premise: Death Race is an arcade game released by Exidy in the United States on April 1, 1976. The game is likely inspired by the 1975 cult film "Death Race 2000", which was still in some theatres at the time of the game's release; its original working title which appeared on some flyers to distributors was Death Race 98.
hypothesis: Death Race was set in 1998
reason: The name implies it could be set in 1998 but it is unclear. I think the system got it wrong because I introduced a new year