6/26/02 Whatchyou Talkin’ About, Postal Dude?

It’s the star of TV’s Different Strokes like you’ve never seen him — locking, loading and kicking tail in the upcoming video game Postal 2.

To help promote the game, Tucson-based developers Running With Scissors have released a pictorial spread of Gary Coleman at House of Moves Motion Capture Studios where he lent his moves to his digital doppelganger.

Coleman will portray himself in the game, which has the "Postal Dude" entering a mall where the TV star is meeting his public. When Coleman’s fans start getting picked off, it’s up to the pint-sized protagonist to lick and stamp the psycho civil servant.

"The whole friggin house got down at this one of a kind shoot!," exclaims Running With Scissors CEO Vince Desi. "Gary's truly a unique guy - we had him don a custom-made mocap suit and handed him over to the pros at House of Moves to fold, spindle and mutilate as needed."

In a press release, Coleman boasts, "Postal fans' will rock when they play the Postal Dude and have to deal with ME, ha ha ha!!!"

"Gary made it a cakewalk of a shoot," confessed Desi, "It was the only way to make Gary look like Gary, move like Gary, freak like Gary and shoot like Gary… I haven't had this much fun since I told the House of Moves gang to drown all those homeless people to make that sinking ship movie the huge hit that it was!"

Postal 2, which won an XGR (X-TREME Gamng Radio) Honorable Mention Award at E3, will ship to retailers in November 2002. The Gary Coleman photos can be seen at http://www.gopostal.com.