197X: Defend the Dakota

IT'S SUMMER, 1976. You're at the historic Dakota Drive-In, a 450-car outdoor cinema that's hosting one of its popular all-night horror movie marathons. Perhaps you work there; or just as likely, you're a local who's out to enjoy a simple evening's entertainment. Whichever is the case, you want this marathon to go off without a hitch. Fate, alas, has other plans...

In 197X: Defend the Dakota, you play one of a number of people who are attending (or working at) the Dakota Drive-In on the eve of a well-attended quadruple-feature in the Greatest Decade of All: THE 1970s!  When the Dakota comes under attack, you and your fellow characters - though you may be of disparate backgrounds and may not even know one another - must band together to protect the drive-in, keep its patrons safe, and (perhaps most importantly) keep the marathon going until dawn!

197X: Defend the Dakota is the first title in the upcoming 197X series of microgames based on Jason Tocci's 24XX SRD. In 197X, players inhabit the Polyester Decade as ordinary citizens caught up in bonkers situations; when called upon, will they rise to the occasion and embrace their heroic destiny or will they end up deader than disco?

24XX games are super-slim, self-contained, lo-fi RPGs  generally consisting of three pages and a cover. Visit jasontocci.itch.io/2400 to see more 24XX, or make your own game using the SRD. Cover art by BEEPLE (Mike Winkelmann).