Cliffhanger
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- For the Sega Game Gear game, see Cliffhanger (Game Gear).
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System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Sega Mega-CD | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: Sony Imagesoft | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: Malibu Interactive | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sound driver: GEMS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Action | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cliffhanger is a Sega Mega Drive and Sega Mega-CD beat-'em-up game released in 1993. It was developed by Malibu Interactive 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.
The player controls Gabe Walker, who must fight a group of terrorists trying to stop him from saving his partner Hal, who they kidnapped after the two of them went to answer a distress call from a crashed plane.
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Gameplay
16-bit versions of the game are all beat-em-ups along the same lines as Streets of Rage. On Sega platforms, either punches, picks up a weapon, or uses it, kicks, and 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 Interactive). The Mega-CD version also has a 3D avalanche-escape level and low-quality FMVs of various scenes from the motion picture.
History
Development
Programmer Chris Shrigley has released the source code to the game on his web site.
Production credits
Mega Drive version
- Executive Producer: Rich Robinson
- Producer: Mary Ann Norris
- Assistant Producers: Patrick Goodman, David Poe
- Game Testing: Jose Cruz, Mike Giam, David Jaffe
- Olaf Olafsson, Lester Greenman, Peter Dille, Jeff Benjamin
- Programmer: Chris Shrigley
- Producer: James Maxwell
- Assistant Producer: Justin Monast
- Designers: James Maxwell, Dan MacArthur
- Artists: Jeff Godfrey, Damon DuBois, Joan Igawa, Chris Ward, Richard Beston
- Music and Sound FX by: Audiocyberworks, Eric Hammond, Keith Arem
- Game Testing: Darin Johnson, Alan Fernandez, Ben Kutcher, James Guintu
Magazine articles
- Main article: Cliffhanger/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
Television advertisements
Print advertisements
also published in:
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Physical scans
Mega Drive version
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Mega-CD version
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Technical information
ROM dump status
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1MB | 1993-08 | Cartridge (US) | ||||||||||
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1MB | 1993-08 | Cartridge (EU) | ||||||||||
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1MB | 1994-01 | Page | ||||||||||
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330,180,816 | CD-ROM (US) | T-93075 |
References
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 85
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 26
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 26
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 44
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 213
- ↑ ', "Vol. 6 No. 12 December 1993" (; 1993-1x-xx), page 85
- ↑ ', "Vol. 6 No. 12 December 1993" (; 1993-1x-xx), page 221
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 ', "Diciembre 1993" (; 1993-1x-xx), page 48
- ↑ ', "Diciembre 1993" (; 1993-1x-xx), page 126
- ↑ ', "Diciembre 1993" (; 1993-1x-xx), page 52
- ↑ ', "Diciembre 1993" (; 1993-1x-xx), page 301
- ↑ ', "Diciembre 1993" (; 1993-1x-xx), page 85
- ↑ ', "Diciembre 1993" (; 1993-1x-xx), page 69
- ↑ ', "Diciembre 1993" (; 1993-1x-xx), page 41
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 ', "Diciembre 1993" (; 1993-1x-xx), page 44
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 ', "Diciembre 1993" (; 1993-1x-xx), page 58
- ↑ ', "Diciembre 1993" (; 1993-1x-xx), page 10
- ↑ ', "Diciembre 1993" (; 1993-1x-xx), page 54
- ↑ ', "Diciembre 1993" (; 1993-1x-xx), page 100
- ↑ ', "Diciembre 1993" (; 1993-1x-xx), page 124
- ↑ ', "Diciembre 1993" (; 1993-1x-xx), page 78
- ↑ ', "Diciembre 1993" (; 1993-1x-xx), page 49
- ↑ ', "Diciembre 1993" (; 1993-1x-xx), page 38
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