Urban Strike

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Urban Strike
System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Sega Game Gear
Publisher:
Sega Mega Drive
Electronic Arts
Sega Game Gear
Black Pearl Software
Developer:
Supporting companies:
Distributor:
Sega Mega Drive
Majesco Sales (US re-release)
Sega Mega Drive
Ecofilmes (PT)
Sega Mega Drive
SF Interactive Media (SE rental)
Sega Game Gear
Borta
Licensor:
Sega Game Gear
Electronic Arts
Sound driver: Electronic Arts/Don Veca
Genre: Action[1]

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Mega Drive
US
735001
Videogame Rating Council: MA-13
Sega Mega Drive
US
(Sega Channel)
SUBsub
Sega Mega Drive
EU
E291SMXI
ELSPA: 11+ OK
Sega Mega Drive
DE
Sega Mega Drive
PT
MDJ291
Sega Mega Drive
UK
£44.9944.99[5][6] E291SMXI
ELSPA: 11+ OK
Sega Mega Drive
FI
Sega Mega Drive
SE
(Rental)
Sega Mega Drive
CZ
2.165 Kč2.165
Sega Mega Drive
AU
OFLC: M15
Sega Mega Drive
SA
Sega Game Gear
US
T-100048
ESRB: Kids to Adults
Non-Sega versions

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Urban Strike is a Sega Mega Drive overhead free-roaming shoot-'em-up game developed by Granite Bay Software and Foley Hi-Tech, and published by Electronic Arts. The third game in the Strike series, it was first released in Europe in August 1994, and was later brought to the United States and Australia in the following months.

Foley Hi-Tech also developed a port to the Sega Game Gear, published courtesy of Black Pearl Software in 1995.

Story

In the year 2001 a candidate for public office, H.R. Malone, is found out as a criminal (despite having political messages promising eliminating crime) by the US Special Forces team of the previous games. This leads to a call to an associate to investigate and stop the Special Forces team from interfering with the setup of a superweapon. Seemingly unbeknownst to Malone, that associate is actually a Special Forces infiltrator leaking the information... but the limo he is to leave in explodes, and the rest of the team is called in to stop Malone with stop the leaking of what little information they have.

Gameplay

Gameplay is identical to other Strike games: Up/Down move forward/backward, Left/Right rotate the helicopter, A shoots hellfires and jink, B shoots hydra, C shoots normal helicopter guns,  START  pulls up a map, and there are missions to complete in each level. However, the player must occasionally leave the helicopter and complete some parts of missions on foot.

Production credits

Mega Drive version

  • Programming: Mike Posehn
  • Game Design: John Manley, Tony Barnes
  • Art Director: Julie Cressa
  • Implementation: Ross Wentworth, Erich Horn
  • Art: Victor French, Tom Lisowski, Tony Gascon, Ron Sacdalan, Walter Ianneo, Jeff Fennel
  • 3-D Models: Tim Calvin, Terry Falls, Lance Armstrong, Peter Traugot
  • Additional Art: Kendra Lammas, Michael Shirley, Susan Manley, Keith Bullen
  • Sound and Music: Don Veca
  • Technical Director: Tim Brengle
  • Product Manager: David Sze
  • Assistant Producer: Michael Lubuguin
  • Foley Hi-Tech Producer: David Foley
  • Project Manager: Susan Manley
  • Assistant Director: Antonio Barnes
  • Produced by: Scott Berfield
  • Directed by: John Manley
Source:
In-game credits
Urban Strike MD credits.pdf
[7]

