Phantom 2040 (SNES)

It is the year 2040, and environmental disasters and the economic Resource Wars of the early twenty-first century have had catastrophic effects upon the Earth’s fragile ecological balance. Ever-increasing polarisation of wealth, along with the development of humanoid, robotic “biots“ (Biological Optical Transputer Systems), have resulted in a social demographic that leaves the majority of the world’s population scavenging in the undercity slums while a select wealthy minority live luxurious lives in exclusive, towering skyscrapers. The Earth’s population continues to rise, but without the resources to support them or the jobs to sustain them, they are cast onto the streets of the over-urbanised mega-cities. The megalopolis of Metropia, a reformed and renamed New York City, is the world’s most powerful city-state and within it are the headquarters of the world’s most powerful corporation, Maximum Inc. Maximum’s mass production of biots and its influence upon the world&#