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For the Sega Saturn game, see Congo the Movie: The Lost City of Zinj.

Congo: The Game

System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Viacom New Media
Developer: Visual Concepts
Status of prototype(s): Prototype dumped

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Congo: The Game, also known as Congo: Secret of Zinj, is an unreleased Sega Mega Drive and Super Nintendo Entertainment System game based on the 1995 film Congo. Both versions were developed simultaneously by Visual Concepts.

The game went through a rough development cycle. A proprietary engine was created in the first nine months of development, but due to a radical shift in the project's direction all work done for it was scrapped and the project was restarted, with only five months until the August 1995 deadline set by publisher Viacom New Media. Although the game was reportedly completed within the last five months of work, negative playtesting feedback from Viacom and the film being a critical failure led to the game's cancellation for both platforms.

Prototypes of both versions had surfaced onto the internet, with the Mega Drive version being in a less complete state than the SNES version.

Magazine articles

Main article: Congo: The Game/Magazine articles.

Technical information

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Congo: The Game

ROM dump status

System

Hash

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Build Date

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CRC32	13746716
MD5	be5b3fe839d98e574865c82a63a53026
SHA-1	976d7610eb80691f50466f5102ccd49cc3a2b9f7

991kB

1995-03

(211 kB) (info)

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External links

Development history at NESWORLD.COM

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 '''''{{PAGENAME}}''''', also known as '''''Congo: Secret of Zinj''''', is an unreleased [[Sega Mega Drive]] and [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]] game based on the 1995 film  ''[[wikipedia:Congo (film)|Congo]]''. Both versions were developed simultaneously by [[Visual Concepts]].
-The game went through a rough development cycle. A proprietary engine was created in the first nine months of development, but all work done for it was scrapped and the project was restarted with only five months until the August 1995 deadline set by publisher [[Viacom New Media]], due to a radical shift in the project's direction. Although the game was reportedly completed within the last five months of work, negative playtesting feedback from Viacom and the film being a critical failure led to the game's cancellation for both platforms.
+The game went through a rough development cycle. A proprietary engine was created in the first nine months of development, but due to a radical shift in the project's direction all work done for it was scrapped and the project was restarted, with only five months until the August 1995 deadline set by publisher [[Viacom New Media]]. Although the game was reportedly completed within the last five months of work, negative playtesting feedback from Viacom and the film being a critical failure led to the game's cancellation for both platforms.
 Prototypes of both versions had surfaced onto the internet, with the Mega Drive version being in a less complete state than the SNES version.
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