Release
Friday, June 22, 1990
Player score
Awaiting reviews
Platform families
Not announced
Connected releases
Core game only
Game data from IGDB
Editorial overview
Inside Down Load
What it is
Horizontal shoot 'em up for the PC Engine. The player, as cyber-diver Syd, must fly his hoverbike through the future city of Kabukicho to rescue his partner Deva from the corrupt police.
Download is a horizontal shoot 'em up set in a dystopian cyberpunk future in which the main character, Syd, is haunted by memories of his friend Ohala falling to a cybernetic menace. Meanwhile, he receives a call from his contact/partner Deva and must rush to her rescue when she is abducted by the Kabukicho police force. The game's story is depicted in a series of animated vignettes before each stage, similar to Ninja Gaiden. Beginning with the mean streets of Kabukicho, Syd will eventually jack into the internet and fights in a similar manner through cyberspace.
The premise
The year is 2099. “The Company” hires people to connect their brains to computers to investigate accidents in their corporation’s highly-developed computer network. Sid’s lover was one of them. Lured by a mysterious man, Sid came to a bar in New Kabukicho to learn the truth of his lover's death. But soon, the inside of the bar becomes a sea of blood, and Sid is attacked by a sniper. It appeared that the passing of his lover was part of a larger conspiracy. As his battle rages on, he'll expose surprising facts - including the identity of this conspiracy's mastermind .
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