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Prepare to have your head asploded. I Wanna Be The Guy is a game like nothing you've ever played before. The game follows the quest of The Kid as he tries to become The Guy. He battles through insane modded levels from Mega Man, Zelda, Metroid, Ghosts N Goblins to many more. The boss fights are something else too. From Dracula, Mecha Birdo, Giant Mike Tyson, Bowser/Wart/Dr. Wily Clown Car combo to my personal favorite, a giant green Zangief/Kraid hybrid that shoots Hadoukens out of his mouth and Blankas out of his crotch are among some of the epic boss fights.
 
The game is simply put, beautiful. IWBTG is a tribute to the 8-bit era with extremely frustrating level design and a great musical selection from some classic games. Download the game and let us know what you think of it. If you keep getting stuck or are too afraid to even try this game out after watching the above video, then check out Nikumatic's YouTube profile for the entire run of the game spread throughout 46 different videos. 

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Im OK's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/10/2008 01:51
Im OK
a giant green Zangief/Kraid hybrid that shoots Hadoukens out of his mouth and Blankas out of his crotch

That, alone, sold me on this.
s0lesurviv0r's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/10/2008 02:00
s0lesurviv0r
Looks awesome. Guilty Gear, kirby, AND mega man music? Thats just brilliant.
MPHtails's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/10/2008 02:26
MPHtails
I was watching theJman's lets play of this the other day.

OH GOD, THERE WILL BE BLOOD. And not just pixelated.

I wangt to play this so bad, but I know it would just languish unplayed after the initial filure like La Mulana.
brad drac's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/10/2008 04:07
brad drac
It looks awesome, but why must it be so incredibly hard? I do not enjoy 90% intense frustration 10% satisfaction, it's just not a great ratio.
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/10/2008 09:15
Holyetheline
That rulz. I need to download it. It looks Contra hard.
Hitogoroshi's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/10/2008 10:18
Hitogoroshi
Looks like a memorization nightmare.....that being said I can't resist.
The-Excel's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/10/2008 12:37
The-Excel
This is the gnarliest Klik & Play creation ever spawned.
The-Excel's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/10/2008 13:52
The-Excel
Someone needs to get this on BitTorrent.
Jetrockite's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/11/2008 12:00
Jetrockite
Bloody hell... that game needs serious timing. That is truely epic.
The-Excel's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/11/2008 19:53
The-Excel
Timing and reflexes were what gaming was all about in the NES era.

Also, I'm finally in the Tetris level. Go me.
TheStripe's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/11/2008 20:16
TheStripe
I. LOVE THIS GAME. I have to say, every time I make it past a particularly hard though obviously dangerous portion only to be killed by something I couldn't possibly have seen coming, like the falling star just before Mike Tyson, I laugh out loud. Its like the whole game is just about incredibly difficult platforming coupled with crazy ways to kick you in the nuts
Gorelord's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/12/2008 00:53
Gorelord
they should release this as an XBLA game
bluki's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/13/2008 07:12
bluki
crazy and random shit.... lol...
Sam Spectre's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/13/2008 11:37
Sam Spectre
This game is so hard but I love it. I feel like such a noob sometimes, when I get stuck I have to look at the YouTube walkthrough.
Tino's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/13/2008 12:12
Tino
I'm almost done with this game. ALMOST. Made it to the mansion of the guy.
Kyousuke Nanbu's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/13/2008 13:36
Kyousuke Nanbu
This is one of the stupidest things ever, right up there with mods designed to make everything impossible.
Dan CiTi's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/13/2008 17:29
Dan CiTi
hahaha and it's not even the finished/final version.
Sam Spectre's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/13/2008 18:23
Sam Spectre
Took me a half hour to get to the first save!
killer13 666's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/13/2008 21:35
killer13 666
If you call that Metroid you are weird,b'cuz it's not it's a copy of metroid.
carmatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/13/2008 21:54
carmatic
gaah i dont even know most of the references to other games... so not alot of motivation from me to get on with this game
Doglike's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 02:31
Doglike
I love this game. I can't beat the part with the clouds but god I love this game.
The-Excel's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 08:06
The-Excel
Somehow my brothers have cleared the first boss. I took a different path than they did, though.
twincannon's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 12:59
twincannon
IWBTG is great.

Note that there's 3 paths you can go from the get-go. You can actually make it through the big spike room, skips zangief too I think...
Fading Star's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/15/2008 05:48
Fading Star
.....
THANK YOU!

DO WANT!
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2008 19:29
Holyetheline
Woah this game was made with Klik & Play? Can that be verified? I used to make so many games with K&P
LeonSK's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2008 23:14
LeonSK
Brilliant. Bloody brilliant. I kept screaming fuck at my computer, but yet I'm still playing. WIN
youkilledmyguy's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2008 23:09
youkilledmyguy
I usually have something much more profound to say, but for now:

Holy shit that's badass.
The-Excel's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2008 00:32
The-Excel
@Holyetheline:
It was made in Multimedia Fusion 2, according to the site. It's a distant successor to what I know as Klik & Play, which was created in the Windows 3.1 days.
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