Die Hard Arcade

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Die Hard Arcade
System(s): Sega Titan Video, Sega Saturn
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Sega AM1, Sega Technical Institute, Fox Interactive
Licensor: Twentieth Century Fox
Sound driver: SCSP/CD-DA (41 tracks)
Genre: Side-scrolling Action/Yoko Scroll Action (横スクロールアクション), Action
Number of players: 1-2
Release Date RRP Code JP 1996-07 ¥? ? US 1996 $? ? JP 1997-01-24 ¥5,800 (5,974)5,800e GS-9122 JP (Satakore) 1998-03-12 ¥2,8002,800 GS-9192 US 1997-03-18 $49.9949.99 81057 EU 1997-02-24 MK81057-50 DE 1997-02-24 MK81057-50 PT 199x STJSE0501 UK 1997-02-24 £44.9944.99 MK81057-50 PL 1997 239zł239 AU 199x FDIE01SSC BR 199x 191536

Die Hard Arcade, known as Dynamite Deka (ダイナマイト刑事) in Japan, is a 3D arcade beat-em up developed by Sega AM1 and Sega Technical Institute. It was published by Sega for the Sega Titan Video arcade platform in 1996 and for the Sega Saturn in the following year.

Gameplay

Die Hard Arcade has players save the president's daughter from a group of terrorists led by Wolf Hongo, who have taken over a skyscraper. It is a one or two player game, player one taking control of Bruno "Mister Dynamite" Delinger (Die Hard protagonist John McClane in the overseas versions), and player two controlling Cindy Holiday (renamed to Kris Thompsen in the overseas Saturn versions' instruction manual).

Similar in many respects to Virtua Fighter, Die Hard Arcade is a 3D beat-'em-up, although action mostly takes place on a 2D (or "2.5D") plane, similar to older Sega releases such as Golden Axe and Streets of Rage. Die Hard Arcade, however, puts a greater emphasis on the use of weapons and objects which can be found on the ground, and levels are interspred with quick time events, which if completed successfully, can save the player the trouble of having to fight more opponents.

Stages

	The Top Floor
	The Underground Parking Lot
	The First Floor Lobby
	The Terrace
	The Top Floor

History

Dynamite Deka was designed to be a 3D beat-'em-up game inspired by the movie Die Hard (which in turn was inspired by a 1979 novel, Nothing Lasts Forever). In overseas markets, it was granted official use of the Die Hard license by Fox Interactive - a move which occurred very late in the game's development cycle (and hence does not feature in Japanese versions). It was the last title to credit Sega Technical Institute before the team was dissolved.

Sequels and re-releases

When released on the Sega Saturn, the game came bundled with a version of Sega's 1979 arcade game Deep Scan. Each 200 points earned in Deep Scan gives the player credits in Die Hard Arcade.

Dynamite Deka was followed by Dynamite Deka 2 on the Dreamcast/Sega Model 2. This game was known as Dynamite Cop outside of Japan. The story would be continued in Dynamite Deka EX, also known as Asian Dynamite, and the game would be remade in the form of Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 26: Dynamite Deka.

Versions

Localised names

Also known as

Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English	Die Hard Arcade	Die Hard Arcade
English (US)	Die Hard Arcade	Die Hard Arcade
Japanese	ダイナマイト刑事	Dynamite Deka

Production credits

Main article: Die Hard Arcade/Production credits.

Arcade version

• Program Work
  • Chief Programmer: Hiroshi Ando
  • Enemy Programmer: Masanobu Yamamoto
  • Sub Programmer: Teruji Abe
• Art Work
  • Chief Artist: Kunitake Aoki, Tatsuto Kumada
  • Model Artist: Joe Stephenson, Stieg Hedlund, Andrew Mundy, Betty Cunningham
  • Player Model Artist: Taku Makino, Yoshiaki Aoki, Hideyuki Katoh
  • Animation Artist: Dean Ruggles, Tom Tobey, Makoto Uchida, Greg Hancock
  • Back Ground Scr: Alan Ackerman
  • Illustrator: Tony De Zuniga
  • Art Manager: Bob Steele
• Sound Work
  • Sound Director: Howard Drossin
• Special Thanks
• Hiro, Paul Sears, Youichi Ueda, Robert Morgan, David Leytze, Richard Hideshima, Tohru Nakabayashi, Kouji Ooto, Yuko L. Isoda, Kohji Tanuma, Sachiko Amano, Masayuki Ao, Naoko Takahashi, Susumi Hirai, Morikuni Kubo, Shinichiro Okumoto, Masamoto Morita
• Producer: Roger Hector, Rikiya Nakagawa, Makoto Uchida
• Executive Producer: Hisashi Suzuki
• Game Design & Directed by: Makoto Uchida

