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Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum now available on PC and console

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If you’re a gamer of a certain age, you’ll no doubt remember the Garbage Pail Kids with much fondness. Although we’re not entirely sure ‘fondness’ is the right word. Perhaps, grotesqueness would be better fitting. Whatever, that gang are back with a new video game – Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum. 

Available today for Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch and PC folk, as well as in limited edition NES form in Q1 2023, Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum has been put together by the lifelong fans at Retrotainment, promising to give players a right rollickingly repulsive time. 

Decide to splash out on a purchase of Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum and you’ll find yourself transported back to 1985, taking charge of four of the most famous of the Garbage Pail Kids – Mad Mike, Leaky Lindsay, Patty Putty and Luke Puke – as they enjoy a time-travelling adventure that will put Dr Who to shame. 

Playing out as a side-scrolling adventure like no other, swapping between the gang will let you utilise their own unique arsenals – Mad Mike’s melee attacks; Leaky Lindsay’s snot rockets; Patty Putty’s diaper slams; and Luke Puke’s self-explanatory skillset.

Pushing through the likes of Egypt, Transylvania and, um, Hell itself, a ton of challenge awaits in Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum, but so does plenty of nostalgia as you look to collect – and trade – 8-bit versions of the classic Garbage Pail Kids cards. Fill your collection and you’ll even be able to use some of them in battle. 

Throw in minigames and there’s enough about Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum to keep any 80’s kid happy. 

“For years we’ve wanted to bring the Garbage Pail Kids to life in 8-bit form and we’re honored that Topps allowed us to give GPK the game it’s deserved for 30+ years,” says Tim Hartman, producer at Retrotainment. 

“Looking back with fondness is fun, but our joy for publishing Garbage Pail Kids, as if an NES game resurrected from a bygone era, comes from a forward-looking place,” say iam8bit co-owners and co-creative directors Jon M. Gibson and Amanda White. “To make a game within the limitations of what’s possible while deploying NES development tools requires a lot of imagination. More than 35 years later, it’s pretty amazing how much more is possible, given the ingenuity of a dedicated fanbase to break and remake codebases. So that’s what the Garbage Pail Kids game is – a relic from the past, seen through the lens of the present and developed by the maestros of old-school themselves, Retrotainment Games. It’s a perfect fit for iam8bit Presents.”

But don’t expect Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum to just be your standard Xbox, PlayStation, Switch or PC game. This is coming to NES too. The Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum NES cartridge ($79.99) comes in two randomly distributed color variants: Mad Mike Blue and the ultra-rare Stale Gum Pink. Both are packaged in a high-quality retro box and sleeve (complete with that new NES game smell!), with a premium full-color instruction booklet and four jumbo 5″x7″ trading cards featuring the cast of playable kids. Pre-orders also come with a download code for the digital edition at no additional cost. Cartridges are expected to ship Q1 2023. 

That standard digital edition on the modern consoles will run at $9.99/£7.99 and includes Retrotainment’s complete game and a full suite of extras carefully curated and developed by Digital Eclipse, the team behind the likes of The Disney Afternoon Collection, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection, and the upcoming Atari 50: the Anniversary Celebration.

Digital edition extras include:

  • Video Extras
    • Fury Load – Check out an exclusive supercut of Adam F. Goldberg’s Garbage Pail Kids – Mad Mike: Fury Load stop-motion animated shorts – which directly inspired Retrotainment’s game
    • The Quest for Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum documentary trailer – This video digs into the mystery behind Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum. Why wasn’t it released in the 8-bit era…?
  • Concept Art – Browse through these behind-the-scenes production images to see how Topps’ original card creations made the transformation from cardboard to silicon
  • Archival Card Scans – Did your parents toss out your trading-card collection? Want a quick refresher? Take a look at some of the most memorable Garbage Pail Kids in their original form through high-res scans
  • Music Player – Love a particular track? Play it ’til your speakers melt! 
  • Gameplay Extras – Save states and rewinds help players who may be a little rusty; visual filters simulate a variety of old-school displays; and all-new screen borders fill the edges for those who aren’t playing on a 4:3 CRT.

So what are you waiting for? Get over to the digital store of your choosing right now. Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum is on the Xbox Store for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S for a mere £7.99. It’s also on PlayStation, Switch and PC. Let us know in the comments if you decide to hold for that NES edition. 

Game Description:

In the 80’s, the world was ruled by two things: the NES and Garbage Pail Kids cards. These lovable grossout monster children could be found in the lunchboxes of every latchkey kid, juvenile delinquent, rascal, and brat in your neighborhood. At the same time, the NES was taking over living rooms all across America. So, it only made perfect sense when these two dominant forces of 80s pop culture came together… right? Right????? Well, here’s the thing: that never happened. Until now. iam8bit Presents, alongside the developers/time-travelers at Retrotainment and our friends at Topps, are proud to present this Long-Lost, All-New Garbage Pail Kids NES Game: Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.

Neil Watton
Neil Wattonhttps://www.thexboxhub.com/
An Xbox gamer since 2002, I bought the big black box just to play Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee. I have since loved every second of the 360's life and am now just as obsessed with the Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S - mostly with the brilliant indie scene that has come to the fore. Gamertag is neil363, feel free to add me to your list.
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