Games set in future when made, that now would be in the past [Archive]

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gruzniak

01-22-2006, 10:39 AM

All right, the thread title probably isnt the best, but it would be cool to name lists of for example some game published in say 1990 that's like "It's the future, 2003, and mutant ninjas have taken over the planet" or really, any game published that has taken place in the future than, but which would actually be in the past now.

I don't know any offhand, but i'm probably about 1/100th as knowledgeable about classics as some of you guys.

Lord Contaminous

01-22-2006, 10:53 AM

Shadow Dancer : Secret of Shinobi

1997 AD

Cryomancer

01-22-2006, 11:03 AM

Earthbound. Takes place in 199X. I think Megaman was thereabout as well, 199X or 200X.

ProgrammingAce

01-22-2006, 11:13 AM

The early rainbow 6 games... i guess we were supposed to have been taken over by terrorists by now...

keiblerfan69

01-22-2006, 11:28 AM

Yeah I was thinking about this last night when I was playing Rainbow Six 3 with my dad. I said it will be weird playing this when 2007 is in the past.

CosmicMonkey

01-22-2006, 11:34 AM

Anything related to The Terminator. Skynet was supposed to launch nukes at the Russians on (iirc) August 27th, 1997.

mezrabad

01-22-2006, 11:43 AM

Shadow Dancer : Secret of Shinobi

1997 AD

@_@ You took mine! I've never played that game before but I was going though some Genny games last night and saw the intro for it. I saw the title of this thread this morning and thought, "Oh, what a coincidence, I just saw a game that took place in a past-future. I actually have something to contribute! :)" And here you are, sitting in here stealing my thunder. Darn you to heck! ;)

Well, for now. I got nothing. :(

I'll edit this post later when I've got something to add.

EDIT: Okay, I got something, but very little. Tetsuwan Atom (Astro Boy), the original Japanese TV show produced back in 1963 takes place in the year 2000. Okay, so it's not a game. Quit looking at me like that. I tried, okay? I tried!

Dire 51

01-22-2006, 12:23 PM

How ab out the original Resident Evil? Didn't that take place in '98 or thereabouts, and the game was released in '96?

suppafly

01-22-2006, 12:42 PM

I think double dragon 2 for NES says that it takes place in 199X

DDCecil

01-22-2006, 01:03 PM

Crystalis would be the obvious one to me: "End Day: October 1, 1997".

Time Gal did 2001 which had hovering motorcycles.

boatofcar

01-22-2006, 01:15 PM

I know there's one old arcade game that takes place in 1999....just don't remember what.

Joker T

01-22-2006, 01:19 PM

As people have been saying, almost ever Clancy game. Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six.

MegaDrive20XX

01-22-2006, 01:26 PM

Earthbound. Takes place in 199X. I think Megaman was thereabout as well, 199X or 200X.

MegaMan was "20XX" I think

SlayerX

01-22-2006, 02:56 PM

TMNT IV: Turtles In Time had a 20XX level didn't it? As well as present day level of 199X.

davidbrit2

01-22-2006, 03:07 PM

I know there's one old arcade game that takes place in 1999....just don't remember what.

That would be good ol' Smash TV. The funny thing is how the intro mentions the game show being the biggest form of entertainment on television. As I recall, shows like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire were wildly popular around 1999. Heh.

njiska

01-22-2006, 03:31 PM

Metal Gear - 1995
Metal Gear 2 - 1999
Metal Gear Solid - 2005

I think those are the right years. it's been a while since i've had to think about it.

NeoZeedeater

01-22-2006, 04:14 PM

Omega Race(which came out in 1981) takes place in 2003.

Ed Oscuro

01-22-2006, 05:51 PM

Let's not forget Demolition Man. I remember when I watched it ...1996 was supposed to be the future (or maybe it was 1994) and criminals would be put into suspended animation LOL

Master of Weapon gives a date of "September 11th, 199x." One of those really freaky coincidences - plus you can shoot down buildings and stuff. O_O It seems a lot of shooters give dates like this, for example, take Konami's Airforce Delta Storm.

