Space Station Silicon Valley is a
platform game released in October
1998 by Scottish developer DMA Design (now known as
Rockstar North, creator of the
Grand Theft Auto series). It was initially released for the
Nintendo 64, and later ported into two Europe exclusive versions, first for the
PlayStation under the title of
Evo's Space Adventures in 1999, and later that year for the
Game Boy Color. Several
glitches were present within the game, but this did not prevent it from attaining considerable critical acclaim.
Storyline
The game's storyline revolves around a
space station, home to numerous animals (the station was intended by the designer to be a "technologically advanced
amusement park"), which was launched and, seven minutes into the launch, subsequently lost in the year
2001. Thought to have disappeared forever, it reappears in the year 3000, and its designer, Professor Cheese, mysteriously vanishes upon an excursion to the station. Following this, a duo of "Heroes for Hire", namely Danger Dan and his robotic partner, Evo, a perfect, "super-intelligent, self-evolving robot", and the end result of the Silicon Valley experiment. Danger Dan and Evo are dispatched to the station in order to investigate this disappearance. They arrive to find that over 1000 years, the animal cargo had evolved and...
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