Trivia
The game was named the Best Sega CD Adventure/RPG Game of the Year in GameFan's 1994 "Megawards" (Vol 3, Iss. 1)
*spoiler alert* The English version of this game makes a little less sense then you would expect when it comes to the riddles which requires you to input an answer in alphabet. For example, the queens hospital answer needs to be written in kana (kui-n) which was at that point interpreted as QUEEN in English alphabet, because here you could only input 4 kana characters. For English players, just "queen" in alphabet would have made this too easy, so they added the extra letter "s" to make the riddle more challenging.
Also, the riddle with Benson's name had a different purpose because Japanese kana characters are spoken phonetically. The "n" then would be a single loose character. There is also an amazingly lot more violence in the Japanese versions of these games! Also, try to phone numbers you are not yet supposed to know or to input answers you are not supposed to know. Metal will make a subtle remark about it.
Snatcher's earliest release was on the PC-88.
One of the places Gillian and Metal Gear have to investigate is a nightclub in Neo Kobe called "Outer Heaven", named for the fortress of the villains in the first Metal Gear game!
And to make things funnier, in the club are several patrons dressed as various Konami characters! Sitting in the crowd are Sparkster (from Rocket Knight Adventures), Goemon (from the Mystical Ninja games), Jimbo and Sully (from Contra III: The Alien Wars), Mr. Ueda (from Lethal Enforcers), and Dracula and Simon Belmont (from Castlevania).
For fun, investigate or look at everyone. Gillian and Metal Gear make some funny remarks about the various games they starred in, but the best one is the Castlevania pair: Gillian and Metal comment about how suicide rates increased when people played Castlevania because they always got frustrated when they found out they couldn't jump off the stairs in that game!!
The logo of the black market in New Kobe is the same as Konami's logo. If you examine it twice, Gillian will say: "Hey, isn't that a Konami logo?", and Metal Gear will answer: " I guess they all work for the same guys..."
When using the information database Jordan in Junker HQ, you can type in "Kojima" after loading the ID file. Jordan will give you some information about Hideo Kojima, the creator of this game - when he was born, what he likes and dislikes, etc. In the end of the file, a message appears: "Warning! Snatchers have crossed the sea!"
The entire third act was not included in the original version as it was intended to be part of a sequel. When it was obvious that a sequel wouldn't be made, enough of the story to wrap up the original plot was incorporated into the remakes.
Contributed by
Vance (97) on Mar 20, 2003.
Snatcher was originally a MSX game. It was also released for the PC Engine CD in 1992.
The Playstation and Saturn versions were never released out of Japan.
Contributed by
Cochonou 
(1021) on Dec 04, 2002.
The blue stripes on the cover are different from all other Sega CD games. The reason? Simply a mix-up with the art files that wasn't caught until after they were printed. Nothing planned, but it was never fixed.