I'm pretty sure the box for Ajax (x68000) has a date on it, but I can't check that right now.

Metamorphic Force, another Konami arcade game, has the date "199X"

Cryomancer

01-22-2006, 05:52 PM

Earthbound. Takes place in 199X. I think Megaman was thereabout as well, 199X or 200X.

MegaMan was "20XX" I think

I'm about 75% sure the first megaman is 200X, and anything past is is 20XX. Too lazy to boot it up at the moment though.

diskoboy

01-22-2006, 06:29 PM

Most Capcom games always take place in either the year

19xx
199x
200x
or 20xx

Gotta love those folks at Capcom...

Slate

01-22-2006, 07:09 PM

Back to the future 2 (NES)

Never played it, but in the movie they go to the year 2015, and there are supposed to be flying cars and other wierd stuff like, in resturants, the waiters are televisions and arcade games like Wild Gunman are "Baby's toys cause you use your hands to play them" :hmm:

The game SHOULD go by the same path...

Blackjax

01-22-2006, 07:25 PM

Welp, on June 6th, 1996, the Lucifer Alpha virus was released in Snatcher... wiping out a third of the population of earth.

We still got a while to see if Snatchers start showing up in 2048 LOL

Eternal Champion

01-22-2006, 07:54 PM

Most Capcom games always take place in either the year

19xx
199x
200x
or 20xx

Gotta love those folks at Capcom...
Yeah, I've always thought that "...X" thing was odd. Bionic Commando I believe was 199X.

dementia_

01-22-2006, 08:05 PM

Master of Weapon gives a date of "September 11th, 199x." One of those really freaky coincidences - plus you can shoot down buildings and stuff. O_O It seems a lot of shooters give dates like this, for example, take Konami's Airforce Delta Storm.

One of the levels in Soukyugurentai takes place on a September 11, but many years into the future.

rbudrick

01-23-2006, 10:41 AM

I 'm glad Crystalis was mentioned...it was my first thought too. God, I remember when I thought that 1997 was WAY too far into the future....like there's no way it would ever come....like doomsday really would be here before 1997 was! LOL

But anyway, we are creeping up on Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight. BTW, many folks can't get past level 3 and dropped this game. If you make it past there, the game becomes a hell of a lot of fun!! Seriously, try this game, it's WAY better than you think. While Ken from the SF series is in it, it has NOTHING to do with Street Fighter, but it is one of those cool post-apocolyptic-looking NES games. Hell, the character has basically no resemblance to Ken, but 20 years does age a man, heh heh.

-Rob

Garry Silljo

01-23-2006, 11:50 AM

ahamilton0953

01-23-2006, 01:02 PM

Shadowdancer was awesome. I miss that game =(

Lord Contaminous

01-23-2006, 05:18 PM

Another one...

According to the back of its box, the little known NES Konami game "Lazer Invasion" is set in summer 1999.

sabre2922

01-23-2006, 10:44 PM

Shadowdancer was awesome. I miss that game =(

Yeah I luved Shadow Dancer on Genesis it was better than the arcade version.

I still play it on EMU from time to time

Ed Oscuro

01-23-2006, 11:10 PM

http://home.comcast.net/%7Eedoscuro/mdj_sh_dancer.jpg

Did somebody say Shadow Dancer? :D

I like the arcade game a lot too, though. More going on graphically.

01-24-2006, 09:02 AM

I finally opened, played, & finished Extermination (PS2) a couple weeks ago, & the events take place at a research facility in Antarctica just this past Xmas of 2005.

Eerie.

GameSlaveGaz

01-24-2006, 02:19 PM

I can't think of any video games that haven't already been mentioned, but Transformers: The Movie takes place in the far-off time of 2005. I hadn't watched it in a couple years and my boyfriend had never seen it and since he could not miss the 90 minutes of 80s cheesiness that is just so great, I brought it over last week. It's just so silly sitting in 2006, watching a "futuristic" movie that's opening line is, "it is the year 2005..."

