Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006

Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006 is a 12-minute, black and white animated movie by Paul Laurence Robertson, featuring music by Cornel Wilczek, also known as Qua. It depicts a fictional side-scroller video game, "heavily influenced and inspired by anime, cult 1980s platform games such as Double Dragon, Bubble Bobble and R-Type, and Australian popular culture" in which two male heroes must fight their way through a building full of zombies, humans, giant grubs and octopuses to rescue a woman being held captive by a pirate baby.

Sponsored by Melbourne's [http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/info.cfm?top=75&pg=791 Living the Arts] program, it was first shown at the [http://2006festival.nextwave.org.au/ Next Wave Festival] on March 15, 2006. It was released on the internet as a 113 MB MPEG video on April 20, 2006.

The fictional game begins with an introductory title sequence. There are five play levels, each with a boss at the end. The two heroes each have a preferred fighting style; one primarily uses a baseball bat, though he also uses Uzis at one point, and the other utilizes a variety of kicks. Numerous special attacks are used, including three which are specifically named:

* "Datsun 180b Monster Truck"
* "The Ghosts of a Billion Dead Mosquitos"
* "You are Entering a World of Pain"

It ends with credits and stills depicting events after the pirate baby is defeated.

External links

* [http://probertson.livejournal.com/ Paul Robertson's Journal]
* [http://www.selectparks.net/modules.php?file=article&name=News&sid=442 Selectparks featured video]
* [http://www.selectparks.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=453/ Selectparks Pirate Baby Artist T-Shirt]
* [http://2006festival.nextwave.org.au/objectlibrary/591 Press Release from the Next Wave Festival]
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=908674814285543652 The animation on GoogleVideo]
* [http://www.quamusic.com/ Music composer Cornel Wilczek's site]