There were frequent fictional crossovers between "Dandy" characters, as most of the characters lived in the fictional Dandytown, just as the characters in "The Beano" were portrayed as living in Beanotown. Many of the comic strips in "The Beano" are drawn by the same artists, and crossovers between the two comics occur occasionally. Quite often, one comic would make a tongue-in-cheek jibe at the other (e.g. a character meeting an elderly lady and stating that she's "older than the jokes in "The Beano""). In the strips, it was expressed that Dandytown and Beanotown are rivals, "The Dandy" did a drastic format change when Dandytown had an embassy in Beanotown, which many of the town's citizens unsuccessfully attempted to overrun – the embassy was never referred to in "The Beano". This rivalry inspired the spin-off computer game "Beanotown Racing", in which various characters from both comics could be raced around points in Beanotown, including the embassy. The game was given a great deal of advance publicity in the comics, with story lines often revolving around how each of the characters acquired his or her vehicle.