Urban Strike

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Mega Drive
Game Gear

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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^[1]

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
US	1994-09^[2]		735001
EU	1994-08-30^[3]		E291SMXI
PT	1995		MDJ291
UK	1994-08-30^[3]	£44.9944.99^[4]^[5]	E291SMXI
FI	199x
SE (Rental)	199x
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) #0710: "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (1994-xx-xx)^[6]

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)

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	^[7]
Game Players (US)	83	^[8]
GamePro (US)	88	^[9]
GamesMaster (UK)	92	^[10]
Games World: The Magazine (UK)	90	№5, p15
High Score (JP)	80
Mean Machines Sega (UK)	89	^[11]
Mega (UK)	88	№26, p48/49
Mega Force (FR)	90	^[12]
Mega Fun (DE)	85	^[13]
Player One (FR)	92	^[14]
Play Time (DE)	85	^[15]
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	^[16]
Video Games (DE)	84	^[17]
VideoGames (US)	90	^[18]

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Based on 21 reviews

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart Manual

Mega Drive, US (cardboard)
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination 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

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CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

2MB

1994-07

Cartridge (US/EU)

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CRC32	185e9fc1
MD5	e6bc90f958617e9bde26367b5348518c
SHA-1	2d33d049a7f3dcde8c4f294cca5597ca590bb407

512kB

Cartridge (US/EU)

References

Urban Strike

Strike games for Sega systems
Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf (1992) \| Jungle Strike (1993) \| Urban Strike (1994) \| Soviet Strike (1997)

[:File:UrbanStrike_MD_SE_Box_Rental.jpg_p-1] File:UrbanStrike MD SE Box Rental.jpg

[:File:GamePlayers_US_0710.pdf_p10-2] Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 10

[:File:MeanMachinesSega24UK.pdf_p55-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Mean Machines Sega, "October 1994" (UK; 1994-08-xx), page 55

[:File:CVG_UK_157.pdf_p57-4] Computer & Video Games, "December 1994" (UK; 1994-11-15), page 57

[:File:Mega_UK_26.pdf_p48-5] Mega, "November 1994" (UK; 1994-10-27), page 48

[:File:GamePlayers_US_0710.pdf_p42-6] Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 42

[:File:CVG_UK_156.pdf_p87-7] Computer & Video Games, "November 1994" (UK; 1994-10-15), page 87

[:File:GamePlayers_US_0710.pdf_p110_.28108.2F109.29-8] Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 108/109 (110)

[:File:GamePro_US_064.pdf_p92_.2882.29-9] GamePro, "November 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 82 (92)

[:File:GamesMaster_UK_022.pdf_p46_.2846.2F47.29-10] GamesMaster, "October 1994" (UK; 1994-09-22), page 46/47 (46)

[:File:MeanMachinesSega25UK.pdf_p82_.2882-84.29-11] Mean Machines Sega, "November 1994" (UK; 1994-09-30), page 82-84 (82)

[:File:MegaForce_FR_32.pdf_p86_.2886-91.29-12] Mega Force, "Octobre 1994" (FR; 1994-xx-xx), page 86-91 (86)

[:File:MegaFun_DE_1994-09.pdf_p100_.28100.2F101.29-13] Mega Fun, "09/94" (DE; 1994-08-24), page 100/101 (100)

[:File:PlayerOne_FR_046.pdf_p88_.2888-91.29-14] Player One, "Octobre 1994" (FR; 1994-xx-xx), page 88-91 (88)

[:File:PlayTime_DE_1994-10.pdf_p104.2F105-15] Play Time, "10/94" (DE; 1994-09-07), page 104/105

[:File:Supersonic_FR_25.pdf_p70_.2870-72.29-16] Supersonic, "Octobre 1994" (FR; 1994-xx-xx), page 70-72 (70)

[:File:VideoGames_DE_1994-10.pdf_p94.2F95-17] Video Games, "10/94" (DE; 1994-09-28), page 94/95

[:File:VideoGames_US_70.pdf_p78-18] VideoGames, "November 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 78

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Urban Strike

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Contents

Story

Gameplay

Production credits

Mega Drive version

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Physical scans

Mega Drive version

Game Gear version

Technical information

ROM dump status

References