The most major inspiration is the rubber-hose animation style which they incorporated into the game. I'm also fairly certain some bosses borrow movements from characters in the cartoon (for example, the little hand-dance Cagney Carnation performs when idle beginning at 4:57 in the video below, is taken from the ghost that appears at 3:37 in the Swing You Sinners video I posted).
And yes, the animation in the game is all hand-drawn. A lot of labor and love went into it!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VUTEdvlUNg0
Max Fleischer
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"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
~ Cicero, Letters to Friends, Book IX Letter IV
~ Cicero, Letters to Friends, Book IX Letter IV
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Yes, I see all sorts of similarities with the cartoon in the appearance and movements of the characters. That’s a really neat looking game.
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This features Betty and Grampy in The Candid Candidate (1937)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJrY0_wWqyQ
You trying to tell me you didn't hear that shriek? That was something trying to get out of its premature grave, and I don't want to be here when it does. - Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
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I like the Grampy character. I didn't know there were any other cartoons with him aside from the Christmas one where he helps the orphans.
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There's a bunch with him!
You trying to tell me you didn't hear that shriek? That was something trying to get out of its premature grave, and I don't want to be here when it does. - Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
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When I see that character, I always think of the old board. The orphan one was a favorite of the assistant admin and he posted it every Christmas.
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You trying to tell me you didn't hear that shriek? That was something trying to get out of its premature grave, and I don't want to be here when it does. - Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
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Here's that old time classic Christmas Comes But Once a Year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfNCJVr5Q7E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfNCJVr5Q7E
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I love that one. I watched it a few weeks back.
You trying to tell me you didn't hear that shriek? That was something trying to get out of its premature grave, and I don't want to be here when it does. - Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
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Annual bump. Everyone should watch this, even if but once a year.
Christmas Comes But Once a Year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfNCJVr5Q7E
Christmas Comes But Once a Year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfNCJVr5Q7E