You play as Uncle Victor, who in 1983 falls victim to the video game market crash! One night, while attempting to jump into video game development amidst an already over saturated market; he is developing his game Cyber Run, when lightning suddenly strikes his house. In the chaos, some code in his latest project goes awry and forms sentience! Followed by a flash of a light, Victor is sucked into his computer screen and forced to outrun the villainous Dark Code, all the while collecting bits of code along the way.