KEYBOARD INPUT DETAILEDJun 28, 2019 - Community AnnouncementsWe’re constantly working to improve 198X. By player request, we’ve now added keyboard input specifications for each arcade game, accessible through the pause menu. Hope they help! We’ve also eliminated quite a few bugs, rendering 198X a better playing game overall. As always: thanks for your continued support in spreading the word of 198X. Without you, we wouldn't be here. ACHIEVEMENTS GET!Jun 24, 2019 - Community AnnouncementsBy popular demand, we’ve now added Steam Achievements to 198X! Can you unlock all 14? We’ve also squashed some pesky bugs – and added the option to view the end credits at will after having completed the game. From all of us in the 198X team: thanks for your kind support and overwhelmingly positive feedback since launch.198X offers solace for the arcade generation todayJun 21, 2019 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunArcade teen dramaventure 198X is out today, or at least its first chapter is. Developers Hi-Bit Studios call it “a coming-of-age story told through multiple games and genres”. What that means is five loosely connected arcade games channelling Outrun, R-Type, Final Fight and Ninja Spirit, plus a dungeon-crawling RPG, all in the service of a larger story. While I still say the sprites are more ’90s than ’80s (but won’t get bogged down in that argument again), I can’t deny that they are gorgeous looking, both within the games and during the story vignettes. (more…)
