Time Trax

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Time Trax
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Black Perl Software
Developer: Malibu Interactive
Planned release date(s): 1994
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
Status of prototype(s): Prototype dumped
Sound driver: Dean Belfield

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Time Trax is an unreleased Sega Mega Drive action game developed by Malibu Interactive and set to be published by Black Perl Software, based on the Time Trax TV series. The Mega Drive version of the game was not widely covered and was largely unheard of until the title screen music by Tim Follin, was released online. Some years later, development documents were acquired and a prototype ROM was released to the general public in July 2013. [1]

It is not known why the Mega Drive version of the game was cancelled - a Super Nintendo version was released in North America and Europe in early 1994, suggesting the Mega Drive version was originally set to be released around this period. Malibu would be sold to GameTek in the coming months which may explain its disappearance. A different Time Trax was released for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum in 1986.

The game is notable for its use of a relatively advanced sound driver designed by Dean Belfield for Follin - one which was never used in any other Mega Drive games neither before or since. The SNES version uses an entirely different soundtrack.

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Sega Mega Drive
 ?
CRC32
MD5
SHA-1 d7eb65f67ebb89a85c25a3accf06368554a13834
1MB 1993-03 Download.svg (499 kB) (info) Page

Magazine articles

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
80 №67, p82[2]
Sega Mega Drive
80
Based on
1 review
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)
40
[3]
Electronic Games (1992-1995) (US) NTSC-U
58
[4]
Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U
68
[5]
Game Players (US) NTSC-U
67
[6]
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
83
[7]
Tricks 16 bit (RU)
78
[8]
VideoGames (US) NTSC-U
80
[2]
Sega Mega Drive
68
Based on
7 reviews

Time Trax

  1. http://segaage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=45&threadid=106916
  2. 2.0 2.1 File:VideoGames US 67.pdf, page 82 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:VideoGames US 67.pdf_p82" defined multiple times with different content
  3. 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 313
  4. Electronic Games (1992-1995), "August 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 84
  5. Electronic Gaming Monthly, "April 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 40
  6. Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 7 July 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 54
  7. GamePro, "July 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 58
  8. Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 201