[b] Video Gadgeteer
Q2 Spring, 1989
HQs: Medicine Hat, Alberta (CA/US)
$42,350,000 (was $42,750,000)[/b]
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[b] [i]Aquatopia[/i] Released![/b]

[b] Video Gadgeteer presents......
Aquatopia[/b]
Topic: Sci-Fi
Genre: Simulation/Strategy (City Builder)
Price: $30
Platforms: PC
Audience: Rated E for Everyone
Languages: English, Spanish, French, Japanese
Markets: North America, Japan

-16-bit Graphics
-Over 60 different buildings to use to expand your colony!
-Random events! No two games will be exactly alike!
-Stereo Sound
-Map generator! Using the same map seed will generate the same map, so you can write them down!
-Custom map editor!
-Tutorials for learning the ropes of the game!

Plot: It is the year 20XX, and life on land has reached its limits. Any further expansion of cities or farmland into the delicate remaining natural ecosystems would cause the biosphere to implode. Desperate for an alternative for supporting the ever-expanding populations, the world's nations have built arcology structures in major cities and are creating undersea colonies.

One nation, however, had such a surplus of land that the latter option was ignored far too long. In Canada, the prairie agricultural areas gave so much surplus that they could afford to expand Calgary and Edmonton into the largest cities in the world by land area, but it didn't last. Now faced with the fact that the remaining farms no longer give a food surplus, the Canadian Government is forced to rapidly ramp up the funding to the Ministry of Oceanic Resources and Subaquatic Prospecting (MORSP) to attempt to compete with the American and Russian programs that have already claimed most of the good parts of the sea floor in the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic oceans.

You have been recently promoted to the position of a colony manager. Your job is to upgrade an existing colony to be able to compete with other nations, or to start a new colony to take advantage of one of the few remaining resource-rich areas.

Good luck!

(-$400,000 for publishing)
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[b] [i]Eccojari[/i] anounced![/b]

Video Gadgeteer has announced a new type of RPG-like game for the upcoming GamePocket! Details are scarce, but it looks* interesting!

[i]*Screenshots taken from an IRL game (obviously) and will not be fully representative of the plot or gameplay mechanics of Eccojari.[/i]

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[b][i]Pixel Power[/i] Magazine[/b]
Q2 1989

Throwing Daggers - 7.75
Fairy Stopper - 7.25