Metal Fangs
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| System(s): Sega Mega Drive | ||||||||||
| Publisher: Victor Musical Industries | ||||||||||
| Developer: Sega R&D 8[1], Genki[1] | ||||||||||
| Sound driver: Pre-SMPS 68000 | ||||||||||
| Genre: Hyper Car Action (ハイパーカーアクション)[2], Shooting[3] | ||||||||||
| Number of players: 1-2 | ||||||||||
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Metal Fangs (メタルファング) is a Sega Mega Drive overhead racing game developed by Sega R&D 8 (and very likely co-developed by Genki) and published by Victor Musical Industries. Released exclusively in Japan in December 1993, the game is most known for its troubled development cycle, and for likely being conceived as a first-party Sega title.[5]
Contents
Gameplay
changes the player racer, and 
activates the racer's special attack.
History
Development
Metal Fangs was originally developed for the Mega Drive, and while completed around June 1992[5] was not released until December 1993. While solely credited to Victor Musical Industries, it appears development was primarily completed by Sega R&D 8 (known as Sega AM2 when the game released).[1] For unknown reasons, Sega either gave the mostly-completed game to developer Genki for finalization, or gave the fully-completed game to publisher Victor Musical Industries for release.[1]
The game is composed by Hiroshi Kawaguchi and programmed by Tomoharu Kimura, both staff of Sega R&D 8, and graphic design was likely done by Genki co-founder Manabu Tamura.[1] Additionally, an unused copyright notice for Yonezawa is located in the game's code;[6] Yonezawa shared a close relation with Sega of Japan, and was later fully acquired by them in 1994.[1]
Prerelease
JVC Musical Industries (the American counterpart of Victor Musical Industries) planned on releasing a localized version of the game in the United States in August 1992, with the game making an appearance at Summer CES 1992.[7] Ultimately, while the localization was at least partly completed, the game would remain a Japanese exclusive.
The company also planned to bring the game to the then-upcoming Sega CD in the United States under the alternate name Metal Fang. While appearing at Sega of America's official launch event for the platform as a promising CD-based entry into the system's lineup,[8] it would eventually be pushed back to the middle of 1993,[9][10] with the release of this version eventually being cancelled altogether.
Production credits
Magazine articles
- Main article: Metal Fangs/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
also published in:
- Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1992-11: "November 1992" (1992-10-08)[12]
Physical scans
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Technical information
- Main article: Metal Fangs/Technical information.
External links
- Metal Fangs article by Kurt Kalata at Hardcore Gaming 101
- Metal Fangs post by CRV at Game Developer Research Institute
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Blog:Metal_Fangs_(Mega_Drive) (Wayback Machine: 2023-05-26 19:00)
- ↑ File:MetalFangs MD JP Box.png
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://sega.jp/history/hard/megadrive/software_l.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-07-02 23:21)
- ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "September 1992" (JP; 1992-08-08), page 5
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Blog:Metal_Fangs_(Mega_Drive)
- ↑ The Cutting Room Floor: Metal Fangs
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9xqolSEboA
- ↑ GameFan, "Volume 1, Issue 2: December 1992" (US; 1992-xx-xx), page 78
- ↑ GamePro, "January 1993" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 84
- ↑ https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.video/c/22cw_5wSca8/m/uu5_e4bDn6wJ (Wayback Machine: 2023-09-16 09:50)
- ↑ File:Metal Fangs MD credits.pdf
- ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "November 1992" (JP; 1992-10-08), page 10
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 179
- ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "January 1994" (JP; 1993-12-08), page 26
- ↑ Famitsu, "" (JP; 1993-12-10), page 1
- ↑ Hippon Super, "January 1994" (JP; 1993-12-03), page 43
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 87
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