Fire & Ice

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Fire & Ice
System(s): Sega Master System
Publisher: Tectoy (Brazil) Virgin Games (Europe)
Developer:
Genre: Action

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Master System
BR
027360

Fire & Ice is a platform game initially released on the Commodore Amiga, but brought to the Sega Master System in 1995.

The game follows "Cool Coyote", who must travel across several levels constructing ice keys (whose pieces are found by defeating enemies). Once an ice key is completed, a door will open allowing him to progress. Enemies are defeated by freezing them with snowballs and then walking into them.

The Master System version of the game was released exclusively in Brazil, but was based on a version due for release by Virgin Games in Europe in 1994. The European version of the game was cancelled, presumably due to slowing Master System sales, but the console was still very popular in Brazil at the time and so Tectoy, Sega's Brazilian distributors, published it there.

There are a few key changes from the original Amiga version to accommodate for the weaker hardware. Levels are shorter and are less detailed, there are fewer enemies on screen and Cool Coyote has been given green overalls, possibly to make him appear less like Sonic the Hedgehog.

Plans for a Sega Mega Drive version were also put in place, but were scrapped. A Sega Game Gear version was reviewed in the March 1994 issue of Sega Pro, but never released. Both European Master System and Game Gear versions were scheduled for release in February 1994[1].

Production credits

Game Design by: Andrew Braybrook
Converted by: Darran Eteo, Steve Turner
Graphics by: John W Lilley

Physical scans

Master System version

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
82 №50, p90/91
80 №24, p136/137
Sega Master System
81
Based on
2 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
Sega Power (UK) PAL
82
[2]
Super Juegos (ES)
80
[3]
Sega Master System
81
Based on
2 reviews

Fire & Ice

Master System, BR
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Cover
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Cart

Cancelled versions

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Fire & Ice
System(s): Sega Game Gear, Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Virgin Games
Developer: Graftgold Creative Software
Planned release date(s): 1994

Game Gear version

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
82 №50, p90/91
66 №29, p53[4]
77 №15, p78
Sega Game Gear
75
Based on
3 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
Computer & Video Games (UK)
68
[5]
Games World: The Magazine (UK) PAL
78
[6]
Sega Power (UK) PAL
82
[2]
Sega Pro (UK) PAL
66
[4]
Sega Zone (UK) PAL
77
[7]
Sega Game Gear
74
Based on
5 reviews

Fire & Ice


References