Hachikoma: Underground Stadium No. 8

Spin the loop. Find the exit.

You are trapped in Underground Passage No. 8: glossy white tiles, humming fluorescent lights, yellow signs... and a street stadium where Hayate, a boy in a hoodie, has been waiting since the summer of 2001.

The rules are simple:

• Nothing wrong? Beat Hayate in a spinning-top battle. The ticket gate only opens for winners. Keep going.
  
• Something wrong? Don't fight. Turn around and go back the way you came.
  
• Right call: the exit number goes up. Wrong call: back to 0.

Reach Exit 8 and face the champion: the salaryman who walks past you on every loop, Mr. Hachiman.

Anime battles, 2001 style

• Three launchers (ripcord, string and trigger), each with its own launch minigame. Release on «LET IT LOOP!».
  
• Steer your top, ram your rival and unleash its spirit technique.
  
• Build your own top: bit-chip, attack ring, weight disk, base and spin direction. Then add paint and stickers.
  
• Saw something strange in the middle of a battle? Shout «ANOMALY!»: get it right and your spirit fills up.

More than 40 anomalies

Posters that watch you. A giant top rolling down the corridor. A train bursting through the wall. A briefcase that unfolds into a stadium. Eight identical salarymen challenging you at once. Some anomalies only appear during battles... and some are about the game itself.

Features

• Three areas: the corridor, the platform (trains rush past mid-battle) and the lobby (the stadium rides a moving walkway).
  
• A disposable camera with 27 shots per run. The film develops when the loop is judged, and film doesn't lie.
  
• Gachapon machine, medals, stickers, paints, launchers and 48 collectible bit-chip cards.
  
• A final on 8 stadiums at once.
  
• Exit 0 (reversed rules), Endless mode and EXIT 88: 88 correct loops in a row. One mistake and it's over.
  
• A playable flashback: relive 8 August 2001 as Hayate, the day the loop began.
  
• Something is waiting behind the staff-only door.
  
• Streamer mode: your Twitch chat votes on what the next loop hides, and you can't see the result.
  
• Asymmetric co-op: a friend watches the security cameras from their phone's browser, pings what they see and radios you.
  
• Local 2-player versus on one screen (two controllers, or keyboard + controller).
  
• Japanese voices with English and Spanish subtitles. Controller support.

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Every exit number you climb is a small victory. Every anomaly you miss sends you back to 0. Good work.