When we saw this jam's theme, Old Tech, we kept coming back to one picture: a workbench in a garage, covered in old consoles, all plugged into the same power brick.

Pip's Escape starts there. Steve's kid broke the tablet, and now it's sitting on the bench with a dying battery and no Wi-Fi. But it's still plugged in, and every cable on that bench is a connection. The tablet's AI squeezes down the wire and wakes up inside the brick as a blocky little hero called PIP.

To get onto the network, PIP needs a password: the last word of every Lastlight. That means five ports, five consoles and five games to play through to their endings:

• NES: a dark-fantasy quest to bring back a stolen flame
• Game Boy: a murder mystery in four shades of green
• Super NES: a heist for a cursed crown
• Game Boy Color: a festival with its colour drained away
• Game Boy Advance: a climb to a storm dragon in the sky

Each game looks, sounds and plays like its own hardware, down to the sound chips.

Play Pip's Escape in your browser, or download it for Windows or Linux. We'd love to hear which console was your favourite!

Isaac, Justin and Claude Code