Growl

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Growl
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Taito
Developer: I.T.L
Original system(s): Taito F2 System
Developer(s) of original games: Taito
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code JP 1991-11-15 ¥6,800 T-11153 US 1991 $? 11076 KR ? ₩? GM4016JT

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Growl, known as Runark (ルナーク) in Japan, is an arcade beat-em-up by Taito developed in 1990 and released in 1991. The game was ported to the Sega Mega Drive in 1991 and released only in the US and Japan (though the arcade version was also released in Europe).

Gameplay

You play as one of four early-20th-century rangers trying to stop a group of poachers from making many species of wild animals extinct. punches, jumps. If an enemy drops a weapon, picks it up and uses it, and lets it go. If you don't have a weapon in your hand, performs a spinning kick, + performs a spinning jump kick, and + and + performs a leaping kick in the appropriate direction.

Battlefields

	Machanga
	The Unwelcome Passenger
	Down on the Docks
	Cargo of Death
	Jungle Battle
	Daggers in the Dark
	The RAPO Base

Versions

Even though the arcade machine supported up to four players simultaneously, the Mega Drive version of Growl is a one-player only game. All sampled speech has been removed in the Sega conversion, and is substituted with captions at the bottom of the screen.

Localised names

Also known as

Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English (US)	Growl	Growl
Japanese	ルナーク	Runark

Magazine articles

Main article: Growl/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Main article: Growl/Promotional material.

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source Beep! MegaDrive (JP) 55 №1991-12, p36 Beep! MegaDrive (readers) (JP) 54 №, p85 Games-X (UK) 70 №32 Génération 4 (FR) 70 №40, p138 Hippon Super (JP) 40 №1991-12, p89 Joypad (FR) 62 №4 Joystick (FR) 70 №23, p114 MegaTech (UK) 50 №2, p50/51 Sega Pro (UK) 70 №3, p60/61 Sega Pro (UK) 58 №18, p67 Supergame (BR) 84 №12, p17

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Based on 11 reviews

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart File:Growl MD US Manual.pdf Manual

Mega Drive, JP
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, KR
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, SE (Rental)

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 f60ef143 MD5 3152ebc067925b0ca35d20290de0985a SHA-1 63a08057fe9fd489590f39c5c06709266f625ab0	512kB	1991-11	Cartridge (US)
✔	CRC32 0894d8fb MD5 5a41a9e23515f2a6097fcb279e345ba8 SHA-1 25a0322db3b82e3da6f1dab550b3e52f21be6b58	512kB	1991-11	Cartridge (JP/KR)