8-bit Left 4 Dead in the works. Won't be shut down.
Hat tip to joystiq
A group of independent developers are making an 8-bit version of Left 4 Dead that is brilliant. The best part is that Valve apparently knows about the game and think its hilarious (which to me says that they are sane and recognize it as no financial threat to the primary franchise). Whats so perfect about this version is that you can recognize that this is Left 4 Dead in every meaningful way, but it doesn't try to shoehorn everything that Left 4 Dead is into an 8-bit game. There's no jumping, the boomer doesn't attract a horde, hell, there isn't even a horde! Just a bunch of aimlessly wandering zombies. This is what 8-bit games were like! Their goal is to recreate all four episodes which I think is a hell of an undertaking but a noble one. If nothing else, it'll show the kids today what it was like to play a on a real console.
