Micro Mages is a NES homebrew with remarkably modern game design. Morphcat Games managed to fit an entire 4-player Towerfall-inspired co-op platfomer into just 40kb. It’s an incredible feat of 6502 assembly programming, and an incredibly fun game to boot!



You can download Micro Mages on itch.io or Steam for $10.99. Either option includes the PC version of the game as well as an NES rom that can play on nearly anything, including actual NES hardware via a flash cart like the EverDrive-N8. Expect it to take about 3-5 hours to complete depending on your NES jump-and-shoot chops.



Links for this episode:



Micro Mages OpenEmu – Multiple Video Game System EverDrive-N8 – Stone Age Gamer Analogue Nt mini – The Ultimate Nintendo FPGA console?:: RGB307 / MY LIFE IN GAMING – YouTube I Am Error: The Nintendo Family Computer / Entertainment System Platform (Platform Studies) – Amazon:Books How we fit an NES game into 40 Kilobytes – YouTube Playdate. A New Handheld Gaming System A Teen Dirtbag Beat-Em-Up With Phenomenal Writing – Kotaku







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Your hosts this week were:



Raygan Kelly – @raygankNate Heininger – @natestl
(00:00) - Intro
(01:45) - Micro Mages
(07:35) - Playing An NES Homebrew Game - How and Why
(14:42) - A Game In 40kb
(23:17) - Classic Console, Modern Design
(39:37) - Power-ups
(41:54) - Multiplayer
(50:02) - Wrap Up
(52:52) - What’s Making You Happy This Week?
(53:01) - Nate - Playdate
(01:00:15) - Raygan - The Friends Of Ringo Ishikawa
(01:08:12) - Outro

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