Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum

As a guy who collected GPK cards in 4th grade this game is amazing! Feels like unearthing a hidden gem from the 80's at a game stand at the swapmeet. Emulates the NES difficulty well without being cruel or unfair. They nailed the tone of the cards too! This game needs more eyes on it!

I think this might be my new favorite game. It might be gross, but the gameplay is spot-on perfect, imo. Like contra, if you fail, it's on you and means you just need to get good.

Having purchased, reviewed and generally been around the guys of 8-Bit Legit since Haunted Halloween 85', I am aware of their love and appreciation for retro and their ability to build a game. I am a couple of hours in to my play time of Mad Mike (between here and Xbox) and I will say that this is on brand GPK. This is truly out there, makes absolutely no sense, and that's what makes it so fun. Fishing in a toilet, a rubber bouncing baby? I mean, GPK was always gross, and to the letter absolute ridiculous. And Mad Mikes quest for Stale Gum is something that any retro enthusiast would love. Because of it's nonsensical play style, and retro difficulty. It's $10 bucks, and you cannot go wrong. Support Indie Devs or GTFO

Plays on the Deck out of the box. Only issue I saw was remapping controls were not reflected in submenus for trading and activating cards. Overall fun game and is made to accommodate all skill levels.

Ei, você que era uma criança nos anos 80/90. Tenho uma informação muito importante! Você se lembra de um álbum de figurinhas chamado Gang do Lixo? Pois saiba que esse é nada menos que o jogo com os lendários personagens daquele álbum! O álbum fez muito sucesso na época e assim como eu, muita gente jamais suspeitou que o nome original daquela coleção era Garbage Pail Kids. Lá nos Estados Unidos eles fizeram um sucesso maior ainda, surgiram como uma coleção de cards e depois ganharam até mesmo um filme, mas nunca tiveram um jogo de videogames. Talvez por esse motivo os desenvolvedores tenham trazido um jogo totalmente novo, mas no legítimo estilo 8 bits. Controlamos 4 personagens numa viagem pelo tempo, em busca de ingredientes muito peculiares. São eles: Mad Mike (que no álbum era conhecido como Antunes Capelar), Leaky Lindsay (Boneca Meleca), Patty Putty (Carlinhos Careta) e Luke Puke (que não constava no álbum). O jogo segue a clássica fórmula de plataformas, com a diferença que podemos alternar entre esses personagens a qualquer momento. Cada um deles possui seu próprio "poder", algo que confere uma profundidade muito interessante, principalmente num jogo com estilo retrô. Existem ainda diversas mecânicas pra dar um tempero a mais e até mesmo alguns extras, como a possibilidade de colecionar e trocar cards com outros personagens. No fim, Garbage Pail Kids entrega muito mais do que eu poderia esperar, indo muito além de um jogo de plataforma padrão. Apesar de levar o estilo clássico ao pé da letra, a jogabilidade é muito boa e precisa, não tive nenhum problema. Fique tranquilo, ao contrário dos jogos clássicos em cartuchos, aqui existe a opção de salvar as partidas. É importante destacar que quando digo que este é um legítimo jogo de 8 bits, não é nenhum exagero. No momento em que escrevo essa análise, está rolando a pré-venda de uma edição física limitadíssima no site da distribuidora iam8bit. Essa edição terá um cartucho de Nintendinho que funcionará de verdade no console clássico! Em resumo, se você busca uma autêntica experiência clássica, Garbage Pail Kids é obrigatório. E se você for fã desses personagens é mais obrigatório ainda! Os diálogos são ótimos e trazem aquele mesmo tipo de humor do álbum. Foi uma surpresa maravilhosa ver aqueles personagens que marcaram minha infância ganhando vida aqui nesse jogo. Ainda mais porque eu pensei que nunca mais os veria em nenhum outro lugar, muito menos aqui! Se você colecionou as figurinhas, aposto que também se lembra de muitos daqueles personagens até hoje. Pra fechar com chave de ouro, o jogo traz extras excelentes! O meu favorito é a galeria, que traz as imagens originais das figurinhas, lado a lado com suas respectivas versões em 8 bits. Me diverti e ainda continuo me divertindo com Garbage Pail Kids, descobri-lo foi uma das maiores alegrias que tive esse ano! Claramente é um produto desenvolvido com muito carinho para os fãs, não é um daqueles jogos feitos somente para tirar proveito da nostalgia. É uma recomendação fácil! OBS: Em nome da transparência, informo que recebi a chave para que pudesse analisar o jogo, mas isso não afetou em nada minha opinião.

Recommendation: 60% The game's price and content are unbalanced. There is too little content, the playthrough is short, and the gameplay is limited. Much of the content from the original artbook hasn't been well presented, and there aren't many enemy types, which is a great pity. However, the pixel art style and scenes themselves are very beautiful. I recommend buying it when it's on sale. 推荐：60% 这款游戏的价格和内容并不平衡，游戏的内容太少了，流程短，玩法比较少，很多原版画册的内容都没有很好的呈现，敌人种类不是很多，非常可惜，但是游戏本身的像素风格和场景非常漂亮，我推荐打折的时候买.

Just to start this is more of a neutral. I really don't know how much this would have sold if released back on the nes but I don't think it would have done very well. First off the nes couldn't really get the grossness of the characters. The game is also kinda bland but again i blame this issue on the limits of the nes style though it does have a few things going for it. I don't know if the manual explains it (it is in the game) but i didn't know once you load onto a level you have to walk off screen play the rest of the level. To explain when you pick a level you load into a starting area but most don't hint to you that there's something to the left or right. I also don't understand the card trading stuff and i'm sure it's not explained do to it being covered in the manual. Gameplay It's your basic nes side scroller. Instead of 1 character you can swap between 4 and the cards let you be other characters for a shot time. each character has unique abilities but i'll just cover the main 4: so you got Pukie who has a falling projectile, Snoty who shoot forward a bit, Baby who can jump on things and jump a bit higher, and the barbarian who has a melee attack. You can get cards from trading or trash cans on levels. Each card has 1 use and is ether an instant like Nukebrain who damages all on screen or lets you play as them for a few seconds. I wish the playable cards lasted longer as they are so short they may as well have all been instant cards but i guess the timer is to stop people from clearing levels with the Fly. That also would not have been a bad idea as it would have been more fun and levels have a lot of transitions so why not just let us have the character for a small part since you lose 1 card for each use. This game has a rewind feature that I noticed a lot of retro games have been adding. Not that thats a bad thing but people who can't help them self will just label this game as to easy. One last thing there is no gameplay difference between original and unpdated mode besides some bug fixes but each has it's own save. Story it's there to give you something to do. You want stale gum so you go to fight bosses that hold ingredients to make said gum. You make the gum and eat it, the end. Oh, sorry spoilers. It's what you expect from this kinda game. I'll take this story over the mad max intro one. I don't see why they didn't try to somehow link it to the movie or even give it a throwback? This is a bargain bin nes game at best. Not that thats a bad thing as i like a lot of bargain bin games but you can tell there was no real direction. P.S. I'm pretty sure this is a new game and not a "lost" nes game. Making a nes game for an IP like this was a bad idea for the reasons stated above. They maybe should have made a card battler like slay the spire or a vampire hunter like game or even a fighter. I don't think this IP fits an action game well. I get what they are trying to do with it and will get some nostalgia sales but i'ed rather have a proper game that could show the cards off better. The point of the cards was to be gross and nes graphics can not convey that very well.