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Super Cable Boy

Super Cable Boy is a retro inspired platformer, where you are playing a living handheld gaming system with a power cord. Collect game cartridges to become more powerful and take on your quest to defeat "the…

20 November 2020

Super Cable Boy is an indie developed by Sørb, released 20 November 2020 on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Super Cable Boy is

Super Cable Boy is an indie game developed by Sørb and released in 2020. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Super Cable Boy is a retro inspired platformer, where you are playing a living handheld gaming system with a power cord. Collect game cartridges to become more powerful and take on your quest to defeat "the Glitch".
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How it plays

Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

Super Cable Boy launched on 20 November 2020, within three weeks of Cyberpunk 2077, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Assassin's Creed Valhalla. It arrived 3 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Cyberpunk 2077, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Assassin's Creed Valhalla.

Official trailer

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Quick answers

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When did Super Cable Boy come out?
Super Cable Boy was released on 20 November 2020 for Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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