  • Game Design: John Manley And Tony Barnes
  • Programming: Mike Posehn
  • Producer: Scott Berfield
  • Director: John Manley
  • Assistant Director: Antonio Barnes
  • Art Director: Julie Cressa
  • Project Manager: Susan Manley
  • Assistant Producer: Michael Lubuguin
  • Implementation: Ross Wentworth and Erich Horn
  • Art: Victor French, Tom Lisowski, Tony Gascon, Ron Sacdalan, Walter Ianneo, Jeff Fennel
  • 3-D Models: Tim Calvin, Terry Falls, Lance Armstrong
  • Additional Art: Kendra Lammas, Michael Shirley, Susan Manley, Peter Traugot, Tony Barnes, Lynne Gura, Keith Bullen
  • Sound and Music: Don Veca
  • Foley Hi-Tech Producer: David Foley
  • Tools Programming: Burt Sloane, Bill Kirtley
  • Technical Director: Tim Brengle
  • Product Manager: David Sze
  • Documentation and Game Text: Michael Humes
  • Package Design: E. J. Sarraille Design Group
  • Documentation layout: Brian Conery
  • Software Testing: Jeff Hasson, David Costa, Brian Loke, Joanna Pataki, Aaron Mcclay, Jim Flaharty
  • Quality Assurance: Dave "Da Kid" Schenone, Randy "Quick Shot" Eckhardt
  • Special Thanks To: Matt Cressa, Cindy Posehn, Alan And William Barnes, Dean Sitton, Kathy Smith, Jeff Foley, Seal, Danny Elfman, James Cameron, Stewart Copeland, William Orbit
Source:
US manual
Urban Strike MD US Manual.pdf
[8]

Magazine articles

Main article: Urban Strike/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

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FI advert (1994)
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FI advert (1995)
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Print advert in (US) #62: "September 1994" (1994-xx-xx)
also published in:
  • (US) #0710: "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (1994-xx-xx)[9]
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Print advert in (US) #21: "October/November 1994" (1994-xx-xx)
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Print advert in (UK) #24: "October 1994" (1994-08-xx)
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Print advert in (UK) #26: "December 1994" (1994-10-28)
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Print advert in (FR) #25: "Octobre 1994" (1994-xx-xx)
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Print advert in (ES) #37: "Octubre 1994" (1994-xx-xx)
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Print advert in Freak (IL) #26 (1994-xx-xx)
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Print advert in Excalibur (CZ) #37 (1994-12-05)
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Print advert in (CZ) #1: "Leden 1995" (1995-01-24)
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Print advert in Hacker (HR) #5: "03-04/1995" (1995-xx-xx)
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Physical scans

Mega Drive version

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
Sega Mega Drive
Division by zero.
Based on
0 review
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
(RU)
50
[10]
(BR)
97
[11]
(DE)
92
[12]
(FR)
92
[13]
(RU)
80
[14]
(UK)
82
[15]
(UK) PAL
90
[16]
(US) NTSC-U
75
[17]
(RU)
90
[18]
(RU)
50
[19]
(US) NTSC-U
83
[20]
(US) NTSC-U
88
[21]
(DE) PAL
80
[22]
(GR)
90
[23]
(UK) PAL
92
[24]
(UK) PAL
90
[25]
(US) NTSC-U
75
[26]
(RU)
56
[27]
(FR) PAL
86
[28]
(HU)
82
[29]
(UK) PAL
88
[6]
(FR) PAL
90
[30]
(DE) PAL
85
[31]
(FR)
75
[32]
(UK) PAL
89
[33]
(US) NTSC-U
50
[34]
(FR)
92
[35]
(DE)
85
[36]
(UK)
90
[37]
(CZ)
65
[38]
(UK) PAL
90
[39]
(UK) PAL
93
[40]
(UK) PAL
92
[41]
(RU)
82
[42]
(UK) PAL
91
[43]
(FR)
84
[44]
(ES)
95
[45]
(RU)
85
[46]
(DE) PAL
84
[47]
(US)
90
[48]
Sega Mega Drive
83
Based on
40 reviews

Urban Strike

Mega Drive, US
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Cover
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Cart
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Manual
Mega Drive, US (cardboard)
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Cover
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Cart
Urban Strike MD US Manual (cardboard).pdf
Manual
Mega Drive, EU (4 Language Manual)
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Cover
UrbanStrike MD US Cart.jpg
Cart
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Manual
Mega Drive, EU (5 Language Manual)
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Cover
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Cart
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Manual
Mega Drive, EU (Rev H)

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PCB
Mega Drive, EU (Rev J)

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PCB
Mega Drive, DE (Seperate DE Manual)

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Cart
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Manual
Mega Drive, PT
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Cover
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Cart
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Manual
Mega Drive, SE (rental; SF)
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Cover
Mega Drive, FI
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Cover
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Cart
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Manual
Mega Drive, AU (PAL)
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Cover
Mega Drive, AU (NTSC)
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Cover
Mega Drive, GCC
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Cover
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Cart
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Manual

Game Gear version

Game Gear, US
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Cover
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Cart

Technical information

Main article: Urban Strike/Technical information.

References

  1. File:UrbanStrike MD SE Box Rental.jpg
  2. Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 10
  3. Mean Machines Sega, "October 1994" (UK; 1994-08-xx), page 55
  4. File:DailyMirror UK 1994-09-30 09.jpg
  5. Computer & Video Games, "December 1994" (UK; 1994-11-15), page 57
  6. 6.0 6.1 Mega, "November 1994" (UK; 1994-10-27), page 48
  7. File:Urban Strike MD credits.pdf
  8. File:Urban Strike MD US Manual.pdf, page 10
  9. Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 42
  10. 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 254
  11. Ação Games, "Outubro 1994" (BR; 1994-10-16), page 26
  12. Aktueller Software Markt, "Januar 1995" (DE; 1994-12-05), page 30
  13. Consoles +, "Octobre 1994" (FR; 1994-xx-xx), page 96
  14. Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 230
  15. Computer & Video Games, "November 1994" (UK; 1994-10-15), page 87
  16. Digitiser (UK) (1994-10-03)
  17. Electronic Games (1992-1995), "October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 86
  18. Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 366
  19. Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 6, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 250
  20. Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 110
  21. GamePro, "November 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 92
  22. GamePro, "Oktober 1994" (DE; 1994-09-30), page 43
  23. Gamer, "Dekémvrios 1994" (GR; 1994-xx-xx), page 1
  24. GamesMaster, "October 1994" (UK; 1994-09-22), page 46
  25. Games World: The Magazine, "November 1994" (UK; 1994-09-29), page 15
  26. Game Informer, "December 1994" (US; 1994-1x-xx), page 24
  27. Igry Sega Luchshiye iz luchshikh. Vypusk 2, "" (RU; 2001-08-27), page 364
  28. Joypad, "Octobre 1994" (FR; 1994-xx-xx), page 96
  29. Joypad, "1/1995" (HU; 1995-xx-xx), page 14
  30. Mega Force, "Octobre 1994" (FR; 1994-xx-xx), page 86
  31. Mega Fun, "09/94" (DE; 1994-08-24), page 100
  32. Micro Kid's Multimédia, "Février 1995" (FR; 1995-0x-xx), page 50
  33. Mean Machines Sega, "November 1994" (UK; 1994-09-30), page 82
  34. Next Generation, "Premiere Issue 1995" (US; 1994-12-08), page 108
  35. Player One, "Octobre 1994" (FR; 1994-xx-xx), page 88
  36. Play Time, "10/94" (DE; 1994-09-07), page 104
  37. Power Up!, "Saturday, September 24, 1994" (UK; 1994-09-24), page 1
  38. Score, "Prosinec 1994" (CZ; 1994-12-01), page 22
  39. Sega Magazine, "October 1994" (UK; 1994-09-15), page 78
  40. Sega Power, "October 1994" (UK; 1994-09-01), page 48
  41. Sega Pro, "December 1994" (UK; 1994-11-03), page 78
  42. Sega Mega Drive Review, "1" (RU; 1995-04-03), page 174
  43. Sonic the Comic, "December 23rd 1994" (UK; 1994-12-10), page 11
  44. Supersonic, "Octobre 1994" (FR; 1994-xx-xx), page 70
  45. Todo Sega, "Octubre 1994" (ES; 1994-xx-xx), page 38
  46. Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 214
  47. Video Games, "10/94" (DE; 1994-09-28), page 94
  48. VideoGames, "November 1994" (US; 1994-1x-xx), page 78


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