Mallet Legend

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Mallet Legend/Whac-a-Critter

Publisher: Realtec

Developer: AV artisan

Genre: Action

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
US	1993
TW	1993

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Mallet Legend is an unlicensed action game for the Sega Mega Drive developed by AV artisan and published by Realtec in 1993. In the US it is known as Whac-a-Critter or Mallet Legend's Whac-a-Critter depending on the source. It is one of the more interesting unlicensed titles for the system, as it relies on a similarly unlicensed accessory, the Smash Controller, released by Innovation in the US.

In Taiwan, both the Smash controller and game cartridge were bundled together, however in the US the two were sold separately.

Gameplay

The game is a Whac-A-Mole clone — simply hit the button on the controller corresponding to the hole where a critter pops up before it disappears.

Hitting the princess will lower the percentage score, and hitting the 3 bombs that appear in each round makes everything explode. After getting a good score at the end of the round (55% in the first round, 65% in the 2nd, 75% in the 3rd, 80% in the 4th), you get a much harder bonus round as a "boss battle" before moving on to the next round. The 5th and last round is won by getting an 80% score.

The game can be played with a normal joypad, using the arrows to select one of the 8 peripheral holes to whack, or letting it rest to target the centre hole, and using to activate the mallet.

Magazine articles

Main article: Mallet Legend/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Computer & Video Games (UK)

NTSC-U

59

^[1]

Mean Machines Sega (UK)

NTSC-U

79

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VideoGames (US)

NTSC-U

50

^[4]

	63
Based on 3 reviews

Mallet Legend

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart Manual

Mega Drive, TW
Cover
Cart

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

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CRC32	1bdd02b8
MD5	7d20d74e81524773409f4f89e944cfaa
SHA-1	4b45801b112a641fee936e41a31728ee7aa2f834

512kB

1993

Cartridge (US)

References

[:File:CVG_UK_151.pdf_p100-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Computer & Video Games, "June 1994" (UK; 1994-05-15), page 100

[:File:MeanMachinesSega19UK.pdf_p65_.2864.2F65.29-2] Mean Machines Sega, "May 1994" (UK; 1994-03-xx), page 64/65 (65)

[:File:MeanMachinesSega19UK.pdf_p52-3] Mean Machines Sega, "May 1994" (UK; 1994-03-xx), page 52

[:File:VideoGames_US_80.pdf_p91-4] VideoGames, "September 1995" (US; 1995-08-22), page 91

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Mallet Legend

From Sega Retro

Contents

Gameplay

Magazine articles

Physical scans

Technical information

ROM dump status

References