Blitter Boy

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Blitter Boy is a 1998 indie top-down shooter created by Chris Chadwick for the Playstation, using the Net Yaroze home development kit. While it was originally expected to only be available to members of the Net Yaroze community, it won 1st place at the Game Developers UK competition, and was included on magazine demo discs across Europe, where it developed a strong cult following.

The game tasks you with entering a mall full of monsters in order to rescue babies which, when collected, follow behind the player in a manner similar to Snake, and must be kept away from enemies.

While the original game presented little in way of explanation for these events, a more recent interview with Chadwick had him provide the game's plot[1]. After a lightning strike hits a multi-story shopping mall, causing all the monsters from the games in the arcade to escape, child mercenary Blitter Boy was sent in to destroy the monsters, and rescue the babies that had been left behind in the crèche during the evacuation.


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