Glitchy Matchy
A haunted-cartridge match-3. The game is glitching, the menus lie, and the cut content is still in there.
Glitchy Matchy is a match-3 played on an old cartridge that has started glitching — pixel sprites, a corrupted system ticker, CRT scanlines, and menus that occasionally lie to you. Swap ghosts, cherries, skulls, bolts, keys, spirals and eyes on the 8×8 board; a 4-match builds a Zap Line that clears a row, a 5-match spins up a Scrambler.
Play Timed, Moves, or Endless, work through a 24-level ROM Map with star ratings, or take on the date-seeded Daily Glitch and build a streak.
Then there is the other game hiding underneath. The seven sprites on the menu are a combination lock: 16 combos restore celebration effects, hidden themes, ambient glitch overlays, tape-warped bonus tracks, and six full arcade mini-games — Tape Worm, Memory Leak, Out of Bounds and more. Codes never appear in-game; the Cut Content archive keeps score of what you have restored and hints at what you haven't.
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ROM CONTENTS
16 COMBOS UNRESTORED| Sector | What’s in there |
|---|---|
| Match | Timed, Moves, and Endless match-3 with Zap Line and Scrambler specials |
| ROM Map | 24 levels with objectives, corrupted cells, and star ratings |
| Daily Glitch | One date-seeded board a day — keep the streak alive |
| Cut Content | 6 hidden mini-games, each behind a combo |
| Themes | 9 looks, most of them locked |
| Tape Deck | 13 warped tracks — 6 on rotation, 7 hidden |
| ??? | The sprites on the menu are not decoration |
The combo lock: the seven sprite dials on the main menu take secret sequences. Dial one in and the cartridge reacts — screen-wide glitch effects, ambient overlays, restored content. Nothing is spelled out; the Cut Content archive tracks your discoveries and drops hints for the rest.
No spoilers here: one combo is seven of the same sprite. That is all you get — unless you want all of it, in which case the Cut Content Index lists every combination, unlock, and achievement.
SCREENSHOTS
5 FRAMES
Tap a frame to open full-res. Drop replacements at public/screenshots/<project>/.
The cartridge remembers you. The dials are waiting.
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