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In honor of the PC Engine's upcoming birthday, we present to you: Nantettatte Engine.
It's a few days early so you can play it on the weekend here instead of a random surprise on Monday when you're not paying attention or at work.
It's a goofy, free little high score game in the same style as Astrosmash, and those early 90s bitwar/PC war games where you're shooting whichever machine you aren't fanboying over.
I remember playing one on Windows in the early 90s that was a Space Invaders clone that had you shooting Macintosh computers with X_X faces on them.
It always made me laugh, so I'm happy we could finally do the same thing here. I hope this reminds everyone of simpler times.
The objective is simple. Shoot everything. If the Amiga Ball or Game and Watches hit the ground, you die immediately. You can press I to move faster.
Also of note, I present to you Aetherbyte's new, long needed/overdue mascot, RomRom.
I had been milling over ideas for a real mascot instead of just having a frigging pillar logo for a long time now. I always wanted something like Rolfee and could never quite pinpoint what I wanted.
The final idea for her and this game basically hit me all together the one day when I was riding a train in Japan. It was strongly fueled and influenced by the record shop I was just at, and all of the candy I inhaled that day.
Her name's a play on Kyonkyon (Kyon
2), arguably one of the most famous 80s JPop singers. I brought her up in that one thread awhile back about the CD-ROMROM naming and all of that Japanese word math, and I chuckled to myself and went 'heheheeee', and that's basically how she got her name. It seemed like a comical perfect fit.
RomRom is essentially a combination of all of the kickass things about the 80s with some of my personal tastes sprinkled in.
You can expect to see more of her on the site, maybe on some pins/stickers or something, and probably in some other upcoming stuff we're doing.
It was fun keeping this under wraps, telling people I wasn't doing any PCE stuff. Sometimes, while I was literally working on it. Paul had posted a small snippet of her black and white face on FB, but I don't know that anyone suspected a thing.
Also,
We can't in good conscious release this on a physical card for money for various reasons, including the fact that I covered KyonKyon's Nantettatte Idol for this.... so just play it in an emulator or use a flashcart.
CHRISTMAS IN OCTOBER:
^^^ This is the song, that's Kyonkyon. Hell yeah.
