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198X
Developer Hi-Bit Studios
198X is an action game developed by the Swedish team Hi-Bit Studios and published by Sonka. It was released for PlayStation 4 and Windows in June 2019, with a port for the Nintendo Switch published in January 2020. An Xbox One version was announced but never released. A homage to arcade gaming in the 1980s, 198X's coming-of-age story follows an unnamed "Kid" as they discover a video arcade in an abandoned factory… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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60 of 65 · most liked firstTonight, we'd like to take a moment of your time to tell you about a game we haven't made, but that deserves your undivided attention if the words "Dutch T55s vs Werewolves With Rocket Launchers" pique your interest in any way. FIRELOCK 198X A COLD WAR FANTASY WAR GAME BY RIFLE INFANTRY.
unlabelledView post →198X - Gameplay mockup Made for the Kickstarter campagne it was later on used by the studio to produce the full game sequence. #gamedev #pixelart #animation #indie
unlabelledView post →POV: The millennial manager at your favorite arcade / pizza plex booted up an old version of HackPhish on his retro 198X GamerGlove™️, and now he’s got video game superpowers. 🐀🍕👾✨ #Art #Toon #Furry #Retro #Gamer
unlabelledView post →I have got to get back on tabletop wargaming just to play firelock 198x the amount of sauce this game has is unreal
unlabelledView post →This game has such cool cutscenes, visual and audio effects, level design, narration... Just take a look at this boss scene in the Runner episode, level 4. So cool It's called 198x, released on 20 Jun 2019 store.steampowered.com/app/1086010/... #indiegames #pixelart
unlabelledView post →the guy making firelock 198x needs to move to bluesky so i can more easily keep up w the game introducing huge brain shit like "char 2c with a CIWS mount"
unlabelledView post →The World of Horror soundtrack has arrived! Fittingly for a game set in 198X, we've stocked it on both vinyl and compact disc. (No longbox for the CD, though, sorry.) Available now: www.fangamer.com/collections/...
unlabelledView post →This reminds me of Firelock 198X, a little indie fantasy war game set in the Cold War in which there is a faction of wolf men who are vulnerable to silver… so one of the other factions adds silver particulate “Chemical-SP” to their chemical weapons
unlabelledView post →You have my attention. Mesmerizing design; nails the aesthetic of a specific era of gaming, among other things. Firelock 198x is a tabletop miniatures game of fantasy warfare in the nuclear age. firelock-team.itch.io/firelock-198...
unlabelledView post →#justbeatit 198X, a brief ode to ‘80s gaming genres, arcade culture, and teen angst, in the form of a narrative mini-game set. I would have liked two to three times as much of everything. More of each individual game, more games total, more story. But I liked what I got. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social
unlabelledView post →has anyone else played the tabletop game firelock 198x? it's really fun
unlabelledView post →all Chelseas born after 198X know is Macintosh, code they game, stab, be transexual , eat hot chip and lye
unlabelledView post →please popularize firelock 198x so that when i go to the board game store other people know what it is and how to play
unlabelledView post →just played my first game of firelock 198x that lasted like 7 hours: twas a lot of funnnn i wanna try doing higher point gamess
unlabelledView post →Chill stream today with a game I have wanted to stream since I first played it. 198X! It's beautiful story told through arcade games, with an AMAZING soundtrack! Come hang out with me today at 3pm PST. 🩷 www.twitch.tv/ember_glows #cozystreamer #smallstreamer
unlabelledView post →In high school (198x) I had a friend who liked to write games for the Commodore 64. I don't know if he ever wrote an actual game. He did however write a long series of ever more elaborate loading screens. Just born with the demoscene itch I guess. Hope he found his people, eventually.
unlabelledView post →I wonder how many copies this Commodore 64 game sold back in 198x ?
unlabelledView post →Also, my Session Zero for Howling Metal, the game I'm writing and running where a metal band has to rock its way out of Hell to save 198X Cleveland, was a blast. My group wild make almost anything fun, but the system also provided some fun, which is def a goal #TTRPG
unlabelledView post →Herein lies my finale on Whembly Castle, as the game collapses in a pile of mazes. I explore the missed promise and the concept of unwritten rules regarding 198x era use of mazes bluerenga.blog/2024/10/18/w...
