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Platform: PC

Region: Region Not Set

Developer(s): PirateHearts

ReleaseDate: 2012-05-06

Players: 1

Co-op: No

You Have to Win the Game

You Have to Win the Game is an exploration platformer with a retro 1980s PC aesthetic. If you grew up in an age where dithering was a common graphical trick to get around color limitations and were excited when CGA was succeeded by EGA which gave way to VGA, just seeing a screenshot of Kyle Pittman's You Have to Win the Game will turn you mad with nostalgia. The exploration platformer shares a lot of design elements with Terry Cavanagh's VVVVVV, Lyle in Cube Sector, and Celestial Mechanica, though its main trick is emulating the computing environment of a decades-old PC. But even if you don't get excited by 16-color CRT monitors, You Have to Win the Game is a thoroughly enjoyable ride!

Genre(s): Puzzle | Platform

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