Scrimmy Bingus Family Edition

Inspired by the Nintendo 3DS release Scrimmy Bingus & The Crungy Spingus, Newgrounds user sicklez

## Scrimmy Bingus Family Edition

Title screen of the game.

published Scrimmy Bingus Family Edition on August 15, 2015. The game was developed by Crogus Interactive but originally never released. Crogus planned for the game to release on December 30, 2014 following Scrimmy Bingus for the 3DS, but for unknown reasons they didn’t. It is unknown how sicklez acquired this copy.

The description of the game on Newgrounds reads: "find the bingus before lord zordog takes over!!" This mention of Lord Zordog may be either a joke or an honest mistake, as he does not appear in any games other than Yup, It's A Pup, which would not be released for another four years. A popular fan theory states that Zordog is actually present in the game, taking on the form of the clown Bingus in the fourth level. This would explain why an older Luckie makes a cameo appearance as a clown slayer in Yup, It's A Pup.

## Gameplay

Scrimmy Bingus Family Edition differs greatly from other games, most closely resembling the first, point-and-click style title.

The goal of the game is to find the Bingus in its many forms, hiding typically as strange or out-of-place objects within family photos. Various images feature the Bongi available from the character select screen. After finding the final Bingus, the secret Bongus King Schnitzel becomes available as a playable character.

Your choice of Bongus carries no weight in gameplay despite their varying skills and attributes. Regardless of which character you play as, the game will always claim you made a poor choice.

## Bongi

Instead of the Brongi from other games, this game instead features 9 Bongi to start, and one secret Bongus.

* Luckie
* Master Chuk
* FiFi
* Margeline
* Tappy
* Bingo
* Screwball
* Potato Lord
* Henry the Squirrel
* King Schnitzel (Secret)

## Reception

The game has a 2.90/5 rating on Newgrounds, as of August 2019. Most reviews are positive on the site. Video game streamer Vinesauce attempted to speedrun the game on a livestream, and became interested in other versions of the game after trying Family Edition.

## Version Differences

While the playable version on Newgrounds is labeled as the Family Edition, the game itself is actually the Family Deluxe Edition. There are several key differences that can be used to tell the two apart, the most obvious one being the inclusion of a password system. The Deluxe version is the only game in which King Schnitzel is playable; in the original version, the other Bongi extract the Bingus from within him, converting him into a Bongus, but he does not appear in the character selection screen. In level nine, Giddyup is seen showing the Bongi card games with a Bingus sitting in front of him in the form of a beverage. In the original game, it appears as a can of fresh milk, but the Deluxe edition replaces it with a beer bottle in order for the game to have an E for Everyone rating from the ESRB.

## Bootleg Scandal

Since the early 1990s, the Scrimmy Bingus games have been infamously bootlegged. The earliest discovered occurrence of such being in 1992 when a Romanian company known as Binyot Corp. released a modified version of Scrimmy Bingus Family Edition. This copy sported the name Scrimmy Bingus Special Jade Edition. Knowledge of this dubious copy spread via various online forums. Crogus & its 3rd party distributors never sought any legal action against Binyot Corp., however they did once acknowledge the bootleg title in a newspaper article, remarking, "We don't really care. That game kinda blows anyway and we fired everyone who was involved in the original's production." Binyot Corp. continued to make various bootleg versions of Scrimmy Bingus games until 2009 when the company ceased operation, their last SB&SS game being Scrimmy Bingus 3 Rury for the Gameboy Advance released in 2004.