If you really enjoyed Stranger Things season 1 and can’t wait to get back to the Upside Down with Eleven and the gang, Netflix has just the thing for you. Re-enter the world of Stranger Things with…it’s very own Atari-style game! Yay!
“Hack Day is a way for our product development team to take a break from everyday work, have fun, experiment with new technologies, and collaborate with new people.” – Netflix Tech Blog
The streaming giant hosted another hack day, producing all kinds of cool new projects from the team. One of those projects is Stranger Games, a title that feels right out of 1983, blocks and all. At first glance, it reminded me a bit of the game Frogger, as a millennial I really missed the whole Atari stage, and began my gaming life on NES, SNES and SEGA GENESIS.
If the game had graced store shelves in 1983, I would have been more than happy to shove it into the nearest Atari 7800.
Netflix engineer Joey Cato is credited with hacking together this simple game. It has a few sub-games that resemble the aforementioned Frogger and Pac-Man. If you’ve played either you’ll be more than comfortable “hopping” into the game. You can choose to play as Eleven, bypassing passing vans, or enter the upside-down to rescue children while trying to avoid the Demogorgon.
The game is free and oddly enough browser-based. You can play the game yourself by visiting this link here. Let your inner cabbage patch kid take over, rock out to Michael Jackson, or just grab a cold Mountain Dew, because it’s gonna be a long night of nostalgia (assuming you were born in the 80’s). And the biggest Stranger Things fans will love this page at kidadl, as it lists 150 quotes which is massive!
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Let us know if you played the game or whether you’re psyched for Atari‘s new gaming console in the comments section below.