16bit Sensation

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16-Bit Sensation is a Manga and Anime series about game development in Japan during the 1990s. Originally released in the mid to late 2010s as a Doujinshi, it was later published by Kadokawa. It got an anime adaptation in Fall 2023 by Studio Silver.

The following tropes are common to many or all entries in the 16bit Sensation franchise.
For tropes specific to individual installments, visit their respective work pages.

The Ace: When it comes to programming the PC-98, Mamoru can push the hardware to extremes.
American Kirby Is Hardcore: How American companies adapt traditionally Japanese series in an alternate timeline, leading to muscle packed “Cuu” titles such as Fate Gears of Order
America Takes Over the World: America takes over much of the Japanese gaming industry in an alternate timeline.
Art Shift: Fate undergoes one after moving production to America.
Bad Future: Despite gaining fantastic wealth and fame, some characters see an alternate future as this.
Creative Sterility: The AI in the alternate timeline is capable of producing vast quantities of output helpful in the creative process, but it requires human guidance to produce anything too different to what it has made previously.
Everybody Smokes: Not quite universal, but much more common in earlier years.
Magnum Opus: Alcohol Soft eventually produces one in universe, achieving international success, altering the English slang, and shifting the trajectory of the gaming industry.
The Nineties: The timeframe much of the story is set in.
Pointy-Haired Boss: Mamoru's father, the leader of Alcohol Soft.
Sharp-Dressed Man: Mamoru by the late 90s on.