PlayStation Retro Anime Spoof Will Be Available Outside Japan For The First Time In 27 Years

70s-style Robot Anime Geppy-X, a PlayStation release from 1999, is getting an official remastered Steam release — its first time leaving Japan and arriving 27 years after the original. The game is a sideways shoot-em-up about blasting mechanical space fiends and built its cult standing in Japan on affectionate send-ups of ’70s anime such as Getter Robo and Mazinger-Z.

It plays out as an ever-escalating robo-opera divided between episodes, with large robot bosses, increasingly absurd transformations, and tight disco speedsuits. The original four-disc release included FMV theatrics plus mock commercials for toys, shampoo and parodies of other vintage anime.

The remaster restores the full-motion cutscenes by digitizing the original master tapes and adds new localized language options; even across four PS1 discs the game originally ran with significant 320×240 compression.

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