Captain America and the Avengers

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Captain America and the Avengers

System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Sega Game Gear

Publisher:

Data East,

Mindscape

Developer:

ISCO, Opera House,

Realtime Associates

Developer(s) of original games: Data East

Genre: Action

Number of players: 1-2

Release	Date	Code
US	1992-12^[3]	T-13056
EU	1993-04^[1]	1031-50
EU (Classic)	199x	1031-50
AU	199x
BR	199x	044560
US	1992	T-87028

VRC

Captain America and the Avengers is a beat-'em-up developed by Data East. Ports were made to the Sega Mega Drive and Sega Game Gear, as well as the competing Super NES.

Despite being developed by a Japanese team, it never saw a release in Japan. The music was arranged by Hitoshi Sakimoto, who is well regarded among Sega Mega Drive composers. Interestingly, the PAL version appears to have been optimized in both music speed and gameplay.

Gameplay

The game employs a 2 button setup, which defaults to for jumping and for attacking, although the controls can be redefined. By holding down the attack button, it's possible to guard attacks. Pushing jump and attack simultaneously fires a projectile attack. By attacking late or early during a jump either a dive attack or an aerial shot can be performed. Stages are littered with rocks, tires, scrap etc. These can be picked up and thrown, as well as downed opponents. Two stages feature auto scrolling sections that play like a shooting game.

Playable characters

Vision
Iron Man
Captain America
Hawkeye

Vision and Iron Man have an aerial downward aimed projectile, while the other two characters propel themselves downwards.

Trivia

For unknown reasons the game uses an unoptimized color palette, with lots of details getting lost due to neighboring colors having a too similar shade.

Versions

The SNES version has more detailed graphics, but has control issues and lacks voice data. It was not ported by Data East but instead by Mindscape. The Sega Mega Drive version is also closer to the arcade version's stage layout.

Production credits

Mega Drive version

Producer: Mentaiko
Planner: E.Nishiyama, H.Iwano
Graphics: T.Ishiro, T.Sawajiri, Yorokin, H.Sasaki
Software: S.Miki, H.Fujiwara, Y.Mizutani
Sound: S.Shougo, Tom.Satoh, Ymoh.S
Marketing: K.Nakamura, S.Miller
P.R.: S.Takeuchi, D.Saitoh
Arcade Staff: H.Itoh, K.Miyazawa, H.Ohnuki, T.Haga, M.Tokoro
Special Thanks: M.Nakamura, K.Yokoyama, H.Yamaguchi
Director: E.Nishiyama, T.Ishiro
© 1992 Data East Corporation

Game Gear version

Programming: Steve Ettinger
Backgrounds: Phil Knowles
Animations: Lance Hutto
Assistant Programmer: Cheryl Harada
Map Layouts: Alan Hickey
Music and Sounds: Eric Swanson
Producer for Realtime Associates: Dave Warhol
Producer for Software Toolworks: Steve Hutchins
Associate Producer for Realtime Associates: Ann Lediaev
Testing: Robert Arellano, Marty Lafleur, Wikian Tang, Rob Vance

Magazine articles

Main article: Captain America and the Avengers/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #41: "December 1992" (1992-xx-xx)
also published in:

Game Informer (US) #8: "January/February 1993" (199x-xx-xx)^[4]
Sega Visions (US) #11: "February/March 1993" (199x-xx-xx)^[5]

Physical scans

Mega Drive version

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)

30

^[16]

Cool Gamer (RU)

30

^[17]

Computer & Video Games (UK)

31

^[6]

Digitiser (UK)

PAL

40

^[18]

Electronic Games (1992-1995) (US)

NTSC-U

78

^[19]

Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 10 (RU)

80

^[20]

Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide (UK)

67

^[7]

Game Power (IT)

60

^[21]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

83

^[8]

GamesMaster (UK)

PAL

46

^[9]

Game Informer (US)

NTSC-U

80

^[22]

Joypad (FR)

72

^[10]

Joystick (FR)

NTSC-U

50

^[11]

Mega (UK)

NTSC-U

62

^[12]

Mega Force (FR)

64

^[23]

Mega Fun (DE)

NTSC-U

27

^[24]

MegaTech (UK)

NTSC-U

57

^[25]

Mean Machines Sega (UK)

NTSC-U

67

^[13]

Player One (FR)

25

^[26]

Play Time (DE)

28

^[27]

Power Up! (UK)

60

^[28]

Power Play (DE)

40

^[29]

Sega Power (UK)

NTSC-U

61

^[30]

Sega Pro (UK)

PAL

37

^[31]

Sega Pro (UK)

PAL

41

^[32]

Sega Zone (UK)

NTSC-U

52

^[33]

Sega Force (UK)

PAL

82

^[14]

Supersonic (FR)

78

^[34]

Tricks 16 bit (RU)

32

^[35]

VideoGames & Computer Entertainment (US)

NTSC-U

60

^[36]

Video Games (DE)

PAL

54

^[37]

	54
Based on 31 reviews

Captain America and the Avengers

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart Manual

Mega Drive, EU
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, EU (Classic Mega Drive)
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, BR
Cover
Cart Manual

Mega Drive, KR

Game Gear version

Game Gear, US
Cover
Cart Manual

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

✔

CRC32	e0639ca2
MD5	1dc96693afd74e7b0623a6e06fbdcf87
SHA-1	ae71b5744de7ca6aa00d72ccd7713146d87ca002

1MB

1992-12

Cartridge (US)

✔

CRC32	43225612
MD5	60f06161f62e0c11d2de317ceed3c24e
SHA-1	66ec647175251d8c109c6c21440d415e13e14001

1MB

1992-12

Cartridge (EU)

?

CRC32	baac59c0
MD5	39b52537d5e9ee1420b299930168af52
SHA-1	af8271c0c99637413006bdd8c66a7b5412e0ebd7

1MB

1992-12

Page

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 File:CVG UK 137.pdf, page 80
↑ File:SegaForce UK 14.pdf, page 74
↑ File:GamePro US 038.pdf, page 29
↑ Game Informer, "January/February 1993" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 19
↑ Sega Visions, "February/March 1993" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 103
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 File:CVG UK 138.pdf, page 72 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:CVG UK 138.pdf_p72" defined multiple times with different content
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, Virgin Books, page 29 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MeanMachinesEssentialSegaGuide Book UK.pdf_p29" defined multiple times with different content
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 File:GamePro US 043.pdf, page 42 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:GamePro US 043.pdf_p42" defined multiple times with different content
↑ ^9.0 ^9.1 File:GamesMaster UK 004.pdf, page 81 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:GamesMaster UK 004.pdf_p81" defined multiple times with different content
↑ ^10.0 ^10.1 File:Joypad FR 016.pdf, page 68 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:Joypad FR 016.pdf_p68" defined multiple times with different content
↑ ^11.0 ^11.1 File:Joystick FR 034.pdf, page 238 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:Joystick FR 034.pdf_p238" defined multiple times with different content
↑ ^12.0 ^12.1 File:Mega UK 02.pdf, page 46 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:Mega UK 02.pdf_p46" defined multiple times with different content
↑ ^13.0 ^13.1 File:MeanMachinesSega05UK.pdf, page 52 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MeanMachinesSega05UK.pdf_p52" defined multiple times with different content
↑ ^14.0 ^14.1 File:SegaForce UK 14.pdf, page 72 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:SegaForce UK 14.pdf_p72" defined multiple times with different content
↑ File:Supersonic FR 12.pdf, page 28
↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 42
↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 47
↑ Digitiser (UK) (1993-02-08)
↑ Electronic Games (1992-1995), "January 1993" (US; 1992-12-10), page 76
↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 10, "" (RU; 2003-10-08), page 36
↑ Game Power, "Ottobre 1992" (IT; 1992-xx-xx), page 36
↑ Game Informer, "November/December 1992" (US; 1992-1x-xx), page 6
↑ Mega Force, "Juin 1993" (FR; 1993-0x-xx), page 112
↑ Mega Fun, "11/92" (DE; 1992-10-xx), page 42
↑ MegaTech, "February 1993" (UK; 1993-01-20), page 38
↑ Player One, "Juillet/Août 1993" (FR; 1993-07-10), page 92
↑ Play Time, "5/93" (DE; 1993-04-07), page 104
↑ Power Up!, "Saturday, July 03, 1993" (UK; 1993-07-03), page 1
↑ Power Play, "2/93" (DE; 1993-01-xx), page 142
↑ Sega Power, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-04), page 44
↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 64
↑ Sega Pro, "May 1993" (UK; 1993-04-08), page 63
↑ Sega Zone, "February 1993" (UK; 1993-01-20), page 56
↑ Supersonic, "Juillet/Août 1993" (FR; 1993-xx-xx), page 32
↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 38
↑ VideoGames & Computer Entertainment, "January 1993" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 86
↑ Video Games, "2/93" (DE; 1993-01-27), page 97

