![]() Even Gex, a character who literally just quotes Austin Powers out loud in his parody-of-a-parody spy game is constantly horny and is implied to have sex with a human woman. Being horny is about 90% of the Austin Powers character. Perhaps Rockstar figured a family-friendly kart racer was a safer bet. The other two Austin Powers games released by Rockstar for the Game Boy Color were rated “T for Teen,” making them outliers on the platform. In an interview with IGN Dreamcast, the game’s executive producer said “We won’t be shagging and Fat Bastard might find himself being referred to in a very hushed voice but other than that we’re able to recreate much of the movie’s humor.” This, combined with the choice of genre, was likely an attempt to reach as wide an audience as possible. And, for some reason, the game was rated “E for Everyone.” Rockstar even hired a funk band to produce 70 minutes of original music. ![]() The characters were all rendered in a photorealistic style with bobblehead proportions, sort of a strange middle ground between Funko Pops and Angela Anaconda. Each kart would handle differently, and the levels were to have various gravity and weather effects. Īustin Powers: Mojo Rally was to be a kart racer for the Sega Dreamcast, featuring an assortment of the series’ heroes and villains racing around movie locations like London, Las Vegas, and The Moon. And while they did release two minigame collections for the Game Boy Color, one game didn’t make it to release. It was during this licensing spree that Take-Two Interactive decided to make a series of Austin Powers video games to be developed by Climax Studios and published by Rockstar - yes, that Rockstar. HBO even bought the rights to make an animated series. There were music videos, licensed action figures, a pinball machine, a collectible card game, and commercials for Pepsi and Heineken among many others. At the turn of the century, however, Austin Powers was making hundreds of millions at the box office and featuring high-profile guest stars like Tom Cruise, Britney Spears, Steven Spielberg, and Beyoncé. These days, we tend to think of the unfrozen secret agent as the first in a series of increasingly over the top weirdos played by Mike Myers or perhaps as a Halloween costume for the same kind of guy who would dress as Borat. More than twenty years after the first movie was released, it’s strange to recall that Austin Powers was once a staggeringly popular franchise.
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