Holy Schneikies!

One of my favorite games for the NES, “A Boy and his Blob”, is coming to the Wii. They could have made it with nubbin 8-bit graphics and I would have come running.

By the way, there is an awesome remix from ocremix.org of the soundtrack.

Update: I found some video of the gameplay. From the video, it looks as if you have an unlimited number of jellybeans. I’m not sure how to feel about that, because the jellybean scarcity made the game challenging. It was also a little bland and monotonous after the first few hours of play, so maybe this is a bonus. I still can’t get over how gorgeous the graphics are.

 
Dot for Meggy Jr. - demo + screencast from make magazine on Vimeo.

Meggy Jr RGB is a handheld platform for developing your own pixel-scale video games. Featuring a fully addressable 8×8 RGB LED matrix display, big fat comfy button switches, customizable handles, a lo-fi audio transducer, and even 8 extra LEDs for lives, score, ammo, or level, Meggy Jr RGB is a little kit you won’t want to miss. Meggy Jr is fast, programmable, open source and hackable.

Stuff like this is hard for me to resist. You can pick one up here and get some code for it here.