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X-Women: The Sinister Virus

System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Clockwork Tortoise
Licensor: Marvel Entertainment Group
Planned release date(s): 1996-10^[1], 1996-11^[2]^[3], 1996-12^[4], 1997-01^[5]^[6], 1997-03-31^[7]
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1

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X-Women: The Sinister Virus is an unreleased Sega Mega Drive game featuring the female characters of Marvel's X-Men comic book series. It was due to be released as part of the last batch of first-party Mega Drive games in North America, with a release date planned for late 1996. It would have acted as a spiritual sequel to X-Men 2: Clone Wars.

X-Women would have allowed players to control popular female characters from the X-Men cast, including Storm and Rogue. It was a side-scrolling action game supposedly being developed by Clockwork Tortoise, and was previewed in an early state at E3 1996, with the aim of being released later in the year. X-Women was later mentioned in EGM #89 (December 1996), presumably having missed its original deadline.

The reason for its cancellation are not fully understood; Sega of America was set to promote the game alongside the Sega Game Gear release of X-Men: Mojo World^[8], expecting to ship a 16 megabit cart priced at $49.99^[9]. There was also set to be a tie-in comic book^[8] which does not appear to have been published. Bill Onderdonk was named as a marketing manager for the game^[10].

Developer Clockwork Tortoise disbanded in late 1996/early 1997, around the period X-Women was considered to be scrapped. No prototypes of the game have ever been found.

Magazine articles

Main article: X-Women: The Sinister Virus/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Main article: X-Women: The Sinister Virus/Promotional material.

External links

Gameplay footage at YouTube

References

X-Women: The Sinister Virus
	Main page \| Magazine articles \| Promotional material No results

X-Men games for Sega systems
	Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge (1993) \| X-Men (1993) \| Wolverine: Adamantium Rage (1994) \| X-Men 2: Clone Wars (1995) \| X-Women: The Sinister Virus (unreleased)
	Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge (1994) \| X-Men (1994) \| X-Men: GamesMaster's Legacy (1994) \| X-Men: Mojo World (1996)
	X-Men: Children of the Atom (1995) \| X-Men vs. Street Fighter (1997)
	X-Men: Mojo World (1996)
	X-Men: Mind Games (Unreleased)
X-Men related media
	Sega Tunes: X-Men 2: Clone Wars (1996)
Unlicensed X-Men games for Sega systems
	X-Men vs. Street Fighter (Mega Drive) (1998)

[:File:SegaFY1997BrandReview_US.pdf_p64-1] Sega FY 1997 Brand Review, page 64

[:File:GamePro_US_096.pdf_p76-2] GamePro, "September 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 76

[:File:SegaFY1997BrandReview_US.pdf_p90-3] Sega FY 1997 Brand Review, page 90

[:File:UltraGamePlayers_US_089.pdf_p75-4] Ultra Game Players, "October 1996" (US; 1996-09-03), page 75

[:File:UltraGamePlayers_US_091.pdf_p81-5] Ultra Game Players, "December 1996" (US; 1996-11-05), page 81

[:File:GamePro_US_098.pdf_p64-6] GamePro, "November 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 64

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[:File:SegaFY1997BrandReview_US.pdf_p50-8] 8.0 ^8.1 Sega FY 1997 Brand Review, page 50

[:File:SegaFY1997BrandReview_US.pdf_p3-9] Sega FY 1997 Brand Review, page 3

[:File:SegaFY1997BrandReview_US.pdf_p229-10] Sega FY 1997 Brand Review, page 229

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 ''X-Women'' would have allowed players to control popular female characters from the ''X-Men'' cast, including Storm and Rogue. It was a side-scrolling action game supposedly being developed by [[Clockwork Tortoise]], and was previewed in an early state at [[E3 1996]], with the aim of being released later in the year. ''X-Women'' was later mentioned in EGM #89 (December 1996), presumably having missed its original deadline.
-The reason for its cancellation are not fully understood - Clockwork Tortoise disbanded in late 1996/early 1997, and focus at [[Sega]] was shifting away from the Mega Drive and onto the [[Sega Saturn]]. ''X-Women'' was considered to be scrapped by early 1997. No prototypes of ''X-Women'' have ever been found.
+The reason for its cancellation are not fully understood; [[Sega of America]] was set to promote the game alongside the [[Sega Game Gear]] release of ''[[X-Men: Mojo World]]''{{fileref|SegaFY1997BrandReview US.pdf|page=50}}, expecting to ship a 16 megabit cart priced at $49.99{{fileref|SegaFY1997BrandReview US.pdf|page=3}}. There was also set to be a tie-in comic book{{fileref|SegaFY1997BrandReview US.pdf|page=50}} which does not appear to have been published. [[Bill Onderdonk]] was named as a marketing manager for the game{{fileref|SegaFY1997BrandReview US.pdf|page=229}}.
+Developer Clockwork Tortoise disbanded in late 1996/early 1997, around the period ''X-Women'' was considered to be scrapped. No prototypes of the game have ever been found.
 ==Magazine articles==