Sega AM R&D Dept. #1

Saturn version

• Program Work
  • Chief Programmer: Hiroshi Ando
  • Enemy Programmer: Masanobu Yamamoto
  • Sub Programmer: Teruji Abe
• Art Work
  • Chief Artists: Kunitake Aoki, Tatsuto Kumada
  • Model Artists: Joe Stephenson, Stieg Hedlund, Andrew Mundy, Betty Cunningham
  • Player Model Artists: Taku Makino, Yoshiaki Aoki, Hideyuki Katoh
  • Animation Artists: Dean Ruggles, Tom Tobey, Makoto Uchida, Greg Hancock
  • Back Ground Scr: Alan Ackerman
  • Illustrator: Tony De Zuniga
  • CG Artist: Tatsuto Kumada
  • Art Manager: Bob Steele
• Sound Work
• Music and Sound Effects by: Howard Drossin
• Special Thanks: Hiro, Paul Sears, Youichi Ueda, Robert Morgan, David Leytze, Richard Hideshima, Tohru Nakabayashi, Kouji Ooto, Yuko L. Isoda, Kouji Tanuma, Sachiko Amano, Masayuki Ao, Naoko Takahashi, Susumu Hirai, Morikuni Kubo, Shinichiro Okumoto, Stephen Hutchins, Masamoto Morita
• Producers: Roger Hector, Rikiya Nakagawa, Makoto Uchida
• Executive Producer: Hisashi Suzuki
• Game Designed & Directed by: Makoto Uchida

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In-game credits

Development

• Programmers: Teruhito Abe and Hiroshi Ando
• Art Work: Tatsuto Kumada
• Game Design/Production: Makoto Uchida
• Music and Sound Effects: Howard Drossin

Production

• Executive Producer: Manny Granillo
• Producer: Steve Hutchins
• Assistant Producer: Michael S. Jablonn
• Lead Tester: Arnold Feener
• Assistant Lead Testers: Jeremy Cambell, Robert Hernandez, Ryan Hurth

Marketing

• Marketing Manager: Anne Moellering
• Associate Product Manager: Mark Moeller
• Product Specialist: Mark Subotnick
• Package Design: Moore & Price Design Group, Inc.
• Packaging: Eric Smith
• Manual: Richard Walker

Special Thanks To

• Scott Marcus at Fox Interactive, Arvin Carlson, Marcy Ditter, Matt Dunbar, Lydia Gable, Ted Hoff, Eileen Sacman, Bob Schonfisch, Marc Sherrod, Undyne Stafford, Andrew Stein, Dan Stevens, Bernie Stolar, Jennifer Titchener, Shinobu Toyoda, Shuji Utsumi, Frontline Marketing and the SEEDY Crew

And the SOA Software Test Department

• Nicolas Azizian, Aaron Bandur, Holly Bourdet, Karen Brown, Don Carmichael, Anthony Chau, Art Datangel, Roger DeForest, Mike Dobbins, Tai Huynh, John Jansen, Ty Johnson, Dave Kinel, Lloyd Kinoshita, Dennis Lee, Mark Lerma, Jeff Loney, Chris Lucich, Tony Lynch, Benny Malto, Mark McCunny, Steve Perez, David Portera, Tony Ragano, Ilya Reeves, Chris Towles, Adam Victor, Peter Young, Michael Yu

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US manual

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Magazine articles

Main article: Die Hard Arcade/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

ST-V US flyer (front)

ST-V US flyer (back)

PDF

Saturn JP flyer

Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) #1997-02: "1997-02 (1997-01-31)" (1997-01-17)

Saturn print advert in GameFan (US) #0504: "Volume 5, Issue 4: April 1997" (1997-xx-xx)

Print advert in Strana Igr (RU) #13: "Iyul 1997 1/2" (1997-xx-xx)

Photo gallery

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  ST-V US cabinet

Artwork

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Physical scans

Sega Titan Video version

Sega Retro Average
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Die Hard Arcade

Sega Titan Video, US
Cart

Sega Titan Video, JP
"Top" instructions "Long" instructions "Long" instructions (2)
Cart Instuction card(s)

Saturn version

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source GamesMaster (UK) 77 №53, p42/43

	77
Based on 1 review

Sega Retro Average

Publication Version Score 576 KByte (HU) 80 CD Consoles (FR) 80 Computer & Video Games (UK) 50 Edge (UK) PAL 60 Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U 74 Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 70 Freak (IL) 92 Gambler (PL) 83 GameFan (US) 81 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 88 Gry Komputerowe (PL) 75 MAN!AC (DE) PAL 70 Mega Fun (DE) PAL 80 Next Generation (US) NTSC-U 75 neXt Level (DE) PAL 80 Player One (FR) 90 Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J 76 Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J 74 Secret Service (PL) 56 Sega Magazin (DE) 86 Sega Power (UK) PAL 88 Sega Saturn Magazine (UK) PAL 80 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 77 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 81 Strana Igr (RU) 80 Super Power (FI) 83 Ultra Game Players (US) NTSC-U 82 Video Games (DE) PAL 75

	77
Based on 28 reviews

Die Hard Arcade

Saturn, JP
Cover
Spinecard Disc

Saturn, JP (Satakore)
Cover
Disc

Saturn, US
Cover
Disc Manual

Saturn, EU
Cover
Disc Manual

Saturn, EU (newer)

Saturn, PT
Cover
Disc

Saturn, AU
Cover
Disc

Saturn, BR
Cover

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	620,382,336		CD-ROM (EU)	MK81057-50 V1.002
✔	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	618,684,192	1996-10-30	CD-ROM (JP)	GS-9122 V1.001
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	624,002,064		CD-ROM (US)	81057 V1.001

External links

• Sega of America webpage: Saturn