STAFF REVIEW of Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum (Xbox One)


Thursday, December 22, 2022.
by Heather Webster

Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum Box art Join me in a great adventure back in the past, kind of like Marty Mcfly, minus the Delorean. Go back to the 80's when you had to have a NES and a pocket full of Garbage Pail Kids cards to be considered “cool”. Well, wouldn't it have been cool to get a video game that combined those two dominant forces? Well, thanks to iam8bit, alongside those developers; aka time-travelers, at Retrotainment, and the people at Topps, our dreams have finally come true! Not only does this game play exactly as a classic NES game does, but these amazing people have also created an All-New Garbage Pail Kids NES Game on a real, functioning NES Cartridge!

Garbage Pail Kids is literally everything you ever wanted in such a combination of awesomeness. The game is described as an old-school platformer featuring four playable GPK (Garbage Pail Kids) characters, six disgusting secret-filled levels, and its own trading-card system. It’s a complete throwback to the golden era of gaming. I really couldn't agree more with this statement, as Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum brought me straight back in time while sitting on my couch. There is so much awesomeness in this package that I can't even get into it because I want it so badly. Maybe Santa will be good to me this year?


I could gush about this game for hours, but I’m sure what you’re really here for is the gameplay review. The story starts after the Adam-Bombpocolypse and the events of fury load. You find yourself playing the character Mad Max and begin at a factory where they make fresh gum. One of the workers tells you to get him six ingredients so he can make you a stale gum generator. You head out with your pals; Leaky Lindsay, a cute pigtailed girl with a snotty nose, Luke Puke, a redheaded boy with a bad case of indigestion and Patty Putty, a baby made of you guessed it, putty. Mad Max is super excited to be on an adventure with this ragtag team of kids with abilities like snotty, projectile vomiting and a bouncing baby. Before long you find yourself under attack by various nefarious villains and must fight your way through each of the levels and defeat the bosses. You get a part of the generator for each boss defeated. Once you’ve collected all the parts return them to the factory and you will get your stale gum.


Even though this game is currently only a single player, I think it would be great as a multiplayer team game. Something to keep in mind is that because this game is modeled after the classic NES titles, and there are also no upgrades. Everything in this game screams classic and retro, right down to the 8-bit graphics and the smaller play screen with a cool frame of the four characters in the game. The soundtrack was created by Thomas Cipollone and consists of eleven tracks that last about 20 minutes. These tracks are also available for purchase to download if you are interested. I didn’t choose to do this, but if you do, something really cool of note is that the proceeds actually go to the artist and not to the game company. So do your part and support indie game developers because they do things like this and usually don't get much recognition.


Nostalgic gamers will be sure to enjoy the option of purchasing the exclusive bundle. This gem of a package comes with a real NES exclusive cartridge, in either Mad Mike Blue or Stale Gum Pink, shipped blind and at random. Also included are exclusive pixel art GPK trading cards and a forward from the writer of the game Adam F. Goldberg, as well as the full-colour premium instruction booklet. All contained together in a cool retro-style box.

Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum is everything we have all dreamed about. It plays on the classic game system with a true to the era difficulty, graphics, and sounds. The control system makes this possibly one of the best 8-bit games out there and I absolutely loved this trip down memory lane when I used to purchase GPK cards as a kid, complete with stick of stale and hard gum.



Suggestions:
It would be really cool to be able to play this in some sort of multiplayer aspect. Whether that be Player 1 and then Player 2, think Mario brothers, or multiplayer/same screen. Either way, some sort of multiplayer ability would be a great addition.


Overall: 7.0 / 10
Gameplay: 7.5 / 10
Visuals: 8.5 / 10
Sound: 4.5 / 10

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