Game Spark Revisits ALIVE, the 1998 PS1 Game Set in a 2020 Surveillance Society
General Entertainment released ALIVE for the PS1 on August 6, 1998. The live-action sci-fi adventure is set in 2020 Tokyo, where citizens are managed by ID and drones with surveillance cameras monitor private lives. Its protagonist, Atsuko Kawada (played by Yoko Imai), is framed for a murder through fabricated camera footage and flees police and unidentified assassins. Game Spark looks back at the game's dystopia and its reputation among retro fans as an ultra-high-difficulty adventure.