Fatal Rewind

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Fatal Rewind

Publisher: Electronic Arts (US/EU), Electronic Arts Victor (JP)

Developer: Psygnosis, Raising Hell Productions

Genre: Action

Number of players: 1-2

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	1993-08-20	¥8,9008,900	EM20021
US	1991-10^[3]	$49.9549.95^[4]	709201
EU	1991-11^[1]		E183SMXI
BR	199x

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Fatal Rewind, known as The Killing Game Show (キリング・ゲームショー) in Japan (and on other systems) is a platform shoot-'em-up developed by Psygnosis and published by Electronic Arts for the Sega Mega Drive in 1991.

Gameplay

You have to clear mazes with puzzle sections while fighting off enemies. All stages have a time limit, which is enforced by a constantly rising liquid that destroys the player on contact. After losing a life, the game replays your gameplay. You can interrupt this by pushing any button except , and continue from the current position in the replay, jumps, tapping fires while holding down is for using items, is for fast forwarding during a replay.

The game features a score system and adds points based on playtime (similar to games such as Space Harrier), but the counter can be cheated due to infinitely respawning enemies and deliberately drawing out stages as long as possible.

Versions

The Amiga original featured 8 worlds with two stages each. This has been cut down to 6 worlds with 2 stages each. As the cut worlds didn't feature anything that wouldn't have been possible on the Sega Mega Drive hardware, ROM size restrictions or the publisher not investing into bigger ROMs are possible reasons.
Liquids are reflective in the Amiga original. The effect was not, perhaps could not be, reproduced for this port.
The map function from the Amiga version is missing.

Localised names

Also known as
Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English	Fatal Rewind	Fatal Rewind
English (US)	Fatal Rewind	Fatal Rewind
Japanese	キリング・ゲームショー	The Killing Game Show

Production credits

Programming and Design: Martyn R Chudley
Artwork: Martyn R Chudley, Jim Bowers, Jeff Bramfitt and Pete Lyon
Music and FX: Sound Images
Special Thanks to: Ian Hetherington, John White, Steve Riding, Nick Burcombe, Chris Stanley, Chris Wylie, Mike Waterworth, Garvan Corbett, Paul Frewin, Dave Worral, Sharon, Lorraine, Chris, Rob, Wayne Smithson and Keith Francart

Magazine articles

Main article: Fatal Rewind/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #27: "October 1991" (1991-xx-xx)

Print advert in Gamers (DE) #1992-01: "Februar/März 1992" (1992-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)

50

^[11]

1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)

NTSC-J

50

^[12]

ACE (UK)

75

^[2]

Beep! MegaDrive (JP)

NTSC-J

50

^[13]

Console XS (UK)

PAL

88

^[14]

Cool Gamer (RU)

30

^[15]

Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide (UK)

78

^[16]

Famitsu (JP)

NTSC-J

55

^[17]

Game Mania (UK)

85

^[18]

Game Power (IT)

84

^[19]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

84

^[4]

Games-X (UK)

90

^[20]

Game Zone (UK)

PAL

78

^[21]

Hippon Super (JP)

NTSC-J

60

^[22]

Hobby Consolas (ES)

70

^[23]

Joypad (FR)

PAL

76

^[24]

Joystick (FR)

79

^[25]

Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming (UK)

PAL

85

^[26]

Mega (UK)

PAL

79

^[27]

Mega Force (FR)

PAL

75

^[28]

MegaTech (UK)

83

^[8]

Micromanía (segunda época) (ES)

78

^[29]

Mean Machines (UK)

PAL

83

^[30]

Mean Machines Sega (UK)

83

^[31]

Player One (FR)

76

^[32]

Power Play (DE)

73

^[33]

Sega Power (UK)

PAL

71

^[34]

Sega Pro (UK)

PAL

87

^[35]

Sega Pro (UK)

PAL

88

^[36]

Svet Kompjutera (YU)

69

^[37]

Sega Saturn Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

56

^[38]

Supergame (BR)

86

^[39]

Tricks 16 bit (RU)

60

^[40]

VideoGames & Computer Entertainment (US)

NTSC-U

70

^[41]

Video Games (DE)

75

^[42]

	73
Based on 35 reviews

Fatal Rewind

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart Manual Poster

Mega Drive, EU
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, JP
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, BR
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, SE (Rental)

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

✔

CRC32	e91aed05
MD5	ea45e8065ff64c4e5e41ce933828c854
SHA-1	02634d919ec7d08f3c6833f229b5127dd52c9e8a

512kB

1991-09

Cartridge (US/EU)

?

