Stay Tooned!

About Stay Tooned!

Stay Tooned! is an action-adventure game where the player must retrieve several keys in an apartment complex to find a remote to zap rogue cartoon characters back into TV Land after they have been let out of the television and stolen the remote. The apartment complex has five floors to navigate, including the roof, the basement and several hidden rooms. Numerous tasks must be completed to retrieve the keys, such as building a Rube Goldberg machine; some of the tasks are abnormal, such as shaving Fiddle to the bone.

To retrieve the remote, the player must find an oven mitt for the oven in Apartment 5D, which houses the remote. Once the player gets the remote, the toons must be zapped into the television to beat the game.

The game begins in a large apartment building in the middle of an unnamed city. The player takes the place of an ordinary patron living in an apartment. The player starts off simply channel-surfing with a TV remote and watching short cartoons and commercials that parody real-life shows; said shows include Whinefeld, a parody of Seinfeld. One channel has the game's chief programmer providing hints on how to play the upcoming game.

Several cartoon characters either forbid or encourage the player to push the red button on their remote as the player surfs the channels. When the player pushes the button, the cartoons break out of the television set, steal the remote, and cause the entire apartment complex to go into animated form. The player must retrieve the television remote, which is the only thing that can zap the escaped toons and send them back to TV Land, the fictional toon world found within the depths of the television. The player searches the other apartments for the remote while playing about thirty games contained within them and avoiding the destructive trickery committed by the escaped toons.

At the end of the game, once the remote is retrieved, the player must zap all of the toons back into the television (and that includes extras such as the Überbugs and the penguins). Once all of the toons are captured, as a plot of revenge, Pixel demands Chisel that they can not let the player get away with this. Chisel grabs the player and warps them into the television. Once they make it into TV Land, the player gets flattened, and has the disturbing realization that, in the process, the player has been turned into a toon as well.