Cliffhanger
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- For the Sega Game Gear game, see Cliffhanger (Game Gear).
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System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Sega Mega-CD | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: Sony Imagesoft | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: Malibu Interactive | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sound driver: GEMS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Action | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cliffhanger is a Sega Mega Drive and Sega Mega-CD beat-'em-up game released in 1993. It was developed by Malibu Interactive and published by Sony Imagesoft as a tie-in to the 1993 Sylvester Stallone film Cliffhanger. A version for the Sega Game Gear was also released, but is a very different game.
The player controls Gabe Walker, who must fight a group of terrorists trying to stop him from saving his partner Hal, who they kidnapped after the two of them went to answer a distress call from a crashed plane.
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Gameplay
16-bit versions of the game are all beat-em-ups along the same lines as Streets of Rage. On Sega platforms, either punches, picks up a weapon, or uses it,
kicks, and
jumps, with combination moves possible. This version of the game was developed using the source code from the game Ex-Mutants (also developed by Malibu Interactive). The Mega-CD version also has a 3D avalanche-escape level and low-quality FMVs of various scenes from the motion picture.
History
Development
Programmer Chris Shrigley has released the source code to the game on his web site.
Production credits
Mega Drive version
- Executive Producer: Rich Robinson
- Producer: Mary Ann Norris
- Assistant Producers: Patrick Goodman, David Poe
- Game Testing: Jose Cruz, Mike Giam, David Jaffe
- Olaf Olafsson, Lester Greenman, Peter Dille, Jeff Benjamin
- Programmer: Chris Shrigley
- Producer: James Maxwell
- Assistant Producer: Justin Monast
- Designers: James Maxwell, Dan MacArthur
- Artists: Jeff Godfrey, Damon DuBois, Joan Igawa, Chris Ward, Richard Beston
- Music and Sound FX by: Audiocyberworks, Eric Hammond, Keith Arem
- Game Testing: Darin Johnson, Alan Fernandez, Ben Kutcher, James Guintu
Magazine articles
- Main article: Cliffhanger/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
Television advertisements
Print advertisements
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Physical scans
Mega Drive version
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Mega-CD version
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Technical information
ROM dump status
System | Hash | Size | Build Date | Source | Comments | |||
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✔ | 1MB | 1993-08 | Cartridge (US) | |||||
✔ | 1MB | 1993-08 | Cartridge (EU) | |||||
? | 1MB | 1994-01 | Page | |||||
✔ | 330,180,816 | CD-ROM (US) | T-93075 |
References
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 GamePro, "December 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 85
- ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 MegaTech, "November 1993" (UK; 1993-10-20), page 26
- ↑ Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 Mega, "May 1994" (UK; 1994-04-21), page 44
- ↑ GamePro, "November 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 213
- ↑ Electronic Games (1992-1995), "January 1994" (US; 1993-12-21), page 85
- ↑ GamePro, "January 1994" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 221
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 48
- ↑ Consoles +, "Avril 1994" (FR; 1994-0x-xx), page 126
- ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 52
- ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 301
- ↑ Hyper, "February 1994" (AU; 199x-xx-xx), page 69
- ↑ MAN!AC, "04/94" (DE; 1994-03-09), page 41
- ↑ Score, "Cervenec 1994" (CZ; 1994-07-01), page 58
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 10
- ↑ GamePro, "June 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 54
- ↑ Joypad, "Février 1994" (FR; 199x-xx-xx), page 100
- ↑ Mega, "March 1994" (UK; 1994-02-17), page 44
- ↑ Mega Action, "March 1994" (UK; 1994-02-24), page 58
- ↑ Mega Force, "Février 1994" (FR; 1994-0x-xx), page 124
- ↑ MegaTech, "March 1994" (UK; 1994-02-20), page 48
- ↑ Sega Power, "March 1994" (UK; 1994-02-03), page 44
- ↑ Sega Pro, "April 1994" (UK; 1994-02-24), page 78
- ↑ Sega Zone, "March 1994" (UK; 1994-02-24), page 49
- ↑ Video Games, "4/94" (DE; 1994-03-23), page 38
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