Game news More than 35 years after their releases, Nintendo’s Gameboy and NES are reborn from their ashes with this ultra-innovative video game
Forget the Switch 2, the PS5 and the Xbox Series. The upcoming video game that is being talked about right now is none other than an 8-bit game that would have been revolutionary if it had been released in the early 1990s.
NES-GB, what else?
The NES and the Game Boy are two consoles that amazed millions of children and adolescents of the 80/90 generation. The first is a home console that made history, half the price of what SEGA offered in Japan, but which had technical limitations quickly pointed out by players. The second is a portable console with a monochrome screen and no backlighting, unlike what the competition did. What do they have in common? Despite not having powerful hardware even for the time, they shook up the video game landscape and met with overwhelming success.
Today, everyone thinks that these two legendary consoles belong in a museum (or on Vinted/Ebay). But although their production has been stopped for decades, they are giving a new sign of life today thanks to a project which puts them in the spotlight.
Love for 8 bits
Yes, these two machines have spanned the generations and mean a lot to the gamers that we are, and maybe you are. They remind us of wild family games on Sunday afternoons, trying to complete Ninja Turtles or dodging the hooked legs of the Spider Gremlin from Gremlins 2. Like other machines, they are from time to time put under fire projectors with projects imagined to shoot on them. This is precisely the case for the project we are talking about today: completely new and fully funded on Kickstarter (15,700 euros out of the 14,000 requested), it should arrive in the coming months.
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Described as the “world’s first 8-bit avian roguelike platform game”, Flap Happy should offer a particularly tough challenge. In the shoes of a chicken called Little Flappy, you will have to escape from more than 900 procedurally generated levels. These tables are obviously full of obstacles of all kinds: spikes, fireballs, snakes, sharks are there. So that players can get an idea, the developers have prepared a demo available on PC. But don’t panic, as promised, the game will indeed be released on NES and Game Boy. If you want to try out a game with the difficulty of yesteryear on machines of yesteryear, you know what you have to do!
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