CRC32	21dbb69d
MD5	348975e11a187025556b8d18194e502a
SHA-1	cabd42d2edd333871269a7bc03a68f6765d254ce

512kB

1991-09

Prototype?

✔

CRC32	b8e7668a
MD5	c2aaf9fe67d8b70108b01af37e55b05a
SHA-1	47cdd668998139c92305e1b5abf7e196901490d6

1MB

1993

Cartridge (JP)

References

↑ Sega Power, "December 1991" (UK; 1991-10-30), page 11
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ACE, "December 1991" (UK; 1991-11-08), page 101
↑ File:GamePro US 027.pdf, page 80
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 File:GamePro US 029.pdf, page 74 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:GamePro US 029.pdf_p74" defined multiple times with different content
↑ File:BeepMD_JP_1993-09.pdf, page 22
↑ File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf, page 87
↑ GamePro, "December 1991" (US; 1991-xx-xx), page 72 (74)
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 MegaTech, "Xmas 1991" (UK; 1991-12-06), page 77
↑ Mean Machines, "November 1991" (UK; 1991-10-29), page 80-82 (80)
↑ Sega Pro, "December 1991" (UK; 1991-11-21), page 52/53 (54)
↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 79
↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 156
↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "September 1993" (JP; 1993-08-07), page 22
↑ Console XS, "June/July 1992" (UK; 1992-04-23), page 129
↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 84
↑ Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 45
↑ Famitsu, "1993-08-20,27" (JP; 1993-08-06), page 38
↑ Game Mania, "May 1993" (UK; 1993-xx-xx), page 80
↑ Game Power, "Marzo 1992" (IT; 1992-0x-xx), page 60
↑ Games-X, "24th-30th October 1991" (UK; 1991-10-24), page 34
↑ Game Zone, "December 1991" (UK; 1991-11-22), page 42
↑ Hippon Super, "September 1993" (JP; 1993-08-03), page 49
↑ Hobby Consolas, "Abril 1992" (ES; 1992-0x-xx), page 156
↑ Joypad, "Décembre 1991" (FR; 1991-11-19), page 84
↑ Joystick, "Novembre 1991" (FR; 1991-1x-xx), page 180
↑ Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "January 1993" (UK; 199x-xx-xx), page 91
↑ Mega, "January 1994" (UK; 1993-12-16), page 87
↑ Mega Force, "Novembre 1991" (FR; 1991-11-19), page 76
↑ Micromanía (segunda época), "Febrero 1992" (ES; 1992-0x-xx), page 30
↑ Mean Machines, "November 1991" (UK; 1991-10-29), page 80
↑ Mean Machines Sega, "October 1992" (UK; 1992-09-xx), page 138
↑ Player One, "Novembre 1991" (FR; 1991-xx-xx), page 82
↑ Power Play, "1/92" (DE; 1991-12-11), page 183
↑ Sega Power, "January 1992" (UK; 1991-12-05), page 34
↑ Sega Pro, "December 1991" (UK; 1991-11-21), page 54
↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 65
↑ Svet Kompjutera, "Jul-Avgust 1996" (YU; 1996-xx-xx), page 86
↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 87
↑ Supergame, "Agosto 1992" (BR; 1992-08-xx), page 34
↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 71
↑ VideoGames & Computer Entertainment, "December 1991" (US; 1991-1x-xx), page 72
↑ Video Games, "4/91" (DE; 1991-12-06), page 28

[:File:SegaPower_UK_25.pdf_p11-1] Sega Power, "December 1991" (UK; 1991-10-30), page 11

[:File:ACE_UK_51.pdf_p101-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ACE, "December 1991" (UK; 1991-11-08), page 101

[:File:GamePro_US_027.pdf_p80-3] File:GamePro US 027.pdf, page 80

[:File:GamePro_US_029.pdf_p74-4] 4.0 ^4.1 File:GamePro US 029.pdf, page 74 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:GamePro US 029.pdf_p74" defined multiple times with different content

[:File:BeepMD_JP_1993-09.pdf_p22-5] File:BeepMD_JP_1993-09.pdf, page 22

[:File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf_p87-6] File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf, page 87

[:File:GamePro_US_029.pdf_p74_.2872.29-7] GamePro, "December 1991" (US; 1991-xx-xx), page 72 (74)

