When did Grim Fandango come out?

Grim Fandango was released on 28 October 1998 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

Grim Fandango (1998) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Grim Fandango

A neo-noir adventure to the Land of the Dead. Something's rotten in the land of the dead, and you're being played for a sucker. Meet Manny Calavera, travel agent at the Department of Death. He sells luxury…

28 October 1998

What Grim Fandango is

Grim Fandango is an adventure game developed by LucasArts and released in 1998. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on GrimE.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game is divided into four acts, each taking place on November 2 on four consecutive years. Manuel "Manny" Calavera is a travel agent at the Department of Death in the city of El Marrow, forced into his job to work off a debt "to the powers that be". Manny is frustrated with being assigned clients that must take the four-year journey and is threatened to be fired by his boss, Don Copal, if he does not come up with better clients. Manny steals a client, Mercedes "Meche" Colomar, from his co-worker Domino Hurley. The Department computers assign Meche to the four-year journey even though Manny believes she should have a guaranteed spot on the "Number Nine" luxury express train due to her…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Grim Fandango launched on 28 October 1998, within three weeks of Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, The House of the Dead 2 and Centipede.

Released around the same time: Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, The House of the Dead 2, Centipede.

Cheats and codes

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