- This game is under the Sci-Fi, Historical & Action/Adventure genres.
- The game system is Powered by the Apocalypse.
- This game contains mature content.
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Spirit of 77
Welcome to the Spirit of 77, the year after America’s 200th birthday and Nixon’s second term. It’s a strange and violent time in American history, made even stranger with X-Tech and the Glam movement. Gas prices have skyrocketed to nearly a dollar a gallon and the Cold War standoff with the Soviet Union has begun to heat up since “Nixon’s Doublecross” in Saigon.
But the hottest part of America is in the City’s trash-lined streets and midnight highways, where cool tough guys from the street join crazy daredevil drivers and glittered starry-eyed rockers to fight the Mafia underworld, weird sci-fi aberrations, and a corrupt system that keeps everyone on their toes.
What is Spirit of 77?
The Best Parts of a Bad Decade
Evel Knievel and Pam Grier. Alice Cooper and Bruce Lee. The Dukes of Hazzard and the Six Million Dollar Man. Shaft. Spirit of 77 is a combination of muscle cars and Mack trucks, CB radios and kung fu fighters, cross-country road races and big scores in the big city with a killer soundtrack. Can you dig it?
Non-Stop Full Throttle Action
Put the pedal to the metal and drop the hammer. We got places to go, ammo to use, and buckets of fuel to burn. This isn’t a game about exploring deep personal relationships between characters; it’s about fast-drawing gangsters leading angry cops on a non-stop high-speed chase through rain-slick city streets, swaggering away from explosions in slow motion, and striking a cool pose while delivering an awesome one-liner at just the right time.
Being Cool Over Bean Counting
Math is hard and nobody really cares how many iron rations you have in your bedroll. Time spent keeping track of nonsense like ammo, fuel, and money is better spent blowing suckas away and burning rubber. Running out of ammo only happens when it’s appropriately dramatic, and if you run outta gas it’s because you’ve just arrived where someone is in desperate need of a boot to their ass.
Watergate and Weird Science
What’s more amazing, the super-science of X-Technology that brought us things like Skylab, bionics, and computers that can fit on your desk or “Tricky Dick” Nixon beating the Watergate rap with a public apology? Both are complete mysteries, making the ’70s into the weird world it is in Spirit of 77. Politics and truth-seeking have become even more dangerous since the manufactured flap over that hotel break-in, and the end of Vietnam went weirder than anyone could’ve predicted.
Music In The Streets
In 1977, music is a powerful force that not only inspires and motivates, but in some cases can even be weaponized. Musicians everywhere devote themselves to the pursuit of hitting the big time, and in every club and on every corner, the omnipresent voice of the City’s soul can be heard. The DJ, always wise, always mysterious, and always taking requests.
Say What? - Wheaton’s Law In Effect
Spirit of 77 is not a historically accurate representation of the 1970s. It’s a fictionalized fantasy world and a chance to play kung fu fighters or clever detectives, good ol’ boys or disco divas. It should never be an opportunity to indulge in racial or sexual stereotypes. Bigotry in any form isn’t fun or funny.