Dec 24, 2010 Team Meat has announced that they have cancelled the WiiWare release of Super Meat Boy, stating that they were unable to get a quality version of the. Super Meat Boy is a platform game in which players control a small, dark red, cube-shaped character named Meat Boy, who must save his cube-shaped, heavily bandaged girlfriend Bandage Girl from the evil scientist Dr.
Super Meat Boy coming to WiiWare and PC
The Newgrounds hit Meat Boy is coming to WiiWare and PC as Super Meat Boy, an upgraded version of the popular flash-game platformer. No release date or pricing info have yet to be announced.
Direct from the press release:
Are you a fan of small cubes of animated meat?
Do you enjoy the sound of buzz saws?
When you hear the term “wall jump” do you get excited?
Well, what if you woke up to find you were made of a lump of juicy raw meat, your girlfriend was made of band-aids and to top it all off she had been kidnapped by a fetus in a jar wearing a suit and monocle? Would that be totally awesome? or just kinda awesome?
Well I’m hoping you chose totally awesome, because that’s basically the premise of Super Meat Boy.
In Super Meat Boy you take the role of a small animated cube of meat on his quest to save his lady love Band-Aid girl from the clutches of the evil Dr. Fetus! Sliding his way through saw mills, salt factories and even hell itself, Meat boy jumps into action in this fast paced and extremely challenging platformer that will “melt your face off”.
Super Meat Boy will be completely remade from the ground up for its release on Wiiware and will feature over 100+ single player levels, insane boss fights, competitive vs modes, beefy online co-op play and a slew of unlockables that are rumored to fill your life with great happiness!
The developers of the game (which is being designed by Gish co-creator Edmund McMillen, Tommy Refenes and “Big” Jon McEntee) will be documentary the creation of the WiiWare and PC versions of the game on their blog at Supermeatboy.com.
Super Meat Boy Wiiware Port
If you want a preview of the game you can play the popular Flash version that spawned it at the Meat Boy Newgrounds web-game site.
The planned November WiiWare release of acclaimed indie platformer Super Meat Boy has been pushed back, developer Team Meat has confirmed.
A post on its Twitter feed read, 'Attention internets, the wii version is NOT coming out in Nov its impossible. we havent even gotten the size down under 50mb yet (goal=39mb).'
Team Meat's Edmund McMillen later told ShackNews, 'The size limit is a huge issue. We are looking into our options and talking things over with Nintendo to see what we can do.
'We are trying to deal with these issues with the mind set of making the best version of the game as possible above all else.'
Super Meat Boy Wiiware
Nintendo allows WiiWare developers a maximum file size of around 40MB per game. The Xbox Live Arcade version of Super Meat Boy clocks in at around 90MB, so there's a great deal of slicing and dicing to be done before Wii gamers can get stuck in.
On a happier note, Team Meat confirmed that the PC version is still on track, with a release scheduled for the last week in November.
The brutally brilliant Super Meat Boy slithered onto Xbox Live Arcade last month and bludgeoned a 9/10 from Eurogamer's shellshocked Tom Bramwell.