BE KIND, REWIND

Friday, October 16, 1998. The video store's rent is due at midnight, and half the neighbourhood still has your tapes. Your pager won't stop beeping.

Fetch the overdue VHS tapes, bring them back and make rent. If a car flattens you, hold SPACE and rewind the night like a tape.

HOW IT WORKS

- Your pager lists overdue tapes, their late fees and how long until the customer gives up.

- Walk up to a door to take the tape. You can carry 6, and they trail behind you. Cars that clip the trail knock tapes onto the road.

- Return tapes at the VIDEO store. Bring back a whole stack at once for a bonus.

- Hold SPACE to rewind everything: cars, tapes, money and the clock. Returning tapes winds more rewind onto your meter.

- Make $120 by midnight or the store goes FOR LEASE.

A night takes 3 minutes.

CONTROLS

WASD / Arrows: move

Space (hold): rewind

P: pause · M: mute · C: CRT filter on/off

Made for The 98's Game Jam: a VCR on-screen display, a numeric pager, a CRT filter, and a CD-era downtempo soundtrack synthesized live in the browser.

CREDITS

Made by Clovrr Studios

Art: Modern Exteriors by LimeZu (https://limezu.itch.io/modernexteriors)

Fonts: Bungee (David Jonathan Ross) and VT323 (Peter Hull), Google Fonts, OFL