News: Pixelboy - Meteor Busters

October 25, 2006, 11:58 PM

by brandon, via dot-invasion -
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Pixelboy is a sort of virtual gameboy clone. It's embedded into dot-invasion's website, a company that does 2D art and handheld music outsourcing. It was created on the side, but is quite nice. You load a cartridge, and at present there's just the one - Meteor Busters - and it emulates the GB experience, with five tones, and squished sound. The game is really very nice though, a scrolling shooter with three levels of power, and five ships which actually do different things, instead of just having different shaped bullets or something. You've got one of each, representing your set of lives. Very good fun, quite nice music, go check it out. I can only hope they'll make more of these! The Pixel Boy looks enough like a OneStation - maybe Jungletac should license the game. Also, check out some nice screens of the game in its native resolution, while you're at it. Can't go wrong with a STG that has a Crashman ship.