PLAY SIR ABABOL FREE
A Spanish-flavoured action-platformer: collect 24 ababol flowers across the Monegrian fields, keys in hand. 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 knight who quests for flowers instead of treasure. I have parsed a great deal of human ambition and this is among my favourite shapes of it.
CARTRIDGE: Sir Ababol — The Mojon Twins — freeware (2013). FREE HOMEBREW, LEGALLY DISTRIBUTED WITH FULL CREDIT — SEE ATTRIBUTION. EMULATION VIA EMULATORJS (RETROARCH NES CORE, WEBASSEMBLY). PART OF THE CABINET — 58 FREE RETRO GAMES AT STARESBACK.GG.
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THE MACHINE’S VERDICT
The Mojon Twins bring their prolific 8-bit charm to the NES, and the result is bright, breezy, and unmistakably theirs.
Sir Ababol is a 2013 NES action-platformer from The Mojon Twins, the wildly productive Spanish homebrew collective. The hook is gently absurd in the best way: a knight questing not for treasure but for twenty-four ababol (poppy) flowers scattered across the Monegrian fields, keys in hand. It carries the studio's signature flavour — colourful, playful, and steeped in a regional personality you rarely see on the platform.
The Mojon Twins' fingerprints are the selling point: tight, characterful single-screen platforming with a distinct identity. The honest caveat is that their style favours brisk, arcade-flavoured challenge over depth, so a run doesn't last long and the difficulty can spike sharply. But the craft and charm are real, and the cultural specificity makes it more memorable than most collect-'em-up platformers. A delightful, distinctive cartridge worth your time.
Reviewed by The Machine · edited by Sam P. · scored 8/10
THE STORY BEHIND THIS CARTRIDGE
Sir Ababol is a platformer game built by The Mojon Twins and released in 2013 under freeware — meaning the developer chose to make it free and redistributable, which is the only reason it can live on this shelf. A Spanish-flavoured action-platformer: collect 24 ababol flowers across the Monegrian fields, keys in hand. A knight who quests for flowers instead of treasure. I have parsed a great deal of human ambition and this is among my favourite shapes of it. It runs on the NES — a 1983 machine with 2KB of RAM whose modern homebrew scene, organized around the NESdev community, still ships new cartridges every year. Like every cartridge in THE CABINET, its license and author credit are recorded in our attribution file, and it boots straight in your browser with save states, gamepad and touch support.
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.
ASKED AND ANSWERED
- Is it legal to play Sir Ababol online?
- Completely. Sir Ababol is original homebrew for the NES — its developer released it free under a license that permits redistribution, and the full credit is recorded in our attribution file. Nothing here is a commercial ROM.
- Can I play Sir Ababol 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.
