Techno Cop
1988 driving game / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Techno Cop is a 1988 action video game for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS and ZX Spectrum. It was subsequently ported to the Sega Genesis in 1990. The gameplay combines pseudo-3D driving in the graphical style of Out Run with side-scrolling action as the player controls a police officer driving to and then moving through various seedy locations in a one-man war against crime. The game was the first game on the Genesis to have a warning label due to its violent content.
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Developer(s) | Gray Matter, Imagexcel Punk Development (Genesis) |
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Designer(s) | Chris Gray |
Programmer(s) | Esteban Ahn (Apple II) Jeff Spangenberg (Genesis) |
Artist(s) | Nick Gray Dennis Turner Matt Stubbington (Genesis) |
Composer(s) | Ben Daglish Kevin T. Seghetti (Genesis) Scott L. Statton (Genesis) |
Platform(s) | Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, Sega Genesis, ZX Spectrum |
Release | 1988 1990 (Genesis) |
Genre(s) | Run and gun, racing |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
An NES version was developed by Probe Software and supposed to be released in 1992 by Tengen, but was cancelled as Tengen scrapped the idea for the game, due to legal troubles Tengen was dealing with from Nintendo. Only a few sprite-sheets and music by Jeroen Tel exist from the project.[1]
The game was largely panned by video game critics for its simplistic graphics, sound, and the fact that many of the levels looked too similar. A Sega Genesis sequel, Techno Cop: The Final Mission, was planned but never released.[2]