There must be some law that news that only in April can we get news about Bio Force Ape, a never-released NES game whose wild-ass title and premise spawned an awesome hoax in 2005. This, however, is legitimate: the ROM of the game is now available for you to download and play on an emulator, unless someone’s gone to the trouble of putting an April Fool’s message in at the end of it.
Sure, real-life faux antiquities, such as Doktor A’s “The Secret History of Video Games: Pac Gentleman” are okay, I guess, if only as a curiosity. But from what I understand, the gameplay is total shit, even by 1880′s standards.
Thankfully, the industrious LiveJournalists of the world with ROM hacking skills took the liberty of fashioning themselves a Pac-Gentleman binary playable in MAME. It seems very much like the original, but with mustachioed ghosts, a derby wearing protagonist and period appropriate language.
Pac Gentleman [S.D. Lawrence, ESQ LTD. via MAKE]