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1992 video game

Taz-Mania
Taz-Mania game cover.jpg

Due north American Sega Genesis box art
Developer(south) Recreational Brainware (MD)
NuFX (GG)
Technical Wave (MS)
Visual Concepts (SNES)
David A. Palmer Productions (GB)
Beam Software (GB)
Publisher(due south) Sega (MD, GG, MS)
Sunsoft (SNES, GB)
THQ (GB)
Director(s) Yohsuke Sakaushi (MS)
Producer(s) Satoshi Namekawa (MS)
Designer(s) Burt Sloane, Jonathan Miller, Dave Foley (Medico/GEN)
Mac Senour (GG)
Developer(s) John Siegesmund (GG)
Burt Sloane, Jonathan Miller, Dave Foley (Doc/GEN)
Yohsuke Sakaushi (MS)
Artist(s) Alan Murphy, Marilyn Churchill (MD/GEN)
Akira Takahashi, Kakuya Osanai (MS)
Composer(s) Mark Miller, Jim Hedges (MD)
John Siegesmund (GG)
Takashi Masuzaki, Satoshi Namekawa, Kouichi Shimamura (MS)
Platform(due south) Mega Bulldoze/Genesis, Primary Arrangement, Game Gear, Game Male child, Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Release Mega Drive
  • NA: July 1992[2] [3]
  • EU: July 1992[1]
  • JP: December 25, 1992
Master System
  • Eu: February 1992[iv]
Game Gear
  • NA: October 1992[6]
  • Eu: December 1992[5]
Super Nintendo
  • NA: May 1993
  • European union: 1993
Game Boy
  • NA: September 1994[vii] (Taz-Mania), Jan 1997[7] (Taz-Mania ii)
  • European union: 1993 (Taz-Mania two), 1994 (Taz-Mania)
Genre(due south) Activeness, Run a risk
Mode(south) Single-role player

Taz Mania is the proper noun of several video games based on the Taz-Mania cartoon series. A 2D side-scrolling platform/run a risk video game developed by Recreational Brainware and published past Sega on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis in 1992. Different games were besides developed by NuFX and released on the Game Gear and by Technical Wave on the Master System. Other different Taz-Mania games were likewise published by Sunsoft and released on the SNES and 2 games on the Game Boy were made too. One from David A. Palmer Productions and published by Sunsoft and another from Beam Software and published by THQ.

Plot [edit]

The plot of the game was actually a twist on the usual "Save the World" story setting for many platform/adventure games. I evening, Hugh Tazmanian Devil was telling his iii children (Taz, his sister Molly and his blood brother Jake) an intriguing tale: One time there were huge giant seabirds that laid behemothic eggs which could feed a family unit of Tazmanian devils for over a twelvemonth. There are also legends that somewhere along the island of Tasmania, there is a Lost Valley, where the giant seabirds nevertheless nest. Taz becomes fascinated by the prospect of the potentially large omelet and leaves in search for one of those giant eggs. Thus, the thespian must direct Taz across diverse stages in search for the Lost Valley and its Giant Bird.

Gameplay [edit]

Players control Taz as he searches for the giant egg. Taz is able to jump, spin into a tornado and eat various objects. Spinning into a tornado allows Taz to defeat most enemies, equally well as proceeds extra jump distance, knock away items and get past certain obstacles unharmed. Taz has the ability to consume near, if not all items throughout the level, such as health recovering food items, extra lives and continues. Eating some chilli peppers allows Taz to breathe fire in gild to defeat stronger enemies, while eating a star grants Taz temporary invincibility. Other items, such as bombs and weed killer can be thrown at enemies, merely volition damage Taz if he eats them.

Development [edit]

Recreational Brainware was led past two programmers – Burt Sloane and Jonathan Miller and was based in San Francisco. A semi-sequel to this game in blueprint and concept but unrelated to the Taz-Mania cartoon serial was also developed and released past Sega on the aforementioned platforms in between 1994 and 1996, entitled Taz in Escape from Mars. An official sequel titled Taz-Mania two was planned with an isometric viewpoint, but was never put into development.[8]

Reception [edit]

The Mega Drive version was a bestseller in the UK for 2 months.[22] Mega placed the game at #19 in their Tiptop Mega Drive Games of All Time.[23] Mean Machines magazines gave the game an overall score of 81 out of 100 praising the graphics as "visually one of the well-nigh stunning megadrive games yet", likewise praising the game animation although there was criticism on the game difficulty equally being as well easy concluding "An enjoyable and visually exciting platform game which may not be tough enough for hardened platform veterans, but is yet worth a await."[24]

References [edit]

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  22. ^ Official Gallup Great britain Mega Bulldoze sales chart, October 1992, published in Mega (magazine) issue i, p. 23
  23. ^ Mega magazine event one, Top Mega Drive Games of All Time, folio 76, Future Publishing, Oct 1992
  24. ^ Taz-Mania Review. Britain: EMAP. June 1992. pp. 52–54.

External links [edit]

  • Taz-Mania at MobyGames

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taz-Mania_%28video_game%29

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