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+++ title = "I played Celeste (PICO-8)" date = 2025-05-04 tags = ["videogames", "I played"] +++

I bought an Anbernic device mainly to play PICO-8 games on it, but after playing two games the screen broke and I had to return it so I still have a nice backlog of PICO-8 games to go through when I sit down and set up my Retroid Pocket.

The cartdridge for the game... or to better put it, this image is the actual game!

I must say this game was a lot of fun to play, even though I played the games in reverse since I went through Celeste on the Switch a while ago, but this was something I had to experience for myself.

Celeste left such an impression on me that I recalled some of the levels from the Switch game in their original gamejam version, and I must say that it was more difficult than I remembered (but also rewarding) and I made it through:

What an intense 17 minutes, I must say. Now I want to went through the Switch game again since I barely scratched its surface. Should I go on and try to complete all extra levels? Get all strawberries?