PoyoSoft Presents: Boxguy the Box

About Boxguy

Boxguy The Box by PoyoPoyo1985 (PoyoWiki1985 on Wikipedia) is media series starring a main character of the same name who has been various comics (most of the comics being unreleased), Rom Hacks, Pico-8 mods and other places. Boxguy's first official internet appearance was in 2023 of August 20th in the Pico-8 mod named Boxguy in Sonic 2.5 Sage Demo which was mod of the Pico-8 game Sonic 2.5 Sage demo. Boxguy was also modded into other Pico-8 games like Celeste Arcade and Celeste 2.

Boxguy's sound test screen from his Kirby Adventure hack
Sound Test mode from Boxguy's Adventure — a full Kirby's Adventure ROM hack.

ROM Hack Timeline

Boxguy with Super Leaf power-up
Boxguy with the Super Leaf in a Super Mario Bros. 3 ROM hack.

Boxguy the Box has been in many Rom Hacks his first Rom Hack appearance is a hack of Super Mario Land 2 named Boxguy and the 6 Golden Soups which is just a simple sprite hack of the game to replace Mario with Boxguy same of many other Boxguy hacks like Boxguy in Super Mario Bros 3, Boxguy in Super Mario Bros 2, Boxguy in Gimmick! , Boxguy in Super Mario World (Hummer Team) , Boxguy in Sonic The Hedgehog (Master System & Game Gear), Boxguy in Sonic Triple Trouble and others.

The first Boxguy rom hack that wasn't just a sprite swap was named Boxguy Adventure which was a rom hack of Kirby's Adventure that adds custom graphics for the levels, changes where some music plays, replaced Kirby with Boxguy and has 9 new custom playable levels with more of them coming soon according to the RomHackPlaza Page. According to the description of the hack on RomHackPlaza world 3 is going to be the last world created.

Upcoming Projects

Boxguy Adventure 2 Title Screen
Title screen from the upcoming Boxguy Adventure 2.

Boxguy Adventure 2 which had it's own announcement post on the PoyoPoyo1985 Youtube channel is a Rom Hack of Mega Man: Dr Wily's Revenge. Similar to Boxguy Adventure it adds new custom made levels, replaces Mega Man with Boxguy and has custom level graphics. According to the announcement post Boxguy Adventure 2 will be released after all the world 3 levels of Boxguy Adventure is finished.

Latest Developments

Boxguy running in latest hack
Boxguy in motion in the newest ROM project.

The newest rom hack is Boxguy Puresabe Adventure or it's alternate title Boxguy Adventure 1.5 is Hack that adds Boxguy in to Puresabe's Hack of Kirby's Adventure specifically the Japanese version called Hoshi no Kabi: Yume no Izumi no Monogatari. Puresabe's Hack adds new custom levels, music and graphics. This hack's title screen uses Boxguy's sprites from Boxguy Adventure and uses a new custom made japanese Boxguy logo which says ボックスガイ.

References & Playable Links