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Jim Power: The Arcade Game

System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Loriciel
Developer: Loriciel
Planned release date(s): 1993-11^[1], 1994-02^[2], 1994-04^[3], Spring 1994^[4]
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
Status of prototype(s): Prototype improperly dumped

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Jim Power: The Arcade Game is an unreleased Sega Mega Drive platform game developed by Loriciel.

Gameplay

Despite its name, there was not an arcade release of Jim Power - it is in fact a re-tooled version of the 1993 Super NES/IBM PC game, Jim Power: The Lost Dimension in 3D (which itself is an update to the earlier 1992 releaseJim Power In Mutant Planet for home computers).

The Arcade Game was planned to be essentially the same game as Lost Dimension in 3D, however the stages utilising the Super NES' "Mode 7" effects were replaced with simpler 2D shoot-'em-up stages. There have also been numerous tweaks to make the game easier, as Jim Power games are notoriously difficult.

The player controls Jim Power, where makes him shoot, makes him jump and can wipe out all enemies on screen, provided you have enough bombs. There are a number of weapon upgrades too.

The glaring omission from this Mega Drive port, and indeed most versions of the game, is the dropped support for anaglyph 3D glasses, allowing the Super NES version to obtain a pseudo-3D look (and hence gain the name "Lost Dimension in 3D"; a pair is even included in the SNES version's box). Advertising and media coverage suggests that the feature was planned to appear in the Mega Drive game in some form, but it is unknown whether any compatible builds were created.

History

Development

The game was cancelled due to Loriciel having financial troubles, however a prototype has since surfaced on the internet showing that Jim Power: The Arcade Game was very close to completion. There is only one music track in the game, which was intended for stage 3, however all the levels can be played and the game can be beaten.

In 2014, Piko Interactive acquired the rights and assets for the game^[5] with the intention of releasing the game in a physical cartridge. Due to the death of Jim Power creator in 2016, plans had to be halted until 2019, when Piko purchased the Jim Power intellectual property. A Kickstarter campaign was then set up in early 2020 to fund the production of different re-releases of the game, including the long lost Mega Drive version, which was finally released as Jim Power: The Lost Dimension in 3-D in 2021.

Magazine articles

Main article: Jim Power: The Arcade Game/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Game Players (US) #0612: "Vol. 6 No. 12 December 1993" (1993-1x-xx)
also published in:

GamePro (US) #54: "January 1994" (199x-xx-xx)^[6]

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

✘

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1	38adc1f792b06637e109d4b76fbfbf57623faf3b

1MB

1992-07

Has Street Smart header; apparently corrupt

(518 kB) (info)

Page

References

NEC Retro has more information related to Jim Power in "Mutant Planet"

[:File:VideoGames_US_58.pdf_p51-1] VideoGames, "November 1993" (US; 1993-1x-xx), page 51

[:File:Mega_UK_18.pdf_p89-2] Mega, "March 1994" (UK; 1994-02-17), page 89

[:File:Mega_UK_20.pdf_p81-3] Mega, "May 1994" (UK; 1994-04-21), page 81

[:File:SegaMagazin_DE_04.pdf_p11-4] Sega Magazin, "März 1994" (DE; 1994-02-16), page 11

[https:.2F.2Fpikointeractive.com.2Fblog.2Fjim-power-is-back-from-the-dead.2F-5] ttps://pikointeractive.com/blog/jim-power-is-back-from-the-dead/

[:File:GamePro_US_054.pdf_p267-6] GamePro, "January 1994" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 267

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 The game was cancelled due to Loriciel having financial troubles, however a prototype has since surfaced on the internet showing that ''Jim Power: The Arcade Game'' was very close to completion. There is only one music track in the game, which was intended for stage 3, however all the levels can be played and the game can be beaten.
-In 2014, [[Piko Interactive]] acquired the rights and assets for the game{{Ref|https://pikointeractive.com/blog/jim-power-is-back-from-the-dead/}} with the intention of releasing the game in a physical cartridge. Due to the death of Jim Power creator in 2016, plans had to be halted until 2019, when Piko purchased the Jim Power intellectual property. A [[Kickstarter]] was then set up in early 2020 to fund the production of different re-releases of the game, including the long lost Mega Drive version, which was finally released as ''[[Jim Power: The Lost Dimension in 3-D]]'' in 2021.
+In 2014, [[Piko Interactive]] acquired the rights and assets for the game{{Ref|https://pikointeractive.com/blog/jim-power-is-back-from-the-dead/}} with the intention of releasing the game in a physical cartridge. Due to the death of Jim Power creator in 2016, plans had to be halted until 2019, when Piko purchased the Jim Power intellectual property. A Kickstarter campaign was then set up in early 2020 to fund the production of different re-releases of the game, including the long lost Mega Drive version, which was finally released as ''[[Jim Power: The Lost Dimension in 3-D]]'' in 2021.
 ==Magazine articles==