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Setting is important in storytelling, especially when you want to tell what time period that story takes place in. The easiest way to do this is to simply state what year the story takes place in... However, being too exact may sometimes narrow down flexibility. So in order to pinpoint the time and keep it vague at the same time, writers like to give the century number, but replace the year and decade with X. For example: 20XX. You know this takes place after the millennium, but when after the millennium? 2097? 2030? December 21, 2012? We don't know, and that's the beauty of it. It also renders the setting somewhat resistant to the flow of Real Life time, since Real Life will take longer to cross that date and make fans start wondering why the future doesn't look anything like fiction depicted it. Of course, as the list below shows, years like 199X and 200X have been used and passed, and even 20XX will pass eventually. Inevitably, Time Marches On. Commonly seen in Science Fiction, but not limited to it. It is for example popular in older English literature as well, sometimes to add an air of realism to stories, as if to protect the characters' identities. Note that older examples such as Frankenstein or Treasure Island use — instead of X to denote the uncertain years: Both of the above works are set in "17—". Not to be confused with Exty Years from Publication, which is about future dates or intervals being nice round numbers, often based on the work's own release date. Compare Spell My Name with a Blank, which is similar but with names or locations. Related to Let X Be the Unknown. |
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Shin Megami Tensei II picks up several decades after the first game in 20XX, with the manual for the original Famicom version providing a timeline that goes from "The Great Cataclysm of Tokyo" in 199X all the way up to the near-completion of Tokyo Millennium in 206X, thereby suggesting "20XX" in this case is, at minimum, somewhere in the 2070s. | |
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In Afterschool Charisma, main protagonist Shiro Kamiya was born in 2XXX. | |
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The first Bony novel, The Barrakee Mystery, is set in the late 1920s. The narration avoids mentioning a specific year, and a letter is dated "August 12th, 19—". (However, the first sentence of the letter refers to the events of "Saturday, March 5th", which pins it to 1927.) | |
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Gate begins in summer of the year 20XX. | |
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While not using "Xs", Kirby Super Star's final subgame in the original takes place in the year ??? (or some time after it). The Updated Re-release has it take place in ???? instead. | |
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The Pretender: In "Toy Surprise", when Miss Parker visits her mother's grave, the shot of the headstone is framed so that the last two digits of the death date are obscured by a floral tribute placed on the grave earlier. | |
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In Frankenstein, in Robert Walton's letters to his sister, the date is given as "Dec. 11th, 17—," making this trope at least Older Than Radio. | |
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DEATH BATTLE!: "Ultron vs. Sigma" mocks Mega Man's use of this trope in the latter's rundown. | |
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Metroid is set in 20X5. Like Mega Man above, the other games in the series all take place relative to the ambiguous date of 20X5 in the original. | |
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Parodied in Excel♡Saga during its Fist of the North Star parody episode, which begins with an announcer starting to declare the year as 199X before he's interrupted by a chorus of people telling him that "199X" has already come and gone (it was already 2000 when the episode first aired). The next time the announcer states the year, he retcons it to "The year 2000...X!" | |
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Shin Megami Tensei NINE for the Xbox is set in (a possibly alternate) 202X, focusing on the survivors of the nuclear holocaust caused by Ambassador Thorman in the original Shin Megami Tensei. | |
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The WarioWare games take place in 20XX. | |
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Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey is another entry set in 20XX. It at least bears the distinction of being one of the rare few times a SMT game isn't centered around Tokyo or Japan in general, taking place at the South Pole. | |
