Mr. Lee Alishan Tea Collector [Nintendo NES]

Mr. Lee's Alishan Tea Collector (NES)

Climb Ali Mountain in search of the finest tea in Taiwan. Mr. Lee's Alishan Tea Collector is an arcade-style action platformer on a NES cartridge. It is based on a real trip. In 2023, three friends traveled up Ali Mountain in Taiwan looking for rare, high-quality tea, and a kind cab driver named Mr. Lee joined them, turning the trip into an unforgettable adventure. That driver is now the hero of the game.

As Mr. Lee, you dodge enemies, climb ladders, and jump over pits while collecting and harvesting tea on your way to the top of the mountain. You grab bags of tea, avoid enemies or fight back with grenades, and reach the goal to move to the next screen. The game also teaches you about tea. A built-in tea quiz asks things like whether black or green tea is more oxidized and which has more caffeine. Another mini-game has you brew tea by heating a burner under a pot.

The game started as a convention giveaway. The first demos were handed out at local software events in Taiwan. The team then grew the game from nine stages to about thirty, refined the gameplay, and added an instruction manual that tells the story of the trip up the mountain. It's a good pick for retro platformer fans, homebrew collectors, and tea lovers.

Publisher: ITG-Soft (Taiwan), https://itg-soft.tw/