[:File:MegaTech_UK_01.pdf_p77-8] 8.0 ^8.1 MegaTech, "Xmas 1991" (UK; 1991-12-06), page 77

[:File:MeanMachines_UK_14.pdf_p80_.2880-82.29-9] Mean Machines, "November 1991" (UK; 1991-10-29), page 80-82 (80)

[:File:SegaPro_UK_02.pdf_p54_.2852.2F53.29-10] Sega Pro, "December 1991" (UK; 1991-11-21), page 52/53 (54)

[11] 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 79

[12] 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 156

[:File:BeepMD_JP_1993-09.pdf_p22-13] Beep! MegaDrive, "September 1993" (JP; 1993-08-07), page 22

[:File:Console_XS_UK_01.pdf_p129-14] Console XS, "June/July 1992" (UK; 1992-04-23), page 129

[15] Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 84

[:File:MeanMachinesEssentialSegaGuide_Book_UK.pdf_p45-16] Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 45

[:File:Famitsu_JP_0244-245.pdf_p38-17] Famitsu, "1993-08-20,27" (JP; 1993-08-06), page 38

[:File:GameMania_UK_05.pdf_p80-18] Game Mania, "May 1993" (UK; 1993-xx-xx), page 80

[:File:GamePower_IT_04.pdf_p60-19] Game Power, "Marzo 1992" (IT; 1992-0x-xx), page 60

[:File:GamesX_UK_27.pdf_p34-20] Games-X, "24th-30th October 1991" (UK; 1991-10-24), page 34

[:File:GameZone_UK_02.pdf_p42-21] Game Zone, "December 1991" (UK; 1991-11-22), page 42

[22] Hippon Super, "September 1993" (JP; 1993-08-03), page 49

[:File:HobbyConsolas_ES_007.pdf_p156-23] Hobby Consolas, "Abril 1992" (ES; 1992-0x-xx), page 156

[:File:Joypad_FR_003.pdf_p84-24] Joypad, "Décembre 1991" (FR; 1991-11-19), page 84

[:File:Joystick_FR_021.pdf_p180-25] Joystick, "Novembre 1991" (FR; 1991-1x-xx), page 180

[:File:MDAG_UK_05.pdf_p91-26] Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "January 1993" (UK; 199x-xx-xx), page 91

[:File:Mega_UK_16.pdf_p87-27] Mega, "January 1994" (UK; 1993-12-16), page 87

[:File:MegaForce_FR_03.pdf_p76-28] Mega Force, "Novembre 1991" (FR; 1991-11-19), page 76

[:File:Micromania2_ES_045.pdf_p30-29] Micromanía (segunda época), "Febrero 1992" (ES; 1992-0x-xx), page 30

[:File:MeanMachines_UK_14.pdf_p80-30] Mean Machines, "November 1991" (UK; 1991-10-29), page 80

[:File:MeanMachinesSega01UK.pdf_p138-31] Mean Machines Sega, "October 1992" (UK; 1992-09-xx), page 138

[:File:PlayerOne_FR_014.pdf_p82-32] Player One, "Novembre 1991" (FR; 1991-xx-xx), page 82

[33] Power Play, "1/92" (DE; 1991-12-11), page 183

[:File:SegaPower_UK_26.pdf_p34-34] Sega Power, "January 1992" (UK; 1991-12-05), page 34

[:File:SegaPro_UK_02.pdf_p54-35] Sega Pro, "December 1991" (UK; 1991-11-21), page 54

[:File:SegaPro_UK_18.pdf_p65-36] Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 65

[:File:SvetKompjutera_YU_142143.pdf_p86-37] Svet Kompjutera, "Jul-Avgust 1996" (YU; 1996-xx-xx), page 86

[:File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf_p87-38] Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 87

[:File:Supergame_BR_13.pdf_p34-39] Supergame, "Agosto 1992" (BR; 1992-08-xx), page 34

[40] Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 71

[:File:VG.26amp.3BCE_US_35.pdf_p72-41] VideoGames & Computer Entertainment, "December 1991" (US; 1991-1x-xx), page 72

[:File:VideoGames_DE_1991-04.pdf_p28-42] Video Games, "4/91" (DE; 1991-12-06), page 28

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Fatal Rewind

From Sega Retro

Contents

Gameplay

Versions

Localised names

Production credits

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Physical scans

Technical information

ROM dump status

References