In 2010, after eighteen months of development, Edmund McMillen released Super Meat Boy, a fifteen-dollar game that has since sold more than two million copies.
If there's a single moment that defines the experience of playing Super Meat Boy, it is quickly prodding the quick restart button.
Super Meat Boy featured IWBTG's protagonist, The Kid, who also starred as the final boss of the conclusive build of Jinsei Owata.
Its real stars are the duo behind Super Meat Boy, who are happy to be on camera where they prove both hilarious and vulnerable.
As such, Super Meat Boy works its players into a frenzied trance state from which it can take hours to recover.
Conveying oft-derided aesthetics and anguished personal history to a broader audience is some kind of a feat when your subjects are toiling away at an old-school Super Mario-style game called Super Meat Boy.
But seriously: it's worth it just for Super Meat Boy.
I may not mention it often, but I'm kind of obsessed with 2D twitch platformer Super Meat Boy.
As TechCrunch's resident Super Meat Boy fanboy, I feel like it's my duty to pass on the good news: Team Meat's rage-tastic, "Just five more tries.
In particular, the store will offer a free game every two weeks, starting with Subnautica from December 14-17 and Super Meat Boy from December 28 until January 10.
With titles like Brutal Legend, Guacamelee, FTL, de Blob and Super Meat Boy in the mix, they're not the newest titles, but there's a lot of great stuff in here.
