Recreation “Preservation”

Mommy’s Finest Video games has acquired the IPs of “legendary” arcade developer Occidental Design and is wringing them for each final drop of latent money by releasing the long-lost Bumpy Grumpy on PC.

Occidental Design was the horrifically disfigured lovechild of Baer Sternmidden and William S. Fushnell, who have been behind such controversial classics as Rip ‘n’ Tear, Xordian Knot, and Hellbombers. Bumpy Grumpy had a regional take a look at again in 1983, however by no means noticed the sunshine of day past that. Occidental Design then confronted chapter a number of occasions earlier than giving up within the face of horrible poverty within the early ‘90s.

For nearly all of us, this would be the first time we get to expertise Bumpy Grumpy, and it’s really fairly stunning that Mommy’s Finest Video games was capable of salvage working code from the diseased corpse of Occidental Design.
Not likely.

I wasn’t planning on even doing this bit. Since my editors would doubtless be mad at me for deceptive our readership, I ought to most likely cease right here. I solely lately escaped the Destructoid Dying Maze after the final incident. I can’t bear to be thrown again in there.

For actual, although

Mommy’s Finest Video games head man, Nathan Fouts, emailed me with this ruse. They’ve arrange a web site doling out the “historical past” of Occidental Design, and the entire thing is fairly enjoyable. Creating a faux historical past of a retro-inspired recreation is a reasonably nice strategy to promote it, and I loved studying by means of it.

Bumpy Grumpy is definitely an actual recreation, although, and there’s a Steam web page to show it. Mommy’s Finest Video games was behind Shoot 1UP, which you’d most likely acknowledge if you happen to hung round XBLA again within the early ‘10s. It’s the shoot-’em-up that marketed itself utilizing the woman with robotic tits. I by no means even performed it, however I can completely bear in mind these metallic mammaries.
Whereas Bumpy Grumpy is a lane-changing driving recreation, and that isn’t precisely probably the most extraordinary style, its dedication to the misplaced arcade aesthetic is a pleasant draw. Its advertising and marketing has definitely grabbed my consideration, so nicely performed.

At present, Bumpy Grumpy will launch strictly on PC. No launch window has been given.

Zoey Handley

Workers Author – Zoey is a gaming gadabout. She obtained her begin running a blog with the neighborhood in 2018 and hit the entrance web page quickly after. Usually discovered exploring indie experiments and retro libraries, she does her finest to stay chronically uncool.

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