Sivak is great. He had said he was inspired by that game. He is working on a new project now. You should check out his Youtube channel for periodic updates.

This looks rad! And $29 is not expensive at all. Heck just seeing all the work that went into making the Teletime carts, I'm majorly impressed with the price.

oh man, its got an instruction booklet too?? thats just classy

Bah, should I bother to keep waiting to get a manual with my copy? They're still selling it cart only for the time being.

Want so bad.

Here is that picture I promised ^_^

Well, this is a brand new game, where many, many hours of real development time went into it (probably far more than shit you see on stuff like iPhones and other mobile devices) since it has to be coded in pure assembler on a CPU that has a 1.79 MHz clock rate.. plus materials to create the circuit board, plastic casing and manuals. It really isn't the same as making an app that makes a fart sound effect that you can sell for 99¢.

Well, I'm just going to say that the price is right when you factor in custom PCB, custom CIC chip, custom EPROMs, custom case, not NOS but brand spanking new, with box, manual, etc. Seems pretty good to me.

Battle Kid is no April Fool's joke,
Only the greatest in Mega Man/Metroidvania inspired Extreme Difficulty games have to offer ^_^

Imagine if you crossed the jumping/shooting from Mega Man, the Adventure Backtracking Metroid,
and the stupid hard one hit kills from "I wanna be the guy/VVVVVV" you would find this NES gem.

I left my cart at work, but Ill post pictures of it and the manual when I get in today ~_^d
Good Call BR1GHT PR1MATE

Am I the only one who thinks that 29.00 is a little steep for a NES game?  There are only a select few games that I'd pay that much for on the NES.

it has been on retrousb long before today.

Even if this was an April Fool's joke, RetroUSB could definitely pull it off.  They release a ton of remake games through their site so this is totally believable to me.

Excellent! It's nice to see concerted homebrew gaming efforts, and this is pretty slick for a one-man production. I was following this on the NESDEV forums for a while, totally cool to see he got it all wrapped up and distributed.

I get it, I get it.

Yes, it does. Europe has PAL-A and PAL-B NES systems, not sure the specifics but I think it's a regional (or publisher) thing.

Asian and Hong Kong NES systems are PAL.

A little research goes a long way.

Compared to what, exactly? The graphics are on par with some commercially released NES games and many of them had large teams of developers and artists. The graphics are fine on their own and outstanding considering the game's graphics and development were handled by one guy. It's rather unrealistic to compare a one-man homebrew game to say, Mega Man 6.

gameplay > graphics