unlabelledView post →planning a 198X moldvay-style D&D open table game, making the world, also for the 199X AD&D closed table game- excited! felt inspired to make a starting region map's topography like "vaguely central/east us, every slaver state is replaced by sea" and "mississippi river is adriatically ~100mi wide"
unlabelledView post →🎮 2026 Game #65: 198X I like the idea of weaving together a little collection of retro games with an overarching storyline, but the execution here is weak. Each game is extremely simplistic (one button beat 'em up?) and the story connecting them was a bit too angsty for me. 4/10 #IndieGames
unlabelledView post →Devil's Wheel (198x) A truly weird game that I never figured out how to play properly. You're a bear and have to navigate circular paths, jumping from one to another where they connect, and you must avoid getting stung by wasps. I think the point is to bring honey back to your cubs in the cave. 1/2
unlabelledView post →My first time playing a War Game | Firelock 198X VOD 7-15-2026 youtu.be/HlcBHH7sr5U
unlabelledView post →I beat 198X. The game was awesome! I got to play Legally Distinct Streets of Rage, Gradius, Outrun, Shinobi and Shining in the Darkness in one neat short package with a story narrative. 198X/10 game would play again! Thank you all for coming to my stream. = ' ~ ' =
unlabelledView post →I was once in Anaheim covering an Angels game and stopped at a Starbucks on my way into the ballpark. In the lot is a 198x model year sports car — bright red, low to the ground, meant to be seen. Let's call it a Corvette. Door opened. Hulk Hogan stepped out. The man knew his era and never left it.
unlabelledView post →Haven't posted in a while - but I made another little game-thing! A homebrew faction for the wargame Firelock 198X by DrekfortMDC & Rifle Infantry. All the links are below. Check it out! robert-cambias.itch.io/antipodes
unlabelledView post →It’s “Ink Strake” Saturday. Firelock 198X is a really cool universe and game.
unlabelledView post →I haven't played it since it was the best game in my collection. So December the 26th 198X when I would have rushed to the boxing day sales to buy almost anything that wasn't my Curries fReE software bundle that came with my Spectrum.
unlabelledView post →So here's what I've made so far in the #indiettrpg space. Get in the Van is a Troika hack where you're a punk, thrash, or glam band going on its first tour in 198X. NOTE: You need the Troika! rules to play this as it is an expansion of the original game. www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/get...
unlabelledView post →Have you ever played the game, 198X? Perfectly suits this, brilliant game.
unlabelledView post →198X If you're looking through a quick blast of 80s & 90s video game nostalgia, this is the game for you! There's even a pop-culture coming of age storyline, providing a backdrop to the arcade haven & the games contained within. Wonderful pixel artwork, + sound & music.
unlabelledView post →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 :) #PixelArt #steam #gaming #198x
unlabelledView post →just fyi the outfit and text blurb is from a board game called firelock 198x anyway vee here is an expeditionary commander (as illustrated with the dual loop antenna on his back) he is expected to lead from and front and with example! Is this potentially too much responsibility for him? maybe…
unlabelledView post →Happy New Year, Punks! My goal is to complete as many story games as I can on Story Game Mondays. Here are some of the ones I have planned: 🤘of the Devil 🤘VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action 🤘198X 🤘Furi Got any suggestions? Drop a comment!
unlabelledView post →the author of firelock 198x isn't on bluesky but you should probably go read the stuff that guy has put out. the game seems messy and unfinished (bc as best as I can tell, it is), but man the writing and art is just some great shit to peruse and flip through drekfortmdc.itch.io/firelock-198...
unlabelledView post →Anything specific in mind? If you're in the mood for lo-fi or synthwave then the 198X OST is awesome. The South of Midnight OST is great too, but I'm not sure how well it'll work outside of the game.
unlabelledView post →It's like the same thing with Warhammer 40k; we *could* be playing a game where all our units are flat 20x20mm squares on a map (ala firelock 198x) firing artillery over the horizon at each other or we could have a setting with chainsaw swords and guys waving around banners and stuff.
unlabelledView post →#8 finished in 2025 198X NS Love letter to classic games of the 80s. 5 levels - each one of them based on different gameplay. It is all enjoyable and not too difficult nor too easy to breeze through the game. Leaves you wanting more of it but enjoyable throughout. There is a story around it as well.
