{"id":124943,"date":"2022-05-18T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-131645"},"modified":"2022-05-18T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T21:00:00","slug":"random-2021-nes-game-slow-mole-is-getting-a-bizarre-claymation-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/05\/18\/random-2021-nes-game-slow-mole-is-getting-a-bizarre-claymation-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: 2021 NES Game &#8216;Slow Mole&#8217; Is Getting A Bizarre Claymation Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/587e4d9a2e45a\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/587e4d9a2e45a\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture ptris\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/587e4d9a2e45a\/slow-mole-claymation.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"595\" alt=\"Slow Mole Claymation\"><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/slow-mole-cover-63092333\">Erik Rosenlund via Patreon<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last year didn&#8217;t bring us the Switch 2, but it certainly brought us something <em>very<\/em> interesting and unexpected. 2021 saw the release of, not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild_2\">Breath of the Wild 2<\/a>, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2021\/07\/slow_mole_is_a_new_and_free_nes_platformer_cartridge_version_incoming\">a brand new NES game<\/a> called <strong>Slow Mole<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Slow Mole is known for anything but slowness, as the game has garnered a reputation among the speedrunning community for being extremely fun and challenging. Created by animator Erik Rosenlund, it&#8217;s free to play and download, and you can even emulate it on original hardware. There&#8217;s also a physical cartridge release also in the works \u2014 which you can read up on over on <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/erikrosenlund\">Erik&#8217;s Patreon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But Erik is returning to his main passion in order to create a fun and bizarre-looking project \u2014 a movie for his game! Erik released a short trailer for the upcoming motion picture, which sees a claymation mole get increasingly frustrated with the game, even throwing his NES controller at the TV!<\/p>\n<p>How the platformer will translate to the big (or small) screen, we don&#8217;t know, but the short trailer does give us a glimpse at a buzz saw and a pretty small brick platform. Give the trailer a watch and let us know what you think!<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"unpkjOAVyKI\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t tried Slow Mole out yet, you can download the game over <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/slowmoledev.itch.io\/slow-mole\">on itch.io<\/a>. If you have played it, share your thoughts with us in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Erik Rosenlund via Patreon Last year didn&#8217;t bring us the Switch 2, but it certainly brought us something very interesting and unexpected. 2021 saw the release of, not Breath of the Wild 2, but a brand new NES game called Slow Mole. Slow Mole is known for anything but slowness, as the game has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}