Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum is coming to consoles and PC in a few weeks, and will receive an NES release as well, courtesy of publisher iam8bit and developer Retrotainment are behind the new title.
Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum takes place after the events of GPK Mad Mike: Fury Load, a series of shorts written by Adam F. Goldberg set in a post-apocalyptic world. Mad Mike wants his favourite stale gum, but the factory run by Brainy Janie only makes fresh gum, prompting an adventure in which Mad Mike will travel through time and space with his friends on a high-tech toilet to collect the ingredients to make it stale. The characters Mad Mike, Luke Puke, Leaky Lindsay, and Patty Putty are all playable and can be used at any time, each character having unique abilities with six different levels that can be tackled in any order.
Players will visit the Stone Age, ’80s Tokyo, a future Mars colony, and more, as well as collect cards and trade them, some of which have powers such as stunning enemies or granting temporary flight. A number of mini-games are included such as flying around dangerous obstacles as Buggy Betty. In addition, there will be difficulty options plus rewind, save states, watch mode, video filter effects, bonus gallery content, and more courtesy of Digital Eclipse.
Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum is due out for Switch, PC, Xbox and PlayStation on October 25, 2022, with a special NES cartridge version shipping in Q1 2023.