Elemental Gimmick Gear
Elemental Gimmick Gear is a sci-fi fantasy action-adventure game. It primarily uses hand-drawn art, switching to 3D graphics during boss battles.
Elemental Gimmick Gear is an adventure developed by Birthday, released 27 May 1999 on Dreamcast.
What Elemental Gimmick Gear is
Elemental Gimmick Gear is an adventure game developed by Birthday and released in 1999. It was published by Hudson Soft. It is available on Dreamcast only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the world of Tokion, a dome-shaped ancient ruin was discovered inside a thick jungle. During excavation, an egg-shaped mecha was found inside the ruins containing a sleeping man. No matter how hard scientists tried, he would not wake up. He was taken to a laboratory along with the machine to be further studied. Upon analyzing the machine, they learned that it was over 5000 years old. They also could not find any form of power source. In time, the machine became known as "Elemental Gimmick Gear", or EGG for short. After extensive scientific analysis over a number of years, copies of the EGG were produced and used as vehicles. 100 years later, the ruin suddenly became active, extending a…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Elemental Gimmick Gear launched on 27 May 1999, within three weeks of Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, Mario Golf, Star Wars: Episode I - Racer and Super Mario Bros. Deluxe.
Released around the same time: Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, Mario Golf, Star Wars: Episode I - Racer, Super Mario Bros. Deluxe.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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