# Super Meat Boy Super Meat Boy is a punishingly hard indie platformer released by Team Meat in October 2010, starring a skinless red cube racing to save his bandaged girlfriend from an evil fetus in a jar. The game's brutal difficulty made it a fixture of rage-quit streams and speedrun culture, and its reputation for driving players into failure loops spawned the widely used gamer shorthand known as the 'Super Meat Boy Effect.' ## Origin The character first appeared as a free flash game titled Meat Boy on Newgrounds in 2008, created by Edmund McMillen[3]. After the flash release, Nintendo and Microsoft both approached McMillen about a console version, prompting him to team up with programmer Tommy Refenes and form the two-person studio Team Meat in January 2009[3]. Super Meat Boy launched on Xbox Live Arcade on October 20, 2010, as part of Microsoft's GameFeast XBLA promotion, with the originally planned Nintendo release canceled[1]. PC and Mac versions followed shortly after[1]. A launch trailer went up on Team Meat's YouTube channel around the same time[4]. - **Platform:** Newgrounds (flash prototype) / Xbox Live Arcade (full release) - **Creator:** Team Meat (Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes) - **Date:** 2010 ## Overview The game puts players in control of Meat Boy, a small skinless character, dashing through sawblade, laser, and salt-filled stages to rescue Bandage Girl from Dr. Fetus[3]. Individual levels last only seconds but demand pixel-perfect timing, and the end-of-level replays that show every failed attempt running at once turned dying into a visual gag that streamers loved to clip[4]. Beyond the game itself, the 'Super Meat Boy Effect' entered gamer vocabulary through YouTuber and Twitch streamer Failboat[2]. It describes the loop where a player dies repeatedly to one hard section, then starts rushing through the easy earlier sections to get back to the hard part faster, which causes them to die on those easy parts instead, restarting the cycle[2]. Urban Dictionary entries also flag the game as shorthand for 'public torture' in gaming lingo[2]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Super Meat Boy? Super Meat Boy is a hard-as-nails 2D platformer by Team Meat where a small skinless character sprints through hazard-filled stages to save his girlfriend Bandage Girl from Dr. Fetus[3]. ### Where did Super Meat Boy come from? It started as a 2008 flash game called Meat Boy on Newgrounds by Edmund McMillen, then grew into a full title after Team Meat formed in January 2009, launching on Xbox Live Arcade on October 20, 2010[1]. ### What does Super Meat Boy mean? Online it doubles as slang for a torturously hard game, and the 'Super Meat Boy Effect,' coined by streamer Failboat, describes rushing easy sections to reach a hard one and dying on the easy parts instead[2]. ### How do you use Super Meat Boy? Gamers cite it when a game feels punishing or when they catch themselves in a rage-quit loop, often invoking the 'Super Meat Boy Effect' to describe the pattern[2]. ### Is Super Meat Boy still popular? It stayed a cult favorite after selling over a million copies by 2012, and Team Meat kept the brand alive with the sequel Super Meat Boy: Forever, trailered in December 2018[1][5]. ## References 1. [https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-01-03-super-meat-boy-sells-over-1-million]() 2. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Super%20Meat%20Boy]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/super-meat-boy]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snaionoxjos]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eILvkKnMxWY]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/super-meat-boy Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library