[As previously mentioned, we now have all four GameSetApparel T-shirts available for individual order. We're going to highlight one tee per week here on GSW - though you can buy any/all of them now! Being highlighted this week is the completely awesome 'Grabungadung' shirt by European development superstars Schadenfreude Interactive.]

GSA104 - 'Grabungadung' - Now Available

Also now available in GameSetApparel's limited-edition 'Games That Never Were' series, which is strictly limited to 111 copies of each tee, is 'Grabungadung' by Schadenfreude Interactive (legendary German Accordion Hero creators).

Regular GameSetWatch and Gamasutra readers may know Black Forest-based game developer Schadenfreude Interactive from their appearances on both websites, most recently for a weeklong guest appearance on GSW while site editor Simon Carless was guesting on Kotaku.

In any case, from that guest stint, when discussing their classic '80s beginnings, Karsden and Bruno reveal where this T-shirt, Grabungadung, got its design from:

"GRABUNGADUNG (1982)
Karsden: This game was Dig Dug, without the silly Fygars. Instead, they were dung beetles. But I suppose it was similar enough, since we eventually got a cease-and-desist letter from Namco, and so we made Grabungadung II, which was more like Ripoff.
Bruno: We ripped off Ripoff.
K: Basically you are the beetle and roll your dung ball around, accumulating as much dung as possible, while fending off flies and other beetles who will try to steal your ball.
Bruno: In a way it is a metaphor for life.
K:We made a coin-op version, which was very popular in Southern Germany. It was a “cocktail” arcade machine, with a large brown ninepin ball as a trackball.
Bruno: And then we did another dung beetle game, years later…because you are so fond of these dung beetles.
K: Yes, that is why we made Dung Ho!, which was a bit like Katamari Damacy.
Bruno: But much less colorful.
K: Brown is a color!

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The high-quality sky-blue Schadenfreude-designed shirt (available in XL, L, or M, with only 111 in total over all three sizes) is the result, and interested parties can now order the GSA104 'Grabungadung' T-shirt design in multiple sizes from the GameSetApparel store.

[BONUS LINK: Reader 'L'Ombre Du Z' ordered all four shirts to the fine country of France, and blogged about it recently - according to the Google translate version: "The result, four t-shirts quality unique, colorful illustrations and pimpantes shifted... A new brand to monitor therefore, for the geeks as for lovers of tees." So there - pimpantes!]