Blippo+

This is an odd one, not really a game. More of a series of mini shorts but with enough passion put into it to be entertaining enough. Don't expect a lot of interactivity outside flipping through channels. Still it's funny and interesting concept with a lot of talent behind it. Feels like something straight out of the 80's. Quizzards was one of the dumbest segments I've ever seen but I couldn't wait for more episodes of it. Free Blinker!

You guys are making me lose my mind with your outright SLACKING on not buying this alien TV service, marathoning it, becoming huge fans of Debbie Diner, and most importantly, REVIEWING it! What, you're gonna let the confetti cowboys down?? You're letting the quizzard down?? Unbelievable.

I would have never bought this game if I had see it while browsing Steam, luckily it was part of my Slow Game Club and I was able to experience it anyway. I wouldn't qualify this as a "game", there is no goal, no direction. Yet it is an experience I would recommend people to have. It is a story, a world, a love letter to the 80s-90s, all presented as a short format cable TV simulation. You can tell everyone involved in this project was having a blast. You can enjoy Blippo + in many levels, as a brief nostalgia experience, as a world you are getting a glimpse of, pay attention to the details and suddenly you are being introduced to a completely different culture that is parallel to ours. I highly recommend this game, especially for people that don't mind being a little uncomfortable.

I don't know what I just played. Or watched. But I <3 TV.

Blippo looooooooves TV! And therein is the game's greatest flaw: it is not a video game, per se. You watch some TV, and then you watch some more TV, and then you watch some more TV. Who cares about understanding the rules of video games, with risks and rewards and lives and narrative game structure? We have TV! In Blippo, you channel surf and watch the one-minute films, until the game decides that you've seen enough of the channels in the current batch, at which point it unleashes a new batch of channels upon you. That's it. If you find the videos entertaining and cool, it's a pleasant way to spend a few hours. If you find the humor cloying or amateur, you're in for a rough time. Ergo, this is not strictly a game, as there are no win/lose conditions -- there is merely watching new packettes, or not watching new packettes. Still, you should ABSOLUTELY BUY THIS TOY, because it does take risks and it tries hard to be something different and novel. And you DESPERATELY WANT something different and novel. Granted, it doesn't even have the interactivity of Night Trap or of Supreme Warrior. But it is trying hard, dammit, and you want more full-throated experiments like this one to see the light of day.

I wish so much there were more creative projects on Steam like this.