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Double Hawk

Publisher: Sega

Genre: Shooting^[1]

Number of players: 1-2

Release	Date	RRP	Code
EU	1990		7036
PT	199x
UK	1990	£29.9929.99^[2]^[3]	7036
AU	199x
AU (Hero Pack)	199x		FHER03SEC

Double Hawk is a third-person shooting game for the Sega Master System.

Story

In the early 1990s, a group of international terrorists is terrorizing innocent people worldwide. Two seasoned commandos, John Jackson and Jack Thomas, go into battle to eradicate the threat.

Gameplay

Double Hawk is a rail shooter game that plays similarly to the arcade game Cabal. The game is shown from a third-person perspective, with the commandos appearing on the bottom of the screen while enemies run across the top of the screen like a shooting gallery. The commandos are armed with machine guns, and players must guide their crosshairs to eliminate waves of enemies. Enemies include foot soldiers, armored vehicles, and helicopters using multiple guns and ordnance weapons. Each mission is divided into several parts, and each part ends when the timer, shown as a bar in the top center of the screen, is completely emptied. The game supports two-player cooperative play, with player one controlling John (who resembles John Rambo) and player two controlling Jack.

Each commando can move along the bottom of the screen with and , which also moves the crosshair relative to the commando. The crosshair can be moved independently of the commando by moving the D-Pad while holding . Commandos can collect hand bombs (grenades), which are aimed using the same crosshairs and thrown with . Bombs do more damage, and they especially effective against vehicles.

The player loses a life when the commando is shot by an enemy. In two-player games, if a commando is shot when the player has no extra lives left, the player uses the other player's lives. The game ends if both players run out of lives.

Items

Items are sometimes dropped by enemies and can be collected by moving over them.

	B
	Gives the commando 10 hand bombs (grenades) that can be lobbed at enemies with . Each player can carry up to 99 bombs.
	F
	Increases the speed of the commando's movement and the targeting reticle for the rest of the mission.
	R
	Temporarily equips the commando with a rapid-firing machine gun, which shoots faster.
	S
	Temporarily equips the commando with a shotgun, which has a wider targeting reticle and area of effect.

Missions

	From the Jungle to the Prairie

	Battling in the Wasteland

	At the Edge of the Village

	Desperate Struggle at the Seashore

	Final Showdown at the Mountain

Production credits

Names with a * are Opera House staff.

Planning: Nannorio
Design: Mikisama*
Program: Fujichan*, Mikisama*
Assistant: Kantaro
Sound: Mikisama*, Chacha, Fujioh
Directer: Noborunrun
Presented by: Sega

Source:

In-game credits^[4]

Magazine articles

Main article: Double Hawk/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Guida Video Giochi (IT) #13: "Luglio/Agosto 1990" (1990-xx-xx)

Print advert in Guida Video Giochi (IT) #15: "Ottobre 1990" (1990-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Console XS (UK)

PAL

70

^[5]

Micromanía (segunda época) (ES)

70

^[6]

Sega Power (UK)

PAL

49

^[3]

Sega Power (UK)

PAL

0

^[7]

Sega Pro (UK)

80

^[8]

Sega Pro (UK)

PAL

70

^[9]

	57
Based on 6 reviews

Double Hawk

Master System, EU
Cover
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Master System, EU (Sega®)
Cover

Master System, PT

Master System, AU
Cover
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Master System, AU (Distributed by Ozisoft sticker)
Cover
Cart

Master System, AU (Hero Pack)
Cover
Cart

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

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CRC32	8370f6cd
MD5	3e6e6cb8729965fdfdbb422f066ad706
SHA-1	d2428baf22da8a70a08ff35389d59030ce764372

256kB

Cartridge (EU)

References

Double Hawk
	Main page \| Hidden content \| Magazine articles \| Reception No results

[:File:DoubleHawk_SMS_EU_Box_NoR.jpg_p-1] File:DoubleHawk SMS EU Box NoR.jpg

[:File:Raze_UK_11.pdf_p76-2] Raze, "September 1991" (UK; 1991-07-25), page 76

[:File:SegaPower_UK_15.pdf_p12-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Sega Power, "February 1991" (UK; 1991-01-03), page 12

[:File:Double_Hawk_SMS_credits.pdf_p-4] File:Double Hawk SMS credits.pdf

[:File:Console_XS_UK_01.pdf_p139-5] Console XS, "June/July 1992" (UK; 1992-04-23), page 139

[:File:Micromania2_ES_030.pdf_p58-6] Micromanía (segunda época), "Noviembre 1990" (ES; 1990-1x-xx), page 58

[:File:SegaPower_UK_23.pdf_p56-7] Sega Power, "October 1991" (UK; 1991-09-05), page 56

[:File:SegaPro_UK_02.pdf_p47-8] Sega Pro, "December 1991" (UK; 1991-11-21), page 47

[:File:SegaPro_UK_18.pdf_p70-9] Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 70

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 ''Double Hawk'' is a rail shooter game that plays similarly to the arcade game ''Cabal''. The game is shown from a third-person perspective, with the commandos appearing on the bottom of the screen while enemies run across the top of the screen like a shooting gallery. The commandos are armed with machine guns, and players must guide their crosshairs to eliminate waves of enemies. Enemies include foot soldiers, armored vehicles, and helicopters using multiple guns and ordnance weapons. Each mission is divided into several parts, and each part ends when the timer, shown as a bar in the top center of the screen, is completely emptied. The game supports two-player cooperative play, with player one controlling John (who resembles John Rambo) and player two controlling Jack.
-The commando can move along the bottom of the screen with {{left}} and {{right}}, which also moves the crosshair relative to the commando. The crosshair can be moved independently of the commando by moving the D-Pad while holding {{1}}. Commandos can collect hand bombs (grenades), which are aimed using the same crosshairs and thrown with {{2}}. Bombs do more damage, and they especially effective against vehicles.
+Each commando can move along the bottom of the screen with {{left}} and {{right}}, which also moves the crosshair relative to the commando. The crosshair can be moved independently of the commando by moving the D-Pad while holding {{1}}. Commandos can collect hand bombs (grenades), which are aimed using the same crosshairs and thrown with {{2}}. Bombs do more damage, and they especially effective against vehicles.
 The player loses a life when the commando is shot by an enemy. In two-player games, if a commando is shot when the player has no extra lives left, the player uses the other player's lives. The game ends if both players run out of lives.