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Shin Megami Tensei. Atlus seems to be really fond of this trope. Shin Megami Tensei I begins in a 199X version of Tokyo before jumping ahead to a post-apocalyptic version of the city about thirty years later. Shin Megami Tensei II picks up several decades after the first game in 20XX, with the manual for the original Famicom version providing a timeline that goes from "The Great Cataclysm of Tokyo" in 199X all the way up to the near-completion of Tokyo Millennium in 206X, thereby suggesting "20XX" in this case is, at minimum, somewhere in the 2070s. Though possibly unconnected to the previous numbered installments, Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne is likewise set in Tokyo, 20XX. Officially, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner is set in the year "199X", with an exchange between Madame Ginko and the protagonists of Soul Hackers establishing that the events of Devil Summoner took place three years prior to Soul Hackers. Seeing as one character from Devil Summoner (Kyouji Kuzunoha) makes an appearance in Persona 2: Innocent Sin, which is given a definite date in-game (1999), and is implied to be possessing the body of Daisuke Todoroki due to Kyouji's death early on in Devil Summoner, the common assumption is that Devil Summoner cannot take place any later than 1999 (which would therefore place Soul Hackers circa 2002 at the latest). Shin Megami Tensei NINE for the Xbox is set in (a possibly alternate) 202X, focusing on the survivors of the nuclear holocaust caused by Ambassador Thorman in the original Shin Megami Tensei. There's also cellphone title Shin Megami Tensei: 20XX, which happens to take place during the year 20XX. Specifically, it's an interquel to SMT I and II, set 30 years after the destruction of Tokyo in 199X and setting up/fleshing out a few plot points in the latter, such as the Messian Order's rise to power and the possible origins of Aleph. Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey is another entry set in 20XX. It at least bears the distinction of being one of the rare few times a SMT game isn't centered around Tokyo or Japan in general, taking place at the South Pole. Shin Megami Tensei IMAGINE, the series' MMORPG offshoot, takes place sometime in the 21st century, either 202X or 203X depending on the source. Like NINE above, the game chronicles an alternate future in the aftermath of the Great Cataclysm. Persona 5 doesn't give us the exact year other than "20XX", in contrast to the previous Persona games, but the in-game calendar is identical to the 2016 calendar, meaning the game takes place 4 years after the end of Persona 4. The nonspecific year can be likely attributed to Atlus originally intending to release Persona 5 in 2014 and presumably have it take place in 2016, which would fit the Next Sunday A.D. time frames of Persona 3 and 4. Schedule Slips led to 5 not actually releasing until 2016 — the year it takes place, rather than shortly in the future like previous games. In Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth, when the female protagonist of Persona 3 Portable says she came from 2009, and the cast of Persona 4 say they're from 2011, the Phantom Thieves only say that they didn't come from either of those times. The first Majin Tensei takes place in 202X, decades after international tension in the late 90s turned incredibly violent. Subsequent entries in the Majin Tensei series would forgo this trope, with 1995's Spiral Nemesis being set in 1996 and 1997's Ronde being set in 2008. On the other hand, the abundance of Mythology Gags to Shin Megami Tensei I found in Spiral Nemesis may suggest branching timelines are in play, possibly dating SMT I as a result. Lesser-known SMT spin-off Giten Megami Tensei has this as part of its backstory, with the year 199X seeing Tokyo destroyed by ICBMs in what would later be known as the Great Cataclysm (presumably the events of Shin Megami Tensei I). Humans are forced to go underground and live in fallout shelters to survive not only the ensuing nuclear apocalypse but also demons running amok on the surface, with the game picking up roughly twenty years down the road. |
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Half-Life takes place on May 16, 200X (though it is commonly agreed among fans to be set in 2003). | |
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Fist of the North Star is set a few years after a nuclear war destroyed the world in "199X". Series protagonist Kenshiro was born in the similarly vague year 197X. | |
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Initial D is set in 199X. Its successor MF Ghost is set in 202X. | |
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Shin Megami Tensei I begins in a 199X version of Tokyo before jumping ahead to a post-apocalyptic version of the city about thirty years later. | |
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Treasure Island takes place "in the year of grace 17—." (Various clues in the text narrow it down to somewhere from 1758 to 65.) | |
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Future Diary's dates are all shown in the form "29 JULY 20XX". | |
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The SCP Foundation often redacts dates, but sometimes the century or decade is left uncensored, leading to a similar effect but with Censor Boxes instead of X's. | |
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In Halt Evil Doer!, the Near-Future Dystopia (think Marvel 2099) is sometimes referred to as taking place in 20XX. Sometimes heroes from the present might learn the actual year, but then they return to the present and change things, and it's XX again. Similarly, the Future of Wonders (think Legion of Super-Heroes) is sometimes called 2XXX. | |
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Zero In is set in 20XX. | |
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Godzilla: Monster of Monsters! takes place in "2XXX A.D." | |
