Hopefully, with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum, Retrotainment and iam8bit can give Garbage Pail Kids fans the NES experience they've always wanted. With iam8bit continuing to find success in retro cartridges, one wonders if cartridge gaming will see the same resurgence arcade cabinets have seen thanks to Arcade1UP's home arcade machines, like Marvel Vs. Pre-orders for the NES cartridges are available on and due to ship in Q1 2023. See the Garbage Pail Kids as youve never seen them before in the first official GPK pop-up book Five pop-up spreads and ten exclusive, removable.

Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum releases digitally October 25 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam for $9.99.

The new Garbage Pail Kids game now joins several other iam8bit modern NES and SNES cartridges alongside Battletoads, MegaMan X, and Earthworm Jim. Offering a faithful release of an 8-bit game in style typically reserved for Limited Run releases like Bill and Ted's Excellent Retro Collection for PS5 and Switch, Garbage Pail Kids looks to recapture every novelty of 80s gaming down to its unboxing. Both include a retro box, a full-color instruction booklet, four jumbo 5'x7' trading cards of the playable kids, and a download code for the digital edition.Īs a love letter to both Garbage Pail Kids and NES gaming, it's admirable how in-depth iam8bit and Retrotainment's homage actually is. The cartridge is priced at $79.99 and ships in two random colors: Mad Mike Blue or Stale Gum Pink. For those wanting the complete retro experience, iam8bit is also releasing a fully playable NES cartridge of the game. The extras include a supercut of Mad Mike: Fury Load shorts, a documentary trailer, Concept Art, Music Player, and card scans of original Garbage Pail Kids cards. The game also contains a slew of extra features made with assistance from Digital Eclipse, who developed the Disney Afternoon Collection and TMNT: Cowabunga Collection retro game bundles. Armed with disgusting abilities - including snot rockets, diaper slams, and vomit - players must navigate a time-traveling adventure that spans Egypt, Transylvania, and even Hell. Goldberg, maker of the Garbage Pail Kids Mad Mike: Fury Load stop-motion shorts, Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum is an 8-bit side-scrolling adventure from the golden age of NES gaming and stars four playable Garbage Pail Kids. Publisher iam8bit and developer Retrotainment has resurrected another 80s icon with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum. But the real reason to buy this book is for the graphic brilliance of the art itself.Related: TMNT Game's Infamous Dam Level Couldn't Even Be Beaten By Its Co-Creator “There’s a lot of interesting stuff in Spiegelman’s intro, and in the afterward by John Pound, the artist who originated and drew the bulk of the Kids. Maybe it’s because I’m a worried, concerned adult, but more likely it’s because nothing is ever as funny as it is when you’re ten years old-and everything is a lot scarier.”. “I worried that might seem too time-bound for their own good but if anything. Garbage Pail Kids and GPK are registered trademarks of The Topps. “If you ask me, reliving my time with Bad Breath Seth and Potty Scotty is worth the cover price alone.” - In the 80s, the world was ruled by two things: video games and Garbage Pail Kids cards. This exciting follow up to Wacky Packages is guaranteed to appeal to die-hard collectors as well as a new generation of fans. A new generation of fans continues to embrace this pop-culture phenomenon as Garbage Pail Kids stickers are still being published. The result was an inspired collaboration between avant-garde cartoonists and humorists including Art Spiegelman, Mark Newgarden, John Pound, Tom Bunk, and Jay Lynch. Garbage Pail Kids Micro Figures - Series 1 GPK Collection- Mystery Box 6 Pack Bundle - Each Pack Includes 1 Figure, 1 Grocery Item, 2 Original Art Mini Cards, and a Checklist - Collect All 78 Items. Garbage Pail Kids-a series of collectible stickers produced by Topps in the 1980s-combined spectacular artwork and over-the-top satire. For the first time, all 206 rare and hard-to-find images of the Garbage Pail Kids stickers from series 1 through 5 are collected in an innovative package, along with a special set of four limited-edition, previously unreleased bonus stickers.

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