Super Meat Boy, released in October 2010 on Xbox Live Arcade and in November on Steam, grew out of a 2008 Newgrounds Flash game. Its brutal platforming and a million sales made Team Meat a symbol of the indie boom, later chronicled in Indie Game: The Movie.
- Developer
- Team Meat
- Publisher
- Team Meat
- Released
- 20 October 2010
- Platforms
- Xbox 360 (XBLA), PC (Steam)
- Genre
- Platformer
- Kind of game
- pc
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