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Random: Vanilla Ice Never Looked Sharper Than In 8-Bit Form On Analogue Pocket

Aim for the flat top.

Connoisseurs of both gaming and rap music will no doubt be aware of Rap Quest, an ill-fated Game Boy title with the working title ‘Rap City’ that originally featured ’90s rapper Vanilla Ice before rights issues meant his music couldn’t be used. As we’ve reported before, Equilibrium Software completed work on the game and submitted it to Nintendo, although it was never released.

Fast forward past the Nintendo ‘gigaleaks’ of 2020/21 — when a host of historical internal Nintendo-related development material leaked onto the internet and the pre-release lot check Rap Quest ROM found its way online — and anyone with an internet connection and the means to write to a blank Game Boy cart can play the game in glorious pixel-perfect upscaled fidelity on one of those lovely new Analogue Pockets.

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