Cliffhanger

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Cliffhanger
System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Sega Mega-CD
Publisher: Sony Imagesoft
Developer:
Sound driver:
Sega Mega Drive
GEMS
Genre: Action

















Release Date RRP Code

Cliffhanger is a Sega Mega Drive and Sega Mega-CD beat-'em-up game released in 1993. It was developed by Malibu and published by Sony Imagesoft as a tie-in to the 1993 Sylvester Stallone film Cliffhanger. A version for the Sega Game Gear was also released, but is a very different game.

You play as Gabe Walker, who must fight a group of terrorists trying to stop you from saving your partner Hal, who they kidnapped after the two of you went to answer a distress call from a crashed plane.

16-bit versions of the game are all the beat-em-ups along the same lines as Streets of Rage. On Sega platforms, A either punches, picks up a weapon, or uses it, B kicks, and C jumps, with combination moves possible. This version of the game was developed using the source code from the game Ex-Mutants (also developed by Malibu). The Mega CD version also has a 3D avalanche-escape level and low-quality FMVs of various scenes from the motion picture.

Physical Scans

Mega Drive Version

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
62 №31, p126/127
29 №20, p44
Sega Mega Drive
46
Based on
2 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)
40
[1]
Consoles + (FR)
62
[2]
Cool Gamer (RU)
40
[3]
Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1 (RU)
50
[4]
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
63
[5]
Hyper (AU)
64
[6]
MAN!AC (DE) PAL
48
[7]
Mega (UK) PAL
29
[8]
Score (CZ)
30
[9]
Tricks 16 bit (RU)
49
[10]
Sega Mega Drive
47
Based on
10 reviews

Cliffhanger

Mega Drive, US
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Cover
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Cart
Mega Drive, EU
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Cover
Cliffhanger MD EU Cart.jpg
Cart

Mega CD Version

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
79
52 №18, p44
79
49 №27, p48/49
29 №52, p44/45
77 №30, p78
Sega Mega-CD
61
Based on
6 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
73
[11]
Joypad (FR) PAL
85
[12]
Mega (UK) NTSC-U
52
[13]
Mega Action (UK) PAL
72
[14]
Mega Force (FR)
79
[15]
MegaTech (UK) NTSC-U
49
[16]
Sega Power (UK) NTSC-U
29
[17]
Sega Pro (UK) NTSC-U
77
[18]
Sega Zone (UK) NTSC-U
21
[19]
Video Games (DE) NTSC-U
58
[20]
Sega Mega-CD
59
Based on
10 reviews

Cliffhanger

Mega-CD, US
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Cover
Cliffhanger MCD US Disc.jpg
Disc
Cliffhanger mcd us manual.pdf
Manual