Released in 1995
Available in 
Genre: Shooting
Surgical Strike
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Released in 1995 |
Available in |
Genre: Shooting |
This game is an oddity among 32X collectors. It was originally released for the SEGA CD, but was also meant to be released for the 32X CD. However the 32X CD version was never released, supposedly cancelled at the last minute. The American version's box even mentions about how to get the 32X CD version, but it simply didn't happen and everyone thought that was that.
It later turned out that the 32X CD version actually did see a release, but only in Brazil. This version has been dumped, but I couldn't get it to work on any emulator, so all of the images on this page are from the SEGA CD version. Presumably there are no differences between the SEGA CD and 32X CD versions other than the latter having better colors. The actual game isn't very good anyway -it gets extremely repetitive very quickly, as every time you shoot something, a short cutscene plays showing your weapons firing, then another one plays of a target being shot of blowing up. It isn't a great loss that the 32X CD version didn't see a wider release.
Contents
1) Info
2) Trivia
Info
As part of the Surgical Strike team, your mission is to find and defeat the evil Kabul, a terrorist who threatens to destroy the entire world with his missiles. Taking on his forces from your own attack hovercraft, your vehicle is armed with a gatling gun and missiles. Press start to access the map -each level has some specific targets to take out, such as enemy missile launchers. You can choose a path you want to go down by holding a direction and pressing the C button when a route choice appears on the screen.
Line an enemy up in your crosshairs and then press the A button to use the gatling gun, or press the B button to fire missiles. Certain targets can only be destroyed by certain weapons, such as the tanks, that can only be blown up by your missiles. You have limited ammo for each weapon, so using the right gun at the right time is a must, and be sure not to waste any ammo by missing a target.
As noted above, the cancellation of the American 32X CD version must have been decided really late on. The SEGA CD version's manual has instructions about how to start the 32X CD version, and when you boot the game up, you'll even get a message asking which version you want to play (see above). By the looks of it you were supposed to send an order form to SEGA to get the 32X CD version disc, who charged for shipping it to you.
From some forum posts I've read, people who actually did send in for the 32X CD version ended up getting another SEGA CD game instead.
There are rumors that the American 32X CD version did somehow get into the hands of some gamers, but is still seems unclear if the game really was released in America.
SEGA did things differently with Fahrenheit -as the game included two discs, one for the SEGA CD version, the other for the 32X CD version.
