{"id":453254,"date":"2026-03-02T07:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453254\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T07:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:52:10","slug":"playstation-retro-anime-spoof-hits-steam-after-27-years-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453254\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation Retro Anime Spoof Hits Steam After 27 Years In Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s that riff about more time elapsing between That \u201870s Show and now than the time between That \u201870s Show and the actual 1970s? \u201890s PlayStation freaks, we stand on razor-thin wire. It has been 27 years since Robot Anime Geppy-X released on the first PlayStation, and 27 years between Robot Anime Geppy-X and the broadcast debut of Mazinger Z. Don\u2019t know what <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/4120310\/70sstyle_Robot_Anime_GeppyX\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robot Anime Geppy-X<\/a> is? Well, thanks to a new remaster, you can quickly familiarize yourself with the giant mecha spoof, which is now as retro as the cartoons it\u2019s making fun of.<\/p>\n<p>Released in 1999, 70s-style Robot Anime Geppy-X is a sideways shoot-em-up about blasting mechanical space fiends. A competent enough shmup, what established Geppy-X as a cult classic in Japan was its lovingly crafted send-ups of \u201870s anime, such as Getter Robo and Mazinger-Z. An ever escalating robo-opera divided between episodes, with mean robot bosses, increasingly absurd transformations, and suffocatingly tight disco speedsuits. <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/edgar-allen-poe-cult-classic-horror-steam-pc-2000669201\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">And unlike other recent cult-classic Steam ports<\/a>, this one\u2019s unwieldy long title is in fact the original.<\/p>\n<p>The four-disc (count \u2019em, four) release also held a Saturday morning\u2019s worth of cartoons. Not only the FMV theatrics of the brave Geppy-X, but mock commercials for toys, shampoo, and parodies of other vintage anime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now 70s-style Robot Anime Geppy-X is getting <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/4120310\/70sstyle_Robot_Anime_GeppyX\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an official remastered Steam release<\/a>, its first time leaving Japan. In addition to new localized language offerings, this remaster also restores the full-motion cutscenes, having digitized the original master tapes. Even across four PS1 discs there ain\u2019t enough leg room for robots that big without some serious 320\u00d7240 compression.<\/p>\n<p>70s-style Robot Anime Geppy-X comes to Steam this July for all the \u201890s kids whose media diets were primarily send-ups of late \u201860s variety shows they may never see themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What\u2019s that riff about more time elapsing between That \u201870s Show and now than the time between That&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15768,59,954,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-453254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-anime","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-playstation","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}