Pico Roulette
Remember Pico Vs Uberkids? It's back with online play and new characters! - Newgrounds Description
Pico Roulette is a now-defunct Flash game created for Pico Day by Tom Fulp, PsychoGoldfish, and BrenTheMan released on April 30, 2007. It was an online multiplayer version of Pico vs. Überkids that featured more playable characters and allowed users to play Rock-Paper-Scissors Roulette against each other.
Due to the game's servers shutting down, it was rendered unplayable and was deactivated in Pico Day 2013 before finally being deleted from Newgrounds entirely.
History
Pico vs. Überkids was first released in the year 2000, by Pico creator Tom Fulp.
The original game featured Pico, Nene, and Darnell against a group of genetically engineered Überkids. It was one player vs the computer's AI system.
The following year, Tom began development of an online multiplayer version of Pico vs. Überkids, where the player would be able to choose from a wider cast of characters and play against human opponents over the web. The effort didn't go far, though, and Tom abandoned the project early on.
Meanwhile, PsychoGoldfish was doing his own experiments with online play, leading to him and BrenTheMan developing the Sanguine Server for online multiplayer games.
Six years later, Tom approached PsychoGoldfish about revisiting Pico vs. Überkids online for Pico Day 2007.
Tom prepared artwork for seven new characters (Cyclops, Alucard, Hanzo, Cassandra, and the Ghettobots from Pico's School), while PsychoGoldfish re-programmed the original game to support online play (in addition to adding a lobby, player select screen and trash-talking chat!).
Characters
Reception
Trying to find the exact response to the game is difficult, but from what can be found by scant few sources is that Pico Roulette had at least positive reception. Upon its release to Newgrounds, the game would earn the Daily 4th Place award the day after Pico Day, as many players enjoyed its multiplayer format. Though over time, complaints were made towards the lack of server connection. Before its shutdown, the game collected up to 1.3 million views and held an average score of 3.65/5.00.
Gallery
An empty Pico Roulette lobby.
Select screen.
Pico sitting.
Pico after a tie.
Pico after losing.
Pico after winning.
Nene sitting.
Nene after a tie.
Nene after losing.
Nene after winning.
Darnell sitting.
Darnell after a tie.
Darnell after losing.
Darnell after winning.
The Überkids as they appear in the introduction sequence.
An Überkid sitting.
An Überkid after a tie (also used for Überjon when Darnell doesn't get shot in the head).
An Überkid after losing.
An Überkid after winning.
The Goth Punks as seen in the introduction sequence.
Cassandra sitting.
Cassandra after a tie.
Cassandra after losing.
Cassandra after winning.
Cassandra "goofing" with the gun.
Cassandra's death animation.
Alucard's mouse trigger animation.
Alucard sitting.
Alucard after a tie.
Alucard after losing.
Alucard after winning.
Alucard's death animation from.
Hanzo sitting.
Hanzo after a tie.
Hanzo after losing.
Hanzo after winning.
Hanzo's death animation.
Cyclops sitting.
Cyclops after a tie.
Cyclops after losing.
Cyclops performing his outrageous mating dance.
Cyclops' death animation.
Leroy sitting.
Leroy after a tie.
Leroy after losing.
Leroy after winning.
Leroy's death animation.
Roc sitting.
Roc after a tie.
Roc after losing.
Roc after winning.
Roc's death animation.
José's mouse trigger animation.
José sitting.
José after a tie.
José after losing.
José after winning.
José's death animation.
Reptile takes off his mask in his mouse trigger animation.
Reptile sitting.
Reptile after losing.
Reptile's death animation.
Video
Trivia
- The music played during the game was chosen by what the most popular song in the Newgrounds Audio Portal was at the time.
- Various character names have been changed for this game:
- Cassandra's name was fixed from Casandra to Cassandra.
- Leroy's name was misspelled Leyroy.
- Hanzo was misspelled as Hanzou.
- Reptile is the only character not to have appeared in the original Pico games, as he originated from the Mortal Kombat fighting game series.