Remaster of '70s-Style Robot Anime Game Geppu-X Gets July 16 Release
The remaster brings a cult oddity that simulated a 1970s robot anime show to modern platforms, preserving its hand-drawn animation and TV-episode structure for a new audience.
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Bliss Brain released a countdown trailer on July 9 for the remastered version of '70s-style Robot Anime Geppu-X,' a 1999 PlayStation shooter built from 8,000 hand-drawn cels and structured like a TV anime episode. The remaster, launching July 16 on PS5, PS4, Switch, Xbox, and PC, restores the original Betacam footage to 24fps and adds modern features like rewind and CRT mode. Original voice actors and theme song artists return.
Bliss Brain's '70s-style Robot Anime Geppu-X originally shipped on four CD-ROMs in 1999, crammed with roughly 8,000 hand-drawn cels animated at 15 frames per second. The remastered version, announced via a countdown trailer on July 9, upgrades that footage from the original Betacam tapes to 24fps with super-resolution processing. It also adds a CRT mode, rewind, and quick save while keeping the arcade-style shooter gameplay and the elaborate TV-anime framing-time signals, eyecatches, commercials, and next-episode previews. The game launches July 16 on PS5, PS4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (Microsoft Store and Steam), with physical editions for PS5 and Switch.
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