Too Many Games is at it again! As I recently reported about them releasing a beautifully packaged version of the once Japanese-only Famicom Disk System game Miracle of Almana for the NES, they have recently announced that even more games are going to be released at the convention, which starts this Friday. This time we are taking it back even further than the era of the NES to the golden age of gaming and the Atari 2600, with the recent release of two new games titled Maciver and Balloon Protest.

These brand new homebrew games come to us from Good Deal Games, the company responsible for a great deal of other Japan-only game releases and homebrew releases for a number of systems like the Sega Genesis, NES, and the range of Atari system. Now they are debuting two more to add to their extensive collection!

So, just what are these games about? Well, as of yet, we have no available screenshots or gameplay footage to go off of, but you can bet that we will be looking into these games when we go to Too Many Games this weekend! For now, we’ll let the descriptions of these games tell their story.

Maciver: “The story… The game author works for a think tank in Madison, called MacIver, and during the major protests this year they were taking pictures and documenting it. There were some real screwballs that didn’t like them hanging around. There were zombie protesters that interrupted a ceremony for the special olympics, a guy on a segway who staged disruptions during committee meetings, and finally there was this guy in a pink dress who chased their intern around the Capitol for taking pictures. That’s where the idea for this game came from.”

Balloon Protest: “During the Madison protests this year, protesters started bringing heart shaped balloons into the Capitol and releasing them in the rotunda. Their goal was to fill up the dome with these balloons. One day a staffer, who was going crazy from the months of protest chanting and singing in the building, snapped. He grabbed a letter opener and tried to pop these balloons. So in the game, you try to navigate heart shaped balloons up into the Capitol dome, while dodging the enraged staffer.”

Those sound like some pretty ridiculous and fun games! Games like this exhibit the true beauty of the homebrew world; in the fact that you never know what kind of games people can come up with!

Good Deal Games will have a set limit of 10 copies of each game available for sale at the convention; an exclusive run if we have ever seen one. If these games are of interest to you, I highly recommend that you either show up to Too Many Games or order the games from the Good Deal Games main site, because like many limited run homebrew games, these will not be around forever.