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| Joe & Mac | |||||
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| System(s): Sega Mega Drive | |||||
| Publisher: Takara | |||||
Developer: Data East  | |||||
| Sound driver: Krysalis/Shaun Hollingworth | |||||
| Genre: Action | |||||
| Number of players: 1-2 | |||||
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Joe & Mac, known as Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja in Europe and Joe & Mac: Caveman Fight (ジョーとマック 戦え原始人) in Japan, is a 1991 platforming action game by Data East, initially released for a DE-manufactured arcade board, but later ported to home consoles such as the Sega Mega Drive (ported by Takara).
You control Joe, a green-haired caveman, as he tries to rescue his and his blue-haired friend Mac's girlfriends, who have been kidnapped by enemy cavemen one night. Joe shoots a weapon by hitting 
; he can change the particular weapon by grabbing a new one when it appears (hammers and wheels, for example). 
and 
both jump, however has Joe jump higher and curled into a ball; is a shorter jump that can be used to crush enemies. There is also a 2 player mode that let the second player control Mac; while most ports use a menu at the title screen to select the mode, Takara requires you to hit START with the second controller at the title screen to play in 2P mode.
Production Credits
Written by: Tim Round
Additional Code: Jason Stoat, Stuart Middleton
Graphics by: Tim Round, Terry Baker, Stuart Middleton, Rob Thursfield, Lee Beckett, Rob Dorney
Audio by: Krisalis Software Ltd
Music by: Matt Furniss
Music Driver by: Shaun Hollingworth
Testing by: Phil Bradley, Lee Mather, David Fowler
Special Thanks: Kinya Tago, Phil Bradley, Mike Brown, David Fowler, John Davies, David Powell
Promotional material
- JoeandMac MD US PrintAdvert.jpg
US print advert
Physical scans
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- ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 107
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "January 1994" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 48
- ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 9, "" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 145
- ↑ GameFan, "Volume 2, Issue 1: December 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 27
- ↑ GamePro, "March 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 56
- ↑ MAN!AC, "06/94" (DE; 1994-05-11), page 63
- ↑ Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "July 1994" (UK; 1994-0x-xx), page 22
- ↑ Mega, "February 1994" (UK; 1994-01-20), page 34
- ↑ MegaTech, "June 1994" (UK; 1994-05-19), page 22
- ↑ Sega Zone, "May 1994" (UK; 1994-04-xx), page 64
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 94
- ↑ Video Games, "6/94" (DE; 1994-05-25), page 92
- ↑ VideoGames, "March 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 79