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Gadget: Past as Future

An enhanced re-release for Windows, Mac, and PlayStation, Gadget: Past as Future, was later released on four CDs in 1997 by Cryo Interactive for Windows, Macintosh, and the PlayStation home console. A…

27 November 1997

Gadget: Past as Future is an adventure developed by Synergy Inc., released 27 November 1997 on PlayStation, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Gadget: Past as Future is

Gadget: Past as Future is an adventure game developed by Synergy Inc. and released in 1997. It was published by Cyro Interactive. It is available on PlayStation, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game's plot takes place in an unspecified (albeit vaguely Eastern European) nation headed by the dictator Orlovsky. The protagonist is a government agent tasked with discovering the whereabouts of a missing scientist named Horselover Frost. He begins his quest in a third-floor room of a luxury hotel (which is in fact the headquarters of the government's intelligence arm). After collecting his belongings in a suitcase, the protagonist takes an elevator ride to the lobby, during which a boy replaces the case with another identical one containing various spy-related paraphernalia. In the lobby, the government's intelligence chief briefs the protagonist on his mission. The protagonist then…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy, mystery and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Gadget: Past as Future launched on 27 November 1997, within three weeks of Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, Diddy Kong Racing, Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers and Time Crisis II.

Released around the same time: Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, Diddy Kong Racing, Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, Time Crisis II.

Official trailer

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When did Gadget: Past as Future come out?
Gadget: Past as Future was released on 27 November 1997 for PlayStation, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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