Blippo+

If you want to really understand (or remember) what TV looked like before the internet, Blippo+ is just the ticket.

This unique little time capsule launched first on Panic's Playdate and landed on Switch and PC in September 2025. Now in full colour, this remarkable collaboration between the band Yacht, Telefantasy Studios, developer Noble Robot, and Panic itself teleports you back to a time when television was an appointment pastime and we viewed the world in fuzzy 4:3.

Serving up clips from a collection of fictional shows encompassing public, cable, and even pirate broadcasts on a distant Earth-like planet, it captures an alternate '90s buzzing with the static produced when older entertainment ideas and formats rub against an emerging youth movement looking to expand the horizons of art and tech with TV as their tool.

By the looks of its culture captured on screen, Planet Blip is all big colours and Space Channel 5-style energy, and instantly recognisable to any Earthlings born in the decades straddling 1985. Picture Bob Ross settling in at the Double R Diner while Groove Is In The Heart plays on repeat, and you're not far off the vibe.

You can cycle between channels at will, each one playing a series of minute-long clips that eventually loop around until a new 'packette' becomes available and you tune in a new batch. Along with packette notifications, messages from Blippo+ exec Lisa Duo periodically arrive, and interference from a nearby space anomaly means you'll occasionally have to manually recalibrate the signal.