As if many of you weren't already excited enough for Borderlands 2, Gearbox has put out their own 16-bit version of Borderlands, simply called 'The Border Lands'. I guess they weren't planning on using that name for the gritty, realistic BL reboot in a few years. It's a top-down arena-style arcade shooter, complete with a simplified version of leveling and loot. I've no idea how long it goes on for, but my high score was 37576. I think this is a pretty awesome little promo game they put out here.

This is awesome.

That's pretty neat.

I've played to much of this

Apparently only 20 copies exist....

I played for like 20 minutes and had to force myself to stop!
Rail gun is overpowered!

@TaliciaDragonsong said:

I played for like 20 minutes and had to force myself to stop! Rail gun is overpowered!

Yeah, once I had the rail gun I started having real fun with this. The flame thrower is pretty useful too. Played it for 10 mins, got 42500 points. Thanks OP for letting me know this exists.

I played for like 20 minutes and had to force myself to stop! Rail gun is overpowered!

369,001 and an XP level of 170. And that's only because I gave up. I was down to one life at around 20,000 or so but then I picked up a 2 way railgun that pretty much got me to the 300,000 mark. I noticed at that point that I was killing so many enemies in such a short amount of time that I was leveling up so often, and my max HP was so high that any damage the enemies could do to me was rendered moot, even when I was getting pummeled by several badass enemies at once. It got to a point where the levels weren't really getting any more difficult so I picked up a focused Eridian weapon just to try something new, but it turns out I was tearing everything up with that, too. That's when I just decided to throw my last life away. It's definitely one of those games that gets easier the further you get.