--- title: Mean Girls 8 Bit Video Game Viral Video Lindsay Lohan description: Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Survive high school canonical: https://time.com/2857038/this-mean-girls-8-bit-video-game-is-so-fetch/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-11T15:35:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:38.950Z og:title: This Is What "Mean Girls" Would Look Like as an 8-Bit Video Game og:description: Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Survive high school og:url: https://time.com/2857038/this-mean-girls-8-bit-video-game-is-so-fetch/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Is What "Mean Girls" Would Look Like as an 8-Bit Video Game twitter:description: Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Survive high school twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This _Mean Girls_ 8-Bit Video Game Is So Fetch by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jun 11, 2014 3:35 PM CUT by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jun 11, 2014 3:35 PM CUT A decade after the Tina Fey comedy debuted, _Mean Girls_ got the 8-bit video game treatment. The clever clip from YouTube channel CineFix covers all the major plot points of the legendary (make that, [mythological](http://time.com/67280/mean-girls-mythology/ "undefined")) Lindsay Lohan classic, complete with pixelated Plastics, an anime Rachel McAdams, and an 8-bit Mathlete competition set to an ’80s soundtrack. The NES-inspired game is sadly not playable, but it is still fun to watch as fresh-out-of-Africa Cady navigates life in her new high school. She collects points, stocks her inventory (here’s a pencil, Aaron! here’s a weight loss bar, Regina!), makes friends, destroys her enemies and learns the rules (“On Wednesdays we wear pink!”). The clip is fun to watch, but it would be more fun if, say, you could make [Glen Coco](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htyf5wnC96w "undefined") point and laugh at Gretchen Weiners or have Janis go all [_Heathers_](http://time.com/38995/heathers-musical-sketches/ "undefined") on Regina George. We know we can’t make fetch happen, but what about a real _Mean Girls_ video game? **MORE**: [A Sonic the Hedgehog Movie Is Happening](http://time.com/2854410/sonic-the-hedgehog-movie/ "undefined") **MORE**: [‘Mean Girls’ Is Not a Comedy. It’s Mythology.](http://time.com/67280/mean-girls-mythology/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2857038/this-mean-girls-8-bit-video-game-is-so-fetch/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2857038/this-mean-girls-8-bit-video-game-is-so-fetch/"},"headline":"This Mean Girls 8-Bit Video Game Is So Fetch","datePublished":"2014-06-11T15:35:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:38.950Z","description":"Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Survive high school","url":"https://time.com/2857038/this-mean-girls-8-bit-video-game-is-so-fetch/","keywords":["Newsfeed","mean girls","Internet","Video Games","movies","Technology","viral","entertainment"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2857038/this-mean-girls-8-bit-video-game-is-so-fetch/","name":"This Mean Girls 8-Bit Video Game Is So Fetch"}}]}] ```