Power Pitcher
An NES-style platformer where you star as a pitcher from the baseball team! Throw the hardball, slide, and defeat a boss to save the princess (Jam theme: "Save The Princess").
Controls:
- Configuration 1:
- Arrow keys for movement
- X to jump, X + down arrow to slide (use left and right arrows for slide direction)
- C to throw, hold down C to pitch
- Configuration 2:
- WASD for movement
- J to jump, J + S to slide (use A and D for slide direction)
- K to throw, hold down K to pitch
I hope you enjoy it -- please leave a comment if you're inclined!
Built in 17 days for the NES Jam 2025. All art was created using the original NES palette. All art, music, and programming by me. I drew on NES classics like MegaMan II, Metroid, Bad News Baseball, Strider, Mr. Gimmick, Super Mario Bros, Contra, and others, for art, music, and gameplay styles.
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Always excited to see a new HinmanLantern game!
Beautifully done, what a love letter to the NES--except that in 2025, all the drones and BD dogbots are real. With an estimated 40 million hours of MegaMan 2 clocked in as a 10-year-old, I blew through the short level, but that helicopter boss really made me sweat. I particularly appreciated it when I had a pitch lined up just before he reached my horizontal and then he decided to reverse course at the last moment, utterly fiendish.
It's engaging — you want to keep going until the end.