Stranger Things Atari-Style Video Game From Netflix

<p class&equals;"speakableText">If you really enjoyed <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;tvguide&period;com&sol;tvshows&sol;stranger-things&sol;794696&sol;">Stranger Things<&sol;a> season 1 and can&&num;8217&semi;t wait to get back to <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;strangerthings&period;wikia&period;com&sol;wiki&sol;Upside&lowbar;Down">the Upside Down<&sol;a> with Eleven and the gang&comma; Netflix has just the thing for you&period; Re-enter the world of Stranger Things with&&num;8230&semi;it&&num;8217&semi;s very own Atari-style game&excl; Yay&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;Hack Day is a way for our product development team to take a break from everyday work&comma; have fun&comma; experiment with new technologies&comma; and collaborate with new people&period;&&num;8221&semi; &&num;8211&semi; Netflix Tech Blog<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"speakableText">The streaming giant hosted another hack day&comma; producing all kinds of <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;techblog&period;netflix&period;com&sol;2017&sol;01&sol;netflix-hack-day-winter-2017&period;html">cool new projects from the team<&sol;a>&period; One of those projects is <em>Stranger Games<&sol;em>&comma; a title that feels right out of 1983&comma; blocks and all&period; At first glance&comma; it reminded me a bit of the game Frogger&comma; as a millennial I really missed the whole Atari stage&comma; and began my gaming life on NES&comma; SNES and SEGA GENESIS&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"speakableText">If the game had graced store shelves in 1983&comma; I would have been more than happy to shove it into the nearest Atari 7800&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-130748" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;10&sol;20171156&sol;Eleven-Bagogames&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"520" height&equals;"293" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Netflix engineer <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;joeycato" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer" data-component&equals;"externalLink" data-s-object-id&equals;"articleBody">Joey Cato<&sol;a> is credited with hacking together this simple game&period; It has a few sub-games that resemble the aforementioned Frogger and Pac-Man&period; If you&&num;8217&semi;ve played either you&&num;8217&semi;ll be more than comfortable &&num;8220&semi;hopping&&num;8221&semi; into the game&period; You can choose to play as Eleven&comma; bypassing passing vans&comma; or enter the upside-down to rescue children while trying to avoid the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;en&period;wikipedia&period;org&sol;wiki&sol;Demogorgon" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer" data-component&equals;"externalLink" data-s-object-id&equals;"articleBody">Demogorgon<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><iframe src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;embed&sol;lQmdX2fRlnI" width&equals;"560" height&equals;"315" frameborder&equals;"0" allowfullscreen&equals;"allowfullscreen"><&sol;iframe><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The game is free and oddly enough browser-based&period; You can play the game yourself by visiting <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gorch&period;com&sol;strangergames&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-component&equals;"externalLink" data-s-object-id&equals;"articleBody">this link here&period;<&sol;a>  Let your inner cabbage patch kid take over&comma; rock out to Michael Jackson&comma; or just grab a cold Mountain Dew&comma; because it&&num;8217&semi;s gonna be a long night of nostalgia &lpar;assuming you were born in the 80&&num;8217&semi;s&rpar;&period; And the biggest Stranger Things fans will love <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;kidadl&period;com&sol;quotes&sol;stranger-things-quotes-that-will-turn-fans-upside-down">this page at kidadl<&sol;a>&comma; as it lists 150 quotes which is massive&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you like out-running Demogorgons Atari-style you may also be interested in a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;passion-games&period;com&sol;"> free mobile casino bonus&period;<&sol;a> If that&&num;8217&semi;s not your thing&comma; we know a land fill out west that can get you a pretty darn good deal on a brand new E&period;T&period; game&period; We hear it was a big hit back in the 80&&num;8217&semi;s&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Let us know if you played the game or whether you&&num;8217&semi;re psyched for <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;polygon&period;com&sol;e3&sol;2017&sol;6&sol;16&sol;15821856&sol;atari-ataribox-new-console" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">Atari<&sol;a>&&num;8216&semi;s new gaming console in the comments section below&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;