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Die Hard Arcade
System(s): Sega Titan Video , Sega Saturn
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Sega AM1 , Sega Technical Institute
Licensor: 20th Century Fox
Sound driver: SCSP/CD-DA (41 tracks)
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1-2
Release
Date
RRP
Code
JP
1996-07[1]
¥?
?
US
1996
$?
?
JP
1997-01-24
¥5,8005,800
GS-9122
JP (Satakore )
1998-03-12
¥2,8002,800
GS-9192
US
1997-03-18[2]
$49.9949.99[2]
81057
EU
1997-02-24[3]
MK81057-50
AU
199x
BR
199x
191536
Die Hard Arcade , known as Dynamite Deka (ダイナマイト刑事) in Japan, is a 3D arcade beat-em up developed by Sega AM1 and Sega Technical Institute . It was published by Sega for the Sega Titan Video arcade platform in 1996 and for the Sega Saturn in the following year.
Gameplay
Die Hard Arcade has players save the president's daughter from a group of terrorists led by Wolf Hongo, who have taken over a skyscraper. It is a one or two player game, player one taking control of Bruno "Mister Dynamite" Delinger (Die Hard protagonist John McClane in the overseas versions), and player two controlling Cindy Holiday (renamed to Kris Thompsen in the overseas Saturn versions' instruction manual).
Similar in many respects to Virtua Fighter , Die Hard Arcade is a 3D beat-'em-up, although action mostly takes place on a 2D (or "2.5D") plane, similar to older Sega releases such as Golden Axe and Streets of Rage . Die Hard Arcade , however, puts a greater emphasis on the use of weapons and objects which can be found on the ground, and levels are interspred with quick time events, which if completed successfully, can save the player the trouble of having to fight more opponents.
Stages
The Top Floor
The Underground Parking Lot
The First Floor Lobby
The Terrace
The Top Floor
History
Dynamite Deka was designed to be a 3D beat-'em-up game inspired by the movie Die Hard (which in turn was inspired by a 1979 novel, Nothing Lasts Forever ). In overseas markets, it was granted official use of the Die Hard license by Fox Interactive - a move which occurred very late in the game's development cycle (and hence does not feature in Japanese versions). It was the last title to credit Sega Technical Institute before the team was dissolved.
Sequels and re-releases
When released on the Sega Saturn, the game came bundled with a version of Sega's 1979 arcade game Deep Scan . Each 200 points earned in Deep Scan gives the player credits in Die Hard Arcade .
Dynamite Deka was followed by Dynamite Deka 2 on the Dreamcast /Sega Model 2 . This game was known as Dynamite Cop outside of Japan. The story would be continued in Dynamite Deka EX , also known as Asian Dynamite , and the game would be remade in the form of Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 26: Dynamite Deka .
Versions
Localised names
Also known as
Language
Localised Name
English Translation
English
Die Hard Arcade
Die Hard Arcade
English (US)
Die Hard Arcade
Die Hard Arcade
Japanese
ダイナマイト刑事
Dynamite Deka
Production credits
Arcade version
Program Work
Art Work
Sound Work
Special Thanks
: Hiro , Paul Sears, Youichi Ueda , Robert Morgan , David Leytze , Richard Hideshima, Tohru Nakabayashi , Kouji Ooto , Yuko L. Isoda , Kohji Tanuma , Sachiko Amano , Masayuki Ao , Naoko Takahashi , Susumi Hirai , Morikuni Kubo, Shinichiro Okumoto , Masamoto Morita
Producer: Roger Hector , Rikiya Nakagawa , Makoto Uchida
Executive Producer: Hisashi Suzuki
Game Design & Directed by: Makoto Uchida
Sega AM R&D Dept. #1
Saturn version
Program Work
Art Work
Sound Work
Music and Sound Effects by: Howard Drossin
Special Thanks: Hiro , Paul Sears, Youichi Ueda , Robert Morgan , David Leytze , Richard Hideshima, Tohru Nakabayashi , Kouji Ooto , Yuko L. Isoda , Kouji Tanuma , Sachiko Amano , Masayuki Ao , Naoko Takahashi , Susumu Hirai , Morikuni Kubo, Shinichiro Okumoto , Stephen Hutchins, Masamoto Morita
Producers: Roger Hector , Rikiya Nakagawa , Makoto Uchida
Executive Producer: Hisashi Suzuki
Game Designed & Directed by: Makoto Uchida
Source : In-game credits
Development
Production
Marketing
Special Thanks To
: Scott Marcus at Fox Interactive , Arvin Carlson , Marcy Ditter, Matt Dunbar , Lydia Gable , Ted Hoff , Eileen Sacman , Bob Schonfisch , Marc Sherrod , Undyne Stafford , Andrew Stein , Dan Stevens , Bernie Stolar , Jennifer Titchener, Shinobu Toyoda , Shuji Utsumi , Frontline Marketing and the SEEDY Crew
And the SOA Software Test Department
: Nicolas Azizian, Aaron Bandur , Holly Bourdet, Karen Brown , Don Carmichael , Anthony Chau, Art Datangel, Roger DeForest, Mike Dobbins , Tai Huynh, John Jansen , Ty Johnson , Dave Kinel, Lloyd Kinoshita , Dennis Lee , Mark Lerma, Jeff Loney , Chris Lucich , Tony Lynch , Benny Malto, Mark McCunny, Steve Perez , David Portera, Tony Ragano, Ilya Reeves , Chris Towles, Adam Victor, Peter Young , Michael Yu
Source : US manual Error creating thumbnail: /bin/bash: line 1: 80118 Done '/usr/bin/gs' '-sDEVICE=jpeg' '-sOutputFile=-' '-dFirstPage=1' '-dLastPage=1' '-dSAFER' '-r150' '-dBATCH' '-dNOPAUSE' '-q' '/home/sonicret/domains/segaretro.org/public_html/images/8/8d/Dha_sat_us_manual.pdf' 80119 Segmentation fault | '/usr/bin/convert' '-depth' '8' '-quality' '95' '-resize' '2195' '-' '/home/sonicret/domains/segaretro.org/public_html/images/temp/transform_a18479709a3c.jpg'
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Magazine articles
Main article: Die Hard Arcade/Magazine articles .