unlabelledView post →for a game with a logo made out of two-bit bendy-straw phallic imagery in 198X it raises an incredible amount of questions
unlabelledView post →Oh. Rime! I did start that game a loooong time ago and really enjoyed what I played of it, but I never beat it. Will check out 198x.
unlabelledView post →Bought the game “198X” from the Switch E-shop. It’s essentially five mini-games inspired by 80s arcade games. They are quite good. But those mini-games take place between the most irritating, self-important, up-its-own-ass, nice-looking cinematic cutscenes I have ever seen in any media.
unlabelledView post →198X game
unlabelledView post →One thing I've been thinking about for a while is how I can take my 24XX-based game "198X", which I wrote more from a "can I actually do this?" point of view than anything else, and turn it into a "full" rpg. Not that 198X isn't a full game, but you know what I mean. evil-mastermind.itch.io/198x
unlabelledView post →MOONSIN, the hugest firelock 198x cl- errrr, inspired game; Is in the works! Lovecraftian Lunar Combat will be in your home soon!
unlabelledView post →They're doing this legends shit for their LOTR game? This is stupid as hell. The sooner firelock 198x comes out the better
unlabelledView post →I don’t relish being IT at my company rn Every icon in the entire database has been replaced by a low res icon of the game 198X. Even the store logos. Nearly died laughing when I saw
unlabelledView post →The game is called Firelock 198X and seems like the creators are pretty cool. Intentionally designed to be playable in any format ranging from for free on TableTop sim, to fully modeled miniatures, or to "a whiteboard and cardboard rectangles"
unlabelledView post →I really wish the Firelock 198x guy wasn't shitty because damn that game and his writing has so much sauce
unlabelledView post →I got video game news too! Circus Atari (Atari 2600, 198x) NOT BEING REMADE BY ROCKSTAR GAMES Adults-Only patch NOT coming to Castle Crashers No new entry to the Wizards & Warriors series
unlabelledView post →Played through 198X & really enjoyed it. It was fun, nostalgic & the pixel art was stunning. It was nice to start and finish a game in the same stream. 😅 Maybe Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok next. It's a game made in the style of the 90s Quest for Glory games.
unlabelledView post →27. 198X 198X is a really interesting game in that it's more like a collection of minigames that parody various classic arcade genres like beat-em-ups and space shooters while connected together in an overarching story of a young man's life. I really loved it, but I do wish it was longer.
unlabelledView post →if it reveals that 198X has an X because its multiple years I will blow up the game with my mind
unlabelledView post →on wargames though. ive been looking into firelock 198x, its a fantasy cold war game with some really really cool lore and gameplay mechanics i like a Lot ive been itching to play it im working on making a table and some minis for irl play eventually but its got a tts port i wanna play on
unlabelledView post →Started playing Pokemon Emerald Imperium, and while I'm still fairly early on, I feel like starting the player out with ten of every item kinda cheapens any early game struggle :/ I might eat those words, but 198x pokeballs means there's no early game weight to what you catch.
unlabelledView post →lol, perhaps even... lmao - flavour text excerpt from the real interesting tabletop miniatures war-game "Firelock 198X" [tagline being, "fantasy warfare in the nuclear age"] drekfortmdc.itch.io/firelock-198...
unlabelledView post →Just remembered that game 198X and how it was pretty good, a delightful ode to 80’s arcade games, but we never got the part 2 that was promised.
unlabelledView post →This game made me feel like a kid playing the ps1 again 🤍 I played 3 games that day Beat a plague tale Beat 198x Then started this, one of my favourite days ever 🤍🥹
unlabelledView post →Firelock 198X. Been enjoying the combination of weird cold war and fantasy elements, and it's rather a nice tabletop game to pick up
unlabelledView post →Yeah. Sure, I was wrong. Though when I looked up 198X or some other indie game, it talked about an Xbox release, but when I clicked on it, it said it was planned way back in like 2012 or something and never happened. Do you really believe they'll magically port in over a decade later?
unlabelledView post →Ran the first real session of Howling Metal, my game about a metal band that has to rock so hard that they can rescue 198X Cleveland from Hell. The players panicked at one point at how brutal it was, and I felt like that was a success. Also my spouse wanted to murder a demon NPC. Again, success :)
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