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Valet Parking 1989 Dev Diary

Learn more about DSiWare's premiere late-'80s valet parking game from the men that made it!

Jun. 1 2011

Posted by: Jeff

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Valet Parking 1989

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Wait, so these guys are just having a laugh, right? 

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@Arrested_Developer: I'm just havin' fun!
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If I owned a North American DSi...
...and had a Nintendo Points card...
...and turned off the security on my router...
...and paged through the DSiWare shop allllllll the way to "V"...
I WOULD SO BUY THIS GAME.
 
(According to 'Pedia it's not in the JP shop yet, otherwise I'd be playing it now. Not trollin'! ;)

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Face it. you need this.

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awkward European dudes speaking unintelligibly into a horrible camera.  

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I don't quite get the tone of this video.
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This game is the new Andy Kaufman.

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welp

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@tunel said:
Where is the train when we need it the most?
Don't worry, friend Tunel. Soon we'll discover that the train was inside us all along, and that we can bring it back if we just believe.
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This is some kind of joke...right? 

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Two months too late.

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Holy shit, this is actually real. 
 
I think somebody out there needs to develop a lawn mowing game.  Or a fingernail clipping game.  Or a washing dishes game (not to be confused with the sequel, the washing clothes game).  Or a paint drying game.
 
Sad part is ... they'd probably sell ... what has humanity devolved into ...
 
EDIT:  And seriously, how many people does it take to make this game?  Where's the HR lady, the CFO, the Quality Control Dept head?  Did they get Nolan North to do the voice work?  Because no expense should be spared here.  I mean, in for a dime, in for a dollar, right?

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So many things are wrong with this, that I can't even begin to..... no just no.
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Don't let the valet take the keys to your train,cause you don't know where he's gonna take that thing.

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@oroboros: You speak as though a lawn mowing game could only exist as a hypothetical thing. I assure you, that is hardly the case, having played just that sort of thing myself.
  
   
Yeah! Mow that snow like there's no tomorrow!
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"We want young people to discover the cool awesomeness of the 80s" - Now I grew up in the 90s but when I think of the 80s "cool awesomeness" are the last 2 words I would use to describe them
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@Pepsiman:  I sit in awe.  I must have somehow missed that one.  I blame the drugs.  Not sure for what, but I blame them.

- - -

"The core gameplay is driving cars.  In parking lots.  In each level, there is a line of cars.  With driving guests.  That wants to get served.  And your task it to take these cars, and park them.  In free parking spaces.  And then when guest wants to leave, you have to bring back the car."
 
Wait, so like, valet parking ... like the title of the game?
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What the hell Sweden?

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I can't stop smiling, this has made my day.

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shitty

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@Pepsiman: Love that fiddle... How does the alcoholic mother/abusive stepdad factor into the story?
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I think the third guy may be related to Alex.

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@Jumanji: That's the central tenet of the story! The implications of spoiling that would be even worse than Aeris dying in Final Fantasy VII! You ask too much of me!
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Partial fix for my NDX withdrawls

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Driving cars?? SWEET! 
 
...In parking lots?

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Hot beats. Hot beats.

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"It's about driving cars...in parking lots". Hell Yeah!

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Sweden seems like a weird place.

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:( I feel bad............ 
 
Gosh, that music sounds so very close to Scrap Zone from Sonic 1........

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What the what

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what.

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um, is it bad if I think this actually looks kind of fun?
Maybe my expectations for DSiWare are just so low that when something kind of fun looking comes around I guess I just don't know how to react to it.

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Wauw that was really impressive.

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Game of the year!!!!!

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This seems like a game someone would make in Game Dev Story.

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If you go to their website (don't) they list a bunch of old titles, but don't be fooled, this is actually their first release. Actually their second. They did in fact make a lawnmowing game too, called Lawnmowing Kids.
 
Valet Parking has been in development for years and the company consists of four employees and about ten interns. The other games on their site like Aqua Moto Racing and Biodefence was developed by (now defunct) Resolution Interactive, a company I used to work for, which were all purchased by Zordix early 2011. 
 
I have to hand it to them. This trailer is priceless. I think it sums up the company and their game pretty damn well. 

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I can't wait to rediscover "the cool awesomeness of the '80s" !

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I'm looking forward to the Quick Look of this game!

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@RazielCuts said:
This seems like a game someone would make in Game Dev Story.
Oh man, I hope that there's someone out there who made this in Game Dev Story and then realizes that the game they made up is NOW REAL. That's some Goosebumps / Alan Wake shit, dawg.
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WHAT THE FUCK

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Swedes!

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BAD ASS VALET MOTHER FUCKERS (of the cool 1980s).

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The minute I saw the thumbnail i knew Jeff posted this, awesome!

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I was born in 89.. so clearly this is an auto-biographical about my birth and rise to power as the youngest Valet parker in History.

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@Abyssfull said:
I was born in 89.. so clearly this is an auto-biographical about my birth and rise to power as the youngest Valet parker in History.
no its just an auto-biographical about how you got consived by your drunk mother and a eligal imigrant in the back of her car... 
 
 now that have been said no offence 
 just thought it was funny and fittet well in to your line
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i love how the producer says the name wrong at 1:57 (1999 instead of 1989)

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God damn you, Jeff. Just -- god damn you.

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I am not so young but I want to discover the cool awesomeness of the 80's. 

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Trivia*: More than double the amount of time spent researching car models went into this game than what the GT5 team needed.
 
*Trivia may not be accurate, or real.

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wat...