Weird Kickstarter Sport Boy Sport Wants Two Cartridges to Play

The Shapeshifter 2 is an upcoming game for the Sport Boy (Yup, you learn precisely) that requires two cartridges to play. And it has already handed its Kickstarter aim.

Solo developer Greenboy Games has been holding the spirit of the Sport Boy alive by making indie games particularly for physical cartridges. The first Shapeshifter game used to be developed for both the Sport Boy and NES. And now with a couple of month and a half of to slump the sequel, Shapeshifter 2, has raised over $57,000 on an initial aim of ethical under $7,000.

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Dana Puch is the lone developer who has been running Greenboy Games since 2018. The Shapeshifter 2 is ethical primarily the most up to the moment Sport Boy-primarily based mostly game from the developer, nevertheless it no doubt’s also set apart to be Greenboy Games’ most ambitious.

“I’m very in love with the fundamental historical college adventures esteem Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, The Dig, and [other] fundamental PC games,” Dana told IGN. “And, obviously, I’m deeply in love with the Sport Boy. I if reality be told own the total assortment of Sport Boy games, so or not it is esteem the exact match.”

The web speak describes the game as, “an Historical-Faculty Adventure game, comparable to classics esteem ‘Monkey Island’, and is the predominant and handiest Sport Boy game that requires 2 cartridges to play!”

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The game takes inspiration from take-your-hang-plod novels, in which the chronicle can drastically change reckoning on your choices. In this game, the preference the participant makes could well require them to swap out the cartridge to continue the chronicle. There’ll most certainly be a ‘ROM Most keen’ tier in which two separate ROM recordsdata change the particular person Sport Boy carts.

Dana notes the game is peaceful in the early stages of pattern. You need to well per chance perhaps verify out a trailer for the game on Kickstarter.

There’s masses of affection for Nintendo’s historical handhelds over on Kickstarter ethical now. Goodboy Galaxy, an upcoming Metroidvania for GBA, smashed its Kickstarter aim. And, a Sport Boy Color game will at last see the gentle of day after many years of pattern hell.

Logan Plant is a contract creator for IGN. You need to well obtain him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.