Cuphead: Video Game Looks Like a ’30s Cartoon and I WANT NOW
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More people should make games that look like this. Something that reminds me of when I first saw Dragon’s Lair in the arcade, without the crushing disappointment of actually playing Dragon’s Lair. Cuphead is a run-and-gun/fighting game hybrid, that’s inspired by a bunch of other games that mostly have the word “Contra” in the title.
And it looks like an interactive Popeye cartoon. Or possibly Russell Crowe’s Foightin’ ‘Round the World: The Game.
Check it out…
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist