Misplaced Pages

Crack Down

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 219.73.38.169 (talk) at 07:47, 20 March 2021 (→External links). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Revision as of 07:47, 20 March 2021 by 219.73.38.169 (talk) (→External links)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) 1989 run and gun video game This article is about the 1989 arcade game. For the 2007 video game, see Crackdown (video game). For a definition of the verb "crack down", see the Wiktionary entry crack down.
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Crack Down" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
1989 video game
Crack Down
Developer(s)Sega
Publisher(s)Sega
U.S. Gold (home computers)
Composer(s)Yasuhiro Kawakami
Platform(s)Arcade, Mega Drive/Genesis, Atari ST, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum
ReleaseArcade
1989
Mega Drive
December 20, 1990
Genre(s)Run and gun
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Crack Down (クラックダウン) is a run and gun arcade game originally released by Sega in 1989, and ported to the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis in 1990. It was also ported and released to a number of home computer platforms by U.S. Gold.

The Mega Drive version of Crack Down was re-released on the Wii Virtual Console in Japan on August 7, 2007 and in PAL regions on September 7, 2007. It released also on Steam on June 1, 2010.

Overview

Arcade screenshot

Using a top-down perspective (akin to Gauntlet), the player controls either Ben or Andy, a pair of agents charged with stopping mad scientist Mr. X (Mr.K in the Sega Mega Drive version) from taking over the world, as they make their way through several timed levels, planting bombs and destroying cyborg enemies using guns (the "machine gun" and the "cannon" can be swapped back and forth) and smart bombs (which wipe out all enemies on screen.) The goal of each stage is to plant all of the bombs and escape before their collective timer goes off.

Reception

In Japan, Game Machine listed Crack Down on their May 15, 1989 issue as being the third most popular arcade game during the previous two weeks.

References

  1. "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 356. Amusement Press, Inc. 15 May 1989. p. 21.

External links


Stub icon

This action game–related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: