"Released on Steam, Switch, and Playdate (the small yellow handheld famous for its crank controls), it strains the fundamental definition of a video game. Instead, it's more of a simulation of TV channel-surfing in the late '80s or early '90s, a kind of interaction younger generations actually have no experience with. It's a game whose target audience would seem to be very few people at all. And yet, because I enjoy exceptionally weird experiences, it delivers."
"Blippo+ is a collection of live-action skits meant to play like a cable television package from 30ish years ago. When you first start up the game, it "scans" for channels--a process I vaguely recalled interacting with as a kid when Blippo+ reminded me. Then, once its dozen or so channels are found, you simply... watch TV."
"Every show becomes a micro-story you can follow for several in-game weeks at a time. The TV schedule plays out in real time. These are not on-demand offerings a la Netflix or HBO Max. This is a perpetually cycling programming schedule. If you tune into the news channel, for example, you'll miss what's happening at the same time on the music, family or--yes--even the porn channel."
Blippo+ appears on Steam, Switch, and Playdate and recreates a retro cable-TV experience through live-action skits. The game scans and locks in a dozen or so channels that cycle on a fixed schedule in real time rather than offering on-demand viewing. Each program is a short micro-story that unfolds over several in-game weeks, and tuning choices determine which simultaneous programs are missed. Programs last only a few minutes, enabling eventual completion either by habitual channel-surfing or by letting each channel loop fully. The setting is an alien world called Blip with inhabitants who mix Clinton-era fashion and distinctly extraterrestrial styling.
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