Urban Strike

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Urban Strike
System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Sega Game Gear
Publisher:
Sega Mega Drive
Electronic Arts
Sega Game Gear
Black Pearl Software
Developer:
Sound driver: Electronic Arts/Don Veca
Genre: Shoot-'em-Up

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Mega Drive
US
735001
Sega Mega Drive
EU
E291SMXI
Sega Mega Drive
PT
MDJ291
Sega Mega Drive
AU
Sega Game Gear
US
T-100048
Non-Sega versions

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Urban Strike (Urban Strike for short) is a shoot-'em-up game developed by Electronic Arts, Granite Bay Software, and Foley Hi-Tech and initially released in 1994 for the Sega Mega Drive exclusively in the US and Europe before being ported to a variety of other consoles, including to the Sega Game Gear (released 1995). It is the third game in the Strike series, following Jungle Strike.

Story

In the year 2001 a candidate for public office, H.R. Malone, is found out as a criminal (despite having political messages promising eliminating crime) by the US Special Forces team of the previous games. This leads to a call to an associate to investigate and stop the Special Forces team from interfering with the setup of a superweapon. Seemingly unbeknownst to Malone, that associate is actually a Special Forces infiltrator leaking the information... but the limo he is to leave in explodes, and the rest of the team is called in to stop Malone with stop the leaking of what little information they have.

Gameplay

Gameplay is identical to other Strike games: Up/Down move forward/backward, Left/Right rotate the helicopter, A shoots hellfires and jink, B shoots hydra, C shoots normal helicopter guns,  START  pulls up a map, and there are missions to complete in each level. However, the player must occasionally leave the helicopter and complete some parts of missions on foot.

Production credits

Mega Drive version

  • Programming: Mike Posehn
  • Game Design: John Manley, Tony Barnes
  • Art Director: Julie Cressa
  • Implementation: Ross Wentworth, Erich Horn
  • Art: Victor French, Tom Lisowski, Tony Gascon, Ron Sacdalan, Walter Ianneo, Jeff Fennel
  • 3-D Models: Tim Calvin, Terry Falls, Lance Armstrong, Peter Traugot
  • Additional Art: Kendra Lammas, Michael Shirley, Susan Manley, Keith Bullen
  • Sound and Music: Don Veca
  • Technical Director: Tim Brengle
  • Product Manager: David Sze
  • Assistant Producer: Michael Lubuguin
  • Foley Hi-Tech Producer: David Foley
  • Project Manager: Susan Manley
  • Assistant Director: Antonio Barnes
  • Produced by: Scott Berfield
  • Directed by: John Manley
Source:
In-game credits (title screen roll)

Magazine articles

Main article: Urban Strike/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

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FI advert (1995)
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Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #62: "September 1994" (1994-xx-xx)
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Print advert in Sega Visions (US) #21: "October/November 1994" (1994-xx-xx)
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Print advert in Mean Machines Sega (UK) #24: "October 1994" (1994-08-xx)
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Print advert in Mean Machines Sega (UK) #26: "December 1994" (1994-10-28)
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Print advert in Supersonic (FR) #25: "Octobre 1994" (1994-xx-xx)
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Print advert in Hobby Consolas (ES) #37: "Octubre 1994" (1994-xx-xx)
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Print advert in Freak (IL) #26: "12/94" (1994-xx-xx)
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Print advert in LeveL (CZ) #1: "Leden 1995" (1995-01-24)
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Physical scans

Mega Drive version

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
92 №1/95, p32/34
92 №36, p96-98
82 [5]
83 [6]
88 [7]
92 [8]
90 №5, p15
80
89 [9]
88 №26, p48/49
90 [10]
85 [11]
92 [12]
85 [13]
90 №10, p78/79
93 №59, p48/49
92 №39, p78/79
91 №41, p11
84 [14]
84 [15]
90 [16]
Sega Mega Drive
88
Based on
21 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)
50
[17]
Ação Games (BR)
97
[18]
Aktueller Software Markt (DE)
92
[19]
Consoles + (FR)
92
[20]
Cool Gamer (RU)
80
[21]
Computer & Video Games (UK)
82
[5]
Digitiser (UK) PAL
90
[22]
Electronic Games (1992-1995) (US) NTSC-U
75
[23]
Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1 (RU)
90
[24]
Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 6 (RU)
50
[25]
Game Players (US) NTSC-U
83
[26]
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
88
[27]
GamePro (DE) PAL
80
[28]
Gamer (GR)
90
[29]
GamesMaster (UK) PAL
92
[30]
Games World: The Magazine (UK) PAL
90
[31]
Game Informer (US) NTSC-U
75
[32]
Igry Sega Luchshiye iz luchshikh. Vypusk 2 (RU)
56
[33]
Joypad (FR) PAL
86
[34]
Joypad (HU)
82
[35]
Mega (UK) PAL
88
[36]
Mega Force (FR) PAL
90
[37]
Mega Fun (DE) PAL
85
[38]
Micro Kid's Multimédia (FR)
75
[39]
Mean Machines Sega (UK) PAL
89
[40]
Next Generation (US) NTSC-U
50
[41]
Player One (FR)
92
[42]
Play Time (DE)
85
[43]
Power Up! (UK)
90
[44]
Score (CZ)
65
[45]
Sega Magazine (UK) PAL
90
[46]
Sega Power (UK) PAL
93
[47]
Sega Pro (UK) PAL
92
[48]
Sega Mega Drive Review (RU)
82
[49]
Sonic the Comic (UK) PAL
91
[50]
Supersonic (FR)
84
[51]
Todo Sega (ES)
95
[52]
Tricks 16 bit (RU)
85
[53]
Video Games (DE) PAL
84
[54]
VideoGames (US)
90
[16]
Sega Mega Drive
83
Based on
40 reviews

