Meat Boy is a sprinting, leaping, sliding cube of bloody red meat. Meat Boy is also a love letter, albeit an unconventional one. The independently produced multiplatform game that bears his name, Super Meat Boy (2010) – sequel to the 2008 online and free-to-play Meat Boy – is a love letter to the 8-bit platformers of the 1980s and 1990s. Super Meat Boy is also a love letter to players who poured countless hours into those often grueling and unforgiving side-scrolling adventures. The game was a breakout hit for its creators Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes (Team Meat), with Super Meat Boy (SMB) earning a number of “Game of the Year” awards and going “platinum” (selling over a million copies) in only a few short months (Yin-Poole, 2012, n.p.).
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