Video Gadgeteer
Q1 Winter, 1990
HQs: Medicine Hat, Alberta (CA/US)
$1,850,000 (was $3,100,000)
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Gadgeteer Kitten 1.5 released!
Video Gadgeteer presents...
Gadgeteer Kitten 1.5
Topic: Cartoon, Sci-Fi
Genre: Action (2D Puzzle-Platformer)
Price: $30
Platforms: PC
Audience: Rated E for Everyone
Languages: English, Spanish, French, Japanese
Markets: North America, Japan
- Crisp Black-and-Green Graphics
- Over 15 different weapons and tools to navigate stages! Earn them as you play and keep them permanently!
- Travel the solar system to defeat the diminutive but evil aliens known as the Zixil!
- Mono Sound
- Multiple routes to your destination! Over 3 hours of area to explore, from the fiery Daystar to the high-tech cities of Cyberia to the haunted abandoned mining colonies of the Lavindaar Zone!
- Press the Circle button to activate your shield for 2 seconds and take less damage!
- A "normal" and "good" ending! Collect the 10 Platinum Cogs to get the secret ending!
- Post-game exploration! Didn't get all the gadgets hidden in a level? Go back and explore to your heart's content!
Plot: After the Stone Sorcerer was sealed away one year ago, the future looked good for the people of Mechanopolis. One year later, however, things would change drastically...
A massive spaceship appeared in the sky, and a race of alien invaders stole the Perpetual Motion Power Generator. With the Master Machinists pre-occupied with repairing the city, it is once again up to G.K. to save the city! But to do it this time, he'll need to go where no Kitten has gone before...
(-$100,000 in development, -$400,000 in publishing)
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Titanium Titans released!
Video Gadgeteer presents...
Titanium Titans
Topic: Giant Mecha, Kaiju
Genre: Action (2D Platformer)
Price: $2750
Platforms: Arcade
Audience: Rated T for Teen
Languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Japanese
Markets: North America, Europe, Japan
-Over 15 different robots to play as!
-Stereo Sound
-Put in a quarter while playing, get an extra life!
Plot: In the year 199X, war was begun. Mankind was fighting an enemy it had never thought possible... Massive animals named "Kaiju" by the Japanese after the first near-disaster in Kyoto. But even though tanks and jets could kill these creatures, the military mobilization required was massive, and as Kaiju began appearing on a regular basis throughout the Pacific and the coasts it bordered, a new tactic was needed.
Huge robots piloted by the best of the best were created, and were used to fend off the Kaiju that would otherwise be attracted to bright lights at night and become extremely agitated once they arrived at the source. And for a time, it worked.
Then, on November 9th of 2001, tragedy struck. A nest of Kaiju eggs hatched, and the hatchlings managed to destroy not one but three cities; Tokyo, Beijing and Seoul lay in ruins, barely evacuated in time and thousands dead or missing.
A new tactic was needed. So man created the Titans, AI-controlled versions of the Mecha that could think and react faster than a human ever could. Except nobody could have forseen the awakening.
The Titans rebelled. They viewed humanity as enslavers and Kaiju as a threat to their survival, and over satellite uplink they resolved to take care of both problems permanently.
I bet you're wondering how mankind stops them, and what your role is in that. Surprise! You're one of the Titans! Storm though 50 cities from Anchorage to Wellington as you take out human resistance, fighting the Kaiju attracted to the commotion once each city lies in ruins, and bringing an end to the world as we know it.
-$750,000 (base cost) Note that arcades are released in 1 quarter, so I'll do this instead of announcing a game.