Raid 2020

{{Short description|1989 American video game}}

{{Infobox video game

|title = Raid 2020

|image = Raid 2020 Cover.jpg

|caption = North American cover art

|developer = Color Dreams

|publisher = {{vgrelease|NA|Color Dreams|AUS|HES Interactive}}

|designer= Dan Burke

|released = {{vgrelease|NA|1989{{cite web| url = http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/nes/data/587553.html| title = Release information | publisher = GameFAQs | date = | accessdate = 2008-08-12}}|AUS|1990}}

|genre = Action
Run and gun

|modes = Single-player

|platforms = NES

}}

Raid 2020 (working title Drug Czar){{Cite news |date=March 2017 |title=Best narco video games all time |url=https://www.maxim.com/entertainment/best-narco-video-games-all-time-2017-3/}} a 1989 cyberpunk action video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. This game was released only in North America and Australia. The game's style was largely inspired by Blade Runner and the cyberpunk genre for its aesthetics, world and style.

Gameplay

The object is to defeat all the drug dealers, defeat the drug lord Pit Bull, and eradicate drugs from the streets of America.{{cite web | url = http://www.mobygames.com/game/raid-2020| title = Basic gameplay/title information| publisher = MobyGames | date = | accessdate = 2008-10-19}} As agent Shadow, the player faces a dystopian future world where moral collapse is inevitable. He is described as representing the last uncorrupted vestiges of law enforcement.{{cite web | url = http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/manuals/raid2020.txt| title = Story information from instruction manual| publisher = Atari HQ | date = | accessdate = 2008-11-14}}

Reception

Games journalist Jeff Gerstmann considers this the worst NES game out of the over 450 he has played.https://8bitnintendo.science/

See also

  • NARC - a video game with the same premise

References