The game also pays homage to the ancient Japanese tale of Urashima Taro.The game centers on a detective who travels to a space colony to investigate the circumstances surrounding his ex-wife's murder and her new husband's sudden disappearance. Main characters Jonathan and Ed resemble Riggs and Murtaugh, respectively, from Lethal Weapon another is some scenes that are inspired by the 1978 film Coma. A new graphics board allowed for 640x400 with 16 colors out of a palette of 4096, once again edging out IBM's then-current EGA standard, which only offered 640x350 with. The CPU was upgraded to NEC's V30 chip running at 10MHz. Policenauts, like Snatcher before it, pays various homages to previously existing works. The PC-9801 took its first big step forward as a game platform with the release of the PC-9801VF/VM models in late 1985. On October 6, 2016, an additional translation patch was released for the Saturn version. On Aug(in honor of the 46th birthday of the game's designer, Hideo Kojima), an unofficial English translation patch was released for the PlayStation version. The game has not been released outside Japan, despite plans for an English localization of the Saturn version. It was initially released for the PC-9821 computer platform in 1994, followed by remade versions for the 3DO in 1995, and the PlayStation and Sega Saturn in 1996.
Policenauts (ポリスノーツ Porisunōtsu) is a graphic adventure game with a hard science fiction storyline, written and directed by Hideo Kojima, and published by Konami.
