El Viento

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El Viento
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Wolf Team (Japan), Renovation Products (US)
Developer: Wolf Team
Sound driver: Wolf Team sound driver
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code JP 1991-09-20 ¥8,5008,500 T-32063 US 1991-11 $69.9969.99 49136 FR 199x 49136

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El Viento (エル・ヴィエント) is a 1991 action platformer developed by Wolf Team for the Sega Mega Drive and published exclusively in the US and Japan by Renovation Products. It is the first game to be released in the trilogy followed by Earnest Evans and Anetto Futatabi.

A UK release, set to be distributed by Ubisoft for £44.99 in November 1991, was planned but cancelled for unknown reasons. However, the Genesis version was officially distributed in France with an extra translated manual.

Story

The game takes place in New York City during the late 1920s. Mad religious leader Henry attempts to awaken the ancient and malevolent god Hastur using sorceress Restiana as willing sacrifice. They are constructing a shrine to Hastur inside the (as yet incomplete) Empire State Building. They are working with the gangster Al Capone (Vincente DeMarcoto in the American localization) and have tasked him with killing the young Peruvian sorceress, Annet Myer. Annet is a distant relative of Hastur and the only human capable of defeating him. With some assistance from Earnest Evans, Annet attempts to stop the cult from resurrecting Hastur using the spells of her bloodline.

Gameplay

Annet can throw boomerangs with and jump with . She also can use one of a variety of magic spells which are all thrown with ; she has limited magic power and can refill her magic power with power-ups. Unlike Earnest Evans, she can only crouch and stand still while crouching, though she can still fire while crouching. Each level is split up into multiple parts, and there is no prerequisite for leaving a part of a level, but she must still find the boss chamber.

Production credits

• Producer: Masaaki Uno
• Director: Hiroyuki Kayano
• Sound: Motoi Sakuraba

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In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: El Viento/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #30: "January 1992" (199x-xx-xx)

Print advert in Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1991-07: "July 1991" (1991-06-08)

Print advert in Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1991-08: "August 1991" (1991-07-08)

Print advert in Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1991-09: "September 1991" (1991-08-08)
also published in:

• Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1991-10: "October 1991" (1991-09-07)

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Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 60 ACE (UK) 52 Beep! MegaDrive (JP) NTSC-J 65 Consoles + (FR) 82 Console XS (UK) NTSC-J 90 Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U 78 Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1 (RU) 50 Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 55 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 92 Games-X (UK) 60 Hippon Super (JP) NTSC-J 60 Joypad (FR) NTSC-J 93 Joystick (FR) NTSC-J 93 Mega Drive Fan (JP) NTSC-J 67 MegaTech (UK) 80 Mean Machines Sega (UK) 80 Play Time (DE) 67 Power Play (DE) 66 Sega Pro (UK) PAL 89 Sega Pro (UK) 89 Sega Pro (UK) 88 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 74 Tricks 16 bit (RU) 66 Video Games (DE) 67

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El Viento

Mega Drive, JP
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Mega Drive, US
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Cart Manual

Mega Drive, FR
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Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 070a1ceb MD5 6ddf640c2c5f91f12487d813b6257114 SHA-1 b53e901725fd6220d8e6d19ef8df42e89e0874db	1MB	1991-09	Cartridge (US)
✔	CRC32 6091c36e MD5 150e774ff1c31a76095a8bddf9975456 SHA-1 564ffd2a40b9bebe30587182a644050de474aa5a	1MB	1991-09	Cartridge (JP)