Yahoo News Warner Bros launches 8-bit game inspired by IT
Warner Bros have released a new 8-bit game to mark the arrival of Stephen King's IT in cinemas next month.
The latest adaptation of the creepy killer clown novel will hit screens later this year, more or less 27 years after the original movie was first released (which is spookily significant in its own right).
But until then, you can get busy playing the new online 8-bit game that allows players to pilot paper boat S.S. Georgie through the sewers of Derry, Maine to collect red balloons and avoid the clutches of the terrifying Pennywise the clown.
Related: Everything you need to know about Stephen King's IT remake
The new adaptation of IT from director Andy Muschietti arrives in cinemas on September 8 and it'll be the first of two films adapting Stephen King's terrifying novel.
This first half focuses on 'The Losers' Club' – a group of outsider kids growing up in Derry, Maine, who encounter a demonic presence who hangs out in the storm drains and likes to take the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown.
C’mon don’t be a wimp, first one to reach the end of the tunnel wins. #ITMovie pic.twitter.com/rwk7ZvBXlt
- IT Movie🎈 (@ITMovieOfficial) August 17, 2017
Unlike the movie though, the free online game is available to play now, and gamers can use the directional arrows on their keyboard to control the paper boat as it floats through the town's sewers.
The game follows the news that IT will be coming to IMAX, which is rare for a horror film so fair warning, folks: this will be one particularly immersive (and terrifying) experience.
IT clocks in with a mammoth runtime of 135 minutes – pretty lengthy for a horror movie – and stars Bill Skarsgård as the evil Pennywise, while Jaeden Lieberher and Stranger Things' Finn Wolfhard lead up the gang of kids.
IT will be released in cinemas on September 8.
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