Izzy's Quest for the Olympic Rings

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Izzy's Quest for the Olympic Rings

System(s): Sega Mega Drive

Publisher:

U.S. Gold

Developer:

Alexandria

Sound driver: GEMS

Genre: Action

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
US	1995-04More...^[1]	$?	T-79156
UK	1995	£?	T-79156-50
FR	1995	?F	T-79156-50
DE	1995	DM ?	T-79156-50
ES	1995	?Ptas	T-79156-50
PT	1995	?PTE$	MDJ79156
AU	1995-05^[2]	$99.95^[2]	FIZZ00SMC

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Izzy's Quest for the Olympic Rings is a platform game developed by Alexandria and published by U.S. Gold for the SNES and Sega Mega Drive. It features Izzy, the mascot of the 1996 Summer Olympics, hosted in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Izzy has to collect the five olympic rings, which have been captured by various enemies across the world.

Magazine articles

Main article: Izzy's Quest for the Olympic Rings/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

PDF

Print advert in GamePro (US) #69: "April 1995" (1995-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Mega Drive version

Sega Retro Average

Publication	Score	Source
Mega Force (FR)	83
VideoGames (US)	70	More...^[3]

	77
Based on 2 reviews

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart File:Izzys Quest MD US Manual.pdf Manual

Mega Drive, EU
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, AU

Unreleased versions

Izzy's Quest for the Olympic Rings

Publisher: U.S. Gold
Planned release date: 1995-06More...^[1]
System(s): Sega 32X, Sega Game Gear

Sega Game Gear and Sega 32X versions were planned, but cancelled. In the US, the Game Gear version was set to be released around the same period as the Mega Drive port (in Q1 1995), with a price tag of $49.95 USD.

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

✔

CRC32	77b416e4
MD5	012e2512633c6c1b5ca8dcfbf0e878f7
SHA-1	0f05e0c333d6ee58a254ee420a70d6020488ac54

2MB

1995-03

Cartridge (US/EU)

References

Olympics-Themed Games By Sega or On Sega Consoles
Official Games
Olympic Gold (1992) \| Winter Olympics (1994) \| Olympic Summer Games (1996) \| (not Sega; 1998) \| Sydney 2000 (2000) \| (not Sega; 2002, 2004, 2006) \| Beijing 2008 (2008) \| Vancouver 2010 (2010) \| London 2012 (2012) \| Tokyo 2020 (2019)
Mario & Sonic
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (2007) \| Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (2009) \| Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (2011) \| Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games (2013) \| Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (2016) \| Mario & Sonic at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (2019)
Other
Izzy's Quest for the Olympic Rings (1995) \| Olympic Soccer (1996)

[:File:GamePro_US_068.pdf_p149_-1] 1.0 ^1.1 GamePro, "March 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 149

[:File:NewReleasesCatalogueApril-May1995AU.pdf_p33-2] 2.0 ^2.1 File:NewReleasesCatalogueApril-May1995AU.pdf, page 33

[:File:VideoGames_US_79.pdf_p74_-3] VideoGames, "August 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 74

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