Meat Boy

Meat Boy
Developer: Team Meat Publisher: Newgrounds Platform: Adobe Flash Released internationally: October 5, 2008 This game has unused code. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text. This game has revisional differences. This game has a prototype article

To do: Create a prerelease page and document the origins of Meat Boy, detailed here in a TikTok video by Edmund Mcmillen.

The original Flash predecessor to Super Meat Boy, back before the titular Meat Boy became Super.

Sub-Pages

Prototype Info

Codename

The game's local save file is named Vertigo.sol which was the in development codename for Meat Boy. This codename is also present at the top of the save file itself.

Unused Graphics

Obviously a placeholder for the Newgrounds ads in the loading screens.

Unused Death Screen

Inside the game is code for a unused death screen. This screen will show text saying "You Died :(", with the only way for you to retry is to hit ↵ Return. This screen is used in the game's prototype.

Revisional Differences

General

• The version included in The Basement Collection skips the Newgrounds loading screen
• Later releases adds the feature to mute the game with M, while no such mute function existed before.

Title Screen

Original	The Basement Collection

• The Newgrounds logo has been removed in The Basement Collection.
• Option to download the standalone version was also removed.

Jump Physics

The Basement Collection let's you control your jump height by holding Space when jumping, while the original only has one set jump height.

Original	The Basement Collection
{ if(!Key.isDown(13)) { game.enter = true; } if(!Key.isDown(32) && !Key.isDown(65)) { game.space = true; } if(!Key.isDown(27)) { game.escape = true; } if(!Key.isDown(46)) { game.deletekey = true; } };	{ if(!Key.isDown(13)) { game.enter = true; } if(!Key.isDown(32) && !Key.isDown(65)) { game.space = true; p_space = true; } else if(rspace == true) { p_space = false; } if(!Key.isDown(27)) { game.escape = true; } if(!Key.isDown(46)) { game.deletekey = true; } };

Hot Coffee Cutscene

Typically if you unlock everything in the game you'll unlock a literal sex scene with Meat Boy and Band-Aide Girl. Though on some sites and The Basement Collection this is replaced with this message.

The hot coffee ending has been 
censored because a bunch of 
losers cryed about it.

I'm as pissed as you are but my 
hands are tied.

Game Boy Version

A Game Boy version exists which simply makes all the graphics monochrome, and worse.

• The "Newgrounds" text during the intro and title screen are smaller
• Many graphics are made in a lower resolution, or changed to be more abstract