Scorcher

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Scorcher
System(s): Sega Saturn
Publisher: Sega (US, Europe), Acclaim Entertainment (Japan)
Developer: Zyrinx
Distributor: Scavenger
Genre: Racing
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code JP 1997-08-22 ¥5,8005,800 T-8128G US 1997-03-05 81214 EU 1997-05-15 MK81214-50 DE 1997-05-15 MK81214-50 PT 199x UK 1997-05-15 £39.9939.99 MK81214-50 PL 1997 BR 199x 192106

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Scorcher (スコーチャー) is a futuristic racing video game released among other systems for the Sega Saturn. The Japanese Saturn version of the game is the rarest release on the platform.

During development the game was known as Vertigo.

History

It was the last game to be developed by Zyrinx before disbanding. The game was built on the graphics engine used by Zyrinx in their 1995 32X technical demo, but converted to use the Saturn's 3D hardware capabilities.

Production credits

Sega

• Executive Producer: Manny Granillo
• Producer: Steve Hutchins
• Associate Product Manager: Matt Dunbar
• Assistant Producer: Michael S. Jablonn
• Packaging: Sarah Wittmer, Eric Smith
• Testers:
  • Lead Tester: Matt Underwood
  • Assistant Lead Testers: Howard Gipson, Aaron Hommes, Grant Luke, Dave Paniagua
  • Testers: Mo Berry, Elton Brown, Christian Clausen, John Diamonon, Mike Dobbins, Sean Doidge, Danny Dunn, Chris Garrett, Rod Hong, Dennis Lee, Laine Maeda, Lorne Miller, Marcus Montgomery, Abe Navarro, Mark Paniagua, Sean Potter, Josh Simpson, Stewart Stanyard, Alan Tan, Fernando Valderrama, Polly Villatuya, Peter Young
• Special Thanks: Bernie Stolar, Ted Hoff, Shuji Utsumi, Shin Hamanaka, Anne Moellering, Andrew Stein, Mark Moeller, Undyne Stafford, Arvin Carlson, Mike Needham, Scott Allen, Eileen Sacman and the SEEDY Crew

• Main programming: David Guldbrandsen+Karsten Huidberg
• Main graphics: Mikael Balle
• Music + sfx: Jesper Kyd
• System programming: Jens Bo Albretsen
• Mathematics: Sami Badawi
• Additional gfx: Jacob Andersen + Sami Badawi
• Gametesting: Jesper Kyd
• Bike layout: Jesper Vorsholt J regensen
• Team assistants: Nicole Salem + Stacy Roberts
• Manual: Sami Badawi + Jesper Kyd
• Manual Layout: Jacob Andersen
• Developed by: Zyrinx 1996
• Greetings to: Lemon + fetus + Daniel Small + Chrstian Laursen + Lisa Darrow + Kirsten Bogden,+ Mikko Tahtinen + Guz + Martin "Mez" Damsbo + Hans "Sjok" Hansen + Maurice Garces

Source:

US manual

Magazine articles

Main article: Scorcher/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source GamesMaster (UK) 63 №54, p68 Mean Machines Sega (UK) 87 Saturn Power (UK) 78 Sega Saturn Magazine (UK) 70

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Based on 4 reviews

Saturn, JP
Cover
Spinecard Disc

Saturn, US
Cover
Manual

Saturn, EU
Cover
Disc

Saturn, FR (Blister pack)
Cover

Saturn, PT

Saturn, BR
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Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	121,389,072		CD-ROM (EU)	MK81214-50 V3.004
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	121,374,960		CD-ROM (US)	81214 V2.000