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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:
Sound driver: GEMS
Genre: Action































Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Mega Drive
US		 $? T-79156
Sega Mega Drive
UK		 £? T-79156-50
Sega Mega Drive
FR		 ?F T-79156-50
Sega Mega Drive
DE		 DM ? T-79156-50
Sega Mega Drive
ES		 ?Ptas T-79156-50
Sega Mega Drive
PT		 ?PTE$ MDJ79156
Sega Mega Drive
AU		 $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

GamePro US 069.pdf

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

Physical scans

Mega Drive version

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
83
70 [3]
Sega Mega Drive
 77
Based on
2 reviews

Mega Drive, US
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Mega Drive, EU
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Mega Drive, AU

Unreleased versions

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Izzy's Quest for the Olympic Rings
System(s): Sega 32X, Sega Game Gear
Publisher: U.S. Gold
Planned release date:
Sega 32X
1995-06[1]

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
Sega Mega Drive
✔
CRC32 77b416e4
MD5 012e2512633c6c1b5ca8dcfbf0e878f7
SHA-1 0f05e0c333d6ee58a254ee420a70d6020488ac54
2MB 1995-03 Cartridge (US/EU)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 GamePro, "March 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 149
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 File:NewReleasesCatalogueApril-May1995AU.pdf, page 33
  3. ↑ VideoGames, "August 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 74


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 Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 (2019)
Other
Izzy's Quest for the Olympic Rings (1995) | Olympic Soccer (1996)
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