Special Criminal Investigation
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| System(s): Sega Master System | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: Sega | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Developer: Natsume | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Original system(s): Arcade boards | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Developer(s) of original games: Taito | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre: Racing | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of players: 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Special Criminal Investigation, known often simply as S.C.I., is a action-driving game released by Taito for the arcades in 1989. It was subsequently ported a variety of consoles and computers including the Sega Master System in 1992. Special Criminal Investigation is a sequel to Chase H.Q., with some versions of the game going so far as to call it Chase H.Q. II: Special Criminal Investigation. Aside from being part of the same series, it is unrelated to the Sega Mega Drive game Chase H.Q. II.
Special Criminal Investigation is very similar to Chase H.Q. but contains a few key differences - two directional traffic, the ability to fire (and be fired at) and helicopters which occasionally fly by to drop off extra ammo.
Predictably the Master System version takes a hit both in the audio and graphical departments. Many of the special effects are also cut.
Contents
Production credits
- Producer: Tomohiro.Nishikado
- Assistant Producer: Takashi.Shiokawa
- Original Planner: Nishiyaman
- Programmer: Atsushi.Tanaka
- Graphic Designer: Tomoyuki.Nishiyama, Sachiko.Matsuura
- Sound Programmer: I.Mizutani
- Sound: H.Iwatsuki
- Special Thanks to: K.Ishihara, TNY, Bit, H.Autumn, N.Mizoguchi, Tomoko, Kotobuki, Shin.Chan, R.Xie
Magazine articles
- Main article: Special Criminal Investigation/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
also published in:
- Hobby Consolas (ES) #14: "Noviembre 1992" (1992-xx-xx)[3]
also published in:
- Hobby Consolas (ES) #18: "Marzo 1993" (1993-xx-xx)[4]
Physical scans
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Technical information
ROM dump status
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mean Machines Sega, "November 1992" (UK; 1992-10-xx), page 72
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Computer & Video Games, "December 1992" (UK; 1992-11-15), page 28
- ↑ Hobby Consolas, "Noviembre 1992" (ES; 1992-xx-xx), page 10
- ↑ Hobby Consolas, "Marzo 1993" (ES; 1993-xx-xx), page 15
- ↑ Excalibur, "" (CZ; 1993-09-10), page 37
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "November 1992" (UK; 1992-10-xx), page 72/73 (72)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Sega Force, "October 1992" (UK; 1992-09-10), page 8
- ↑ Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 153
- ↑ Excalibur, "" (CZ; 1993-09-10), page 33
- ↑ Joypad, "Octobre 1992" (FR; 1992-10-xx), page 82
- ↑ Joystick, "Octobre 1992" (FR; 1992-xx-xx), page 150
- ↑ Mega Byte, "February 6, 1993" (UK; 1993-02-06), page 1
- ↑ Mega Force, "Octobre 1992" (FR; 1992-xx-xx), page 81
- ↑ Sega Power, "October 1992" (UK; 1992-09-03), page 42
- ↑ Sega Pro, "December 1992" (UK; 1992-11-12), page 32
- ↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 72
- ↑ SuperGamePower, "Maio 1994" (BR; 1994-0x-xx), page 50
- ↑ Video Games, "9/92" (DE; 1992-08-26), page 100
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