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The number of the year is pixeled in Luminary Children. | |
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Vanity Fair often refers to dates in 18—. | |
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Tonight We Riot is set in 20XX. | |
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EarthBound is set in 199X. If you borrow a map from the library and then talk to the librarian again, you are told you don't have to return the map until the year 2001, a year which was in the past by the time most people played the game. | |
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Ichigeki Sacchu!! Hoihoi-san is set in the year 20XX. | |
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Atomic Robo: Jenkins's tombstone gives his birth and death years as 19XX-20XX. Oddly enough the latter is pinned down as 2020 elsewhere on the website. | |
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The Filipino novel NÃnay literally opens with the sentence: "In 18… the cholera wrought havoc in Manila." | |
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Persona 5 doesn't give us the exact year other than "20XX", in contrast to the previous Persona games, but the in-game calendar is identical to the 2016 calendar, meaning the game takes place 4 years after the end of Persona 4. The nonspecific year can be likely attributed to Atlus originally intending to release Persona 5 in 2014 and presumably have it take place in 2016, which would fit the Next Sunday A.D. time frames of Persona 3 and 4. Schedule Slips led to 5 not actually releasing until 2016 — the year it takes place, rather than shortly in the future like previous games. In Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth, when the female protagonist of Persona 3 Portable says she came from 2009, and the cast of Persona 4 say they're from 2011, the Phantom Thieves only say that they didn't come from either of those times. | |
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The opening cutscene of Undertale states that the year is 201X, as part of its many, many homages to the Mother series. | |
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Orange Marmalade starts in "Autumn, 20XX". | |
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The events of World of Horror take place in 198X. | |
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"The Hound (1924)": Some days into getting haunted by the Dutchman, the narrator gives the date as "the night of September 24, 19—". | |
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Officially, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner is set in the year "199X", with an exchange between Madame Ginko and the protagonists of Soul Hackers establishing that the events of Devil Summoner took place three years prior to Soul Hackers. Seeing as one character from Devil Summoner (Kyouji Kuzunoha) makes an appearance in Persona 2: Innocent Sin, which is given a definite date in-game (1999), and is implied to be possessing the body of Daisuke Todoroki due to Kyouji's death early on in Devil Summoner, the common assumption is that Devil Summoner cannot take place any later than 1999 (which would therefore place Soul Hackers circa 2002 at the latest). | |
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The original Streets of Rage games for the Sega Genesis are set in 199X. Streets of Rage 4 jumped ahead ten years to partially reflect the Sequel Gap between 3 and 4 (which was almost three times as long at 26 years). | |
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Oni Ga Shiku Series: The year is always referred to with an X at the end, like 201X or 198X. In case a Time Skip occurs - which is often - then the fic either states "it's been three years since" in the narration or something like that, or states Izuku's age. This is despite of the fact that the Like a Dragon games provide exact dates and their events run parallel to the plot of the fic, so anyone can look up the games and figure out exactly when each event takes place. | |
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Final Fantasy XIII-2 subverts this trope with several destination times. Whenever Serah and Noel change the future, the destination year is marked with Xs in place of zeroes in the Historia Crux. However, this is because the player retains access to the unchanged futures, and serves only as a differential. So 400 AF and 4XX AF take place in the same year; they're just in different timelines. Similarly, when Serah gets trapped in a Lotus-Eater Machine where everything is perfect back home, it's marked in the Historia Crux as 00X AF, but is confirmed in dialogue to be 3 AF. | |
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Servant of the People features a subtle version of this, with a small poster that has the year on it, but the part with the last digit is torn off. The show is basically set in 201X. | |
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The first Majin Tensei takes place in 202X, decades after international tension in the late 90s turned incredibly violent. Subsequent entries in the Majin Tensei series would forgo this trope, with 1995's Spiral Nemesis being set in 1996 and 1997's Ronde being set in 2008. On the other hand, the abundance of Mythology Gags to Shin Megami Tensei I found in Spiral Nemesis may suggest branching timelines are in play, possibly dating SMT I as a result. | |