Promotional material
PDF
Saturn JP flyer
Saturn print advert in
GameFan (US) #0504: "Volume 5, Issue 4: April 1997" (1997-xx-xx)
Photo gallery
Physical scans
Sega Titan Video version
Sega Titan Video, US
Cart
Sega Titan Video, JP
Cart
Saturn version
Saturn, US
Cover
Disc
Manual
Saturn, EU
Cover
Disc
Manual
Saturn, JP
Cover
Spinecard
Disc
Saturn, BR
Cover
Technical information
ROM dump status
System
Hash
Size
Build Date
Source
Comments
✔
620,382,336
CD-ROM(EU)
MK81057-50 V1.002
✔
618,684,192
1996-10-30
CD-ROM(JP)
GS-9122 V1.001
?
624,002,064
CD-ROM(US)
81057 V1.001
References
↑ http://sega-interactive.co.jp/special/history/title/dynamitecop.html
↑ 2.0 2.1 Press release: 1997-03-18: Sega Saturn Brings Home Die Hard Arcade For The Ultimate Living Room Brawl
↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.sega-europe.com/SATURNL.HTML (Wayback Machine: 1997-07-15 06:26)
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Computer & Video Games , "March 1997" (UK; 1997-02-12), page 74
↑ Die Hard Arcade (Saturn) US manual, page 18
↑ CD Consoles , "Avril 1997" (FR; 1997-xx-xx), page 56
↑ 7.0 7.1 GameFan , "Volume 5, Issue 4: April 1997" (US; 1997-xx-xx), page 26
↑ GamePro , "April 1997" (US; 1997-xx-xx), page 86
↑ 9.0 9.1 Sega Saturn Magazine , "March 1997" (UK; 1997-02-19), page 62
↑ 10.0 10.1 Sega Saturn Magazine , "1997-02 (1997-01-31)" (JP; 1997-01-17), page 222
↑ 11.0 11.1 Sega Saturn Magazine (readers) , "Final data" (JP; 2000-03), page 13 Cite error: Invalid <ref>
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↑ 12.0 12.1 Ultra Game Players , "April 1997" (US; 1997-03-25), page 69
↑ 576 KByte , "Szeptember 1997" (HU; 1997-xx-xx), page 16
↑ Ação Games , "Maio 1997" (BR; 1997-xx-xx), page 20
↑ CD Consoles , "Avril 1997" (FR; 1997-xx-xx), page 84
↑ Console Mania , "Marzo 1997" (IT; 1997-0x-xx), page 46
↑ Edge , "March 1997" (UK; 1997-02-28), page 78
↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly , "April 1997" (US; 1997-0x-xx), page 53
↑ Famitsu , "1997-01-31" (JP; 1997-01-17), page 1
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↑ Fun Generation , "03/97" (DE; 1997-02-12), page 74
↑ Gambler , "6/1997" (PL; 1997-xx-xx), page 1
↑ GamePro , "April 1997" (US; 1997-xx-xx), page 90
↑ Game Informer , "March 1997" (US; 1997-0x-xx), page 42
↑ Gry Komputerowe , "6/1997" (PL; 1997-xx-xx), page 1
↑ MAN!AC , "03/97" (DE; 1997-02-12), page 70
↑ Mega Fun , "03/97" (DE; 1997-02-05), page 88
↑ Next Generation , "April 1997" (US; 1997-03-11), page 126
↑ neXt Level , "März 1997" (DE; 1997-02-21), page 68
↑ Player One , "Mars 1997" (FR; 1997-xx-xx), page 64
↑ Saturn Fan , "1997 No. 2" (JP; 1997-01-17), page 185
↑ Saturn Fan , "1997 No. 5" (JP; 1997-02-28), page 98
↑ Secret Service , "Kwiecień 1997" (PL; 1997-xx-xx), page 64
↑ Sega Magazin , "März 1997" (DE; 1997-02-12), page 26
↑ Sega Power , "March 1997" (UK; 1997-02-12), page 38
↑ Strana Igr , "May 1997" (RU; 1997-xx-xx), page 81
↑ Super Power , "4 1997" (FI; 1997-0x-xx), page 48
↑ Video Games , "3/97" (DE; 1997-02-19), page 96