Just played through 198x again. That is a great experience if you grew up during the arcade days. Very sad and beautiful game bursting with amazing pixel art!
I can really relate to the story too as I lost people during my childhood like so many. This game kind of hints at that and is worth checking out if any of the above sounds remotely interesting :)
January 13, 2024 - Day 378 - NewPlay Review
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Game: 198X
Platform: Steam
Released: Jun 21, 2019
Installed: Sep 9, 2023
Unplayed: 126d (4m4d)
Playtime: 23m
Rating: 3 - OK
198X is a 2D pixel-art pastiche of 1980's arcade games. It's a bit hard to characterise it other than that.
At the start of the game you're inexplicably dropped into a beat-em-up with a different name, and very little context.
This is one of the times that reading up on the game before I played it might have helped. It took me about 10 minutes to beat that stage, only for the actual game to reveal itself, which is a game about arcade games, and a coming-of-age story.
The pixel-art in this game is *gorgeous*. It captures a mood incredibly well, and combined with the music and voice talent, the game's backstory is well done. It's a pixel-art game where the pixel-art is actually art.
The game is built around five different kinds of arcade games that were popular in the 1980's.
Which is where I ran into problems. The second game is a side-ways scrolling sci-fi shooter, and I was always terrible at this kind of game.
Which means that's where I got stuck, repeating the same section of the game, and dying around the same point each time.
All things considered, I'd like to try and continue playing, but I'm not sure if I'll get past that section to find out.
198X is:
3: OK
(1/2) Attached is an old post of mine on the topic of #GameSecretTips.
Are there still such things as secret tips or do we have everything in view by now?
Do you guys have some #HiddenGems of your own that maybe not everyone knows about?
I'll try it myself with a few #Games that may have passed by the masses. In the image description of each cover you can find a more detailed description of the game.
#198X #JamestownPlus #FinalVendetta #PixelLove #IndieGames #ShareYourGames #Gaming
Attached is an old post of mine on the topic of #GameSecretTips...
Are there still such things as secret tips or do we have everything in view by now?
Do you guys have some #HiddenGems of your own that maybe not everyone knows about?
I'll try it myself with a few #Games that may have passed by the masses. In the image description of each cover you can find a more detailed description of the game.
#198X #JamestownPlus #FinalVendetta #BlackParadox #PixelLove #IndieGames #ShareYourGames
The latest hot sales on #Switch: #HorizonChaseTurbo, #SignsoftheSojourner, #AMusicalStory, #StarWarsPinball, #CitizenSleeper, #BeaconPines, #DeathSquared, #Trifox, #HardWest, #Bleed2, #198X, #FRAMEDCollection, #OTTTDOverTheTopTowerDefense...
Aktuell treibt mich das Thema #SpieleGeheimtipps um. Gibt es überhaupt noch Spiele, die nicht jeder auf dem Radar hat oder haben wir mittlerweile alles im Blick? 
Habt ihr selbst ein paar #HiddenGems, die eventuell nicht jeder kennt?
Ich versuch's gleich einmal mit ein paar #Games, die eventuell an der breiten Masse vorbei gegangen sind. In der Bildbeschreibung des jeweiligen Covers findet sich eine nähere Beschreibung zum Spiel.
Still #198X but different segment, this time an #arcade #shooter
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