[b]Video Gadgeteer Q3 Summer, 1993 HQs: Medicine Hat, Alberta (CA/US) $152,877,000[/b] (was $105,152,000) --- [b][i]Janet-R: Robo-Union 541[/i] released![/b] [b]Video Gadgeteer presents...[/b] [i][b]Janet-R: Robo-Union 541[/b][/i] Topic: Robots Genre: Casual (Puzzle) Price: $50 Platforms: Game Machine Audience: Rated E10+ Languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Gaelic, Swedish, Japanese Markets: North America, United Kingdom, Oceania, Japan, Europe Difficulty: Varies between 2.5 (beginning) and 15 (end) - Cutting edge isometric graphics! - Solve puzzles to get Janet-R out of the MegaCorp offices so she can lead the Robotic Workers' Union 541 against corrupt management! - More complex puzzles! Stages may look similar, but appearances can be deceiving! - New electronic lock puzzles present minigames with different types of challenges from the last game! [b]Plot:[/b] One year after janet-R's activation, things have gone downhill at MegaCorp, LLC... Finally fed up with it, Janet_R stepped up to lead the local Robotic Worker's Union against the corrupt management! But when they lock her in a closet on the top floor of the offices during the day the strike is to begin and deactivate the elevators, she'll have to wrack her processor to solve the security algorithms placed on every door in the building, and work her way to the ground floor to expose the MegaCorp manager's treachery! (-$100,000 for developing and -$1,000,000 for publishing [i]Janet-R: Robo-Union 541[/i]) --- [b][i]Highway Robbery: Detroit 1974[/i] released![/b] [b]Video Gadgeteer presents...[/b] [i][b]Highway Robbery: Detroit 1974[/b][/i] Topic: Crime Genre: Action (Open World) Price: $50 Platforms: Game Machine Audience: Rated AO for Adults Only Languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Gaelic, Swedish, Japanese Markets: North America, United Kingdom, Oceania, Japan, Europe Difficulty: 12.5 - Overhead graphics to see all the action! - A virtual world with no lasting consequences! Steal, kill and jaywalk at your leisure! - More types of cars to steal and buy! Own up to 8 personal vehicles! - Smarter cops! Police no longer just try to ram you off the road, but actually arrest you once you're stopped! [b]Plot:[/b] Detroit, Michigan. 1974. Once a proud shining beacon of the American automotive industry, the city is now a prime example of the Rust Belt. Amidst an economy plagued by the scourges of an oil crisis, cheap Japanese import cars and disco, crime-ridden Detroit has never seen worse days. In this wretched hive of scum and villainy, you are a nameless car thief trying to make a name for themselves in the city's underworld. Can you rake in the dollars and become a made man? Or will this city take you down like it has so many others? (-$100,000 for developing and -$1,000,000 for publishing [i]Highway Robbery: Detroit 1974[/i]) --- [b][i]Pzzl 2gether[/i] marketed![/b] [b]Video Gadgeteer presents...[/b] [i][b]Pzzl 2gether[/b][/i] Topic: Abstract Shapes Genre: Casual (Puzzle) Price: $50 Platforms: Game Machine Audience: Rated E10+ Languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Gaelic, Swedish, Japanese Markets: North America, United Kingdom, Oceania, Japan, Europe Difficulty: 9 - Cutting edge 16-bit graphics! - A Game Pocket classic comes to the home! - Up to 4 players head-to-head! [b]Plot:[/b] Same as the original [i]Pzzl[/i], it doesn't have one. It's a puzzle game. (-$100,000 for developing and -$1,000,000 for publishing [i]Pzzl 2gether[/i]) --- [b]Strangely, Video Gadgeteer does not reply to the letter from Draconic Studios...[/b] --- "Looks like we can finally call Gadgeteer Kitten out official mascot. Fitting, don't you think?" Oliver Zehn said in casual conversation with one of the artists who created the character. "So who do you think is next in line for our corporate image?" "I'd say Janet-R, provided the team for the second game did their jobs right this time. Talk about insensitivity..." "Anyway, I have to get going. That new HQ in Japan isn't going to inaugurate itself!" Oliver said, and started dialing a cab on his brick-sized cell phone. "Where is it, anyway?" the artist asked. "Land prices in Japan are through the roof. I chose a place called Komatsu in the Ishikawa Prefecture. Fairly out of the way, unfortunately."