Timecop

Timecop
System(s): Sega Mega-CD
Publisher: JVC
Developer: Cryo
Planned release date(s): 1995
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
Status of prototype(s): Full game leaked by developer

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Timecop is an action game loosely based on the film of the same name. It was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in early 1995.

An enhanced port for the Sega Mega-CD was also in development at one point and was reportedly completed, but cancelled at the last minute due to its publisher, JVC, deciding to pull support for the system. Infamously Timecop was even released to the public, albeit in demo form, alongside issue #45 of Sega Pro CD - it was originally planned for issue #40, but a reluctant JVC meant that a Mickey Mania demo disc was bundled with the magazine instead.

The Mega-CD Timecop is much the same as its Super Nintendo cousin, however features a CD audio soundtrack and added cutscenes. Though it can be presumed a PAL release was planned (for mid-1995), it is unknown whether Timecop would have been released for the Mega-CD in other regions.

The full game was released onto the internet in 2007 by its programmer, Jean Charles Meyrignac (?).

Magazine articles

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  Preview in Mean Machines Sega #26 (1994-12)

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  Preview in Sega Megazone #49 (1995-03)

Production Credits

French Team:

Executive Producer: Emmanuel Forsans

Assistant Producer: Anne Devouassoux

Main Programmer: Jean Charles Meyrignac

Art Director and Introduction Programmer: Bruno Galet

Main Graphist: Yann Uhari

Additional Graphists: Sebastien Marlin, Yannick Bachelart, Elisabeth Siry, Laurent Leoru, Stephane Chatelier

Introduction Graphist: Yannick Bachelart

Cinematic Sequences: Gilles Moreau, Thierry Roger, Hubert Szymzak

Musics and Sounds: David de Gruttola

Models and Storyboard: Pascal Pinteau

Original SNES Team:

Main Programmer: Fabien Fessard

Additional Programmer: Jean Charles Meyrignac, Pierre Eric Loriaux

Main Graphic Artist: Michel Rho

Graphic Artists: Oliver Venet, Hubert Szymzak, Thierry Roger

Music and Sounds: David de Gruttola from Totem Factory

Photograph: Patrice Forsans

Staff in Japan: Takeshi Minigawa, Kenji Ono, Yoshinobu Funaoka
Many Thanks To: Makoto Orii, Masayoshi Zaitsu, Gavin White, Toshiyuki Nagai, Gaku Sato, All the JVC staff, All the Cryo staff

Promotional Material

• Timecop MCD US PrintAdvert.jpg

  US print advert