guest characters. Apparently, it was considered "lost media" because while there were videos and magazine articles, there were no ROMs to be found anywhere on the Internet.
The thing that stuck out the most to me was that there were so many butts in the game. When you selected your character, there was a short animated cutscene of them with their back turned to the viewer, strutting down a corridor while shaking their behind (and yes, Mickey, Sonic, Tails, and even Dennis - who, strangely enough, was wearing his usual outfit, except that he'd apparently forgotten to put on his shorts, meaning that everyone could see his underpants - strutted while shaking their butts, too). I also saw a "Game Over" screen that consisted of a close-up of Sonic and Tails's butts as the duo wiggled them around (much like the "The End" screens in the obscure Sega Saturn platformers Bug! and Bug Too!), while the words "TRY AGAIN?" were on the top of the screen. I assume that was the same for all the characters.
As for the levels, I only remember one vertical grassy biome level, and another level where you were on the mast of a sinking wooden ship, which swayed left and right in Mode 7 fashion.
One more thing I remember about this dream is that I learned that the reason this game was "lost media" was that all parties involved, shortly after the game was released, became ashamed of it for whatever reason (perhaps they got a lot of complaints from soccer moms about the gratuitous booty-shaking?), and order that all future copies were to be destroyed, and all present copies be prohibited from sale.
So yeah, that's pretty much what I remember about my dream. Like I said earlier, it wasn't really all that weird - parts of it even seemed semi-plausible - but I just can't get those butts out of my mind.
I was today years old when I discovered the USA had their own version of Dennis the Menance.
And no, no one ripped off anyone. They were both released on the same day, same month, same year. 12th March 1951. With no connections between the artists.
I will admit tho, US Dennis just seems like a normal kid who causes slight inconveniences or small mischief whilst UK Dennis is just straight up committing war crimes on the daily
why does youtube keep recommending me weird horrid henry videos that seem to be taking the show way too seriously and trying to diagnose the characters with various personality disorders?! is it some bizarre tiktok trend or what...?
so I found this picrew dollmaker...just wanted to make the kids. Obviously the options make it so that they're not 100% accurate but I still think they look nice.
Beano Cardz: Dennis the Menace (Windows/Classic Mac, 2001)
Card-shaped mini-CD merch of the long-running British comic book The Beano, and of its most famous character, who coincidentally shares his name with an American character who debuted in the same month as him. You can download it here, and run it in your browser by dragging the .iso file onto the emulated Mac desktop here.
The featured contest's prize was tickets to the Chesstington World of Adventures theme park, which at the time had a Beanoland area themed around the comic. The Beanoland theming's closure in 2009 was commemorated with a massive pie fight.
and as i recall last week that i exposed all of you to a homophobic uk children's comic, i remember im not locked in with all of you, you're all locked in here with me.
TIL that not only is there a different Dennis the Menace in the US but that the UK and US versions were both randomly created with no contact between the authors and were published on the same day.
I thought "There is no way this is true" but all the sources I could find said it was true?!?! What an incredibly bizarre coincidence!
People talk about how Weird that the US and the UK both have a comic character called Dennis the Menace that both premiered on the same day.
The difference between the two (other than character design) is US Dennis is an adorable little scamp who gets up to mischief and doesn't mean any real harm.
UK Dennis knows if you add sugar to concrete it doesn't set properly. UK Dennis knows that you can connect to most Supermarket Music systems using Bluetooth. UK Dennis knows that you can open the Advertisements on Bus Stops and replace them with whatever the hell you want with an Allen Key. British Dennis knows what he's doing and knows how to commit crimes.
He knows the Age of Criminal responsibility in the UK is 10 and he is using that to his full advantage.
tattoo guy noided me to a bunch of UK comic names all i remember is "beano" (name of comic) "dastardly dan" and the uk version of dennis the menace who is infinitely cooler than the US one and also has a shithead sister minnie the minx. fuck i miss scotland dude