Cliffhanger
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Cliffhanger | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Sega Mega-CD | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: Sony Imagesoft | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: Malibu Interactive | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sound driver: GEMS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Action | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cliffhanger is a Sega Mega Drive and Sega Mega-CD beat-'em-up game released in 1993. It was developed by Malibu Interactive and published by Sony Imagesoft as a tie-in to the 1993 Sylvester Stallone film Cliffhanger. A version for the Sega Game Gear was also released, but is a very different game.
You play as Gabe Walker, who must fight a group of terrorists trying to stop you from saving your partner Hal, who they kidnapped after the two of you went to answer a distress call from a crashed plane.
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Gameplay
16-bit versions of the game are all the beat-em-ups along the same lines as Streets of Rage. On Sega platforms, either punches, picks up a weapon, or uses it, kicks, and jumps, with combination moves possible. This version of the game was developed using the source code from the game Ex-Mutants (also developed by Malibu Interactive). The Mega-CD version also has a 3D avalanche-escape level and low-quality FMVs of various scenes from the motion picture.
Magazine articles
- Main article: Cliffhanger/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
also published in:
- Electronic Games (1992-1995) (US) #16: "January 1994" (1993-12-21)A database query error has occurred. Did you forget to run your application's database schema updater after upgrading?[4]
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Physical scans
Mega Drive version
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Mega-CD version
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Technical information
ROM dump status
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1MB | 1993-08 | Cartridge (US) | ||||||||||
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1MB | 1994-01 | Page |
References
- ↑ File:Mega UK 20.pdf, page 44
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 File:GamePro US 053.pdf, page 85
- ↑ File:GamePro US 052.pdf, page 213
- ↑ ', "Vol. 6 No. 12 December 1993" (; 1993-1x-xx), page 85
- ↑ ', "Vol. 6 No. 12 December 1993" (; 1993-1x-xx), page 221
- ↑ File:ConsolesPlus FR 031.pdf, page 126
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 48
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 126
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 52
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 301
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 85
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 69
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 41
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 44
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 58
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 10
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 54
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 100
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 44
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 58
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 124
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 48
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 44
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 78
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 49
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 38
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