Lucas Pope, developer of instant classics Return of the Obra Dinn and Papers, Please, may have just made the first LCD game in… decades? Well, except for the other LCD game he made last year to celebrate Papers, Please's 10th anniversary. With two of these things under his belt I'm ready to crown Pope the leading authority on modern browser games designed to replicate toys that ran on 40-year-old 4-bit microcontrollers.
If you grew up in the '80s or '90s, you know the type: cheap "electronic games" like Nintendo's Game & Watch series, or Tiger handheld adaptations of movies like Batman and Robin and The Terminator. Instead of addressable pixels, these liquid crystal displays merely lit up pre-drawn segments of artwork to create the illusion of movement, paired with shrill beeps and boops that barely passed for sound effects. Most of them were terrible!
