Arlington Apple in an Interplanetary Pickle - NES Rom

Welcome to Team Disposables' third Ludum Dare release!

Our second release for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Arlington Apple in an Interplanetary Pickle*, a short gravity defying platformer. Stuck on a small asteroid, prepare to frantically scramble over every available surface searching for the three crystals to power up your car and get off this rock.

Install instructions

Download the rom and use it on a NES or in an NES emulator of your choice

ONLINE

You can play the game online here (uses flash):

https://crunchpress.co.uk/nesbox/

Please note this is the post-ld version! Should you end up playing Mario, rate the emotions you feel. Should you play something by LJN, rate the opposite. We're working on a trust system here, people.

WINDOWS

You're awesome, thanks for trying our game. Here's the best NES emulator around for Windows:

https://www.mesen.ca/

Download the ROM file below and run it in this.

LINUX

You're the best. Hope you're using TOR too, champ. For NES emulators, you've either already got one, or, we recommend the same one as on Windows, the excellent Mesen: https://www.mesen.ca/

*was originally called "A Small World before we decided on a title

changelog since LD deadline:

RC3 - bug fix on jump and platform collision

RC4 to RC7a - more bugfixes, most found courtesy of the lovely people on forums.nesdev.com.

post-ludum dare1 - disabled coins

post-ludum dare 2 - fixed side entrance for anyone who went out the exit before collecting the crystals. fixed unintentional level warp.

post-ludum dare 3 - coins now collectable. changed crystals posted the wrong file

post-ludum dare 4 - corrected file, coins now collecatble and changed crystals

comments on the game

the game currently has no sound or music. this may or may not be rectified.

In the LD version, the coins cannot be collected. They can in the post-LD version, but do not yet do anything. More soon!