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Jun 29, 2007

I tried making a video game out of paper and a box (and a few other craft items) once as a kid. Of course this was before I had a Nintendo or Playstation so it would have been quite the item to own, and quite an accomplishment in engineering as well. I believe it was to feature a spaceship that had to fly through some obstacles… like meteors, along a rolling paper backdrop. I don’t think I ever quite figured out how it would keep score. Wally has a pretty solid scoring system in place though, permanent win for the win!

82 Comments

  1. New Guy says:

    !st reply!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2. New Guy says:

    Oops, I meant 1st reply, and great comic Tylor! 🙂

  3. Mia says:

    Yay, first comment! :mrgreen:

    Making things out of paper used to be my trick! My parents wouldn’t let us have a TV in the house, so I made one out of paper. The picture didn’t change though 😕

  4. Mia says:

    Aggh, NewGuy beat me to it! I thought I was finally first comment!

  5. Is Osborne bleeding in the game? 😥 i love paper. Paper Airplanes are my specialty!

  6. lisa says:

    :mrgreen: 😐 😈 ➡ 😯 🙂 😕 😎 👿 😀 💡 😳 😛 🙄 😉 😥 😮 😆 😡 🙁 ❗ ❓
    have not checked in forever b/c he didn’t update came back and he did whoooo
    and cute little symbols!

  7. LTaniki says:

    I would have riped that paper up.

  8. Nicwe comic!Come on Wally,..Let Ossie have a try !

  9. Nice comic!Come on Wally,..Let Ossie have a try !

  10. BriGuy says:

    Interesting game, Wally. 🙁

    Is that really what Wally thinks polar bears looks like?

  11. Tre says:

    Top 10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Funny, I could never win against my sister, either.

  12. Michael says:

    This is my first time replying but I like the comics.
    Really great job tyler, Keap up the good work. Wally always did make me laugh

  13. Sarah da penguin lvr says:

    hehe, wally is funny 🙂
    but he’s kinda cheating 👿
    poor osborne, he’s getting beat 50,000 to 12 🙁

  14. WALLY3330 says:

    WHAT GAME IS THAT?

  15. Mikko says:

    Impressive. And I just watched “Top 10 Worst consoles”. Less than minute ago. You read my mind.

  16. awesome comic tyler thats just like wen i race my bro on his ps2 and every time after he wins i ask to use the car he used :mrgreen: 😎 im icey chill 😎

  17. tux says:

    Heh, I remember playing NHL 98 against my friend and he *always* had to be the home team otherwise he would refuse, his 1st and 3rd periods would be good and he’d be horrible during the second. :mrgreen:

  18. Bobby Bob Bob says:

    hey!
    waste-paper-wally and origami-osborne! :mrgreen:

  19. YEAH!!!! 19th comment! WOOT! 😎 😛 😮 lol. anyways…great comics.

  20. kurby says:

    Well at least osborne has 12 points insted of 0…but I could beat wally on the wii 😆 🙂 😎 😀 🙄 .Cool comic tyler 🙂 😉

  21. kurby says:

    Well at least osborne has 12 points insted of 0…but I could beat wally on the wii 😆 🙂 😎 😀 :roll:.Cool comic tyler 🙂 😉

  22. wallyiciouse says:

    i do origami. i am pretty good at it too!once i folded a shrimp\lobster and for the antena i used lobster antena, because i just had lobster (i was at my aunts house, in maine)

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    nice comic tyler

  24. Phizlo says:

    Cool video game. 🙂 I still have the old Super Nintendo. Man, my game systems are old. 😡

  25. Poppy says:

    I made one too, based on yours!
    Theirs a penguin and a polar bear, they have to make combined animals! The judge says which one is best and the person who gets the judge gets 10 points! This continues until game is over. The person who has the most points becomes the “King of Antarctica!”
    P.S. I am DYING for Wally’s backstory! 😀

  26. Penguin Guru says:

    It’s great that your doing daily updates again Tyler. :mrgreen: I have a Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, PS1, and Gamecube. I’m saving for a Wii and/or PS3. 😉 Guys! Don’t waste your money on the first edition of an iphone. ❗ You know they are just gonna come out with better versions of an iphone. So save your money for a year, then buy a better version of the iphone. 💡 Keep up the good work Tyler! 😆

  27. Macdp says:

    My video games are OLD. I have a GBA, a GBA SP, a Dreamcast (I am amazed that it still works) and a PS2. Most of my friends have a Nintendo DS. 🙁 😥 But along with my PS2 I have an Eyetoy Camera!!!! :mrgreen:
    My ipod isn’t really and ipod. It’s actually a, er. . . Sandiskpod.

