Let’s begin the brand new yr off with one thing from an outdated yr — the Nintendo Leisure System. Courier is a brand-new recreation for the 8-bit console, homebrewed to perfection by Kevin Hanley (whose previous credit embody different NES video games like NESCAPE). The crowdfunding marketing campaign to provide bodily copies went dwell this morning.
You’re what they name a “information courier” sooner or later, in a cybernetic metropolis the place they’re looking you down. You don’t have any thought why, as you simply awakened with no reminiscence of who you actually are. However you continue to have your hacking abilities, which you will need to use to bust out of the constructing you’re initially trapped in and discover out what’s actually occurring.
On this journey recreation you tackle jobs, steal from unscrupulous enemies, hack plenty of gadgets and improve your gear to get into tigher-security areas. Play lengthy sufficient and also you’ll discover out the reality about every part. The cart model has a save perform that’ll allow you to choose up the place you left off.
Courier might be yours to play for as little as $10, if you need the digital model. Bodily copies take a $60 pledge and embody the cart, handbook and field. A $100 collector’s version, unique to the marketing campaign, throws in a translucent inexperienced cartridge and even a bodily version of the digital ROM (it’s a USB drive in a customized shell with designs from the sport).
You’ve acquired one month to gather Courier for the NES, or the mission will fail. The marketing campaign ends January 31!
