Nixon climbs into his red flying Ford Eastwood car for what he thought would be a typical working day. In theory, his employment entails using androids as killing machines against the socially undesirable. In reality, anyone who represents a threat to his megalomaniac boss Willeford, will eventually find themselves on the wrong end of an android's tracking system. Officially a tax collector, Nixon is in fact one of these android killers.
Nixon had finished the previous day in a blood bath, the usual ending to a good days work. However, that evening his self-correcting memory did not activate and today he found himself in the unusual circumstances of remembering yesterdays horrendous events.
Scheming with Barbara, another android killer, Nixon has decided that enough was enough and has resolved to destroy Willeford and his bloody company once and for all.
Willeford reigns over everything by means of a huge computer, the Neuro Tower, which Nixon intends to infiltrate with a virus. To create the virus he will need the assistance of the engineer who designed the computers defence system. He is presently imprisoned on a Santa Catalina island construction site.
Release the engineer, create the virus and destroy Willeford's empire. Sounds like a busy day ahead for Nixon.

Hard Boiled is an arcade-style 3D racing and shooting game. The player controls Nixon's flying car and engages in fighting off waves of various enemies. The scenery is in perpetual, albeit controlled , movement. The general trajectory is fixed by the scenery with horizontal and vertical freedom within an area twice the size of the screen.