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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Picture this: it’s the year 2000. I’m spending the summer at the family farm out in the sticks in Texas. (It’s called “the farm” but we haven’t seriously farmed anything there since I was a tiny baby.) There’s one internet-capable computer and I use it to read Seanbaby.com on those evenings I have time at it. Our only other connection to the outside world is making periodic jaunts to one of many mom-n-pop movie rental places. Obviously, we rent Austin Powers. Obviously, I buy Nintendo Power while I’m there, hoping for more news about Earthbound 64, especially because the family computer with ZSNES and Earthbound Classic on it is all the way over in Virginia–actually, wait, we were in Arkansas at the time, having just survived a nonstop hell of friendless bullying in 6th grade. Also, I had made zero friends in Arkansas as of yet.
Hold that image in your mind.
Because when I read in that Nintendo Power that you could write things in the Austin Powers GBC word processor, I thought aloud, “Writing something to yourself in the Austin Powers Gameboy Color is the loneliest goddamn thing I’ve ever heard of.”
Man…I remember being so psyched for Earthbound 64 too, I was so hyped up for that
This is how I expect all the 1,001 ways to say I love you books to end.
I’m turning 39 in one week. For the last few years I’ve been picking up the pieces of my life after an intense, but ultimately doomed partnership. Still adrift spiritually, creatively, career-wise – resorting to kitchen work, the last real skill I have that doesn’t require me to confront some of my least examined traumas. Found this website in it’s early days after seeking solace in nostalgia for Seanbaby’s writing.
I have very complicated feeling about this comedy article about a pair of Austin Powers GBC games.
Jesus dude are you me
Help me out here:
Am I the only person who thought this article would be mocking an actual strategy guide?😂