Urban Strike

Mega Drive, US
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Cover
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Cart
Urban Strike MD US Manual.pdf
Manual
Mega Drive, US (cardboard)

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Cart
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Manual
Mega Drive, EU
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Cover
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Cart
Mega Drive, SE (Rental)
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Cover
Mega Drive, GCC
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Cover
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Manual

Game Gear version

Game Gear, US
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Cover
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Cart

Technical information

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Sega Mega Drive
 ?
CRC32
MD5
SHA-1
2MB 1994-07 Cartridge (US/EU)
Sega Game Gear
 ?
CRC32 185e9fc1
MD5 e6bc90f958617e9bde26367b5348518c
SHA-1 2d33d049a7f3dcde8c4f294cca5597ca590bb407
512kB Cartridge (US/EU)

References

  1. Mean Machines Sega, "October 1994" (UK; 1994-08-xx), page 55
  2. Computer & Video Games, "December 1994" (UK; 1994-11-15), page 57
  3. Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 10
  4. Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 42
  5. 5.0 5.1 Computer & Video Games, "November 1994" (UK; 1994-10-15), page 87
  6. Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 108/109 (110)
  7. GamePro, "November 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 82 (92)
  8. GamesMaster, "October 1994" (UK; 1994-09-22), page 46/47 (46)
  9. Mean Machines Sega, "November 1994" (UK; 1994-09-30), page 82-84 (82)
  10. Mega Force, "Octobre 1994" (FR; 1994-xx-xx), page 86-91 (86)
  11. Mega Fun, "09/94" (DE; 1994-08-24), page 100/101 (100)
  12. Player One, "Octobre 1994" (FR; 1994-xx-xx), page 88-91 (88)
  13. Play Time, "10/94" (DE; 1994-09-07), page 104/105
  14. Supersonic, "Octobre 1994" (FR; 1994-xx-xx), page 70-72 (70)
  15. Video Games, "10/94" (DE; 1994-09-28), page 94/95
  16. 16.0 16.1 VideoGames, "November 1994" (US; 1994-1x-xx), page 78
  17. 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 254
  18. Ação Games, "Outubro 1994" (BR; 1994-10-16), page 26
  19. Aktueller Software Markt, "Januar 1995" (DE; 1994-12-05), page 30
  20. Consoles +, "Octobre 1994" (FR; 1994-xx-xx), page 96
  21. Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 230
  22. Digitiser (UK) (1994-10-03)
  23. Electronic Games (1992-1995), "October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 86
  24. Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 366
  25. Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 6, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 250
  26. Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 110
  27. GamePro, "November 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 92
  28. GamePro, "Oktober 1994" (DE; 1994-09-30), page 43
  29. Gamer, "Dekémvrios 1994" (GR; 1994-xx-xx), page 1
  30. GamesMaster, "October 1994" (UK; 1994-09-22), page 46
  31. Games World: The Magazine, "November 1994" (UK; 1994-09-29), page 15
  32. Game Informer, "December 1994" (US; 1994-1x-xx), page 24
  33. Igry Sega Luchshiye iz luchshikh. Vypusk 2, "" (RU; 2001-08-27), page 364
  34. Joypad, "Octobre 1994" (FR; 1994-xx-xx), page 96
  35. Joypad, "1/1995" (HU; 1995-xx-xx), page 14
  36. Mega, "November 1994" (UK; 1994-10-27), page 48
  37. Mega Force, "Octobre 1994" (FR; 1994-xx-xx), page 86
  38. Mega Fun, "09/94" (DE; 1994-08-24), page 100
  39. Micro Kid's Multimédia, "Février 1995" (FR; 1995-0x-xx), page 50
  40. Mean Machines Sega, "November 1994" (UK; 1994-09-30), page 82
  41. Next Generation, "Premiere Issue 1995" (US; 1994-12-08), page 108
  42. Player One, "Octobre 1994" (FR; 1994-xx-xx), page 88
  43. Play Time, "10/94" (DE; 1994-09-07), page 104
  44. Power Up!, "Saturday, September 24, 1994" (UK; 1994-09-24), page 1
  45. Score, "Prosinec 1994" (CZ; 1994-12-01), page 22
  46. Sega Magazine, "October 1994" (UK; 1994-09-15), page 78
  47. Sega Power, "October 1994" (UK; 1994-09-01), page 48
  48. Sega Pro, "December 1994" (UK; 1994-11-03), page 78
  49. Sega Mega Drive Review, "1" (RU; 1995-04-03), page 174
  50. Sonic the Comic, "December 23rd 1994" (UK; 1994-12-10), page 11
  51. Supersonic, "Octobre 1994" (FR; 1994-xx-xx), page 70
  52. Todo Sega, "Octubre 1994" (ES; 1994-xx-xx), page 38
  53. Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 214
  54. Video Games, "10/94" (DE; 1994-09-28), page 94


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