  28. Macdp says:

    Poor Osborne. Yet Wally seems so joyful. . . :mrgreen: 😡

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  30. wow did wally get some sort of cheat code or something…thats the advantage, if you made the game, you know all the cheat codes

  31. Quababababa says:

    I love your comic. I want to marry it.

  32. Bramblefire says:

    Hi guys! I’m back!
    Tyler, I have an idea for a comic:
    Wally stares at Osborne, who is tap-dancing, and asks “Osborne, what are you doing” “I’m tap-dancing” And then Wally would try to tap-dance, but crackes the ice and Osborne falls into the water.
    Do you like my idea 😕 😕 😕

  33. Bramblefire says:

    gosh the time on this one hour behind right now it’s 9:26a.m.

  34. Penguin Boy says:

    Hey. I can’t believe Tyler hasn’t seen Surf’s up yet. I’ve seen it twice. The first time I saw it, it wasn’t in our local theater, so i drove myself 25 miles to see it. 😮 The second time, it was at my city theater. I took my sister to see it, she didn’t like it really well though. She just saw Ratatouille last friday and said it was a lot better. 😡 But I love Surf’s Up it is so funny. It’s a must for all penguin lovers.

  35. Guess what???

    BALD EAGLES, according to the news, are NO LONGER ENDANGERED!!!

    As of last night.

    YAY YAY YAY!

    ah yes, Nintendo wii. i WILL get one when there are some in stock!!!

  36. snowyforest says:

    bet the game’s name is “Wally always wins”. 😉

  37. Wally deserves 2 very weak congrats. 1, for beating Osbourne and 2, for finding out how to draw a stick polar bear! 😕

  38. Macdp says:

    I think Wally should stick with making ice sculptures. He’s not a very good artist. And besiddes, speaking of ice sculptures, couldn’t he make a video game out of ice sculptures?
    Hmm, how do you play the game? Just sit there and watch? Zzzz. . .
    Still, this is a good prank. . .

  39. WWW says:

    i agree!! ice sculptures are his specialty

  40. Friendly Penguin says:

    Okay, I admit it, I currently own NO video games WHATSOEVER… except for some computer games, over three quarters of which are not installed and I do not play. Heh, I guess I DO appreciate books more than computer… contrary to popular belief. Yay for grammar and making myself feel smart! *AKA I wish I could write something funny-* Hey, wait a minute, that ”contrary to popular belief” is kinda funny.
    Great comic, I wonder if Osborne will now jump on Wally or punch him with his flippers or do something resembling revenge. Say, making a video game where Osborne always wins and his character looks like some giant mutant penguin or something. Wait, how can he write or draw with flippers? Curious…
    WHOA! I wrote ”KINDA”. That’s like, BAD GRAMMAR!!! But it makes me sound smarter in the long run. :mrgreen:

  41. Bramblefire says:

    Yeah, Friendly, you enjoy WRITING BOOKS on the COMPUTER!!! anyway, I should try to get an EVIL DUDE to appear when I post this. 👿

  42. PG-13 says:

    😀

  43. steve-o says:

    Hey friendly I have an ASTOUNDING revelation. THERE ARE MORE THAN TWELVE GAURDIANS OF GA’HOOLE BOOKS.so far theres only 13 but there will be a fourteenth called exile and after that I don’t know when lasky will stop. the thirteenth is about bess finding hidden writings in the palace of mists so soren coryn and the chaw of chaws go to find it.
    ISN’T THIS AWESOME????!!!!!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉

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  45. Friendly Penguin says:

    That is awesome steve-o!!! I don’t have *cough cough* ANY from ”To be a King” onwards. Shocking, isn’t it? Ah yes, I plan to buy them in good time, but it could take awhile, seeing that our town has NO BOOKSTORE! *gasp*. Shocking, yes. But I will get the books, no matter WHAT!

  46. Brambefire says:

    Hi guys! I also have Guardians of Ga’Hoole books 1-11 (aka The Capture to The Coming of Hoole) And I’ve got Warriors books 1-6 & Warriors New Prophecy books 1-5 of 6 & Warriors manga triolgy 1 of 3 & Warriors Power of Three 0 of 6 and The Secrets of The Clans (Warrior field guide). Every time I finish a Warriors series, a new series pops up into book stores! Last summer I read the first 6 Harry Potter books in one month. Friendly would know that, right, Friendly?

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