Psycho Dream
Psycho Dream is a side-scrolling action platform game developed by Riot, a division of Telenet Japan, for the Super Famicom. Set in a virtual-reality medium called D-Movie, the story follows two agents, Ryō…
Psycho Dream is an adventure developed by Riot, released 11 December 1992 on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Super Famicom.
What Psycho Dream is
Psycho Dream is an adventure game developed by Riot and released in 1992. It was published by Renovation. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Super Famicom, Super Nintendo Entertainment System and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the early 1980s, rumors begin to circulate about a new entertainment medium called “D Movie”, which allows people to immerse themselves in a world of virtual reality. As D Movies gain traction, a trend emerges of disaffected young people taking permanent refuge in the virtual world while abandoning their physical bodies to atrophy. To retrieve these so-called “Sinkers”, Japan's National Public Safety Commission establishes Public Security Division Four, nicknamed “Diamond Dog”, in 1984. The agents who enter the virtual world and perform these rescues are known as Debuggers. In 1992, a seventeen-year-old girl named Yūki Sayaka sinks into “Story of the Ruined Capital”, a D Movie directed…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
What it launched against
Psycho Dream launched on 11 December 1992, within three weeks of Streets of Rage 2, Street Fighter II' Turbo: Hyper Fighting, Flashback: The Quest for Identity and Moto Roader MC. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Streets of Rage 2, Street Fighter II' Turbo: Hyper Fighting, Flashback: The Quest for Identity, Moto Roader MC.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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