So apparently, last year we should've had giant talking robots that could morph into vehicles, electronics and weapons, a huge space war between good and evil, and a giant robot planet that was devouring whole planets through what looked like an anus. When did that happen? I missed it. It might've been when I went to Jersey... LOL

The BEST part of Transformers: The Movie though is the random voice actors: Judd Nelson, Leonard Nimoy, Robert Stack, Eric Idle, and ORSON WELLES? And what makes me laugh harder was Orson Welles was Unicron, an enormous, fat, round, planet-sized bot that was devouring everything. And if all the jokes on the Critic (man I miss that cartoon) are true, wasn't Orson Welles quite large in his final years? I also love how Eric Idle (of Monty Python fame in case you don't know, and if you don't know than you need to know) gets first billing in the opening credits but he has the smallest role out of the entire cast. (albeit the funniest) Casey Kasem is randomly in that movie too. Zoinks! And the soundtrack - SOOOOOOOOOO 80s!!!
You've got the touch! You've got the power!
My friend Chris is soo into Transformers, and he actually has the soundtrack and has played it in the car before (he's also custom-made his own Legend of Zelda and Mega Man soundtracks. Nothing like cruisin' I-93 listening to Mega Man music...)

So, yeah, now Transformers: The Movie takes place in the past instead of the future. But I guess a LOT of movies are outdated now.
This thread's also got me reminded of a comment I made the other day: What are people in the 23rd and 24th centuries gonna think of Star Trek? I wish I could be alive to see their reaction.

GameSlaveGaz

01-24-2006, 02:23 PM

EDIT - oops accidentally double posted, so I deleted it. You've seen enough of me on this thread anyway LOL

k8track

01-24-2006, 03:12 PM

How about Tempest 2000, Defender 2000, Breakout 2000, and Battlezone 2000?

We're creeping up on Robotron:2084--78 years to go!

Anyone remember what year Tombstone City was set in?

ajfarias

01-24-2006, 04:13 PM

Snatcher, takes places in 1991 on computers and 1996 on Sega CD. Robots who take people's bodies in 1996? Was Bill Clinton... @_@ @_@

Oh, and I shall finish this whole Mega man debate right now :
Taken from MMHP:

The timeline for the series and its spinoffs is somewhat complicated. According to Rockman Perfect Memories:

* Mega Man Classic takes place from 200X to 20XX,
* Mega Man X begins from 21XX to possibly 22XX afterwards,
* Mega Man Zero is set an additional century after the X series ends, and
* Mega Man Legends takes place several thousand years after the Zero series but the exact time is unknown.

Aswald

01-24-2006, 04:48 PM

CV Time Pilot.

It was a 1983 game. As I recall, the Jet Fighter screen was set in 1985.

Red Hedgehog

01-24-2006, 09:18 PM

Casey Kasem is randomly in that movie too. Zoinks!

A bit off topic, but...

Casey Kasem isn't randomly in the movie. He played the voice of Cliffjumper in the television cartoons (among others) and logically would also be that voice in the movie. He's done quite a lot of voice acting for cartoons. Shaggy from Scooby Doo as you alluded to and Robin in Superfriends.

And the soundtrack - SOOOOOOOOOO 80s!!!

Yeah, I love the remix of the Transformers theme.

tom

01-28-2006, 04:21 PM

Twilight 2000 from Empire for PC, ST, Amiga

'The year is 2000, a war raged for a decade, and Poland is devastated by the brutal tactics of Warsaw Pact and NATO'.

Poor Poland, they always get it....

Also 'Roadwar 2000' from SSI for Apple ][, C-64, 16-bit
Pacific Islands (Empire), released in 92, says it's 95
ATAC (Micropose) It's 2001