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PC Gamer
Shaun Prescott

This game about channel surfing surreal alien broadcasts used to be exclusive to a 1-bit console with a crank—but now it's coming to Steam

Playdate received an oddity called Blippo Plus earlier this year. It turns the handheld console into a strange little television, so that twisting the crank feels akin to switching channels on an old analog TV dial. Sometimes you'll find a cryptic animation, or else a live action musical performance. Some channels show a mysteriously static logo, whereas others might feature a full-blown variety show. It all plays out in real time, so you can't rewind and fast forward it. You just have to watch it like ye olde TV.

It's kinda like public access television, except stranger. I guess that was the mood Tim and Eric was going for, but Playdate leans more in the direction of dreamy weirdness, which is helped in no small part by the Playdate's 1-bit display.

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