D/Generation HD
D/Generation originally released for everyone’s favorite console, Apple II, all the way back in the late 80’s. A remake of the game titled D/Generation HD released for PC in 2015, and Nintendo Switch in 2017.
The game takes place at Genoq’s headquarters, a leading corporation in biomedical research, who has been secretly working on the construction of illegal bioweapons. On June 26, 2021, disaster strikes as the weapons escape and threaten the company’s employees trapped in the building, and if they get out, the whole world.
You show up to the building’s 80th floor with a package for Genoq’s lead scientist. As you climb the tower, you must decide whether you’ll help the survivors stranded in the building or just get on with your mission to stop the virus from escaping the building.
So, how does D/Generation’s view of 2021 hold up to the real thing? Well, they hit the nail on the head with the threat of a virus, though we don’t exactly have biomedical weapons walking around here.
The futuristic 2021 they thought of in the late 80s seems a little higher tech than what we actually got, but I can’t say it’s completely different –though being confined to one building does limit your view of the world.
