Weezer Debuts Online Video Game as Throwback to Simpler Times — And Album Promo

variety.com:

Eight-bit diehards, get your thumbs ready: pop rock darlings Weezer have launched a nostalgia-heavy online side-scrolling action game, playable via web browsers.

The “The End of the Game” game has users playing as one of the band’s four members and jumping and shooting their way in a (surprisingly difficult) boss fight against an oversized, beanie-clad alien.

Players can nab extra lives by grabbing a number of Weezer-related items (surf wax, for one). And if the alien boss looks familiar — it’s the same one from the music video for the song “The End of the Game” off the band’s forthcoming and metal-inspired “Van Weezer” album, due out May 15.