Pulseman

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Pulseman

System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Virtual Console

Publisher: Sega

Developer: Game Freak

Sound driver: SMPS 68000 (modified)

Genre: Action^[1]^[2]

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	1994-07-22^[2]	¥7,8007,800	G-4098
JP ▼	2007-04-24^[6]	600pts600^[7]
US ▼	2009-07-13^[3]	900pts900^[3]
EU ▼	2009-07-03^[4]^[5]	900pts900^[4]
AU ▼	2009-07	900pts900^[8]

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Pulseman (パルスマン), originally known as Spark, is a platform game for the Sega Mega Drive. It was only released on cartridge for a Japanese audience, but was available to North American consumers via the Sega Channel. The game was not sold in Europe.

It was developed by Game Freak, the development team that would later go on to produce the Pokémon series of games for Nintendo. Many of Pulseman's staff, including director Ken Sugimori and composer Junichi Masuda worked on both games.

Pulseman has since been brought to the Wii's Virtual Console service, making it available to Europe for the first time. M.I.J.E.T. also made a fan translation patch.

Magazine articles

Main article: Pulseman/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1994-07: "July 1994" (1994-06-08)

Print advert in Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1994-08: "August 1994" (1994-07-08)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication	Score	Source
Beep! MegaDrive (JP)	65	^[9]
Beep! MegaDrive (readers) (JP)	77	^[10]
Famitsu (JP)	60	№293, p39
Mega (UK)	68	№24, p56-57
Sega Pro (UK)	81	№37, p58-59

	70
Based on 5 reviews

Mega Drive, JP
Cover
Cart Manual

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

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CRC32	138a104e
MD5	b0952bec44386411651ad944c67cf86c
SHA-1	5fd76a5f80e4684b5f9d445ddb893679985684e6

2MB

1994-05

Cartridge (JP)

External links

Sega of Japan Virtual Console pages: Mega Drive
Nintendo catalogue pages: US, AU

References

↑ File:Pulseman MD JP Box.jpg
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 https://sega.jp/history/hard/megadrive/software.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-07-20 09:51)
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/e08urZgh9BnSoSUqah5__X6jCdYr9Wmg (Wayback Machine: 2010-11-22 22:48)
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 http://www.nintendolife.com/games/megadrive/pulseman (Wayback Machine: 2017-06-25 01:48)
↑ https://www.nintendo.fr/Jeux/Console-virtuelle-Wii-/Pulseman--278645.html (archive.today)
↑ https://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/vc/software/03.html (Wayback Machine: 2018-03-06 00:26)
↑ http://vc.sega.jp:80/vc_pulseman/ (Wayback Machine: 2007-04-27 10:15)
↑ http://www.nintendo.com.au/index.php?action=catalogue&prodcat_id=41&prod_id=19761&pageID=4 (Wayback Machine: 2012-04-03 01:30)
↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "August 1994" (JP; 1994-07-08), page 19 (21)
↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 83 (85)