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Life, the Universe and Everything: Ford and Arthur time travel from the prehistoric past to the year 198—. | |
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A popular in-joke about Super Smash Bros. Melee describes the year 20XX, where everyone plays Fox (the top-tier character, yet one who is incredibly difficult to play well) to TAS levels of perfection. Because of this, the only way to decide matches is through port priority which can only be decided by rock-paper-scissors. A somewhat popular Game Mod of Melee is even named after this joke, called the 20XX hack pack. | |
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20XX goes so far as to put it in the name, just in case anyone didn't look at the blue platforming robot and think of Mega Man. Its sequel, 30XX, skips ahead an entire millennium (just like the title indicates) and takes even more of an overt Mega Man X-esque feel with its presentation. For bonus points, developer Batterystaple Games gave the sequel's release date for Early Access on Steam as "30XX" (which was actually early 2021). | |
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19XX, part of the 1942 Shoot 'Em Up series by Capcom. | |
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According to the intro cinematic of Pikmin 3, the game takes place in "Galactic Date 20XX". | |
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In Rudolph's Shiny New Year, the new year is "19-Wonderful". | |
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The Last Days of Disco was set in "the very early 1980s." | |
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The early Double Dragon games are set in a post-apocalyptic New York after a Nuclear War occurred in 19XX. | |
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Five Nights at Freddy's takes place in Year XX, according to the PC's pay check. The sequel subverts this, taking place in 1987. | |
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The opening sentence of The Courts of the Morning gives the date as "the August of 192-". | |
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Wangan Midnight is set in the year 20XX to allow for the introduction of newer cars that at the time of the first publishing (1992) did not exist. | |
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Bomberman Generation takes place in "cosmic year 200X". | |
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River City Ransom takes place in the year 19XX. The sequel, River City Ransom: Underground, takes place after a Time Skip of 25 years... in the year 19XX. Which pretty much just puts the first game in 1974 or earlier. | |
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Invasion of Astro-Monster took place in 196X. | |
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Fairy Tail: The story takes place in "X784". X791 after the first Time Skip, and X792 after the second. | |
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Lesser-known SMT spin-off Giten Megami Tensei has this as part of its backstory, with the year 199X seeing Tokyo destroyed by ICBMs in what would later be known as the Great Cataclysm (presumably the events of Shin Megami Tensei I). Humans are forced to go underground and live in fallout shelters to survive not only the ensuing nuclear apocalypse but also demons running amok on the surface, with the game picking up roughly twenty years down the road. | |
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In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, the setting's year is referred to as 20XX. All Might's car was only manufactured in 198X and the old Beebo cartoon ran in the 19XXs. | |
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Gerald Robotnik's 50+ year old diary from Sonic X is dated to "20XX". | |
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In March Comes in Like a Lion, the year is revealed to be 20XX on Nikaidou's New Year's postcard. Averted in the anime, where it's indicated to be 2007 and 2008 via background calendars. | |
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Open Sorcery: The date the "blue", a.k.a "affected by the final foe" version of the Cherry Orchard Rest Home has is Oct. 666 20XX, but it's actually Nov. 1 2014. | |
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Doctor Who: "The End of the World" takes place in "5.5/Apple/26", although this may be another term for exactly 5 billion years after the characters had left. | |
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Spider-Man J takes place in the year 200X. | |
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New Mazinger: The action in this Mazinger Z spin-off begins in 220X. | |
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Contra: Operation Galuga is set in 26XX as opposed to the original Contra being set in 2633. | |
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The events of the first Metal Gear was originally placed in the year 199X before the sequels decided to give it a specific year. The manual for Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake was inconsistent as to whether the original game was set in 1995 or 1996 (with the in-game dialogue placing the events of the sequel three years later), but ultimately Metal Gear Solid went with the 1995 date. | |
