Weezer has shared a new online game tied to the band's song “The End Of The Game,” a track from the group’s upcoming LP, Van Weezer. The eight-bit game is described as an “ode to the boss levels that are notoriously impossible to beat” in Eighties and Nineties games like Street Fighter II, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Punch Out.
After you pick your player — one of the four members of Weezer — you’re transported through all 100 levels of the game in a flash before facing off against the final boss, a giant alien. While the alien is beatable, it turns out the actual final boss is a walk across a booby trap-filled path to a treasure chest that’s impossible to reach.
The band noted, “It's the perfect game to play while #stayingathome because you can't beat it. Really. We've tried. And it's not just cause we aren't that good at video games.”
The song “The End Of The Game” came out last fall, while Van Weezer is due out May 15th. As of now, Weezer is still scheduled to embark on the Hella Mega stadium tour with Green Day and Fall Out Boy this summer in Europe and North America, unless the COVID-19 pandemic forces the tour to be postponed.