Game Specs for 198X

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Title	198X
Company	Hi-Bit Studios
Developer(s)/Designer(s):	(Writer & Producer) Tobias Bjarneby (Game Designers) Daniel Eyre & Victor Sjöström (Graphic Artists) Alexis Morille, Catherine Menabde, Tim Jonsson, Motocross Saito, Walter Samperi, Andrew Bado, Paul Conway, Riccardo Fiorini, Markus Karlsson Frost (Programmers) Johan Högfeldt, Alexander Lund (Producer) Daniel Grigorov (Website Design & Development) Carlos Castillo
Composer(s)/Musician(s):	Yuzo Koshiro, Anton Dromberg, Daniel Rosenqvist, U.F.L.
Year:	2019
Release Date:	January 23, 2020 (Switch)
System:	Nintendo Switch
Genre:	Multiple/Various, Narrative/Story-Based (majority of actual gameplay), Visual Novel, Arcade, Action, SHMUP, Racing, Platformer, Computer, RPG, Roguelike
Ratings/Suitable For Age Group?:	T for Teen (Blood, Use Of Tobacco, Violence) Possible allusion to some form of child abuse
Arcade Version?:	No
Port To Other Game Systems:	Steam GOG / gog.com PlayStation 4 (PS4) Xbox One (To be announced)
Part of Franchise:	No
Rarity/Availability:	Currently available for digital download from various gaming platforms' online stores.
Add'l Game System Peripheral Needed To Play?:	N/A
1 or 2 Player:	1 Player
Number of Reserve Players:	Start with 1 Player
1-Up's	None
Life Meter	N/A
Password	No
Battery	No
Continue?	Yes, but will begin at start of current Arcade title.
Perspective/Orientation Gameplay	2D mainly (some pseudo-3D during Kill Screen)
Number of Levels	5 Arcade Games (hard to quantify)
Checkpoints?	N/A
Save points?	No
Uninterrupted Play?	Dependent upon defeat in any of the arcade titles, play may continue from spot of death or may resume from beginning of title.
Internal Map(s)?	No
Score?	No
Difficulty Settings	No
Time Limit?	No
Hero	Kid
Sidekick(s)/Cast	N/A
Weapons	N/A
Items/Equipment	N/A
Power-Ups	N/A
Power-Downs	N/A
Main Enemy	Slaying 3 Dragons in Kill Screen, then fighting MOTHERBOARD
Person/Place Being Saved	Kid, himself
Objective/Goal	Save Kid and build up his confidence with each Arcade game mastered
Ending?	No
Secret Code(s)?	N/A
Stage Select	No
Invincibility	No
Extra Players	No
Continues	N/A
Sound Test	No
Additional Secret Codes	?
Trivia/Little Known Facts	198X captures the thrill of the arcade in the 1980s. Each of its five, internal arcade games has been inspired by a number of classic titles. Let's see some of them below: ↓ Beating Heart - The Beat 'Em Up Renegade Double Dragon series Final Fight series Streets Of Rage series Out Of The Void - The Shoot 'Em Up Gradius series R-Type series The Runaway - The Racing Game OutRun Shadowplay - The Ninja Game Shinobi series Strider Ninja Spirit Kill Screen - The RPG System Shock series Not every influence in 198X is from video games at the arcade. The main boss from the Shadowplay game closely-resembles the No-Face, or kaonashi, character seen in the critically-acclaimed, anime film from 2001 by Studio Ghibli, Spirited Away. See below: ↓       In 198X, talented, pixel artists illustrated a number of beautifully-rendered scenes that helped to make the world of Kid pop with nostalgia. An eye for detail shows smaller, satellite dishes mounted on rooftops throughout various angles in Suburbia. The only problem is that there weren't any dishes with small diameters that were prevalent in the 1980s; that didn't happen until later into the 1990s. See a picture of the larger dishes that were common in the 1980s below: ↓ RETURN TO TOP