70’s Robot Anime Geppy-X

70's Robot Anime Geppy-X, originally titled Geppy-X: The Super Boosted Armor, is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up first released for the PlayStation in Japan in 1999 and never localized elsewhere. Its defining feature is presentation: rather than simply borrowing the look of a 1970s super-robot television anime, the game recreates the structure of one. It is divided into episodes framed with opening and ending theme songs, eyecatches, cliffhanger transitions, and branching story routes, so that playing feels like watching and controlling a lost giant-robot cartoon. The story follows three young pilots who combine their machines into the transforming super robot Geppy-X to defend Earth from the invading Space Demon Empire, and midway through it stages a mid-season upgrade to Geppy-XX, complete with a wholly replaced in-game opening and a new heroine, mimicking a real anime entering its second half. Beneath the elaborate framing sits a polished horizontal shooter that lets the player switch between three combat types in real time. The original was unusually lavish for a PlayStation shmup, using roughly 8,000 hand-drawn animation cels spread across four CD-ROMs, and it was a commercial failure that became a sought-after cult item among import-focused collectors. In 2026 the game received a full remaster developed by Implicit Conversions and published by Bliss Brain, released worldwide on July 16 for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X and S, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Its animated sequences were restored in HD from the original Betacam master tapes, with an option to switch between the remastered and original PlayStation cutscenes at any time. The remaster was the game's first release outside Japan, adding English and eight other languages.