Creature Shock: Special Edition

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Creature Shock: Special Edition
System(s): Sega Saturn
Publisher: Data East
Developer: Argonaut Software, Interactive Studios
Sound driver: SCSP (1/1 track)
Genre: 3D Shooting, Shooting
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code JP 1996-01-19 ¥6,8006,800 T-1303G US 1996-06-24 T-1304H
Non-Sega versions 3DO CD-i IBM PC PlayStation

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Creature Shock: Special Edition, known simply as Creature Shock (クリーチャーショック) in Japan, is a shoot-'em-up game for the Sega Saturn, although it was planned to be an exclusive title for the Mega CD. The North American version contains extra levels not present in the Japanese version as well as slightly better quality FMV.

History

Development

Creature Shock was initially developed as an exclusive for the Sega Mega CD, with release planned for early 1995 by Virgin. Development was then shifted to be one of the first titles available for Atari's Jaguar CD in the autumn of 1995. both versions were delayed and eventually cancelled due to poor reception of the Jaguar version.

It is not known if the Mega CD version was cancelled prior to the Jaguar versions announcement or if both versions were planned to be released simultaneously.

The game was eventually released in 1996 for the PlayStation, 3DO and Saturn to critically negative reviews, with a CDI version being released only in PAL territories in 1997.

Versions

Localised names

Also known as

Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English (US)	Creature Shock: Special Edition	Creature Shock: Special Edition
Japanese	クリーチャーショック	Creature Shock

Magazine articles

Main article: Creature Shock: Special Edition/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Game Players (US) #0904: "Vol. 9 No. 4 April 1996" (1996-03-19)
also published in:

• Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #81: "April 1996" (1996-xx-xx)
• Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #82: "May 1996" (1996-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source

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Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score Fun Generation (DE) NTSC 20 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 63 MAN!AC (DE) NTSC-J 37 Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J 60 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 60 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 65

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Creature Shock: Special Edition

Saturn, JP
Cover
Spinecard Disc 1 Disc 2

Saturn, US
Cover
Disc 1 Disc 2 Manual

Technical information

Main article: Creature Shock: Special Edition/Technical information.

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	662,873,568	1995-12-06	CD-ROM (JP)	T-1303G (Disc 1) V1.007
✔	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	651,160,608	1995-12-06	CD-ROM (JP)	T-1303G (Disc 2) V1.007
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1		1995-10-28	CD-R				Page