[b]Video Gadgeteer
Q4 Fall, 1990
HQs: Medicine Hat, Alberta (CA/US)
$48,825,000[/b] (was $77,575,000)

((We've reached the time period I was born in! \(^_^)/ ))

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[b]Game Machine and [i]Gadgeteer Kitten 2[/i] marketed![/b]

Commercials featuring the Game Machine and [i]Gadgeteer Kitten 2[/i] have appeared on the airwaves worldwide, along with billboard, magazine and newspaper ads. Apparently the game will be available in a bundle with the console, or they can be purchased separately. The total advertizing cost is estimated at 25 million!

(-$25,000,000 for 5 Large marketing campaigns in North America, Japan, Europe, the United Kingdom and Oceania.)

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[b][i]Pzzl[/i] marketed![/b]
Pzzl has been marketed in gaming magazines and newspapers worldwide, with an estimated cost of $3.8 million. The puzzle game for the Game Pocket was reportedly designed specifically for the platform, as a game to be played on mass transit or other scenarios involving waiting. "Never read on the bus again!" indeed.

(-$3,750,000 for 5 Small marketing campaigns in North America, Japan, Europe, the United Kingdom and Oceania.)

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[b][i]Highway Robbery[/i] announced![/b]
Video Gadgeteer has just announced a new title for the Game Machine unlike any seen before! The game, which will be rated M for Mature, places the player in the shoes of a nameless criminal on the streets of a nameless mid-western town and the surrounding county. The player will be able to both steal parked vehicles and carjack ones being driven by NPCs. Police will chase the player if they are spotted stealing a vehicle or if the player lingers around the police too long in a stolen vehicle. The player can bring cars to "questionably legal" exporters for cash, which can be used to buy safehouses (access to doors in the sides of buildings which you can enter to "hide" and slowly reduce heat), a home which can be entered and customized with furniture, as well as up to 3 personal vehicles. Vehicles will all be renamed to ensure "no brands will be harmed in the making of this game".

[img]http://cdn3.spiele-umsonst.de/gta12.jpg[/img]

((Yes, I know this is 32-bit. Just imagine a downgraded graphics version. It could probably be done.

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[b][i]Horsepower[/i] announced![/b]
A game for the Game Pocket, superficially similar to a graphically-downgraded [i]Highway Robbery[/i], is apparently also being released by Video Gadgeteer, but according to the developers this is where the similarities end.

Horsepower uses the same overhead viewpoint as [i]Highway Robbery[/i] to portray vehicles and only vehicles, in a game where you buy, customize and race street-legal vehicles on the streets of an island city.

The player starts out with a small amount of cash and only a couple choices for vehicles within their price range, and from there their goal is to get prize money to upgrade their car and eventually get better cars. Fake brands that imitate real car companies will be used, and the game will apparently take place in the same universe as [i]Highway Robbery[/i].