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Yes, you read that correctly. iam8bit Presents and Retrotainment, in collaboration with and under license from Topps, will be bringing the Garbage Pail Kids to the Nes in an all-new game. Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum cartridges are now available for pre-order from iam8bit.com. The 8-bit platformer will also be available digitally on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam on October 25.

The new game will be supported by Digital Eclipse, who will provide “a suite of quality-of-life features and bonus content”.

“For years we’ve wanted to bring the Garbage Pail Kids to life in 8-bit form and we’re honored that Topps allowed us to give Gpk the game it’s deserved for 30+ years,” says Tim Hartman, producer at Retrotainment.

Created by the lifelong fans at Retrotainment, Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the...

How does one discover a movie like The Wizard of Speed and Time in 2012/2013? Isn’t it antiquated? Isn’t it beyond overdone and dated and doesn’t the premise just fall apart in the face of what we know about Hollywood; the whole movie is one great big farce filled with anti-truths and nonsensical ramblings of a talented special effects man from 1980-whenever? First of all, none of what you have just read is true save that Mike Jittlov is one talented effects man who happens to have a keen eye for film making and a knack for storytelling that touches the heart, inspires and yet delivers a message all at the same time. This is the kind of movie you want you kids to watch if you want them to grow up to be filmmakers like you never became. Follow your dreams. Learn how to accomplish your goals and never give up.

Special-effects artists directing movies seem to attract weird opprobrium—it seems odd, for instance, to find Joe Johnston on a list of worst directors, when his somewhat bland action and effects films are no worse than most others, and at least are perfectly good-natured rather than openly obnoxious. It's actually surprising that so few effects people have followed the lead of Douglas Trumbull, who followed his award-winning work on 2001 with the features Silent Running and Brainstorm. Effects people interact with nearly every aspect of a film's production, which is more than can be said for, for instance, most actors.

And so to Mike Jittlov, who in 1987 parlayed his experience animating and creating short films for TV into writing and directing The Wizard of Speed and Time, a feature-length celebration of the creative spirit in effects-laden, romantic comedy form. It's the tale of a lonely dreamer, desperate to make his way...