Game

Toonstruck

1996 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Mac · DOS · Point-and-click · Adventure

88IGDB player score
43 ratings

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An 88 average flying under the radar. Worth knowing about before everyone else finds it. An adventure game leaning hard into comedy — more about the journey than the destination. No multiplayer, no problem — the campaign carries the whole thing.

About this game

Toonstruck is an adventure game released in 1996 in which, although all the imagery is drawn and scanned into the game, the protagonist Drew Blanc (played and voiced by Christopher Lloyd) is an actual video-captured representation of the actor (the name is a pun, since the character has "drawn a blank" on coming up with a new idea for a character). Drew's sidekick, crudely named Flux Wildly, is a drawn character voiced by Dan Castellaneta. Toonstruck also features scan-line compressed FMV and was also one of the first video games to include stock music from APM Music, notably the classic "Spooky Scherzo" by Sam Fonteyn and "Lonely Hearts Club A" by David Bell.