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Super Cable Boy

Super Cable Boy is a retro inspired platformer, where you are playing a living handheld gaming system with a power cord. Collect game cartridges to become more powerful and take on your quest to defeat "the Glitch", an entity that 1▧01☠01௹1‱☣∰0␢⌀▧ ..

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November 20, 2020
5 years and 256 days ago
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About the Game

You are super. You have a cable. And you are a boy.
Super Cable Boy is a retro inspired platformer, where you are put into the role of a living handheld gaming system with a power cord. Collect game cartridges to become more powerful and take on your quest to defeat , a mysterious entity that threatens to destroy the world.



Get ready to
  • Throw your plug like a grappling hook and get dizzy

  • Jump and dash and stuff

  • See alternative dimensions

  • Fly around (crazy isn't it?)

  • Collect onigiris, don't they look delicious?

Prepare your body for some mind-bending retroesque glichart, a weird story and some solid platforming action!