This is a run-through of a demo for Super Bat Puncher, an entirely new homebrew game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. A platform game, you have to free the nature spirits guarding a dangerous planet and punch a lot of bats. As you obtain new abilities for yourself and the novelty boxing glove you wield, some very cool gameplay opens up as you'll see in the video.
Super Bat Puncher has been in development for the last year and still has a ways to go. Its developer Morphcat plans to take a break from the project but hopefully he won't sit on his duff for too long. This looks like too much fun to fall by the wayside. You can download the demo and play it with a NES emulator right now from the game's development blog.
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Very, very well done. Looks better than many actual NES games-- this game looks like it would have been a classic. Reminds me of Cave Story, and that is a good thing... Cave Story needs an NES port heheh.
Very much like Cave story. I love the sound effects and parts music, reminds me of Shining in the darkness.
However im not a lover of how sparsly populated the levels are plus it needs more varity instead of just bats and a few pigs. In short, long stages with repeating baddies is bad and makes for long and boreing gameplay. I will add that the this video the stages are short but it does worry me if itll be like that later in the game. Solely due to the fact its so common in games.
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11:00 PM on 06.01.2011 | 
This looks awesome.
I doubt anyone really cares at this point. Not to mention that this thing is totally new and original, I've certainly never seen a game quite like it.
Also, this game is awesome. I want the full version.
However im not a lover of how sparsly populated the levels are plus it needs more varity instead of just bats and a few pigs. In short, long stages with repeating baddies is bad and makes for long and boreing gameplay. I will add that the this video the stages are short but it does worry me if itll be like that later in the game. Solely due to the fact its so common in games.
But I think it was smart to do that to make the gameplay sweet!