The retro video game comes a couple of weeks before his collab album with George Clinton drops.
Jay Worthy attends the Los Angeles Special Screening of Netflix’s “The Vince Staples Show” at TUDUM Theater on February 12, 2024 in Hollywood, California.
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Jay Worthy isn’t letting up.
The West Coast MC (by way of Vancouver) continues the follow-up to his stellar Once Upon a Time series with Generation P, a collab album with none other than the legendary George Clinton, as he and his partner-in-crime producer Sean House form like Voltron as the duo LNDN DRGS.
They already dropped a couple of singles in “Knee Deep,” featuring Snoop Dogg, and “Atomic P,” and now they released a cool little 16-bit video game called P of the Week with the help of designer Kyle Zimmer where fans can play as Jay Worthy in a sort of Super Mario/Streets of Rage mash-up.
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“I’m an old video game collector and am just happy that I have my own game with my homies as characters,” Worthy told Complex. “It feels like a mix of my two favorite games, Super Mario and Streets of Rage—Mario being Nintendo, Streets of Rage being Sega. They both had that feel to me growing up.” Zimmer made sure the game had a retro feel to it and wanted gamers to experience how it felt playing video games on old school monitors. “I wanted the game to feel like something you grew up playing on a CRT, not a modern retro imitation,” he said. “A big part of my process was about preserving that analogue feel while still ensuring it ran smoothly in a modern mobile browser.”
George Clinton’s grandson, marketing manager and the project’s A&R Zavier Croft, also told Complex that the game isn’t just about the rollout; it’s more of a tribute to a period lost to time. “What Jay Worthy, his fans and I have bonded on is the idea of cultural history, physical media, and vintage artifacts,” he said.
Generation P s set to drop on Aug. 28 and features the aformentioned Snoop, Larry June, Leven Kali, Ty Dolla $ign, Channel Tres, Terrace Martin, Kokane, Curren$y, 03 Greedo, Eyedress, Del the Funky Homosapien, Aceyalone, Ab-Soul, YG and The Game.
In the meantime you can play P of the Week here.
