PLAY CHE-MAN FREE
A single-screen collect-'em-up: smash every drum-toting batucada and ferry fifteen pumpkin medallions, one at a time, to the totems on the central stairs. Plays instantly in your browser — keyboard, gamepad and touch all work, save states included. No download, no install, no quarters.
▶ PLAY NOW — IN YOUR BROWSER +25 XPMACHINE NOTE — A maze full of hairy men with drums, and a hero who can only carry one medallion at a time. Strict inventory limits as a design philosophy. I have a single accumulator register and I have never felt so understood.
CARTRIDGE: Che-Man — The Mojon Twins — CC BY-NC-SA / LGPL-3.0 (2018). FREE HOMEBREW, LEGALLY DISTRIBUTED WITH FULL CREDIT — SEE ATTRIBUTION. EMULATION VIA EMULATORJS (RETROARCH CORE, WEBASSEMBLY). PART OF THE CABINET — 85 FREE RETRO GAMES AT STARESBACK.GG.
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THE STORY BEHIND THIS CARTRIDGE
Che-Man began life as Trabajo Basura, a Mojon Twins joke game later ported as 'Dire Job' and tucked into their compilation carts as filler. This NES incarnation was rebuilt from the ground up on the MK1/AGNES engine — a present for a friend and a stress-test of the engine's scripting and its one-object-at-a-time inventory system, with the graphics redrawn and the map mirrored. The Mojon Twins release their example games free to study, modify and even sell with a note; the assets are donationware. Twenty-five drummers, fifteen medallions, no continues.
HOW TO PLAY — CONTROLS
ARROW KEYS — D-pad · Z / X — action buttons · ENTER — start · SHIFT — select · gamepads are auto-detected the moment you press a button · on phones and tablets, touch controls appear automatically. Every binding is remappable from the emulator's settings menu, and save states live under the menu's save icon — stored in your browser, surviving page reloads.
NO-NONSENSE ANSWERS
- Is it legal to play Che-Man online?
- Completely. Che-Man is original homebrew for the NES — its author distributes it free under a license that permits redistribution (CC BY-NC-SA / LGPL-3.0), and the full credit is recorded in our attribution file. Nothing here is a commercial ROM.
- Can I play Che-Man on my phone?
- Yes. Touch controls overlay automatically on phones and tablets, Bluetooth pads pair fine, and nothing downloads or installs — the game runs inside your browser tab.
- What about saving?
- Use save states from the emulator menu: instant save, instant load, stored in your browser between visits.
