Gadget: Invention, Travel, & Adventure is a point and click video game (though honestly more of a Visual Novel) directed by Haruhiko Shono and first released by Synergy Interactive in 1993. In 1998, a better-known remake of the game titled Gadget: Past as Future was released by Cryo Interactive. The game is set within a Diesel Punk nation called "The Empire", ruled by dictator Paulo Orlovsky, that feels and looks similiar to that of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. This game provides examples of: