Urban Strike

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Mega Drive Game Gear
Urban Strike
System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Sega Game Gear
Publisher: Electronic Arts Black Pearl Software
Developer: Electronic Arts, Granite Bay Software, Foley Hi-Tech Borta
Sound driver: Electronic Arts/Don Veca
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code US 1994-09 735001 EU 1994-08-30 E291SMXI PT 1995 MDJ291 UK 1994-08-30 £44.9944.99 E291SMXI FI 199x SE (Rental) 199x CZ 1994 2.165 Kč2.165 AU 1994 SA 199x US 1995 T-100048

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Urban Strike (Urban Strike for short) is a shoot-'em-up game developed by Electronic Arts, Granite Bay Software, and Foley Hi-Tech and initially released in 1994 for the Sega Mega Drive exclusively in the US and Europe before being ported to a variety of other consoles, including to the Sega Game Gear (released 1995). It is the third game in the Strike series, following Jungle Strike.

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: / move forward/backward, / rotate the helicopter, shoots hellfires and jink, shoots hydra, shoots normal helicopter guns, 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 (title screen roll)

Magazine articles

Main article: Urban Strike/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

FI advert (1994)

FI advert (1995)

Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #62: "September 1994" (1994-xx-xx)
also published in:

• Game Players (US)Game Players (US) #0710: "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (1994-xx-xx)

Print advert in Sega Visions (US) #21: "October/November 1994" (1994-xx-xx)

Print advert in Mean Machines Sega (UK) #24: "October 1994" (1994-08-xx)

Print advert in Mean Machines Sega (UK) #26: "December 1994" (1994-10-28)

Print advert in Supersonic (FR) #25: "Octobre 1994" (1994-xx-xx)

Print advert in Hobby Consolas (ES) #37: "Octubre 1994" (1994-xx-xx)

Print advert in Freak (IL) #26 (1994-xx-xx)

Print advert in Excalibur (CZ) #37 (1994-12-05)

Print advert in LeveL (CZ) #1: "Leden 1995" (1995-01-24)

Print advert in Hacker (HR) #5: "03-04/1995" (1995-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Mega Drive version

Sega Retro Average

Publication Score Source Aktueller Software Markt (DE) 92 №1/95, p32/34 Consoles + (FR) 92 №36, p96-98 Computer & Video Games (UK) 82 Game Players (US)Game Players (US) 83 GamePro (US) 88 GamesMaster (UK) 92 Games World: The Magazine (UK) 90 №5, p15 High Score (JP) 80 Mean Machines Sega (UK) 89 Mega (UK) 88 №26, p48/49 Mega Force (FR) 90 Mega Fun (DE) 85 Player One (FR) 92 Play Time (DE) 85 Sega Magazine (UK) 90 №10, p78/79 Sega Power (UK) 93 №59, p48/49 Sega Pro (UK) 92 №39, p78/79 Sonic the Comic (UK) 91 №41, p11 Supersonic (FR) 84 Video Games (DE) 84 VideoGames (US) 90

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Based on 21 reviews

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart Manual

Mega Drive, US (cardboard)
Cover
Cart Manual

Mega Drive, EU
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, EU (Rev H)
PCB

Mega Drive, EU (Rev J)
PCB

Mega Drive, PT
Cover

Mega Drive, SE/IT/NL
Cover

Mega Drive, SE (Rental)
Cover

Mega Drive, FI
Cover
Cart Manual

Mega Drive, AU (PAL)
Cover

Mega Drive, AU (NTSC)
Cover

Mega Drive, GCC
Cover
Manual

Game Gear version

Game Gear, US
Cover
Cart

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	2MB	1994-07	Cartridge (US/EU)
?	CRC32 185e9fc1 MD5 e6bc90f958617e9bde26367b5348518c SHA-1 2d33d049a7f3dcde8c4f294cca5597ca590bb407	512kB		Cartridge (US/EU)