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batmansbelt
What's the big deal? This has been on android for ages.
neohaven
1) It's a port to a platform a lot of people remember fondly.

2) It's a port to a platform that is a little bit more arcane.

taiki
Z-80 ASM is arcane? Well, it is also has custom audio and graphics.
userbinator
To put things in perspective, this is a system with a 4MHz CPU and 8K of RAM, and has roughly the same compute power as an Arduino. Good example of how you don't need multi-GHz processors and tons of memory to do something interesting and entertaining.