X-Women: The Sinister Virus
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| X-Women: The Sinister Virus |
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| System(s): Sega Mega Drive |
| Publisher: Sega |
| Developer: Clockwork Tortoise |
| Licensor: Marvel Entertainment Group |
| Planned release date(s): 1996-10[1], 1996-11[2][3], 1996-12[4], 1997-01[5][6], 1997-03-31[7] |
| Genre: Action |
| Number of players: 1 |
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X-Women: The Sinister Virus is an unreleased Sega Mega Drive game featuring the female characters of Marvel's X-Men comic book series. It was due to be released as part of the last batch of first-party Mega Drive games in North America, with a release date planned for late 1996. It would have acted as a spiritual sequel to X-Men 2: Clone Wars.
X-Women would have allowed players to control popular female characters from the X-Men cast, including Storm and Rogue. It was a side-scrolling action game supposedly being developed by Clockwork Tortoise, and was previewed in an early state at E3 1996, with the aim of being released later in the year. X-Women was later mentioned in EGM #89 (December 1996), presumably having missed its original deadline.
The reason for its cancellation are not fully understood; Sega of America was set to promote the game alongside the Sega Game Gear release of X-Men: Mojo World[8], expecting to ship a 16 megabit cart priced at $49.99[9]. There was also set to be a tie-in comic book[8] which does not appear to have been published. Bill Onderdonk was named as a marketing manager for the game[10].
Developer Clockwork Tortoise disbanded in late 1996/early 1997, around the period X-Women was considered to be scrapped. No prototypes of the game have ever been found.
Magazine articles
- Main article: X-Women: The Sinister Virus/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
- Main article: X-Women: The Sinister Virus/Promotional material.
External links
References
- ↑ Sega FY 1997 Brand Review, page 64
- ↑ GamePro, "September 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 76
- ↑ Sega FY 1997 Brand Review, page 90
- ↑ Ultra Game Players, "October 1996" (US; 1996-09-03), page 75
- ↑ Ultra Game Players, "December 1996" (US; 1996-11-05), page 81
- ↑ GamePro, "November 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 64
- ↑ http://www.vgol.com/segagen.html (Wayback Machine: 1997-02-13 09:33)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Sega FY 1997 Brand Review, page 50
- ↑ Sega FY 1997 Brand Review, page 3
- ↑ Sega FY 1997 Brand Review, page 246
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Main page | Magazine articles | Promotional material | |
| X-Men games for Sega systems | |
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Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge (1993) | X-Men (1993) | Wolverine: Adamantium Rage (1994) | X-Men 2: Clone Wars (1995) | X-Women: The Sinister Virus (unreleased) |
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Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge (1994) | X-Men (1994) | X-Men: GamesMaster's Legacy (1994) | X-Men: Mojo World (1996) |
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X-Men: Children of the Atom (1995) | X-Men vs. Street Fighter (1997) |
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X-Men: Mojo World (1996) |
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X-Men: Mind Games (Unreleased) |
| X-Men related media | |
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Sega Tunes: X-Men 2: Clone Wars (1996) |
| Unlicensed X-Men games for Sega systems | |
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X-Men vs. Street Fighter (Mega Drive) (1998) |