You Can Play One Of The Games From ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ Now
Black Mirroris taking its interactive feature-length special to a whole other level.Black Mirror: Bandersnatchis making headlines for its unique choose-your-own-adventure format, forcing its viewers to make choices that will send them hurtling down a different rabbit hole every time.
It’s an experience not unlike a video game, which is fitting since the premise ofBandersnatchcenters around a programmer attempting to adapt a fantasy novel into a game. WithBlack Mirror: Bandersnatchset in the ’80s and chock-full by video game references, Netflix has upped the immersive experience by making available one of the games featured in the film — with a twist.
If you couldn’t get enough of yourmovies turning into video games, Netflix is offering another chance to play a video game from the world ofBlack Mirror. The gameNohzdyve— a nod to the season 3 episode “Nosedive” — is introduced inBlack Mirror: Bandersnatchas one of the games from a fictional game development studio, Tuckersoft. Netflix being Netflix, there’s already a full-fledgedTuckersoft website, done up in the retro style of an ’80s arcade screen mixed with a ’90s website page, to align with the film’s ’80s setting.
Nohzdyveis described on Tuckersoft’s site as:
You’re falling fast through the sky! Collect eyeballs and avoid the buildings and other hazards. Perfection is key. This was truly a five star game by none other than Colin Ritman (played by Will Poulter).
In the film,Nohzdyvewas developed for the ZX Spectrum, a personal computer that was released in Britain in the early 1980s. So the only way to playNohzdyvein 2018 and experience the game the wayBlack Mirrorcreator Charlie Brooker — who started his career as a video game journalist — envisioned is to download a ZX Spectrum emulator.The Vergenotes that there are several emulators to choose from, including Fuse, Qaop, and Speccy.
This isn’t the first time that Netflix has released a retro video game in conjunction with one of its series.Stranger Thingsreceived a16-bit video gameto also mirror its ’80s setting. ButBlack Mirroris so far the only one to require an emulator.