[:File:CVG_UK_137.pdf_p80-1] 1.0 ^1.1 File:CVG UK 137.pdf, page 80

[:File:SegaForce_UK_14.pdf_p74-2] File:SegaForce UK 14.pdf, page 74

[:File:GamePro_US_038.pdf_p29-3] File:GamePro US 038.pdf, page 29

[:File:GameInformer_US_008.pdf_p19-4] Game Informer, "January/February 1993" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 19

[:File:SegaVisions_US_11.pdf_p103-5] Sega Visions, "February/March 1993" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 103

[:File:CVG_UK_138.pdf_p72-6] 6.0 ^6.1 File:CVG UK 138.pdf, page 72 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:CVG UK 138.pdf_p72" defined multiple times with different content

[:File:MeanMachinesEssentialSegaGuide_Book_UK.pdf_p29-7] 7.0 ^7.1 Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, Virgin Books, page 29 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MeanMachinesEssentialSegaGuide Book UK.pdf_p29" defined multiple times with different content

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[:File:GamesMaster_UK_004.pdf_p81-9] 9.0 ^9.1 File:GamesMaster UK 004.pdf, page 81 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:GamesMaster UK 004.pdf_p81" defined multiple times with different content

[:File:Joypad_FR_016.pdf_p68-10] 10.0 ^10.1 File:Joypad FR 016.pdf, page 68 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:Joypad FR 016.pdf_p68" defined multiple times with different content

[:File:Joystick_FR_034.pdf_p238-11] 11.0 ^11.1 File:Joystick FR 034.pdf, page 238 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:Joystick FR 034.pdf_p238" defined multiple times with different content

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[:File:Supersonic_FR_12.pdf_p28-15] File:Supersonic FR 12.pdf, page 28

[16] 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 42

[17] Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 47

[digitiser1993-02-08-18] Digitiser (UK) (1993-02-08)

[:File:ElectronicGames2_US_04.pdf_p76-19] Electronic Games (1992-1995), "January 1993" (US; 1992-12-10), page 76

[20] Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 10, "" (RU; 2003-10-08), page 36

[:File:GamePower_IT_10.pdf_p36-21] Game Power, "Ottobre 1992" (IT; 1992-xx-xx), page 36

[:File:GameInformer_US_007.pdf_p6-22] Game Informer, "November/December 1992" (US; 1992-1x-xx), page 6

[:File:MegaForce_FR_18.pdf_p112-23] Mega Force, "Juin 1993" (FR; 1993-0x-xx), page 112

[:File:MegaFun_DE_1992-11.pdf_p42-24] Mega Fun, "11/92" (DE; 1992-10-xx), page 42

[:File:MegaTech_UK_14.pdf_p38-25] MegaTech, "February 1993" (UK; 1993-01-20), page 38

[:File:PlayerOne_FR_033.pdf_p92-26] Player One, "Juillet/Août 1993" (FR; 1993-07-10), page 92

[:File:PlayTime_DE_1993-05.pdf_p104-27] Play Time, "5/93" (DE; 1993-04-07), page 104

[28] Power Up!, "Saturday, July 03, 1993" (UK; 1993-07-03), page 1

[:File:PowerPlay_DE_1993-02.pdf_p142-29] Power Play, "2/93" (DE; 1993-01-xx), page 142

[:File:SegaPower_UK_41.pdf_p44-30] Sega Power, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-04), page 44

[:File:SegaPro_UK_18.pdf_p64-31] Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 64

[:File:SegaPro_UK_19.pdf_p63-32] Sega Pro, "May 1993" (UK; 1993-04-08), page 63

[:File:SegaZone_UK_04.pdf_p56-33] Sega Zone, "February 1993" (UK; 1993-01-20), page 56

[:File:Supersonic_FR_12.pdf_p32-34] Supersonic, "Juillet/Août 1993" (FR; 1993-xx-xx), page 32

[35] Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 38

[:File:VG.26amp.3BCE_US_48.pdf_p86-36] VideoGames & Computer Entertainment, "January 1993" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 86

[:File:VideoGames_DE_1993-02.pdf_p97-37] Video Games, "2/93" (DE; 1993-01-27), page 97

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Captain America and the Avengers

From Sega Retro

Contents

Gameplay

Playable characters

Trivia

Versions

Production credits

Mega Drive version

Game Gear version

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Physical scans

Mega Drive version

Game Gear version

Technical information

ROM dump status

References