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Wylder's Hand has a variation in a scene where Larkin is laying out the key dates in the mystery of Mark Wylder's whereabouts. These cover a range from October of one year to March of the following year, preventing a graceful way of using the traditional "18—", so the narrator assigns them to the years 1854 and 1855 while making it clear that these are not the actual years in question. (Elsewhere, he says that over twenty years have passed since the events of the novel, placing them in the 1840s or even earlier.) | |
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Digimon Fusion starts in 20XX. | |
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Project Arrhythmia's story mode takes place in the year 205X. | |
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The Avengers: The 2015 mini-series Ultron Forever introduced a Captain America from the year 20XX. This same future is sometimes seen in Al Ewing's other Avengers titles, with Cap seen fighting the Golden Skull. This trope is used presumably to ensure the sliding timescale never actually reaches the given date of 20XX (though given this Cap's an adult Danielle Cage, who was an infant in the modern day when the series was released, it logically takes place around twenty-plus years later). | |
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Power Rangers RPM was set in 20XX (between late 2040 and 2096). | |
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Time Changer: When someone from the 1890's travels over 100 years into the future and looks at the newspaper, the last two years of 20XX were obscured. When he yells the date out loud, the 20XX gets cut off by a car honk. Later, at the end of the movie, an attempt is made to send a bible to the future but it will not go if the end of the world already happened by then, so the date keeps being changed to earlier years to see when the end of the world takes place, and the movie cuts off somewhere in the 2000s. | |
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde happens in 18**. | |
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Mother fan game-turned-Spiritual Successor Oddity is set in 197X. | |
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The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy is an Indiana Jones-style adventure game set in the '30s, stylized as 193X in-game. That said, finding the true year isn't too difficult. The Japanese version explicitly states it's September 14, and a calendar is shown with that day as a Friday. The only year of the 1930s where Sep. 14 was a Friday was 1934. | |
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Shin Megami Tensei IMAGINE, the series' MMORPG offshoot, takes place sometime in the 21st century, either 202X or 203X depending on the source. Like NINE above, the game chronicles an alternate future in the aftermath of the Great Cataclysm. | |
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In Homestar Runner, the anime counterparts of the main cast hail from the year 20X6. Which they pronounce as "Twenty exty-six". | |
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The Lab has the mini-game "Xortex", which is set in the year 26XX. | |
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In Yuri is My Job!, the results for the Blume election were tallied on "May XX, 20XX." Somewhat unusually, even the day of the month is Xed out (although it's probably some time after Golden Week). Eventually, it's revealed that the year is 2017; Mitsuki was born on July 7, 2001 and turns 16 in Volume 6, with the date in question being shown as a Friday. | |
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The Storyteller sketch in John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Series 8, Episode 1, is set in "the year eighteen blank", and goes on to spoof Spell My Name with a Blank. | |
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Mega Man: Mega Man (Classic) is a strong example of this trope, starting in 200X and later moving into 20XX (though Mega Man Powered Up posits that it's always been 20XX since the beginning). The sequel series and spinoffs are all set relative to this ambiguous date; the X series takes place in 21XX, and (possibly) drags on into 22XX, while Battle Network is in an alternate 200X. The later games in the main timeline starting with Mega Man Zero (which was assumed to take place in 22XX before Mega Man X: Command Mission came out) abandoned this and don't specify any dates, possibly because the world has suffered so many successive apocalypses by this point that people don't even remember what year it's supposed to be. According to the Perfect Memories sourcebook, the Legends series takes place around 6000 years after the end of the X series (which would put it circa 81XX or 82XX), but that's about all we know. | |
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While EarthBound Beginnings was originally set in 1988, it was changed to an unspecified point in the early '80s in the English release, before then being listed as 198X in the eShop description for its Virtual Console release. | |
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OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes takes place in the year 201X ("Twenty One-Ex"). | |
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