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X-Women: The Sinister Virus

System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Sega of America
Developer: Clockwork Tortoise
Licensor: Marvel Entertainment Group
Planned release date(s): 1996-10^[1], 1996-11^[2]^[3], 1996-12^[4], 1997-01^[5]^[6], 1997-03-31^[7]
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1

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X-Women: The Sinister Virus is an unreleased Sega Mega Drive game featuring the female characters of Marvel's X-Men comic book series. It was due to be released as part of the last batch of first-party Mega Drive games in North America, with a release date planned for late 1996. It would have acted as a spiritual sequel to X-Men 2: Clone Wars.

X-Women would have allowed players to control three female characters from the X-Men cast; Storm, Rogue and Phoenix, out to stop Mr. Sinister after a mutated Legacy Virus rendered all male mutants unconscious. It was a side-scrolling action game supposedly being developed by Clockwork Tortoise, and was previewed in an early state at E3 1996, with the aim of being released later in the year. The game would have taken place in a variety of locales including Egypt, South America and the moon.

The reason for its cancellation are not fully understood; Sega of America was set to promote the game alongside the Sega Game Gear release of X-Men: Mojo World^[8], expecting to ship a 16 megabit cart priced at $49.99^[9]. There was also set to be a tie-in comic book^[8] which does not appear to have been published. Bill Onderdonk was named as a marketing manager for the game^[10].

Developer Clockwork Tortoise disbanded in late 1996/early 1997, around the period X-Women was considered to be scrapped. No prototypes of the game have ever been found.

Magazine articles

Main article: X-Women: The Sinister Virus/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Main article: X-Women: The Sinister Virus/Promotional material.

External links

Gameplay footage at YouTube

References

X-Women: The Sinister Virus
	Main page \| Magazine articles \| Promotional material No results

X-Men games for Sega systems
	Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge (1993) \| X-Men (1993) \| Wolverine: Adamantium Rage (1994) \| X-Men 2: Clone Wars (1995) \| X-Women: The Sinister Virus (unreleased)
	Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge (1994) \| X-Men (1994) \| X-Men: GamesMaster's Legacy (1994) \| X-Men: Mojo World (1996)
	X-Men: Children of the Atom (1995) \| X-Men vs. Street Fighter (1997)
	X-Men: Mojo World (1996)
	X-Men: Mind Games (Unreleased)
X-Men related media
	Sega Tunes: X-Men 2: Clone Wars (1996)
Unlicensed X-Men games for Sega systems
	X-Men vs. Street Fighter (Mega Drive) (1998)

[:File:SegaFY1997BrandReview_US.pdf_p77-1] Sega FY 1997 Brand Review, page 77

[:File:GamePro_US_096.pdf_p76-2] GamePro, "September 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 76

[:File:SegaFY1997BrandReview_US.pdf_p103-3] Sega FY 1997 Brand Review, page 103

[:File:UltraGamePlayers_US_089.pdf_p75-4] Ultra Game Players, "October 1996" (US; 1996-09-03), page 75

[:File:UltraGamePlayers_US_091.pdf_p81-5] Ultra Game Players, "December 1996" (US; 1996-11-05), page 81

[:File:GamePro_US_098.pdf_p64-6] GamePro, "November 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 64

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[:File:SegaFY1997BrandReview_US.pdf_p63-8] 8.0 ^8.1 Sega FY 1997 Brand Review, page 63

[:File:SegaFY1997BrandReview_US.pdf_p3-9] Sega FY 1997 Brand Review, page 3

[:File:SegaFY1997BrandReview_US.pdf_p246-10] Sega FY 1997 Brand Review, page 246

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 {{sub-stub}}'''''X-Women: The Sinister Virus''''' is an unreleased [[Sega Mega Drive]] game featuring the female characters of Marvel's ''[[wikipedia:X-Men|X-Men]]'' comic book series. It was due to be released as part of the last batch of first-party Mega Drive games in North America, with a release date planned for late 1996. It would have acted as a spiritual sequel to ''[[X-Men 2: Clone Wars]]''.
-''X-Women'' would have allowed players to control popular female characters from the ''X-Men'' cast, including Storm and Rogue. It was a side-scrolling action game supposedly being developed by [[Clockwork Tortoise]], and was previewed in an early state at [[E3 1996]], with the aim of being released later in the year. ''X-Women'' was later mentioned in EGM #89 (December 1996), presumably having missed its original deadline.
+''X-Women'' would have allowed players to control three female characters from the ''X-Men'' cast; Storm, Rogue and Phoenix, out to stop Mr. Sinister after a mutated Legacy Virus rendered all male mutants unconscious. It was a side-scrolling action game supposedly being developed by [[Clockwork Tortoise]], and was previewed in an early state at [[E3 1996]], with the aim of being released later in the year. The game would have taken place in a variety of locales including Egypt, South America and the moon.
-The reason for its cancellation are not fully understood - Clockwork Tortoise disbanded in late 1996/early 1997, and focus at [[Sega]] was shifting away from the Mega Drive and onto the [[Sega Saturn]]. ''X-Women'' was considered to be scrapped by early 1997. No prototypes of ''X-Women'' have ever been found.
+The reason for its cancellation are not fully understood; [[Sega of America]] was set to promote the game alongside the [[Sega Game Gear]] release of ''[[X-Men: Mojo World]]''{{fileref|SegaFY1997BrandReview US.pdf|page=63}}, expecting to ship a 16 megabit cart priced at $49.99{{fileref|SegaFY1997BrandReview US.pdf|page=3}}. There was also set to be a tie-in comic book{{fileref|SegaFY1997BrandReview US.pdf|page=63}} which does not appear to have been published. [[Bill Onderdonk]] was named as a marketing manager for the game{{fileref|SegaFY1997BrandReview US.pdf|page=246}}.
+Developer Clockwork Tortoise disbanded in late 1996/early 1997, around the period ''X-Women'' was considered to be scrapped. No prototypes of the game have ever been found.
 ==Magazine articles==